Here is the latest schedule for 2024. There will be something for everyone – from students and new professionals in the Tech Comm field, to seasoned professionals. This will be updated. Last update 25 April, 2024.
PLEASE NOTE: The CPTC courses require pre-registration to participate. Please contact Erin Gallalee to sign up at erin.gallalee@stc.org.
| Thursday May 16th | Duration | Session Type | Session Title | Speaker | Location |
| 3:00 PM | Set up | Expo Hall and Registration Setup | Foyer & Skybridge | ||
| 3:00 PM | 4hr | CPTC* | Foundations Course part 1 of 2* | Ben Woelk | Minnetonka A |
| 3:00 PM | STC Board Meeting | Closed | Isles Boardroom | ||
| 4:30 PM | 1.5hr | Orientation | 1st time attendees + students, orientation & tour | Kylie Jacobsen and John Clement | Harriett |
| 4:00 PM | 3hr | Rehearsal (optional) | 1st time speaker rehearsal | TBD | Minnetonka C |
| 6:00 PM | 2hr | Dinner | Student Attendee Dinner | Kylie Jacobsen and John Clement | Skybridge |
| Friday May 17th |
Duration | Session Type | Session Title | Speaker | Location |
| 7:00 AM | Registration | Registration open | Sky Bridge | ||
| 8:00 AM | 8hr | Vendor | Expo Hall Open | Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 8:00 AM | 8hr | Poster | Poster Session (unhosted) | Sky Bridge | |
| 8:00 AM | 1.5hr | Breakfast | Breakfast and Welcome | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | Panel | How AI Can Advance Your Career and Skill Set | Jill Stanton (Moderator), Rob Hanna, Susan Kelley, and Arthur Berger | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | Panel | KnowledgeXchange New Attendee Session | TBD | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | CPTC Course* | Practitioner Level part 1 of 3* | Craig Baehr | Minnetonka A |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Ensuring DEI in Tech Comm | Jennifer Goode | Harriett |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Proposal Writing for Federal Contracting | Mickella Rast | Minnetonka B |
| 9:30 AM | 3hr | Intensive | DITA Basics Mini-Workshop | Janice Summers | Minnetonka C |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | Get Hired | Resume Writing 101 | Jack Molisani | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | Lessons Learned Writing CARS Comics | Alan Porter | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | The New Culture of Documentation | Adrienne Bellehumeur | Cedar |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | Panel | Interviewing SMEs | Amanda Patterson (Moderator), Nicky Bleiel, Bethany Aguad | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | Panel | Prompt Engineering: Getting the Most Out of Generative AI | Jill Stanton (Moderator), Jason Kaufman, Emily Laird | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | Get Hired | Resume Writing 201: Mastering the Art & Science of the Resume & Cover Letter | Nathaniel Lim | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | Turning Tech Comm Into Marcom | Jessica Kreger | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | Implementing the Docs-as-Code Approach | Girish Karunakaran Sandaran | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 12:00 PM | 1.25hr | Lunch | Boxed Lunch | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | Panel | What Do Your Associate & Mid-Level Technical Communicators Need From You? | Addison Kliewer (Moderator) Mickella Rast, Andréa Howard, Tyler Mueller, Christina Mayr | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | Panel | Meet the Editors | Craig Baehr, Miriam Williams | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 1:30 PM | 2hr | Intensive | Make Your Business Case for Doc Projects | Caity Cronkhite | Harriett |
| 1:30 PM | 4hr | CPTC* | Foundations Course part 2 of 2* | Ben Woelk | Minnetonka A |
| 1:30 PM | 4hr | Intensive | Better Infographics for Documentation | Chaitanya Vikas Ghanta | Minnetonka B |
| 1:30 PM | 4hr | Intensive | Creating Styler Stylesheets Mini-Workshop | Liz Fraley | Minnetonka C |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | Get Hired | Top 10 Mistakes Content Professionals Make When Looking for Work | Jack Molisani | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | Content Modeling for Consistency | Guiseppe Getto | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | Docs as Tests-Write Resilient Docs | Manny Silva | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 2:45 PM | 1hr | Get Hired | Use Gen AI for Your Job Search Documentation | Amanda Patterson | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 2:45 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | What’s it Like to Author in a CCMS? | Ted Wolff | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 2:45 PM | 1hr | Panel | Exploring Policies & Procedures in Business Continuity, Aerospace/Defense, and a Not-for-Profit Health Organization | Ann Marie Queeney (Moderator), Kelly Smith, Marilyn Woelk, John Clement |
Lakes Ballroom C |
| 3:00 PM | 1hr | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | Foyer & Sky Bridge |
| 4:00 PM | 2hr | Intensive | Tech Comm Skills through Tabletop Gaming | Bethany Aguad | Harriett |
| 4:00 PM | 1hr | Get Hired | Secure a New Job with LinkedIn | Graham Riley | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 4:00 PM | 1hr | Lightning Talks | A series of lightning talks | Host of speakers | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 4:00 PM | 1hr | Networking | Community Affairs Committee: Leadership Networking Event | CAC | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 4:00 PM | 1hr | Panel | “Soft-Skills: The Not-so-technical Side of Tech Comm” | Nicky Bleiel (Moderator), Darcy Beery, Jackie Damrau | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 5:00 PM | 45min | Rehearsal (optional) | Speaker Rehearsal | TBD | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 5:45 PM | 30min | Panel | STC ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING | TBD | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 6:00 PM | 2hr | Reception | Networking Happy Hour | TBD | Foyer & Sky Bridge |
| Saturday May 18th |
Duration | Session Type | Session Title | Speaker | Location |
| 7:00 AM | Registration | Registration open | Sky Bridge | ||
| 8:00 AM | 8hr | Vendor | Expo Hall Open | Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 8:00 AM | 8hr | Poster | Poster Session (unhosted) | Sky Bridge | |
| 8:00 AM | 1.5hr | Breakfast | Breakfast and Welcome | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Cybersecurity Essentials for Technical Communicators: Building a Secure Foundation | Ben Woelk | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | Panel | “Ask an Expert” | Kirsty Taylor, Alan Porter, and Dawn Stevens | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | CPTC* | Practitioner Level Part 2 of 3* | Craig Baehr | Minnetonka A |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | How to Avoid Murder and Mystery | Amelia Lax | Harriett |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | The Carbon Footprint of Content | Alisa Bonsignore | Minnetonka B |
| 9:30 AM | 3hr | Intensive | Gen AI Nothing to Fear! | Susan Kelley | Minnetonka C |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | Get Hired | Resume Review | Nathaniel Lim, Christina Mayr, and Jason Kaufman | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | Transforming Product Documentation | Bethany Aguad | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | IDC & Quark CCMS Survey: New Insights | Emerson Welch | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | Panel | Modernizing Your Documentation | Matthew Cranford (Moderator), Adrienne Bellehumeur, and Rob Hanna | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | Get Hired | Networking 101: Building Professional Relationships | Raymond Kim | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 11:00 AM | 1hr | How Things Work | Doctor(s) Who… Work With Content that Change Lives | Bernard Aschwanden & Sebastian Fuhrer | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 12:00 PM | 1.25hr | Poster | Poster Session (hosted) | Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 12:00 PM | 1.25hr | Lunch & Awards | Boxed Lunch & Awards | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | Certification Session (New Expert Offering!) | Craig Baehr | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 1:30 PM | 2hr | Intensive | The New Culture of Documentation | Adrienne Bellehumeur | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 1:30 PM | 4hr | Intensive | Sort it Out! | Dawn Stevens | Minnetonka A |
| 1:30 PM | 2hr | Intensive | Building a Microlearn | Jennifer Goode | Minnetonka B |
| 1:30 PM | 4hr | Intensive | Enterprise-Level Documents on a Budget | Lael Butler | Minnetonka C |
| 1:30 PM | 2hr | Intensive | Translating for the Best Translation | Kim Chmielewicz | Harriett |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | Get Hired | How to Advance your Career using Personal Branding | Kevin Meglic | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 1:30 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | Writing a Book Review for STC Tech Comm Journal | Jackie Damrau | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 1:30 PM | 1.5hr | Panel | Are You a Uni-Duck? The Intersection of Instructional Design and Technical Communication | Viqui Dill (Moderator) Melanie Murphy Maralee Sautter |
Lakes Ballroom C |
| 2:45 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | Developers Writing Docs | Thad Tilton | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 2:45 PM | 1hr | Get Hired | Building Your Digital Fingerprint | Alex Hales | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 3:00 PM | 1hr | TCBOK | Want to Know about The Body of Knowledge? | Deanne Levander | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 3:15 PM | 45min | BREAK | BREAK | BREAK | Foyer & Sky Bridge |
| 4:00 PM | 2hr | Intensive | AI and Powerful Personas | Jill Stanton | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 4:00 PM | 2hr | Intensive | Strategies for Interviewing SMEs | Nicky Bleiel | Harriett |
| 4:00 PM | 2hr | Intensive | Help Your Documentation Using Flowcharts | Cindy Pao | Minnetonka B |
| 4:00 PM | 1hr | Get Hired | Finding the Right Fit | Suzanne Kelchner | Lakes Ballroom A |
| 4:00 PM | 1hr | How Things Work | The Prompt Engineer’s Toolkit | Emily Laird | Lakes Ballroom B |
| 4:00 PM | 1.5hr | Panel | TESIG Editing Best Practices | Kelly Schrank (Moderator), Rachel Petkewich, Jessica Kreger, Ann Marie Queeney |
Lakes Ballroom C |
| 4:30 PM | 1hr | CAC | Community Affairs Committee: Leadership Collaboration Event | CAC | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 6:00 PM | 2hr | Awards | STC Awards Reception | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| Sunday May 19th |
Duration | Session Type | Session Title | Speaker | Location |
| 7:00 AM | Registration | Registration open | Sky Bridge | ||
| 8:00 AM | 4hr | Vendor | Expo Hall Open | Foyer & Sky Bridge | |
| 8:00 AM | 4hr | Poster | Poster Session (unhosted) | Sky Bridge | |
| 8:00 AM | 1.5hr | Breakfast | Breakfast and Welcome | STC President | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Presentation Skills Training Camp | Nicky Bleiel | Lakes Ballroom D |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | CPTC* | Practitioner Level part 3 of 3* | Craig Baehr | Minnetonka A |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Building an AI Prompt Management Team | Jason Kaufman | Harriett |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Talk Like a Girl | Susan Kelley | Minnetonka C |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Great Graphics | Tricia Spayer | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 9:30 AM | 2hr | Intensive | Building Dynamic Integrated Teams that Exhibit Synergy, Consistent Quality, and Contentment! | Marilyn Woelk | Lakes Ballroom C |
| 9:30 AM | 1hr | Panel | Everything You Wanted to Know About Finding a Job But Were Too Afraid to Ask | Suzanne Kelchner Jack Molisani Kevin Meglic Amanda Patterson (Moderator) |
Lakes Ballroom A |
| 12:00 PM | 1.25hr | Lunch | Boxed Lunch & Networking | TBD | Lakes Ballroom A/B & Foyer & Sky Bridge |
| 1:30 PM | Social | Social Event(s) | TBD |