The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference: New Orleans 2018

The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference started in Hawaii (hence our name) to give content strategists, documentation managers, and senior content professionals an opportunity to get away from the office and tend to their professional development.

Our Mission

To help content professionals stay ahead of rapidly changing technology and customer demographics
To connect organizations experiencing content challenges with the consulting, translation, and tool vendors who can help
To create a community where content professionals can collaborate and advance the field as a whole

LavaCon New Orleans

The next LavaCon will be October 21-24, 2018 at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel in New Orleans, LA. This year’s theme: Creating Content Experience Ecosystems

Keynote Speakers

LavaCon is a gathering place for content strategists, documentation managers, and other content professionals who are willing to share their best practices and lessons learned—both what worked, and what didn’t.

Our 2018 speakers include:

Karen McGrane

Author of Content Strategy for Mobile

Content in a Zombie Apocalypse

Michael Goldberg

Global Director, Content Marketing, Dun & Bradstreet

Jim Edmunds

CEO, Ingeniux Corporation

Rob Hanna

President, Precision Content Authoring Solutions

Megan Gilhooly

Sr. Manager of Content Management, Amazon

Building a Global Content Ecosystem Is Like Finding Unicorns in a Blizzard: You Can Do it, But You Have to Know Where to Look

The High Price of Failure: Learning from the Enterprise Content Strategy Mistakes of Others

Cowabunga! Surfing the Crest of the New Content Revolution

The Power of Learning
You Were Wrong

Joe Gollner

Managing Director, Gnostyx Research

Stefan Gentz

Worldwide TechComm Evangelist, Adobe Systems

Sarah O'Keefe

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Scriptorium Publishing

Don Bridges

Manager - Consulting, JANA

The Content of Systems: Communication in the Age of the Smart Machine

What’s New? What’s Next?
Taking the Pulse of Digital Publishing

Minimum Viable Infrastructure for Enterprise Content

Beyond TechPubs:
Evangelizing Structured Content in the Enterprise

Cruce Saunders

Founder, simplea.com

Alexander Lum

Director - Global Product Documentation Development, Ciena

Hilary Marsh

Digital Content Strategist, Content Company

David Dylan Thomas

Principal Content Strategist, Think Company

Hacking the Enterprise:
The Continuing Emergence of the New Content Order

How to Build Wickedly Effective Business Cases for Content Strategy Initiatives

The Politics of Content

The Content Strategy of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration

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LavaCon Content Strategy Conference: The Buzz

``My favorite part about LavaCon is the connections and the networking that I do when I'm here.``- Matt Sullivan, Tech Comm Tools

``My biggest takeaway from LavaCon has been not something that I learned in a classroom, but something that I learned in the lunchroom, and that is the networking aspect of this. That's the best part of these conferences. It's the best part of LavaCon. The people that you meet, the takeaways that you get from them.`` - MaryKay Grueneberg, SAP

``Great location, awesome conference, awesome food. If nothing else, if you ever wanted to treat yourself, you should go to LavaCon.``- Christopher Ward, WebWorks

``Great conference! I learned some new things, met some nice people, had a chance to really discuss some of the burning issues that I encounter professionally, and had fun to boot! Well done LavaCon team!``- Sarah Watson, Dialog Semiconductor

``LavaCon is the successful result of fantastic planning, organization, energy, and creativity, as well as the excellent work of the staff at the Portland Hilton, a beautiful venue. The people, sessions, and activities, including the tours around Portland and the Columbia River Gorge, all contributed to a most memorable experience.``- Carol Moyer, Lockheed Martin

I stopped and thanked you personally at the conference, but I must say it again. Thank you! I’ve been raving about how wonderful last week was to anyone and everyone! I’m pretty sure LavaCon changed the trajectory of my life, in a good way! Thanks much!- B.J., Manager, Technical Publications

The LavaCon conference provided me with an opportunity to mix and mingle with a variety of people and perspectives. This year’s gathering seemed to reach new heights in this regard. I found myself engaged in detailed conversations on several occasions, and these conversations helped me to put some final touches to my own rubric and framework for discussing content, content strategy, and content solutions. So I need to declare this year’s event to be an unqualified success.``- Joe Gollner, Gnostyx Research