The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference: Creating Unified Content Experiences | October 27-30, 2019 | Portland, OR

The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference

LavaCon Portland: It’s a Wrap!

Many thanks to the attendees, speakers, sponsors, and staff who made LavaCon Portland our biggest and best conference to date.

And a special “Thank You” to Sapphire Sponsor Amplexor who sponsored the Captain Content capes. Check out the recap video from LavaCon Portland:

About LavaCon

LavaCon started in Hawaii (hence our name) to help senior content professionals stay ahead of rapidly changing authoring and publishing technologies.

However, LavaCon is more than just a conference. It’s a gathering place where practicing industry professionals share their best practices and lessons learned, network with peers, and build professional relationships that will last for years to come.

Pre-register for LavaCon New Orleans

Our 18th annual conference will be 25-28 October 2020 in New Orleans.
Our 2020 theme: Connecting Content Silos Across the Enterprise
Our 2020 Featured Speakers include:

  • Meridel Walkington, Senior Content Strategist, Firefox UX, Mozilla
  • Eeshita Grover, Manager of Technical Documentation, Cisco Systems
  • Tim Sandfort, Senior UX Content Strategist, ExxonMobil
  • Hilary Marsh, Chief Strategist, President, Content Company, Inc.
  • David Dylan Thomas, Principal, Content Strategy, Think Company
  • Sharon Burton, Content Management Specialist, PointClickCare
  • Keith Mahoney, Technical Publications and Training Manager, Artificial Intelligence Platform Group, Intel
  • And more!

Subscribe to our email list to receive updates on the conference program.

Pre-register for LavaCon 2020 and bring your boss or colleague for free!

LavaCon 2019 Featured Speakers

We will be posting the Featured Speakers for LavaCon New Orleans soon. In the meantime, here are the featured speakers from LavaCon Portland. Our 2020 speaker lineup will be equally amazing!

Jen Schaefer

Head of Content Design, Netflix

Nadine Anglin

A/R V/R Content Strategist, Facebook

Wendy Richardson

SVP of Global Customer Service, MasterCard

Jonathan Foster

Principal Content Experience Manager, Microsoft

Andrea Zeller

Virtual Reality Content Strategist, Facebook

Sara Katz

Innovation Strategist, Intuit

Preview Video

Want a feel for the LavaCon attendee experience? Watch the recap video from a previous LavaCon New Orleans!

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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