Even after years of experience designing, developing, implementing, and leading content strategy and operations projects for multinational enterprises, governmental agencies, startups, and individuals, Melanie Davis is still wildly curious about new technology. There’s always a way to do things better, faster, smarter. Melanie earned a reputation for her passion-filled approach to building global teams that deliver beyond their capacity, deepen their professional mastery, and thrive in an environment of high expectations and tight deadlines. She now guides clients of her own concierge-level content strategy and operations consultancy, Dragonfly Diva Docs, LLC.
Tech Stack Lift-and-Shift: A Tag-Team Approach to Success with Limited Resources
Co-presented with: Isabella Adornato and Mike Hovan
Your small documentation team needs to adopt or replace a component content delivery platform (CCMS) or content delivery platform (CDP)? Working against the clock for an absolute (or arbitrary!) launch deadline while holding the line on your regular product doc releases?
This case study shows how one organization successfully met an unanticipated need to replace their CDP while completing a planned replacement of their CCMS and continuing to meet their release obligations by embedding the tool vendor and a consultant in their small documentation team.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Review and revise your content value proposition for your organization and customers.
- Create a content competence council that enables you to play to your strengths.
- Design, develop, and deliver your technology implementation on time and to great effect.
- Streamline and document content operations processes underpinned by your new tools.
- Communicate your progress and celebrate your successes.
- Build before-and-after metrics to strengthen your credibility for future projects. projects.
AI Agents: From Sidekick to Superhero
Co-presented with: Jayme Perlman and Alex Huitric
Winning with AI isn’t about power. It’s about control.Mayhem sells movies, but wrecks businesses.
Is your AI agent delivering the package you gave it?Go beyond “Agentic” with “Regentic” – get Alfred managing Wayne Manor, not 007
You don’t need a Daniel Craig budget to get blockbuster results. You don’t have time, treasure, or talent to waste on inefficient AI. You need to make the most of where you are with what you’ve got. You’re the director, so you call the shots. Solve the problem you bring to the set without crashing a single Aston Martin.
Don’t let a rag-tag gaggle of AI goons waste your tokens. Control the chaos with CodeBold. Docs shouldn’t be collateral damage: govern them with guardrails, protect them with privacy, and automate with accountability
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Balance great power with great responsibility: Learn how to create AI Agents and rein them in with Regentic AI architecture
- This isn’t a workshop; it’s a phone booth! Transform your agents from Clark Kent to Superman.
- Foresee the future: Witness these principles in action (Demo not Memo)
