[Venue Updated] STC India - Chennai - First One-day Regional Conference on April 28, 2018 @ HCL Technologies, Ambattur, Chennai

[Saravanan Manoharan]

Hi Technical Communicators,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing its First Chennai One-day Regional Conference for the year 2018 on 28 April (Saturday). Please visit STC India Website to know more details.

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STC India Chennai: One-day Regional Conference – 28 April (Saturday), 2018

Exclusive Sponsor: HCL Technologies, Chennai

The session is FREE for both STC and non-STC India members.

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Venue: HCL Technologies, Chennai

Address: HCL Technologies Ltd, Studio 88, 94, South Phase, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Ambattur, - Chennai.

Landmark:  Near Vavin Bustop & Merzedez Benz Showroom

Map: HCL Technologies, Ambattur, Chennai

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Tentative Agenda

09.30 am - 09.45 am - Registration

09.45 am - 10.00 am - Inauguration

10.00 am - 11.00 am - Autobot - The way we do it - Kabila and Sumithra

11.00 am - 11.30 am - Networking Break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm - Planned Execution and Unexpected Changes in Project - Kiranmayee

12.30 pm - 12.45 pm - Group Picture

12.45 pm - 02.00 pm - Lunch Break

02.00 pm - 03.00 pm - 3 Easy Steps to Create a Video - Beatrice and Nancy 

03.00 pm - 04.00 pm - TechTalk - DevOps - Ramesh Suriaprakhash

04.00 pm - 04.30 pm - Networking Break

04.30 pm - 05.15 pm - Quick Bytes

05.15 pm - 05.30 pm - Closure

About the Exclusive Sponsor

Over the past decade, HCL has been one of the fastest growing technology companies not only in India but in the world – even during the depths of the economic downturn. A combination of technical expertise and an innovative management philosophy that unleashed the innovative thinking of empowered employees, has been the source of HCL’s success even during the period of economic turmoil.

As a $4.5 billion global company, HCL Technologies brings IT and engineering services expertise under one roof to solve complex business problems for its clients. Leveraging our extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries, we provide holistic, multi-service delivery in such industries as financial services, manufacturing, consumer services, public services and healthcare. For more information, refer to their Website.

About the Sessions and Speakers

Autobot - The way we do it – Kabila and Sumithra

Autobot is a digital assistant that simulates conversation with a user and clarifies their queries. Autobot can also be used to automate programmatically executable tasks. The presentation will give a brief description on use, application, and flavours of Autobots.

The main focus will be on implementation/integration of the end user documentation content to the application using the Autobot framework.This involves, slicing and dicing of the traditional content into FAQs and using scripts to hook the content to the corresponding API calls.The rest is the in-house Framework devised and built to bring Autobot into action!!!

Speakers Profile

Kabila - She is associated with HCL for 8 years now and has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry. Apart from documentation, she also acts as a Quality Metrics representative for documentation team. She was instrumental in re-structuring existing API documentation for better information usability. She simplified post-conversion clean-up tasks of Frame Maker to XML conversion and improvised the workflow of SDK documentation for better clarity and precision.

Sumithra - She has 16 years of experience in the Technical Writing Industry. She has been with HCL for 9 years addressing documentation needs for a Networking/Telecom client. She has ideated and implemented several value-added services that enhanced customer experience. To mention a few, introduced interactive flow charts in process flow documents, scripts to automate replacement of default XML tags with the appropriate tags, and deployed bulk renaming utility that automated renaming of bulk files while XML migration.

Planned Execution and Unexpected Changes in Project - Kiranmayee

Kiranmayee Pamarthy has 3 decades of experience in the IT industry. She started her career as faculty in Brilliants Computer Center in the late 80s and early 90s. She dabbled with coding, testing, and finally settled in the field of Technical Communications. Kiranmayee has worked in various verticals or domains. She likes mentoring, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. She is a recipient of numerous national and international awards in her area of expertise and for her speeches.

3 Easy Steps to Create a Video - Beatrice and Nancy

1. Create Story board in PPT and work on voice script in the same PPT.
   
2. Use VideoScribe to create video, Balabolka to create MP3 file for voice, and WaveEditor to insert silence and pause in the MP3 file.
   
3. Merge the audio file to the video and adjust the timing based on the voice script.
   

Here, Your Video is READY 

Speakers Profile

Beatrice Isaac is a passionate writer with quest to learn new technology and trends in writing. She has over 13+ years of experience in technical documentation in various domains such as telecommunication and networking, finance, and so on. She is now working at HCL and her interests are reading books, gardening, writing poems and stories, and playing with her young sons!!!

Nancy Petricia has over 13+ years of experience in technical writing and team management. She started her career as a Developer and due to her love for English she entered into the world of technical writing. She has worked on several technical documents for a wide range of networking products, banking-related products, and so on. She now works for HCL and when she’s free she loves to hold the mike and croon her favorite songs.

TechTalk - DevOps - Ramesh Suriaprakhash

DevOps is one of the buzz words in IT. It is a new trend that emphasizes on collaboration and integration of Development and Operations that were functioning as independent silos. With proper DevOps practice in place, companies can deliver software faster and efficiently with zero or less bugs. Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration are key Practices that enable DevOps.

Speaker Profile

Ramesh Suriaprakhash is a Senior IT professional having more than 13 years of experience in IT field. Had been a technical writer between 2003 and 2007 and then moved to Testing / QA and working in manual and automation testing. He has been working for global clients in complex testing projects. He has published many articles in knowledge portals of the organization where he was/is working. He is interested in sharing knowledge on current / upcoming technologies.

Quick Bytes (15 mins per topic)

If you like to present a topic, technology, process or just discuss anything related to Technical Writing, STC India provides you the platform in this Regional Conference for you to discuss Technical Writing related topics. The session can be done using a simple white board also, PPT is not required. If you are interested, please write to me at che...@stc-india.org. Please do not miss this opportunity. If you are a first timer to STC India or first-time presenter, this is the right place to start.

Registration

Please register for this event by filling your details in the Registration Form.

Travel Arrangements

We are trying for Carpooling options in this conference. If you find it difficult to travel this far to attend the conference, please fill the Registration form accordingly with your requirements and we will let you know if the Carpooling option is available at your location. 

Please do not inquire about the regional conference on this mailing list.

If you have any queries, please write to me at chennai@stc-india.org.

Thanks,

Saravanan (9500040406)

Chennai City Representative

STC India Chapter - 2018

[Saravanan Manoharan]

Hi Technical Communicators,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing its First Chennai One-day Regional Conference for the year 2018 on 28 April (Saturday). Please visit STC India Website to know more details.

****************************************************************

STC India Chennai: One-day Regional Conference – 28 April (Saturday), 2018

Exclusive Sponsor: HCL Technologies, Chennai

The session is FREE for both STC and non-STC India members.

****************************************************************

Venue: HCL Technologies, Chennai

Address: HCL Technologies Ltd, Studio 88, 94, South Phase, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Ambattur, - Chennai.

Landmark:  Near Vavin Bustop & Merzedez Benz Showroom

Map: HCL Technologies, Ambattur, Chennai

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Tentative Agenda

09.30 am - 09.45 am - Registration

09.45 am - 10.00 am - Inauguration

10.00 am - 11.00 am - 3 Easy Steps to Create a Video - Beatrice and Nancy 

11.00 am - 11.30 am - Networking Break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm - Planned Execution and Unexpected Changes in Project - Kiranmayee

12.30 pm - 12.45 pm - Group Picture

12.45 pm - 02.00 pm - Lunch Break

02.00 pm - 03.00 pm - Autobot - The way we do it - Kabila and Sumithra

03.00 pm - 04.00 pm - TechTalk - DevOps - Ramesh Suriaprakhash

04.00 pm - 04.30 pm - Networking Break

04.30 pm - 05.15 pm - Quick Bytes

05.15 pm - 05.30 pm - Closure

About the Exclusive Sponsor

Over the past decade, HCL has been one of the fastest growing technology companies not only in India but in the world – even during the depths of the economic downturn. A combination of technical expertise and an innovative management philosophy that unleashed the innovative thinking of empowered employees, has been the source of HCL’s success even during the period of economic turmoil.

As a $4.5 billion global company, HCL Technologies brings IT and engineering services expertise under one roof to solve complex business problems for its clients. Leveraging our extensive global offshore infrastructure and network of offices in 26 countries, we provide holistic, multi-service delivery in such industries as financial services, manufacturing, consumer services, public services and healthcare. For more information, refer to their Website.

About the Sessions and Speakers

3 Easy Steps to Create a Video - Beatrice and Nancy

1. Create Story board in PPT and work on voice script in the same PPT.
   

1. Create video, create MP3 file for voice, and insert silence and pause in the MP3 file.
   

1. Merge the audio file to the video and adjust the timing based on the voice script.
   

Here, Your Video is READY 

Speakers Profile

Beatrice Isaac is a passionate writer with quest to learn new technology and trends in writing. She has over 13+ years of experience in technical documentation in various domains such as telecommunication and networking, finance, and so on. She is now working at HCL and her interests are reading books, gardening, writing poems and stories, and playing with her young sons!!!

Nancy Petricia has over 13+ years of experience in technical writing and team management. She started her career as a Developer and due to her love for English she entered into the world of technical writing. She has worked on several technical documents for a wide range of networking products, banking-related products, and so on. She now works for HCL and when she’s free she loves to hold the mike and croon her favorite songs.

Planned Execution and Unexpected Changes in Project - Kiranmayee

Kiranmayee Pamarthy has 3 decades of experience in the IT industry. She started her career as faculty in Brilliants Computer Center in the late 80s and early 90s. She dabbled with coding, testing, and finally settled in the field of Technical Communications. Kiranmayee has worked in various verticals or domains. She likes mentoring, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning. She is a recipient of numerous national and international awards in her area of expertise and for her speeches.

Autobot - The way we do it – Kabila and Sumithra

Autobot is a digital assistant that simulates conversation with a user and clarifies their queries. Autobot can also be used to automate programmatically executable tasks. The presentation will give a brief description on use, application, and flavours of Autobots.

The main focus will be on implementation/integration of the end user documentation content to the application using the Autobot framework.This involves, slicing and dicing of the traditional content into FAQs and using scripts to hook the content to the corresponding API calls.The rest is the in-house Framework devised and built to bring Autobot into action!!!

Speakers Profile

Kabila - She is associated with HCL for 8 years now and has over 12 years of experience in the IT industry. Apart from documentation, she also acts as a Quality Metrics representative for documentation team. She was instrumental in re-structuring existing API documentation for better information usability. She simplified post-conversion clean-up tasks of Frame Maker to XML conversion and improvised the workflow of SDK documentation for better clarity and precision.

Sumithra - She has 16 years of experience in the Technical Writing Industry. She has been with HCL for 9 years addressing documentation needs for a Networking/Telecom client. She has ideated and implemented several value-added services that enhanced customer experience. To mention a few, introduced interactive flow charts in process flow documents, scripts to automate replacement of default XML tags with the appropriate tags, and deployed bulk renaming utility that automated renaming of bulk files while XML migration.

TechTalk - DevOps - Ramesh Suriaprakhash

[Saravanan Manoharan]

[Saravanan Manoharan]

Hi Technical Communicators,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing its First Chennai One-day Regional Conference for the year 2018 on 28 April (Saturday). Please visit STC India Website to know more details.

****************************************************************

STC India Chennai: One-day Regional Conference – 28 April (Saturday), 2018

Exclusive Sponsor: HCL Technologies, Chennai

The session is FREE for both STC and non-STC India members.

****************************************************************

Venue: HCL Technologies, Chennai

Address: HCL Technologies Ltd, Studio 88, 94, South Phase, Ambattur Industrial Estate, Ambattur, - Chennai.

Landmark:  Near Vavin Bustop & Mercedes Benz Showroom

[Saravanan Manoharan]

Hi Technical Communicators,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing its Second Chennai One-day Regional Conference for the year 2018 on 20 October (Saturday). Please visit STC India Website to know more details.

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STC India Chennai: One-day Regional Conference – 20 October (Saturday), 2018

Venue Sponsor: Siemens, Chennai

Registration Fee for for Non-Members: 200 INR

The session is FREE for Speakers and STC India members.

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Venue: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited

Address: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited, SP Infocity. Plot No 40, MGR Salai, Kandanchavadi, Perungudi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096

Map: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited 

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Tentative Agenda

09.30 am - 09.45 am - Registration

09.45 am - 10.00 am - Inauguration

10.00 am - 11.00 am - Estimation of Story Points using Agile Methodology - Surya Prabha, Siemens

11.00 am - 11.30 am - Networking Break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm - <tbd>

12.30 pm - 12.45 pm - Group Picture

12.45 pm - 02.00 pm - Lunch Break

02.00 pm - 03.00 pm - Why Wireframes are important? - Muthumari Uma Mariappan, Siemens

03.00 pm - 04.00 pm - Motivate Peers and Self - Iyshwarya Sekar, Verizon Data Services

04.00 pm - 04.30 pm - Networking Break

04.30 pm - 05.15 pm - Quick Bytes

05.15 pm - 05.30 pm - Closure

About the Venue Sponsor

Siveillance – the right security solution offering you peace of mind

Today, half of the world‘s population lives in cities. On a global scale, there is a growing demand for reliable security solutions that keep people safe and secure. With Siveillance, Siemens help the customers achieve their desired level of security and peace of mind – providing them with an intelligent security solution to protect what is important to them. 

Siveillance unifies the entire security portfolio from Siemens under one roof. Siveillance reflects the innovative and forward looking approach. Siemens is taking in developing, evolving, and pushing today’s security technological boundaries to answer today's and tomorrow's toughest security questions.

To know more, you can watch the security related Video.

About the Sessions and Speakers

Estimation of Story Points using Agile Methodology

Story points are a unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work. Story points represent the effort to develop a story. That could include:

• The amount of work to do
  
• The complexity of the work
  
• Any risk or uncertainty in doing the work
  

Speaker Profile

Surya Prabha has a total of 8+ yrs experience with 3+ yrs of experience in Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd . Her quick and proactive approach in adapting to SAFE agile methodology helped towards contributing her knowledge towards estimation of document related user stories along with the development team. 

This approach helped the development team to understand the importance of doing document related user stories during development phase and the role played by writers during backlog refinement.

Why Wireframes are important?

A wireframe is a low-fidelity, simplified outline of your product. A wireframe is commonly used to lay out content and functionality on a page which takes into account user needs and user journeys. They loosely shape the final product, giving you a reliable idea of where everything will eventually go. They are devoid of color, font choices, logos or any real design elements that take away from purely focusing on a site’s structure.

Creating wireframe pushes usability to the forefront in showcasing page layouts at their core. It forces everyone to look objectively at a website’s ease of use, conversion paths, naming of links, navigation placement and feature placement. Wireframes can point out flaws in your site architecture or how a specific feature may work. 

Speaker Profile

Muthumari Uma Mariappan has a total of 12+ years of experience with 8+ yrs of experience in Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd. She had worked extensively on User manuals, Online help, FAQs and Video tutorials. Her proactive approach in designing wireframes has helped the development team to understand and design the Web user interface in a better way.

Motivate Peers and Self

Motivation is one of the keys for Success. It serves as the driving source for every effort. We always seek motivation from outside, which we may not get at the right time. Rather than being at the receiving end, let’s try to be at the bestowing end. This would as well encompass the self-motivation. We acquire a positive attitude when we start peer motivation and self-motivation. Self-motivation can energize us and peer motivation can lighten up the lives of others. This brings up a healthy relationship and builds a positive environment around us. With this small key, we can open the big doors for a Successful Life.

 We can see few tips for self-motivation and impacts of peer motivation.

Quick Bytes (15 mins per topic)

If you like to present a topic, technology, process or just discuss anything related to Technical Writing, STC India provides you the platform in this Regional Conference for you to discuss Technical Writing related topics. The session can be done using a simple white board also, PPT is not required. If you are interested, please write to me at che...@stc-india.org. Please do not miss this opportunity. If you are a first timer to STC India or first-time presenter, this is the right place to start.

Registration

This session is limited to 30 participants only.

Please make the payment online using this link - InstaMojo Payment Link

Please make a note of the transaction ID as you need to enter it in the registration form. You will also receive the transaction ID in your mail.

[Saravanan Manoharan]

Hi Technical Communicators,

The India chapter of Society for Technical Communication (STC) is organizing its Second Chennai One-day Regional Conference for the year 2018 on 20 October (Saturday). Please visit STC India Website to know more details.

****************************************************************

STC India Chennai: One-day Regional Conference – 20 October (Saturday), 2018

Venue Sponsor: Siemens, Chennai

Registration Fee for for Non-Members: 200 INR

The session is FREE for Speakers and STC India members.

****************************************************************

Venue: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited

Address: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited, SP Infocity. Plot No 40, MGR Salai, Kandanchavadi, Perungudi, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096

Map: Siemens Technology and Services Private Limited 

****************************************************************

Tentative Agenda

09.30 am - 09.45 am - Registration

09.45 am - 10.00 am - Inauguration

10.00 am - 11.00 am - Estimation of Story Points using Agile Methodology - Surya Prabha, Siemens

11.00 am - 11.30 am - Networking Break

11.30 am - 12.30 pm - Motivate Peers and Self - Iyshwarya Sekar, Verizon Data Services

12.30 pm - 12.45 pm - Group Picture

12.45 pm - 02.00 pm - Lunch Break

02.00 pm - 03.00 pm - Why Wireframes are important? - Muthumari Uma Mariappan, Siemens

03.00 pm - 04.00 pm - Markdown - Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down - Rahul Karn, Information Developers Foundation

04.00 pm - 04.30 pm - Networking Break

04.30 pm - 05.30 pm - Quick Bytes

05.30 pm - 06.00 pm - Closure

About the Venue Sponsor

Siveillance – the right security solution offering you peace of mind

Today, half of the world‘s population lives in cities. On a global scale, there is a growing demand for reliable security solutions that keep people safe and secure. With Siveillance, Siemens help the customers achieve their desired level of security and peace of mind – providing them with an intelligent security solution to protect what is important to them. 

Siveillance unifies the entire security portfolio from Siemens under one roof. Siveillance reflects the innovative and forward looking approach. Siemens is taking in developing, evolving, and pushing today’s security technological boundaries to answer today's and tomorrow's toughest security questions.

To know more, you can watch the security related Video.

About the Sessions and Speakers

Estimation of Story Points using Agile Methodology

Story points are a unit of measure for expressing an estimate of the overall effort that will be required to fully implement a product backlog item or any other piece of work. Story points represent the effort to develop a story. That could include:

• The amount of work to do
  
• The complexity of the work
  
• Any risk or uncertainty in doing the work
  

Speaker Profile

Surya Prabha has a total of 8+ yrs experience with 3+ yrs of experience in Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd . Her quick and proactive approach in adapting to SAFE agile methodology helped towards contributing her knowledge towards estimation of document related user stories along with the development team. 

This approach helped the development team to understand the importance of doing document related user stories during development phase and the role played by writers during backlog refinement.

Motivate Peers and Self

Motivation is one of the keys for Success. It serves as the driving source for every effort. We always seek motivation from outside, which we may not get at the right time. Rather than being at the receiving end, let’s try to be at the bestowing end. This would as well encompass the self-motivation. We acquire a positive attitude when we start peer motivation and self-motivation. Self-motivation can energize us and peer motivation can lighten up the lives of others. This brings up a healthy relationship and builds a positive environment around us. With this small key, we can open the big doors for a Successful Life.

We can see few tips for self-motivation and impacts of peer motivation.

Speaker Profile  

Iyshwarya Sekar has total of 12+ years of varied experience and currently working for Verizon Data Services India. She started her career as a Technical Writer, slowly transitioned as a Business Analyst and currently pursuing interest in User Experience. She has strong passion towards writing and also interested in writing poems and blogs in both English and Tamil. She is also an active Toastmaster for the past 2+ years exploring the world of public speaking.

Why Wireframes are important?

A wireframe is a low-fidelity, simplified outline of your product. A wireframe is commonly used to lay out content and functionality on a page which takes into account user needs and user journeys. They loosely shape the final product, giving you a reliable idea of where everything will eventually go. They are devoid of color, font choices, logos or any real design elements that take away from purely focusing on a site’s structure.

Creating wireframe pushes usability to the forefront in showcasing page layouts at their core. It forces everyone to look objectively at a website’s ease of use, conversion paths, naming of links, navigation placement and feature placement. Wireframes can point out flaws in your site architecture or how a specific feature may work. 

Speaker Profile

Muthumari Uma Mariappan has a total of 12+ years of experience with 8+ yrs of experience in Siemens Technology and Services Pvt Ltd. She had worked extensively on User manuals, Online help, FAQs and Video tutorials. Her proactive approach in designing wireframes has helped the development team to understand and design the Web user interface in a better way.

Markdown - Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down

 

Markdown is a lightweight markup language with plain text formatting syntax. In this session Rahul will show a demo on how to use MarkDown, its pros and cons in Technical documentation and finally runs through some use cases on Markdown implementation.

Speaker Profile

Rahul Karn, for a living, serves on weekdays. For passion, he provides training and writes blogs. Visit his website to know more: Information Developers Foundation.

Quick Bytes (15 mins per topic)

If you like to present a topic, technology, process or just discuss anything related to Technical Writing, STC India provides you the platform in this Regional Conference for you to discuss Technical Writing related topics. The session can be done using a simple white board also, PPT is not required. If you are interested, please write to me at chennai@stc-india.org. Please do not miss this opportunity. If you are a first timer to STC India or first-time presenter, this is the right place to start.

[Saravanan Manoharan]