STC's 51st Annual Conference

Conference Theme: Navigating the Future of Technical Communication Conference Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Writing, editing, indexing, single sourcing, localizing, translating, documentation on paper, online, on demand, technical communication encompasses all of these tasks and more.

Today's practitioners are steering the course for the future of technical communication. They are breaking boundaries and setting new paradigms. They are moving forward, while staying true to the past, providing the information people need, when they need it, but not compromising on quality and usability.

The challenges in our profession today are numerous and exciting. We need to provide information that is accessible to an ever-growing range of audiences. We have to define what technical communication is to the business world and convince employers of the value that we add. We should take the time to mentor the next generation of technical communicators.

We will decide the course of our profession for the next fifty years and beyond. You are invited to help navigate the future of technical communication by presenting your ideas, studies, experiences, and expertise to your fellow communicators. Join us at STC's 51st Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, for an exciting exchange of ideas.

The three-day conference organizes its sixty- or ninety-minute educational sessions, called technical sessions, into six stems ranging in content from management, writing, and editing to the latest in technical tools, usability findings, and information design. A fourth day presents half-day or full-day post-conference workshops and tutorials covering the same range of topics in greater detail, at an additional charge.