Events

DCL is an active participant and speaker at many industry events

Upcoming Events

  • The LavaCon Content Strategy Conference (ONLINE)
    LavaCon
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    Oct 24, 11:30 AM EDT – Oct 27, 8:00 PM EDT
    LavaCon, New Orleans, LA, USA
    LavaCon helps organizations generate revenue and reduce costs using state-of-the-art content technologies. It’s a gathering place where content professionals share best practices and lessons learned, network with peers, and build professional relationships that will last for years to come.
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Past Events

  • WEBINAR: The Fast Lane to Content ROI: Delivery First; Structure Second
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Oct 06, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    You can move to dynamic content delivery and provide outstanding user experience with fast impact on your company without needing to re-architect your content. In fact, shifting the paradigm to delivery first and content structure second can be an approach that works for tech writers AND management.
  • WEBINAR: Map or Scrap? Consolidating Data Between Inherited Enterprise Systems in the Life Sciences
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Sep 30, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    Mergers and acquisitions involve many moving parts. One is an enterprise content management system and how to reconcile multiple systems into one. Mapping data between systems causes problems and requires continuous updates. We’ll help ease the burden of what seems—but is not—an insurmountable task.
  • WEBINAR: Content Standardization and Structure: Is It Really Worth the Effort?
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Sep 15, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    Not only does standardized and structured content enable automation but also it helps to train AI at scale in a manner far more accurate and precise than just leaving it up to the AI engine to randomly generate from unstructured big data. Join DCL and Content Rules as we demonstrate: it IS worth it.
  • WEBINAR: The Demise of Documents? Structuring Content for AI | A Lunch & Learn Discussion
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Sep 01, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    No longer is content designed and optimized for human consumption. For content to be found by your target audience, it’s best served up in a semantically tagged structure in an open digital format. The foundation for today’s content must be machine-readable, which means structure and semantics.
  • WEBINAR: Technology and Life Sciences: Tool Selection, Systems Implementation, Data Migration, and Security
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Aug 11, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    In this webinar, we identify tools have been used successfully and have been adapted to support the needs of Life Sciences. We’ll explore how digital technologies improve the time to market for numerous drug candidates and what it will take to gain a wider acceptance within the regulatory community.
  • Balisage: The Markup Conference (ONLINE)
    Mulberry Technologies
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    Aug 02, 10:00 AM EDT – Aug 06, 4:30 PM EDT
    Mulberry Technologies, 17 W Jefferson Street, #207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
    Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.
  • WEBINAR: Content From Multiple Clinical Sources - The Pitfalls and Solutions to Consistent Documents and Content
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Jun 23, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    Sponsors use many external vendors including CROs and multiple clinical sites during clinical trials. The documents and content that sponsors receive back may not be as usable as they could be. How do we put concepts in place that enable us to have a more consistent level of quality in documents?
  • WEBINAR: Content Reuse: The Easy Way
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Jun 16, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    Even minor content updates send writers scurrying to find and fix every instance of pasted content across a large content library, causing content production costs to rise and content delivery to be delayed, and exposing the organization to regulatory risk. Fortunately, there is a better way.
  • NFAIS Strategic Summit online: Transforming Content Through Transformed Systems
    NISO
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    Jun 16, 10:00 AM EDT – Jun 17, 2:30 PM EDT
    NISO, 3600 Clipper Mill Rd, Baltimore, MD 21211, USA
    In this program, we will explore challenges from both a management and a technology perspective to consider how the information community can develop systems that continue to add value to scholarly communication and success.
  • DCL DITA Day 2021
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Jun 10, 11:00 AM – 3:30 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    An online seminar to help organizations understand the benefits of DITA and how to plan a transition to a DITA-based workflow. The goal of this seminar is to help organizations identify and overcome the barriers to migration, creating a clear process to move to a DITA-based content reuse workflow.
  • VIRTUAL SSP 43rd Annual Meeting
    Society for Scholarly Publishing
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    May 24, 9:00 AM EDT – May 27, 6:00 PM EDT
    Society for Scholarly Publishing, NJ-73, Mt Laurel Township, NJ 08054, USA
    Join the vibrant community of publishers, librarians, academics, service providers, funders, technologists, and others with a stake in how research is shared as the Society for Scholarly Publishing charts a new course, and embraces the chaos to ignite innovation.
  • WEBINAR: Life Sciences IT Systems: Cloud, Compliance, Regulatory - All Together Now!
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    May 05, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    Moving from a closed internal system to a cloud-based system requires the ability to understand the support model from external vendors instead of relying on internal IT resources. Reconciling multiple cloud environments while ensuring secure access is what enables successful interoperability.
  • VIRTUAL JATS-Con
    National Library of Medicine
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    Apr 27, 8:00 AM EDT – Apr 29, 5:00 AM EDT
    National Library of Medicine, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA
    JATS-Con is a conference for anyone who uses, or is interested in learning about, the Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS), an XML format for marking up and exchanging journal content. Conference presentations are peer-reviewed and result in a final paper that is archived.
  • ConVEx Online
    CIDM
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    Apr 26, 11:00 AM EDT – Apr 29, 5:00 AM EDT
    CIDM, 710 Kipling St, Lakewood, CO 80215, USA
    The Center for Information-Development Management's ConVEx is an immersive experience designed from the ground up to use e-resources in the best possible way to bring you a wealth of ideas and information to support your efforts in defining and executing a comprehensive content strategy.
  • SDL Connect Online Conference
    SDL
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    Apr 14, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM EDT
    SDL, 2550 N 1st St STE 301, San Jose, CA 95131, USA
    Digital leadership this year will demand more from global brands. Now is the time to transform — to connect with audiences at any scale, no matter what the language, channel or touchpoint. At Connect, you'll discover the latest trends in digital content and how global organizations are responding.
  • WEBINAR: Improving Time to Market for Drug Development: Content Structure and Systems Integration
    Data Conversion Laboratory
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    Apr 07, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
    Data Conversion Laboratory, 61-18 190th St Suite 205, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365, USA
    This webinar looks at how content structuring and technology roadmapping factor into aligning the systems and data flows in your organization. These elements factored together with effective content lifecycle management help break down silos and ensure the effective flow of data and communications.
  • Adobe DITAWORLD Online Conference
    Adobe
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    Mar 16, 8:45 AM PDT – Mar 18, 3:45 PM PDT
    Adobe, 345 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95110, USA
    A comprehensive program with the world’s leading Technical Communication, Marketing, DITA©, Content Management, and Content Strategy experts about DITA, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe’s DITA CCMS (XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager).
  • WEBINAR: Content Clarity: Audit, Analysis, and Insight Across Your Corpus
    Silverchair Information Systems
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    Mar 16, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT
    Silverchair Information Systems, 316 E Main St, Charlottesville, VA 22902, USA
    Analyzing legacy content as well as recently published content in a publishers’ library reveals discrepancies, anomalies, and errors that impact discoverability and interoperability. Looking deeply at key criteria in an entire catalog reveals actionable insights that will improve content accuracy.