TCeurope

Registration is open!

TCeurope is delighted to announce the 10th TCeurope Colloquium which will be held on Saturday 17 April in Paris (France), under the title A New Decade For Technical Communication: 2010 And Beyond. Our hosts for this event are the French national society for technical communication, the Conseil des Rédacteurs Techniques (CRT).

To register, go to the registration page.

The Colloquium's exciting programme brings together experts from many countries in Europe to present a broad range of stimulating topics for today's technical communicators, including:

• Theresa Cameron, ISTC (keynote): Setting procedures in stone – what will be our legacy?
• Prof Josef Herget, Danube University Krems: E-collaboration and how this changes the communication and information in working processes
• Hansrudolf Steinhauer, Alstom: The future of product documentation
• Paul Strickland, European Commission: How to promote clear writing in a multilingual organisation – the case of the European Commission
• Alan Fisk, IASC/IASB Foundation: Writing English for non-expert users of English
• Henk Boxma, Boxma IT: Hidden costs of translation
• Richard Menneglier, Lexcelera: Writing to increase machine translation readiness
• Gordon Dennis, Koala Ltd: Dynamic communications in a safety-critical world
• Dacia Dressen-Hammouda, Université Blaise Pascal: Facing the challenges of the profession and preparing for what comes next : A response from Clermont-Ferrand

Admission is free but registration is required. To register, go to the registration page.

Who should attend?

Anyone interested in technical or business communication, including professionals, students, teachers, and translators.

Where?

FIAP Jean Monnet, 30 rue Cabanis, 75014 Paris, France: www.fiap.asso.fr/index-en.html. Metro line 6 Glacière, or RER line B Denfert Rochereau.

When?

Saturday 17 April 2010, 09.15 to 17.00.

Need a hotel?

Although the FIAP offers overnight accommodation, this may not be at the standard you require. For hotels in the immediate neighbourhood, see www.fiap.asso.fr/directional-map.html or en.parisinfo.com/paris-hotels (this site is available in several languages including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch).

Need more reasons to attend?

• Meet fellow practitioners from around Europe
• This year, as part of TCeurope’s initiative to promote technical communication in Europe and recognise the work of all those involved in the profession, the TCeurope Colloquium is scheduled to follow the STC’s Content Strategy Forum 2010 which takes place at FIAP in Paris on 15-16 April. Through this, we hope that technical communicators will benefit from a unique double event.
• At the Palais de la découverte the exhibition Magnifi’science shows extraordinary photos of scientific experiments
• Paris in the spring – the best time to visit!

Contact?

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