TCeurope

On Saturday 17 April the 2010 TCeurope Colloquium was held in Paris (France), under the title A New Decade For Technical Communication: 2010 And Beyond. Our hosts for this event were the French national society for technical communication, the Conseil des Rédacteurs Techniques (CRT).

TCeurope Award 2010

The AGM voted for its former President, Dr Hanna Risku, to receive the TCeurope Award 2010 for ten years of work for European co-operation in technical communication. As Dr Risku could not be present in Paris, the actual presentation of the Award took place in October, at STVY's annual conference in Tampere, Finland. The photo below shows the new (left) and old (right) Presidents at the presentation:

Presentations

The hyperlinks in the overview below allow you to download the speakers' presentations in PDF format.

• Theresa Cameron, ISTC (keynote): Setting procedures in stone – what will be our legacy?
• 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 Commision (see also: http://ec.europa.eu/translation/)
• Richard Menneglier, Lexcelera: Writing to increase machine translation readiness
• Alan Fisk, IASC/IASB Foundation: Writing English for non-expert users of English
• Henk Boxma, Boxma IT: Hidden costs of translation
• Gordon Dennis, Koala Ltd: Dynamic communications in a safety-critical world
• Michel Lanque, Alcatel: New applications and methodologies for user documentation
• Dacia Dressen-Hammouda, Université Blaise Pascal: Facing the challenges of the profession and preparing for what comes next : A response from Clermont-Ferrand

Speakers

Click here for a short bio (in PDF) of all the speakers.