Welcome to the LavaCon Conference on
Professional Development

LavaCon is a career development conference for high-tech professionals.

The conference includes three days of sessions and workshops on how to hone your workplace survival skills, plus industry-specific sessions for engineering/IT professionals, documentation and training professionals and program/project management professionals.

The next LavaCon will be held October 25–27, 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

Increase Your Corporate Value

The seventh annual LavaCon will focus on actions you can take to increase your corporate value. We want you to be so valuable to your company that they wouldn't even think about laying you off.

View the Program page to view the sessions and workshops offered at LavaCon.

See you in New Orleans!

Comments from Previous Attendees

I heard about LavaCon from [a colleague], with whom I work. She raves about this conference, and because I am the project manager for most of my company's technical documentation projects, I felt this conference would be a great benefit to my ongoing education.

I have always envied her attending this conference, but I could not attend until now. I look forward to the brochure, the e-news, and, of course, the conference in October!

B.G. Project Manager

The balance of concrete solutions presented in some sessions and problem-solving in others made for an excellent learning experience.

J.H., Business Owner

 

Thanks for putting on such a great conference. I learned a great deal. It was helpful to attend a conference for senior [developers] and managers.

B.C., Sr. Developer

 

I have attended and presented at various conferences over the years. Some offer classes that are too basic or general. Some focus only on specific technical areas. I spend my training budget on the LavaCon conference because I think it is the best value for my staff. The agenda offers an excellent variety of sessions -- so many choices that often it is difficult to choose which to attend! I like sending my staff to LavaCon because there are more advanced topics than [other conferences].

K.S., Manager - Technical Communication

 

If you have senior staff or are in techcomm management, this is a good conference, partly because the topics are geared toward decision makers: strategists, management, and so on, and because it co-locates with [a local chapter of] the Project Management Institute, which gives people the opportunity to branch out and think of their profession in different ways.

R.B., CMS Consultant

 

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