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XML Press Author Amanda Galtman presents at Declarative Amsterdam

By Richard Hamilton, on November 5th, 2026

Amanda Galtman, whose book on the XSpec testing framework will be published by XML Press this winter, will be presenting a tutorial at Declarative Amsterdam 2026 (November 12-13, 2026). Declarative Amsterdam is an annual conference focusing on the technologies and methods used for declarative programming and declarative data.

Amanda’s talk, titled Introduction to XSpec, will […]

XML Press author Amanda Galtman at Balisage 2026

By Richard Hamilton, on July 27th, 2026

Amanda Galtman, whose book on the XSpec testing framework will be published by XML Press this fall, will be presenting at this year’s Balisage conference (August 3-7, 2026). Balisage brings together pretty much every serious markup expert in the world. After 18 years, this will be the last Balisage conference, but they are going out […]

XML Press Authors at LavaCon 2025

By Richard Hamilton, on June 24th, 2025

The LavaCon Conference on Content Strategy will be held Oct 5-8, 2025, in Atlanta Georgia. XML Press authors speaking at LavaCon this year include:

Noz Urbina: Content Strategy Bootcamp (half-day pre-conference workshop with Joy Herbers) Sarah Johnson: Content First Design (full-day pre-conference workshop) Scott Abel: Top Five Ways to Harness the Power of AI Co-Pilots […]

LavaCon 2024

By Richard Hamilton, on May 30th, 2024

LavaCon 2024 will be held October 27-30 in Portland, Oregon. This year, LavaCon features presentations by XML Press authors Scott Abel, Rahel Bailie, Kit Brown-Hoekstra, Alan Porter, Val Swisher, and Noz Urbina, as well as many other top names in content strategy, technical communication, and management.

This year, the theme is Content as a Business […]

Val Swisher to speak at Content Marketing World 2021

By Richard Hamilton, on August 11th, 2021

Val Swisher, author of Global Content Strategy and The Personalization Paradox, will be speaking at Content Marketing World 2021, which is being held both in-person and virtually this year.

Her talk is titled AI is for Analysis and Insights: Using Three AI Analytic Models and will be part of the virtual track at 11:00am EDT, […]

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