LavaCon Content Strategy Conference
Content strategy, technical writing and content design practitioners and leads.
- Dates
- Oct 25 to Oct 28, 2026
- Where
- Charlotte, NC
- Cost
- Ticket About $2,550. In-person full conference tuition $2,550 (rate after Sept 30). Half-day workshops $200 each, full-day $400 each (optional).
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- LavaCon
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Speaking opportunities
Has sessions, ask how speakers are chosen
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Segments: Design and user experience, Technical writing and documentation
Roles: content designer, technical writer, documentation lead
The field it serves: Technology & Software
- Verified open jobs
- about 89,532
- Typical posted salary
- $184,000 a year (middle half $131,000 to $234,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 24% of openings
- Employment, year over year
- −4.2% in information, the closest BLS sector
Source: NextChapter job data, jobs verified live in the last 7 days.
Source: NextChapter job data: salary ranges employers posted, midpoint of each range, 2,228 of the newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: NextChapter job data: level read from the full posting, newest 5,000 verified open jobs.
Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics, seasonally adjusted payroll employment, September 2026.
Full Technology & Software snapshot: jobs, pay, layoffs and conferences
Employers at this conference
Exhibitors, sponsors and speakers we have found on the event’s own lists.
- Adobe Sponsoring 2026
- Codal Sponsoring 2026
- congree Sponsoring 2026
- hashout Sponsoring 2026
- Heretto Sponsoring 2026
- MadCap Software Sponsoring 2026
- markup Sponsoring 2026
- Metapercept Sponsoring 2026
- RWS (Tridion) Sponsoring 2026
- Ryffine Sponsoring 2026
- Sanity Sponsoring 2026
- Scriptorium Sponsoring 2026
- Stilo Sponsoring 2026
- Zenious Sponsoring 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: www.lavacon.org.
Speakers and sessions
Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.
Moderators
Dipo Ajose-Coker
Solutions Architect, RWS Group
Panel Discussion: Inclusive Content in the AI Era – Bias, Culture, And Who Gets Left Behind
Panelists
Amber Swope
Information Architecture Consultant, DITA Strategies
Panel Discussion: Inclusive Content in the AI Era – Bias, Culture, And Who Gets Left Behind
David Alley
SVP, Tridion & Fonto, RWS
Panel Discussion: Inclusive Content in the AI Era – Bias, Culture, And Who Gets Left Behind
Leslie Farinella
President, Content Rules
Panel Discussion: Inclusive Content in the AI Era – Bias, Culture, And Who Gets Left Behind
Speakers
Alesia Harwood
Special AI Consultant to Cisco
Carpe (the AI) Diem!
Aman Goyal
Agentic AI Product Manager, T-Mobile
Show Me the Agents! Decision Framework for Content Operations AI
Dawn Stevens
President, Comtech Services
Not for Ages 3 and Under: Why AI in Content Creation Requires Organizational Maturity
Erik Bremer
Sr. Director, Global Content Engineering, Dell Technologies
Your Operating Model is Broken: Revolutionizing Content in the Age of AI
Jason Kaufman
CEO, Zaon Labs
When Truth Lags, Trust Dies: The Risk Of Scaling Unverified Knowledge With AI
Jessica Reed
Director of Customer Innovation, Adobe Global Digital Strategy Group
More AI Doesn't Mean Less Human
Kayce Danna
VP of Product, Markup AI
The Docs are not Alright (and AI Alone Won't Fix Them)
Keith Boyd
Senior Director, Microsoft Corporation
Content is Still King: Thriving in the Era of AI
Megan Gilhooly
Sr Director Global Content and Intelligence, OneTrust
Balancing Brains and Bots: Accelerating a Responsible AI Workflow
Pam Noreault
Principal Information Architect, Ellucian
Orchestrating Content Workflow at Ellucian Using AI Skills
Rhyne Armstrong
Director, Technical Writing, Visa
From Shadow to Servant: How Visa/Pismo Tamed the AI Beast
Sara Feldman
Director of Member Engagement, Consortium for Service Innovation
Impact Map: Getting Stakeholder Buy-In for Content Initiatives
Sarah O'Keefe
CEO, Scriptorium
The Barbarians are at the Gate
Stefan Gentz
Principal Worldwide Evangelist, Adobe
The Human Layer: Designing Content for Humans, Machines, and Everything Between
Trey Smith
Senior Engineering Program Supervisor, Honeywell
Building Momentum: Structuring Small Steps to Achieve Big Wins
Read from the event’s own pages: lavacon.org
Industries and functions
Where it is and who it is for
Held in Charlotte, NC. Local jobs, employers, layoffs and other conferences nearby are on the place pages.
Past and planned editions
- 2026: October 25, 2026 to October 28, 2026, Charlotte, NC
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