Write the Docs Australia
Docs practitioners from across Asia-Pacific; worth it only if you are already traveling.
- Dates
- Dec 3 to Dec 4, 2026
- Where
- Melbourne, AU
- Cost
- Paid ticket. Tickets listed with a $ sign (currency not stated, likely AUD): Student/Unemployed $125 in person, Independent $250, Corporate $350; virtual $75/$125/$175. Opportunity Grants available (applications closed Oct 2, 2026).
- Type
- Conference · Paid ticket
- Organizer
- Write the Docs
- Last checked
- October 23, 2026 against the event’s own site
Official site and registration
Cheaper ways in: Student/unemployed ticket; virtual tickets; Opportunity Grants for ticket and travel.
Speaking opportunities
Open call for speakers
The 2026 call closed Sept 11, 2026.
Call for speakers
The 2026 call closed Sept 11, 2026.
Who goes
Roles and segments the organizer or our research tag this event for.
Segments: Technical writing and documentation
Roles: technical writer, documentation lead
The field it serves: Technology & Software
- Verified open jobs
- about 106,550
- Typical posted salary
- $163,000 a year (middle half $124,000 to $214,000)
- Entry or early-career level
- 31% 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, 1,717 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.
- Atlassian Sponsoring 2026
- Fastmail Sponsoring 2026
- HelpDocs Sponsoring 2026
- Linux Australia Sponsoring 2026
Read from the event’s own pages: www.writethedocs.org.
Speakers and sessions
Named on the event’s own program. Titles and organizations are as the event lists them.
Speakers
Ben Fairless
Runs the OpenAustralia Foundation, OpenAustralia Foundation
Ten thousand votes, no side taken
Claire Mahoney
AI Way or the Highway: What remains when everyone can write the docs?
Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
Protecting docs taste at scale
Frances Liu
What AI agents get wrong when writing docs
Janeera D A
What your search bar knows that your surveys don't: building a docs roadmap from search data
Jessica Gahan
11,000 changes and growing: how content design architected release comms at scale
Lana Brindley
Help! I accidentally built a publishing platform!
Tom Johnson
Building SKILLs to help automate internal authoring workflows
Tristan Bunn
The LMS as a Build Target: Shifting the Source of Truth to a Publishing Pipeline
Yvonne Perkins
Acronyms, humour and navigating the unclear path
Read from the event’s own pages: writethedocs.org
Industries and functions
Past and planned editions
- 2026: December 3, 2026 to December 4, 2026, Melbourne
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