Explore the date, desk timing, and venue details from the Bangalore event. This was a half-day event, and registration was ₹500 per person. Archived session schedule below with 10 sessions.
Registration opened at 8:45 AM. Session schedule below with 10 sessions. Event format: half-day. Participation fee was ₹500 per person.
Date
June 6, 2026
Desk opens
8:45 AM
Sessions
10 sessions through the day
Venue
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Auditorium, Bengaluru
XHMP+MJJ, Fair Field Layout Rd, Race Course Rd, near Basaveshawara Circle, High Grounds, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001
Open Google MapsBangalore city schedule with 10 sessions.
This session presented an end-to-end AI-assisted workflow for turning product demos and screen recordings into structured, review-ready DITA drafts. It covered transcript capture with Trainn, draft generation with Claude, and practical guardrails for keeping human judgment central to quality.
Ashwini Sawanth is a Staff Technical Writer on the Product Content team at ServiceNow, where she focuses on AI product documentation. She advocates AI-powered documentation workflows that keep human judgment at the center of content creation.
This session showed how accessibility can be built into documentation workflows from authoring through publishing, instead of being treated as a late-stage fix. It explained how AI-assisted checks, rule-based enforcement, and human oversight improved consistency, inclusivity, and quality at scale.
Smita Priyadarsini is a Staff Engineer in Technical/Product Publications at Synopsys. With prior experience at SAP Labs, ABB, and Tech Mahindra, she specializes in structured authoring, API documentation, and AI-enabled content governance.
Writing began as marks on stone. It became scrolls, pamphlets, manuals, and finally, knowledge bases. Technical writing did not arrive with software. It arrived the moment one human needed to explain something complex to another. This talk traces that journey across 40,000 years, from the first scribes who advised kings, through the printing press that democratised knowledge, to the first software manual and the digital revolution that followed. Each era shifted who owns information and how it moves. Today, AI is making that shift again. The question is not whether technical writers survive it. It is how the craft evolves to lead it.
Selvaraaju Murugesan is a senior director at Kovai.co.
STC India community updates, chapter announcements, and key housekeeping guidance for participants before the break.
Refreshment break before the panel discussion.
Panel discussion with community leaders on current and emerging directions in technical communication.
This talk reframes documentation success around user outcomes, task completion, and business impact instead of passive consumption metrics. It highlights practical ways to use AI for scalable feedback analysis, proactive insight generation, and continuous improvement of documentation strategy.
Harsha Kulkarni is an R&D Senior Manager for Technical Writing at AVEVA with over two decades of experience in technical communication and data-driven documentation strategy. Renuka Shastry is an R&D Manager, Technical Writing at AVEVA who focuses on AI-ready documentation, ethical communication design, and inclusive knowledge practices.
This session explains how technical documentation now serves both human readers and AI retrieval systems, and why structure quality directly affects answer quality. It presents practical techniques such as chunking, semantic markers, and disambiguation patterns to improve retrieval accuracy without sacrificing readability.
Garima Agarwal is a Technical Writer at AVEVA, Bengaluru, with experience in content creation and digital marketing. She actively explores generative AI and UI design to improve technical communication quality and usability. Khush Gulgulia is currently working as a Technical Writer at AVEVA, where he is also involved in AI-related initiatives within the organization. Alongside his work, he spends a lot of time exploring and studying AI, especially around how AI systems interact with enterprise knowledge and technical documentation.
An interactive engagement segment.
Networking time for attendees, speakers, and organizers to continue discussions and make connections after the sessions.