Portland 2025 speakers¶

We’re excited to announce the lineup of speakers and talks for our Portland 2025 conference! A huge thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal—this conference wouldn’t be possible without your contributions.

Each year, we curate a diverse range of voices to share insights from our community. As the role of “documentarian” varies greatly among us, we aim for topics that cover practical, philosophical, and technical ideas, with a touch of whimsy for good measure:

• Alex Garnett: Docs AI Tooling is Better (and Better for Us) than You Think

• Yanjie Niu: The Power of Two: How Support and Documentation Teams Transform Technical Content Quality

• Stephanie Fuller: Writing the Shipwreck

• Rachel Rigdon: Quest for the Holy Grail: Turning User Feedback into Meaningful Change

• Holly Mickelson: Regulate This! Writing for the Medical Device Industry

• Manny Silva: Docs as Tests: A Strategy for Resilient Docs

• Heather Zoppetti: Knitting Together a Technical Writing Career

• Janine Chan: Seven habits of increasingly technical technical writers

• Leah Catania: Using Competitive Analysis to Your Advantage

• Ravind Kumar: Embracing the Kraken : How to build a docs-toolchain monster and why it’s OK

• Jodie Landes: Unifying Documentation: A Tale of Two Security Giants

• Colin Loretz: Open Docs, Open Collaboration: Building Better Documentation with Community PRs

• Elise Davis: Scaling a unicorn: how to mature your documentation program and support a changing business

Buy your tickets soon¶

If you haven’t gotten your ticket yet, now’s the time to begin the process to attend. Please ensure to arrange your travel only after buying a conference ticket. If you need additional information, we have a few resources to help you:

• Visit our Convince Your Manager page for assistance in making the case for attendance.

• Purchase your tickets on our Tickets page.

• Plan your journey with our Visiting Portland page.

Thanks again to our sponsors¶

We are thankful to our sponsors for their role in making these events possible every year. A big thank you to each of these companies for supporting our community:

• Mintlify

• ReadMe

• DeveloperHub

• MongoDB

• Expert Support

• Redocly

• Hyperlint

• The Not-Boring Tech Writer, from KnowledgeOwl

• Read the Docs

• HelpDocs

• ClickHelp

If your company is interested in sponsoring, you can find all the necessary information in our sponsorship prospectus.

We look forward to seeing you in Portland!