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Speaker Spotlight

Early Registration Discounts

Last Call for Speakers

Our 2026 Sponsors

Speaker Spotlight

Here are just a few of the Content Rockstars who will be speaking at LavaCon Charlotte:

Maria Romanovsky

Director Content Design and Strategy, TikTok

Erik Bremer

Sr. Director, Global Content Engineering, Dell Technologies

Keith Boyd

Senior Director,

Microsoft Digital

Elizabeth Rich

Senior Director, Content Strategy,

(Shh, it's a secret)

Karen Brothers

Content Manager, 3M



Megan Gilhooly

Sr Dir Regulatory Intelligence, OneTrust


Amber Craig

Lead Content Designer, Salesforce

Jessica Reed

Dir. Customer Innovation and Strategy, Adobe Global Digital Strategy Group

Aman Goyal

Agentic AI Product Manager, T-Mobile

2026 Early Registration Discounts

The next LavaCon will be 25–28 October 2026 in Charlotte, NC.

Register as an In-person Attendee before we publish the Preliminary Schedule and bring your boss or colleague for free!

Register as a Virtual Attendee 

before we publish the Preliminary Schedule and access the 2024 and 2025 recordings as an added bonus!


Need to build a business case to attend? Attach a copy of last year's Schedule at a Glance to your training request and highlight all the sessions that would helped solve your organizations' content challenges. This year's program will be equally epic!

Last Call for Speakers

We are accepting speaker proposals for LavaCon Charlotte.


Our 2026 theme is: 


Reducing Costs, Generating Revenue, and Improving the Customer Experience Through Better Content



In addition to tracks on Content Strategy, Content Operations, and TechComm Management, the theme for this year’s AI track is:


Beyond Proof of Concept: How Leading Companies Are Using AI to

Reduce Costs—without Laying Off their Content Teams



Have a case study or other best practice you'd like to share? Click the Call for Speakers (PDF) link or the graphic below for more information and submission directions. Deadline for submission: 12 February 2026


Our 2026 Sponsors

Our Call for Sponsors is open!!!


Content professionals attend LavaCon to:

  • Keep up with the latest advancements in publishing technology (including AI)
  • Find ways to improve their customers’ user experience
  • Find ways to decrease costs and generate revenue
  • Find the best authoring tool, CMS, translation, and consulting vendors who can help do all of the above


If you'd like more information on exhibiting at LavaCon 2026 click this link.


Exclusive Diamond Sponsor

Adobe Systems

Sapphire Sponsors

Heretto


Madcap Software

Platinum Sponsors

DITA Strategies / Intuitive Stack


Fluid Topics by Antidot


Scriptorium


Congree


Stilo

Gold Sponsors

ProSpring Staffing

Silver Sponsors

Comtech Services

Other Sponsors

MultiLingual


TechWhirl


TechSmith

Jack Molisani
Executive Director
The LavaCon Conference
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