Documentation and Training Life Sciences 2008 Conference takes place in beautiful Indianapolis, IN, June 23-26, 2008. The theme of the event is The Right Prescription for Life Sciences Content. Registration is just $1099 if you register online by April 15, 2008 (saves $200 off regular price).

The event will explore solutions to content challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, and health and hospital corporations. Attendees will include medical, science, and technical writers, marketing professionals, instructional designers, regulatory specialists, trainers, information technologists, business analysts, document engineers, interaction designers and content and online community managers.

The event features several interesting sessions on DITA, including:

• Handling DITA Topics and Translation in a Regulated Industry, by Jen Linton (author of Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture) and Jennifer Perkins of Gambro BCT
• Structured Content Beyond the Label, Ann Rockley
• More to come....