Virtual attendance includes:
- Live streamed talks from the main stage
- Ability to participate in Q&A with speakers
- Real-time chat with other virtual attendees
- Virtual networking spaces
- Conference talk videos available 2-3 weeks after the event

Tickets: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2026/tickets/

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Tickets

Tickets are on sale now! Weโ€™re excited to invite you to our 2026 conference in Portland. Ticket Information: Write the Docs Portland 2026 is a hybrid conference, which you can attend in person or v...

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Sarah will share the combination of writing guidelines and structural changes that have kept MongoDBโ€™s internal accuracy metrics at 93% across ~8 answer engines.

Donโ€™t miss this talk at Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!

https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2026/speakers/#speaker-sarah-lin-how-to-win-docs-and-influence-robots-improving-robot-accuracy-through-better-do-sarah-lin

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Conference Speakers

A conference for tech writers, documentarians, and all those who write the docs.

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๐ŸŽ‰ The wait is over! ๐ŸŽ‰

Our full conference schedule is officially LIVE for May 3-5 in Portland, and we are excited to welcome you!

โ˜• Think coffee culture, food carts, and that perfect Pacific Northwest energy.

Itโ€™s time to build your personal schedule and map out your adventure.

Full details: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2026/news/announcing-schedule/

๐Ÿ’ฌ What are you most looking forward to?
Let us know in the comments!

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Booked my flights and hotel for Write the Docs in Portland!

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This was done through a systematic, data-driven process aligned with support metrics and product priorities.

Donโ€™t miss this talk at Write the Docs Portland, May 3-5!

https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2026/speakers/#speaker-aileen-mary-how-we-deprecated-500-articles-cleaning-up-documentation-at-scale-aileen-mary

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Conference Speakers

A conference for tech writers, documentarians, and all those who write the docs.

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Brian Christianโ€™s book ๐™๐™๐™š ๐™ˆ๐™ค๐™จ๐™ฉ ๐™ƒ๐™ช๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™ƒ๐™ช๐™ข๐™–๐™ฃ explored what it means to be human through a competition between the best chatbots at the time via a tournament of Turing tests.

In his talk, โ€œ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—›๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐——๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ปโ€, Christian Miles discusses how bespoke tools can help navigate a socially complex environment created by the proliferation of AI technologies.

https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2026/speakers/#speaker-christian-miles-the-most-human-documentation-christian-miles

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Avoiding the docs slide into staleness takes some proactive effort. But a lot of that can be automated these days.

I talk about some suggestions in a blog post here: https://djw.fyi/portfolio/preventing-drift/

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Avoiding the Silent Stale Doc Problem

Photo by Aliaksei Semirski on Pexels. Weโ€™ve all been there. The team is firing on all cylinders, cranking out innovative new features. The documentation is perfect! Itโ€™s comprehensive, clear, and included right in the Pull Request. Then, six months later, a bug report comes in. Somewhere along the way, a developer changed a timeout value, renamed a key in a JSON response, or updated a UI label, andโ€ฆthe documentation didnโ€™t move an inch.

Daryl J. White

For many years, Sarah has used Git the way many people do: just enough to feel competent, but not enough to recover if anything went sideways. This talk, โ€œ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—š๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—–๐—ผ๐—บ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—œ ๐—”๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ 9 ๐—ฌ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ (๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—œ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—œ ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ป'๐˜)โ€, is a writer-friendly tour of the Git commands Sarah Deaton avoided for years, and the calm workflows they unlock.

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Being the first and only Technical Writer on a team doesnโ€™t just mean documenting features; it means becoming a bridge, educator, advocate, and cultureโ€‘builder all at once. Over time, Alina learned that while documentation is often undervalued or taken for granted, it quietly shapes everything: from product clarity to better UI to an improved API experience.

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Many technical communicators already practice the skills needed to shape high-impact technical narratives, but don't always see how those skills translate outside documentation contexts.

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