Conference archive. ConVEx 2025 took place April 7–9, 2025, in San Jose, California. This page preserves Bluestream’s original participation announcement and adds links to the organizer’s archived programme.
Hosted by CIDM · April 7–9, 2025
Structured content. Practical demonstrations. Better delivery.
Bluestream at ConVEx 2025
Bluestream’s March 2025 announcement set out plans to join the ConVEx community for three days of discussion around content management, structured authoring and digital transformation.
Hosted by the Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM), the conference connected technical communication professionals around practical content challenges. Bluestream’s planned contribution focused on XDocs, XDelivery and the decisions that make structured content useful to its readers.
The invitation included booth conversations, hands-on demonstrations and a Technology Test Kitchen experience. These remain the activities described in the original announcement, rather than a claim about attendance, feedback or results.
The original programme focus
From the source to the delivery experience
Demonstrations were intended to connect the work of managing DITA content with the experience of finding and using it. XDocs and XDelivery address related stages in that journey.
A useful evaluation follows a real piece of information: how it is maintained, where it is reused, what makes it relevant to a particular user and how that user reaches it.
Explore XDocs DITA CCMS for structured content management and XDelivery for documentation delivery.
Verified organizer archive
Andrew Douglas on the 2025 programme
Unified Documentation Delivery
CIDM’s Monday programme lists Andrew Douglas of Bluestream in the Technology Test Kitchen at 15:00–15:45. The archived schedule provides the original session context.
View the Monday programmeDITA delivery and its success factors
The Wednesday archive also lists Andrew Douglas and describes delivery topics including rapid publishing, DITA map comprehension, delivery-tier metadata, publishing updates, headless delivery and third-party integration approaches.
View the Wednesday programmeQuestions worth carrying into your next evaluation
The delivery themes in the programme remain useful prompts for a content project. How quickly can approved changes reach readers? Which metadata belongs at the delivery tier? Can users see the right product and version without navigating an entire manual?
Start with those questions and a representative content set. Then test the authoring, management and delivery steps together. The objective is a reliable path from approved source knowledge to the information a user can act on.
For background on the product introduced in the original announcement, read Introducing XDelivery.
This is a historical participation announcement. Programme details are drawn from CIDM’s archived 2025 pages, whose schedules were subject to change. No recording, session outcome or current event registration is implied.