tekom Europe ist the world's largest non-profit, member-driven professional association for technical communication with 9,800 personal members of our country organizations in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Turkey. Our main activities are the further development of #TechnicalCommunication / #TechnicalWriting / #TechnicalTranslation / #TechnicalDocumentation / #UserAssistance / #UXwriting as a profession and the certification of techwriters. We develop technical guidelines and standards that help to use products more safely and more effectively. Furthermore, our activities cover fields like Intelligent Information, Metadata Ontologies, Terminology Management, Technical Translation, User Experience Design, User Assistance and Usability. A consortium within tekom has developed and maintains iiRDS, the technical standard for Intelligent Information Request and Delivery.tcworld GmbH is tekom's business arm. Our core businesses are conferences (tekom Jahrestagung, tekom Frühjahrstagung, tcworld Europe, tcworld India, tcworld China, UA Reloaded, Evolution of Technical Communication - ETC, ComTecnica, Nordic Techcomm), magazines (technische kommunikation, tcworld magazine), books and training/certification (TCTrainNet).