State of the Docs Panel — Sponsored by GitBook

Documentation has always mattered. In 2026, it's become infrastructure.
The State of the Docs Report 2026 — based on 1,131 responses across the industry — finds that AI has crossed the mainstream threshold. Not just in how docs get written, but in how they're consumed. Users are arriving through AI-powered search, coding assistants, and MCP servers. Documentation is now the data layer feeding AI products, onboarding wizards, and developer tools.
So what does that mean for us?

Join us for an evening of food, drinks, and real talk from documentation leaders at Salesforce, GitBook, and Anthropic — the people navigating this shift firsthand. We'll dig into the writing-to-review transition, the governance gap, the evolving role of the technical writer, and where the real opportunities are hiding inside all this disruption.
Confirmed Panelists:

• Priya Ayyar — Senior Technical Writing Manager, Salesforce
• Sarah Dugan — Doc Lead, GitBook
• Sarah Deaton — Technical Content Engineer, Anthropic

Sponsored by GitBook — publishers of the State of the Docs 2026 Report. Download it before you come.
If you care about the future of documentation — as a writer, docs lead, engineer, or DevRel — this evening is for you.
Schedule:

• 6:00 PM — Doors open, networking & food
• 6:45 PM — Panel begins
• 8:00 PM — Q&A
• 8:30 PM — Open networking
• 9:30 PM — End

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