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Content Impact Awards

7 August Webinar

Welcome Our 2025 Sponsors

Content Impact Awards

Have you used content to make a positive impact on your organization and your customers? Apply for a LavaCon Content Impact Award!

This is not a competition to see who made the biggest or best impact, but a way to recognize content professionals who expanded their sphere of influence, enabled organizational change, ensured customer success, and so on.

You can submit up to 10 applications if you worked on multiple projects or teams. A panel of content experts and noted industry professionals will review entries and validate entrants’ achievements.

Award recipients will receive certificates for each member named on the application, and an award badge to place in email signatures. Recipients will be invited to present their case study at a future LavaCon Conference.

Finally, the Award Team will send a personal letter to your boss and to the president of your organization, informing them of your award and of the impact you have made to you success of your organization and your customers.

Click the graphic or this link to apply

Deadline for submission: 10 September 2025

7 August Webinar

How Custom AI Models Are Reshaping Content Operations

Generic AI tools like ChatGPT are great for brainstorming, but they fall short when it comes to enterprise content operations, structured content, and knowledge management. They don’t understand your brand, your audience, or your compliance requirements.

That’s where Custom GPTs come in—AI models fine-tuned on your own data, workflows, and taxonomy to automate content creation, streamline governance, and improve content findability.

During this talk from Leslie Carruthers, founder and president of The Search Guru, we’ll explore how leading organizations are using Custom GPTs to power intelligent content workflows, metadata tagging, structured authoring, and multilingual content delivery.

Key Takeaways:

Why off-the-shelf AI tools fail in enterprise content operations and how Custom GPTs solve challenges in governance, metadata, and structured content

How AI-powered content automation enhances metadata tagging, taxonomy management, structured authoring, and multilingual content workflows

Best practices for training and deploying a Custom GPT tailored to your organization’s unique content needs

Real-world case studies of how Custom GPTs are improving content governance, localization, and compliance in enterprise environments

How to measure AI’s impact on efficiency, cost reduction, and knowledge management using key performance indicators (KPIs) and benchmarks

Join us Thursday, 07 August at 10am PDT

Can't make it? As always, register for the webinar and watch the recording at your convenience.

In-person and virtual registration is now open which means BOGO registration is closed. Know that you would like to send multiple team members? Email Jack@lavacon.org for group rates.

Attach a copy of the Schedule at a Glance to your training request and highlight the sessions that will help solve your organizations' content challenges.