Docacon 2023

About Docacon

Docacon is the conference of the docassemble user community.

Docacon 2023 took place at Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 as an add-on conference to LITCon 2023.

Event Schedule

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Time (EDT)

Subject
8:00 a.m.

Breakfast
8:30 a.m.

Welcome – Jonathan Pyle
8:35 a.m.

Training presentations
- How to use external data sources – Jonathan Pyle
- Hacking and Contributing to docassemble: a walkthrough – Bryce Willey
- Robust code: Automated testing with ALKiln – Michelle B
9:45 a.m.

Break
10:00 a.m

Docassemble showcase
- Vulnerable clients and Mental Health Law: a demo of a highly customized docassemble front end – Tatiana Lenz
- ChatGPT and Docassemble: a powerful combination for automating legal and social services – Prakhar Gupta
- Docassemble and Rules as Code with §Blawx: Trustworthy, Explainable Legal Service Automation – Jason Morris
- How many nests can a nested if nest? - A different technique for ordering interviews – Caroline Robinson
- Writing EU regulations as code – Richard Copley
- Keeping Your Friends Close and your Code Closer: Suggestions on Developing on your Local Machine – Michael Hofrichter
11:15 a.m

Break
11:30 a.m

Training presentations
- How to give Docassemble a custom look-and-feel – Chris McGrath
- What the cloud can do for you – Jonathan Pyle
- Speed up automation of simple documents by reusing intake answers - a technique to automate templates without building custom interviews – Quinten Steenhuis
12:30 p.m

Lunch
1:00 p.m

Ask the experts anything (about docassemble)
2:00 p.m

Beginner training – Mia Bonardi and Sam Harden
4:00 p.m

Conference ended

Event Recording

You can watch the recording of the presentations given at Docacon 2023 on YouTube.

Past Docacon events

The web sites for prior Docacon conferences are archived here.

(There was no conference in 2022 because nobody felt like organizing one.)

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