The Writethedocs Nigeria Summit is looking for people who care about communication, clarity, and helping people succeed with software.

Whether you write docs, design them, manage teams, build tools, or foster contributor communities, your experience is valuable. 

Speaker Criteria

We are looking for people who:

• Have useful insights, practical strategies, or lessons to share
• Can explain their ideas clearly and keep the audience engaged
• Reflect a variety of backgrounds, roles, and experiences in tech

We encourage submissions from both first-time and experienced speakers.

Topics of Interest

This year’s topic areas focus on building and sustaining strong documentation practices:

• Creating a Documentation Culture: How to make documentation a shared value across teams.
• Sustainable Docs Practices: Long-term maintenance, versioning, and keeping documentation alive.
• Onboarding and Knowledge Transfer: Using documentation to support new contributors, employees, and users.
• Measuring Impact: Metrics, user feedback, and showing the value of documentation.
• Team Collaboration: Processes that connect writers, developers, designers, and product managers.
• Documentation in Open Source: Encouraging contributions and improving contributor experience.
• Inclusive Documentation: Writing for diverse audiences, across languages and cultures.
• Documentation Tools and Systems: Tech and workflows that make docs easier to write, maintain, and access.
• AI and Documentation: How AI is impacting documentation

We also welcome relevant case studies, success stories, and real-life lessons from documentation efforts that made a lasting impact.

Data and Privacy Notice

The organizing committee uses the information you provide to review speaker proposals and build a diverse schedule.

We take your privacy seriously. Sensitive speaker information will only be seen by event organizers and program reviewers. It will never be sold or shared beyond these parties.

Details such as your name, company, job title, biography, and photo will appear on the public schedule if your talk is accepted.

You can update or delete your information anytime through your Sessionize profile settings. If you have any questions, email us at writethedocs.nig@gmail.com 

Code of Conduct

We are committed to creating a welcoming and respectful environment for everyone. All attendees, speakers, volunteers, and sponsors are expected to follow the Write the Docs Code of Conduct.

Harassment or discrimination of any kind will not be tolerated. If you see or experience any behavior that goes against these values, please speak to an event organizer.