Andrea L. Ames

Andrea Ames is a sought-after keynote speaker and workshop leader with almost 30 years of content experience and the author of numerous journal and magazine articles and two technical books.
Andrea speaks and teaches about how organizations can best leverage content to grow business and how to build content creator skills and capabilities for measurable impact. Recognized in 2016 by MindTouch as one of the Top 25 Content Strategy Influencers, Andrea is a content organization designer, content experience strategist, and founder and CEO of Idyll Point Group. She is also the Program Chair for the UCSC in Silicon Valley certificate program in technical writing and communication, where she teaches content design and architecture, human factors, and usability courses.
Andrea is a Fellow and past President of STC, a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM (the first content professional to achieve this distinction), a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ATTW, and a member of numerous other professional associations.