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Inside Tech Comm with Zohra MutabannaAuthor: Zohra Mutabanna
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S8E11 Before the Handshake: The Road to LavaCon with Elizabeth (Liz) Favre
Episode 11
Friday, 9 October, 2026
Come behind the scenes with us before we take the LavaCon stage.What happens when two technical writers receive access to new AI tools, permission to experiment, and enough curiosity to keep asking, “What else could this do?”My guest, Elizabeth “Liz” Favre, is my colleague, experimentation partner, and LavaCon co-presenter. Over the past year, we have tested ideas, built prototypes, reconsidered our assumptions, and learned that the most revealing moments do not always arrive when an experiment works as expected.In this conversation, Liz and I retrace the road that led to our LavaCon presentation. We talk about how our collaboration began, what drew us into hands-on AI work, and why our early experiments changed the questions we were asking.This is not a polished success story or a preview that gives away the presentation. It is the origin story: the uncertainty, discoveries, disagreements, and unexpected turns that shaped what we now want to explore with the LavaCon audience.Listen forWhy we stepped into AI experimentation before we felt fully prepared.How working together changed what each of us noticed.The tension between what AI can do and what a team actually needs.What happens when an experiment begins expanding beyond its original purpose.Why building something can expose questions that planning alone cannot.How experimentation affected our confidence as technical writers.The ideas we are carrying into our LavaCon case study.What we are still trying to understand.The episode brings you into the conversations that shaped our thinking. At LavaCon, we will take those experiences further through The Human and AI Handshake for Content Generation at Blackbaud.We will examine the experiments more closely, share what they forced us to reconsider, and invite attendees to apply the emerging ideas to their own content and AI work. If your team is experimenting with AI but still deciding what deserves to be built, this session is for you.Monday, October 26, 20261:15–2:00 p.m.Season 8 of Inside Tech Comm is sponsored by LavaCon. Use discount code ITC26 to save $200 on registration for LavaCon 2026.Show Credits- Intro and outro music - Az- Audio engineer - RJ Basilio
