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Michael Eisner, Keynote Michael D. Eisner joined The Walt Disney Company as Chairman and CEO in 1984. In twenty-one years at its helm, he revitalized and reinvented Disney into a full spectrum entertainment enterprise. Under his leadership, the company began implementation of a continuing series of creative growth strategies that resulted in its annual revenues rising from $1.7 billion to more than $30 billion. Michael Eisner continues to be an Entertainment Innovator. His investment company Tornante launched Vuguru, a studio producing original programming for the Internet, portable media devices and cell phones.
Disney also became a leader in live-action films with pictures such as:
During Eisner's stewardship Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Sea and Hong Kong Disneyland were opened; also the existing Disney theme parks were expanded. First class hotels were opened that were designed by the world’s leading architects at all Disney resort sites Disney also acquired Capital Cities/ABC which included the ABC television network, ESPN cable networks and equity ownership in The History Channel, Lifetime, A&E and E!, The SoapNET and Toon Disney cable networks. Radio Disney and ESPN Radio were launched and Disney also developed such leading Internet sites as Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABC.com and Family.com Mr. Eisner has been a leader in the entertainment industry for nearly forty years helping to shape this key area of the American economy. |
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Brian Goldfarb, Keynote |
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Max Wyss |
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Christopher Smith Christopher co-founded Aquent Graphics Institute (previously American Graphics Institute) in 1994 after leaving Quark, Inc. Christopher recognized that publishers, designers, and communications professionals needed assistance in adopting and adapting to rapidly changing technology. He quickly grew AGI to become the leading technology training and consulting resource for nearly every major advertising, media, publishing, and marketing firm in North America. In 2007 AGI became part of the Aquent, a $400 million business with 70 offices across 17 countries that represents 400,000 creative, marketing, and communications professionals. Christopher is widely considered one of the foremost industry experts regarding electronic publishing software. He has authored or co-authored more than one dozen books relating to electronic publishing technology, including the Adobe Creative Suite for Dummies. Adobe Systems has entrusted him and the team at AGI with managing all content, creative, and production for the vast majority of the Adobe Classroom in a Book series published by Adobe Press. Smith has overseen development for multiple versions of the Classroom in a Book titles for InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, GoLive, Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, and Audition. For the Adobe Creative Suite 3 products, Christopher and the AGI team have developed the new Digital Classroom series published with O’Reilly which includes books and training videos on the CS3 versions of Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, and Illustrator. Outside of AGI, he has served as an elected member of a School Board where he had oversight of a $50 million annual budget in an enterprise with more than 900 employees and he currently serves on the board of directors of a private co-educational school in suburban Boston. |
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Bob Connolly Located in Toronto, Canada, pdfPictures is a full-service production company that specializes in convergence technologies. For the past 16 years, pdfPictures has been producing award-winning DVDs, TV series, music videos, records, commercial and educational CD-ROMs, Internet web sites and, most recently, Interactive “Rich Media” PDF documents. The company features a team of highly skilled, multitasking professionals consisting of musicians, graphic artists, writers, on-air talent, still photographers, video camera operators, editors, computer programmers, and support staff, who try to push the boundaries of what can be done using “Rich Media” PDF as an Internet delivery platform. |
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Herb Paynter Herb Paynter has deep roots in the graphic arts industry, with hands-on experience in all facets of design, photography, photoengraving, pre-press, and pressroom operations. He has held Journeyman positions as Multi-Color Pressman, Process Camera/Scanner Operator and Stripper/Platemaker. Mr. Paynter has owned and operated both pre-press and printing companies. He also has served as Print Production Manager for several in-house manufacturing companies. |
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Jeff Miller |
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Arturo Toledo Arturo Toledo is the UX Technical Product Manager at Redmond. He is responsible for producing UX and Designer training resources for customers and field as well as helping the training partner ecosystem grow. Arturo studied architecture at La Salle University in Mexico City, did additional media and visualization studies at the University of Arizona. Post graduation, Arturo applied his multimedia design and development skills and founded Milton Frank Studio, a boutique interactive development studio. |
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Fred Gerantabee Fred Gerantabee is an Emmy-award winning interactive designer, web
developer and author based in New York City. Most recently, Fred was
an interactive producer with ABC/Disney Interactive, working on ITV
applications for hit shows such as Extreme Makeover:Home Edition, the
Academy Awards and Toon Disney's JETIX Cards Live. Fred is the author
of the Flash CS3 Professional and Dreamweaver CS3 Dynamic Learning series books on
O'Reilly, and co-author of the Creative Suite 3 Desk Reference for
Dummies (Wiley) with Chris and Jennifer Smith. Fred is an Adobe
Certified Instructor and holds ACEs in Flash, Dreamweaver, Flash Lite
and Contribute. |
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Robert Colvin |
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Jennifer Smith Adobe Certified Expert and author of Adobe Creative Suite 2 for Dummies, Sams GoLive in 24 hours and lead technical writer for Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book and Adobe GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book. Jennifer is Executive Vice President of Aquent Graphics Institute. She is the author of the upcoming Photoshop CS3 Digital Classroom, published by O’Reilly and AGI. |
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J.P. Terry J.P. Terry is the founder and CEO of SmartDoc Technologies, a leading |
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Greg Heald Greg has 20 years of practical design and production experience in both Web and print environments. He has served as a contributing author or editor on a number of books, including Dynamic Learning Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Real World Adobe Acrobat, and several in the Adobe Classroom in a Book series for Adobe Press. |
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Jim Healy Jim is founder and CEO of FormRouter, a form data collection and routing technology company. Jim is an enthusiastic technologist, and has been designing business models surrounding Internet communication software for more than a decade. Prior to starting FormRouter, Jim worked as an independent technology consultant, designing workflow solutions for financial institutions and large member-based organizations. His clients include GE, Dupont, and The United Way. Jim holds undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany. |
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Michael Jahn A graphic communications industry visionary, Michael is both a technical and marketing expert in a broad range of publishing workflow applications and technologies. With his background in sales, marketing, product development, and public relations, he quickly understands how to deliver complex products such as global communication solutions that cross a wide variety of mediums from high-end print to interactive web content. With a unique combination of creative talent and technical curiosity, he has lead international teams to accelerate product development, differentiate their product offerings, and establish market leadership during the launch and ongoing product life cycle. Michael is an internationally recognized speaker at seminars and conferences relating to marketing and technical topics in the printing and publishing industry. He provides entertaining and thought provoking insight on a wide range of topics such as PDF, automated publishing workflows, color management systems, XML implementations and most recently, wearing Milk Cartons for shoes and evangelizing the biggest issue since global warming, cheese doodle color misrepresentation. |
Chip D. Culley Chip D. Culley has more than 19 years of experience in publishing, graphics and digital video technologies. Before joining XMPie, he served as VP of Sales with Interra DVT, a provider of software products and consulting services aimed at companies involved in MPEG video-related application development Mr. Culley also held management positions at Minerva Systems, Indigo N.V. and Crosfield Electronics. Chip is a graduate of McGill University School of Computer Sciences and holds a B.Sc. in Administrative Science from State University of New York. |
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Duff Johnson Industry veteran and CEO of Boston-based Document Solutions, Inc. (DSI), Duff Johnson has worked with hundreds of decision-makers and developers worldwide to create and implement business and publishing solutions using PDF technology. |
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Lesa Snider King As the founder of the free creative tutorial web site, GraphicReporter.com, and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com, Lesa is on a mission to teach the world to create better graphics. She¹s a regular columnist for Photoshopuser.com, PlanetPhotoshop.com, Elements Techniques, Layers, and Macworld Magazines, plus she teaches at many conferences. Lesa is also New York Times technology columnist David Pogue¹s personal assistant, and the production editor/graphics goddess of his Missing Manual book series. You can catch her Graphics Tip of the Week live each Wednesday night on YourMacLifeShow.com and subscribe to her podcast, Graphic Secrets for Business, via the iTunes Music Store. |
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Ed Krug |
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Linda Bruce |
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Dennis Bajec |
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Mayer Becker Becker, a 28-year life cycle and product marketing professional, is responsible for delivery of client projects and for advising clients on ways to improve their marketing effectiveness. |
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John Landis |
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Doug Liles Doug Liles is a dynamic speaker with domain expertise in workflow automation, content management, digital asset management, and dynamic publishing. Mr. Liles endeavors to bring a message that is both engaging and understandable for the target audience, having spoken in the past at Seybold, PMA, DIMA, PODi and regional advertising club events. His career focus has been on applying technology to connect brands to consumers through creativity and automation. He has successfully delivered solutions to leading end-clients in the entertainment, automotive, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, and durable goods categories. Mr. Liles has served as a Senior Manager, Partner Relations for Quark and as a Business Development Director for Vertis. Mr. Liles currently is the Director, Partner Programs for Nstein Technologies (TSX-V: EIN) provides online publishing solutions to content-driven companies looking to generate revenue and reduce costs through the centralization, management and automated indexing of digital assets. Nstein offers complete online strategies and Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management and Text Mining Engine products in line with industry best practices. |
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Larry Dean Miles Larry Dean Miles is a Senior Designer for MSN based in London. He attended the Design Center at the School of Design at Western Michigan University. He values taking chaotic ideas and turning them into strong clear concepts with distinct messages. Whether the final outcome is illustrations, photography, animation, music, writing, websites, videogames, or something in between, Larry is always excited about the challenge of trying something new. |
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James Wamser |
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Jeff Ausura Artist/Interactive Designer Jeff Ausura is an Adobe Certified Expert and a contributing author to the Dynamic Learning: Dreamweaver CS3 book published by O'Reilly and AGI. He holds a BA in fine art from Bennington College and owns a lovely orange cat. |
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Chris Moody As president of Aquent’s Marketing Technology Division, Chris has responsibility for leading the company’s software division. This division focuses on helping marketing organizations improve effectiveness and efficiency through the use of technology. Prior to establishing the company’s software business, Chris served as Aquent’s Chief Operating Officer, in which position he was responsible for the day-to-day management of more than 700 employees across 70 offices. Before joining Aquent, Chris served in senior consulting roles for three leading-edge technology firms: EDS, Oracle, and IBM. During his sixteen-year career, Chris has led engagements with more than 25 Fortune 500 companies. His views on marketing, technology, and organizational change have been presented at industry conferences including Comdex, HOW, and American Management Association events, as well as in publications including Network World magazine and USA Today. Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University. |
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Dennis Newman PFS Corporation is America's leading third-party plan review agency for the modular and mobile construction industry. Dennis has written two white papers for the Manufactured housing industry on using and securing PDF files in engineering drawings. Dennis is a member of the PDF/E committee working to develop the ISO standard for using PDF in engineering files, and has worked extensively with both National and State agencies to develop regulations and standards to allow the use of digital signatures to replace the traditional 'wet stamps' on officially filed engineering drawings. |
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Jeremy Osborn Jeremy Osborn has more than 15 years of experience in web and graphic design, filmmaking, writing and publication development for both print and digital media. Jeremy recently served as the program director of Graphic & Web Design at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. At CDIA he developed and taught the design curriculum which has become known for it’s emphasis on real world training for print design and an emphasis on web standards for web design. Jeremy has contributed to several of the Adobe Classroom in a Book series including Adobe Acrobat 6 & 7 Professional, Adobe InDesign CS & CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, and was the co author for Adobe Audition and the author of Adobe Premiere Elements. At AGI, Jeremy has provided in-depth training and custom consulting for students and corporate clients. Jeremy holds a MS in Management from the Marlboro College Graduate Center and a BFA in Film/TV from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. |
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Cathy Palmer |
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Eric Rowse Eric works with AGI clients to implement PDF solutions to streamline workflows and capture efficiencies of electronic document distribution. He has led the conversion and training process of large business organizations as they deploy Acrobat across their enterprise, delivering training to hundreds of Acrobat users. Educated as a designer, Eric received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, and continues to work with graphic design and multimedia applications. When not teaching at AGI’s New York City facility, Eric can frequently be found on the Long Island Expressway or the New Jersey Turnpike—look for the man on the motorcycle with a laptop slung over his shoulder. |
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Chad Chelius Chad has a formal education in publishing technology, and has the trial-by-fire production experience that makes him a valuable contributor to every project on which he works. He’s served as the lead consultant for major InDesign migrations and Digital Asset Management implementations for clients such as Rodale Press (publishers of Prevention Magazine, Runner’s World, and multiple other magazine titles), and the publishing group of the National Geographic Society. He’s skilled in all aspects of print production, working with automation and XML. Chad holds professional certifications from both Adobe and Apple, which he uses in his role as a consultant and instructor for Aquent Graphics Institute. |
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Cindy Valladares Cindy Valladares is Product Marketing Manager for Extensis and the subject matter expert for both the font management and digital asset management product lines. Ms. Valladares has years of experience in the graphic design, printing and publishing industries and has presented worldwide at industry events like Macworld, CeBIT, Seybold and Siggraph. Since joining Extensis, Ms.Valladares has led the research, market analysis and positioning for Universal Type Server, the newest addition to the Extensis font management product line. |
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Jerron Smith A multi-faceted artist and video producer, Jerron works in multiple media. He has experience in both digital video and television production, and post-production work. Jerron is as an adjunct instructor in the Communication Arts department at the New York Institute of Technology, where he instructs courses in computer graphics methodology and technique. He is also a member in good standing with both ACMSiggraph and the Computer Graphics Society He is a contributing author to the upcoming Flash Digital Classroom, and Photoshop CS3 Digital Classroom books published by O’Reilly and AGI. Jerron completed his undergraduate work at New York’s esteemed Fashion Institute of Technology and The City University of New York, and then completed his Master’s studies in Communications Arts at the New York Institute of Technology. He also serves as an instructor for Aquent Graphics Institute. |
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Dwight Kelly Dwight Kelly is president and founder of Apago, Inc., a company that specializes in software tools and custom development projects for the office documents and graphic arts industries. Apago is highly respected with many high profile clients of their products, including installations at Time Inc., The Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and The New Yorker. |
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Robert Underwood Robert has nearly 10 years of print production experience on top of his formal education in the graphic arts. He worked in production and later as Systems Administrator for Media News, publisher of multiple weekly newspapers in suburban Boston, prior to becoming a consultant and instructor for Aquent Graphics Institute. An Adobe Certified Expert for InDesign, he is an expert in multiple editorial workflow systems involving InCopy and InDesign, including K4, and Woodwing’s Smart Connection. Robert spends his spare time tinkering with multiple Apple laptop computers. |
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Mark Walter Mark Walter has more than 20 years of experience working with publishers and service providers to implement digital technologies that improve their productivity and profitability. He is currently Director of Business Development for Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), where he has been leading the company’s expansion into custom publishing solutions based on Adobe InDesign Server. Prior to joining MEI, Walter most recently served as a Seybold consultant, analyst and senior editor of The Seybold Report, where he covered a broad spectrum of digital publishing and printing technologies and applications. |
The 2008 PDF Conference takes place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, FL in the heart of Walt Disney World, and is presented by AGI. The annual conference is the largest annual gathering of users, managers, and professionals that work with Adobe Acrobat and PDF files.
During his stewardship, Disney animation experienced
