David Blatner- Conference Chair

Seattle, WA USA

David Blatner is a consultant specializing in InDesign, QuarkXPress and Photoshop. He has authored or co-authored 13 books, including Real World Adobe InDesign, InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, the award-winning bestseller The QuarkXPress Book, Real World Photoshop, Real World Scanning and Halftoning, and QuarkXPress Tips & Tricks. David presents at workshops and conferences around North America and Japan, including at Seybold Seminars, The Photoshop Conference, and Digital Design World.

Jon Bessant

London, UK

Jon Bessant is an Adobe Certified Instructor and Enfocus Certified Expert and owner of UK based consultancy CERTITEC. Specializing in Adobe Acrobat, PDF/X, Enfocus products, PDF Workflows and print production, he has been utilising Acrobat and PDF since 1994 in the creative and print environments. Jon has presented at European Seybold Seminars and various UK events including PIRA, Pre-Press Strategies, Digital Solutions and the Adobe Live seminars held in London. A member of the Ghent PDF Workgroup in Brussels, Bessant even works with a large UK print company to continually be aware of emerging issues in the industry. A solid contributor to the Adobe User-to-User forums in the Acrobat and PDF communities, he travels the UK and Europe providing training and consultancy services to companies large and small. http://www.certitec.com.

Steve Caplin

Steve Caplin is a freelance digital artist specialising in satirical photomontage. His work appears regularly in newspapers including The Guardian, The Independent and The Daily Telegraph, as well as magazines such as Radio Times, Men's Health and Reader's Digest. He's the author of several books, including How to Cheat in Photoshop, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration and Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.

Scott Citron

New York, NY USA

Scott Citron is an international award-winning graphic designer and principal of Scott Citron Design in New York City, specializing in fine book design and corporate identity development. SCD clients include Adobe Systems, Random House, HarperCollins, Insider Software, Tower Imaging, GSL Publishing, Walker & Company, the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, and Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. Scott is also a member of the Art Directors Club and a founding member and current chair of the New York InDesign Users' Group. Scott has also taught graphic design at The New School, Parsons School of Design, NYU, and Fashion Institute of Technology.

Sandee Cohen

New York, NY USA

After a long career in advertising, Sandee Cohen began teaching computer graphics thirteen years ago. She has taught for New York University, New School University, the University of Hawaii, City College in New York, as well as many private organizations. A dynamic and entertaining speaker, she has been a frequent participant at Seybold Seminars, Macworld Expo, and Thunder Lizard events. She is the co-author of Acrobat 5 Master Class as well as author of books on InDesign, Fireworks, FreeHand, Illustrator, and desktop publishing.

Anne-Marie Concepción

Chicago, IL USA

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepción is an accomplished design studio owner, consultant, trainer, author and speaker on all things related to digital design and production. Her Chicago-based firm Seneca Design & Training creates print, web and interactive PDF projects for clients including the Joyce Foundation, the International Housewares Show and LobsterGram. Anne-Marie is also a seasoned Adobe and Quark authorized trainer with clients across the country, recently helping BBDO, McDougal Littel, Loyola Press, Playboy Enterprises and McDonalds Corp. move to Adobe InDesign, often helping them incorporate Adobe InCopy as well. Her free bimonthly e-zine, DesignGeek, with "tips and techniques for the digital designer" is enjoyed by thousands of designers around the world. Visit DesignGeek Central at her studio's web site, senecadesign.com.

Rufus Deuchler

Florence, Italy

Rufus Deuchler is a communication designer who has always been fascinated by technology that makes creation easier. In 2002, after many years of freelancing as a graphic artist specializing in editorial and corporate design, Rufus was asked by Adobe Italy to become 'cross-media guru' and help spread the word around the country. This new activity brought him to evangelize the Creative Suite and Adobe solutions to the creative pro market; he now provides consulting and training on Adobe software and workflows to major publishing companies in Italy. He has authored interactive courses, writes for specialized publishing magazines, webmasters the first InDesign User Group in Italy and still collaborates very frequently with Adobe on many projects. Rufus has also been teaching graphic design to US students for over ten years.

Martin Evening

Martin Evening is a London based advertising photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. As a successful photographer, Martin is well known in London for his fashion and beauty work. In his recent book, Adobe Photoshop CS2 For Photographers from Focal Press, Martin extends his expertise to writing about difficult technical and artistic subjects. His book has already sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and gained a COOL 2 Award from PEI magazine. In addition, Martin is sought after for speaking and lectures, mostly in the US, where he is a regular speaker at PDN's Photo Expo Plus Conference in New York. Martin also works with the Adobe Photoshop engineering team consulting on new feature development and alpha and beta testing. He is one of the founding members of Pixel Genius, a software design company producing automated production and creative plug-ins for Photoshop.

Chris Gregory

London, UK

Chris Gregory is the driving force behind inddtraining, one of the UK's leading companies specializing in training for InDesign and associated products, He has assisted many of the country's largest magazine publishing companies making the migration, including BBC Worldwide, Conde Nast, Future, Haymarket and Nat Mags. A trainer on graphic arts software since 1989 and InDesign beta-tester since its inception, he has also written on the program for MacUser, Macworld and Computer Arts. In addition he is Production Manager of Geographical, the award-winning magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, currently celebrating its 70th anniversary. Produced by a small team using the Creative Suite and high-res PDF workflow he finds the experience helps give invaluable "sharp-end" input to his courses.

Steve Holmes

Sausalito, California

Steve Holmes is an award-winning British designer, and creative director of Energi Design in Sausalito, California. Renowned for his print and web design work, his love of typography is visible in all his work, including motion graphics and animation. Known the world over as Total Training's presenter for InDesign, Creative Suite and After Effects video training series, and as the face-in-the-box for Adobe software training CDs, he also presents and teaches design and animation with Adobe's software tools, on their behalf, at major trade shows around the world. A passionate graphic designer, he has been using InDesign for almost seven years, and is one of the founding members of the San Francisco Bay Area InDesign User Group.

Branislav Milic

Brussels

Branislav Milic is one of Europe's most acclaimed InDesign gurus. Based in Brussels, Branislav is a freelance columnist and journalist for many web sites and magazines, and is known as an experienced DTP operator and editor of the only website completely dedicated to InDesign (since version 1.0 in September, 1999). Due to the current InDesign frenzy among pressgroups, institutions, and agencies, he works as a full time trainer and consultant in Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Eastern Europe. Last but not least, he's the proud member of a team of consultants for Adobe Systems, testing the upcoming versions of Adobe's software.

Alan Rosenfeld

Alan joined Adobe in 1999 as an Application Engineer driving Adobe's software into the professional publishing and education segments covering Pacific and South East Asia Markets. Alan has recently relocated to the Adobe UK office from its office in Australia to take on new challenges as a Senior Product Evangelist for the Creative Suite. He is responsible for presenting and positioning Adobe's creative professional products and technologies to the EMEA markets. Alan has a real passion for Adobe's software and is a well respected and talented presenter of Adobe Software and is highly sought after for Seminars, roadshows and training.