David Blatner

Seattle, WA USA

David Blatner is the author of 15 books on topics such as InDesign, Photoshop, and QuarkXPress -- including Real World InDesign, InDesign Breakthroughs, and Real World Photoshop. He is the co-host of InDesignSecrets.com, the editorial director of InDesign Magazine and The InDesign Conference, and a contributing editor to CreativePro.com. Over a half a million copies of his books are in print in 12 languages, winning him awards and praise from readers. He has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa.

Sandee Cohen

New York, NY USA

After a career in advertising, Sandee Cohen began teaching computer graphics over sixteen 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 Real World Creative Suite 2, which covers how all the applications in the Creative Suite work together. She is the author of the InDesign Visual QuickStart Guide—the only book to have covered all versions of InDesign. She is also the author of books on the Acrobat, Illustrator, FreeHand, and Fireworks. She is the senior contributing editor to InDesign Magazine where her column, InQuestion, answers reader's questions.

Anne-Marie Concepcion

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion 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.

Chris Converse

Graphic Designer and Multimedia Developer

A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in graphic design, Chris has evolved into a multimedia designer and developer in the Philadelphia area over the past fifteen years, and has worked in the mediums of print, CD-ROM, websites, animation, DVDs, photography, and package design. Chris brings real world project experience to the conference arena. His expertise in Adobe's Creative Suite, is showcased through work-flows and the integration of the tools to get the job done and your meet deadlines. Chris designs and maintains the InDesign User Group and Acrobat Users websites for Adobe Systems, as well as advertisements for Adobe for placement in the creative pro's publication,InDesign Magazine. His portfolio includes work for international pharmaceutical companies, ivy-league academia, as national consumer brands including Nexium, Campbell's Soup, Pepperidge Farms, Tylenol, and Motrin. See examples, watch videos, interact with his work at http://chrisconverse.com.

Jori Curry

Jori Curry is President and Director of Training for Ascend Training, and an Adobe Certified Expert. Jori has been teaching Photoshop since 1996, and has an Art degree with an emphasis in Graphic Design from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She started out her career in the Advertising biz doing computer design in addition to keyline pasteup. She then went on to serve as an Art Director at Anixter International. She has also worked as a Technical Advisor to Pearson in their Photoshop Que series. Jori has also lectured at the HOW Design Conference and the Mac Design Conference. She continues to do design work in the print and web fields, in addition to being an avid photographer.

Mordy Golding

Mordy Golding, an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist, has served as a hands-on trainer and has spoken at worldwide events and seminars including Macworld, Seybold, NAB, and PhotoshopWorld. His books include the soon-to-be-released Real World Illustrator CS, SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite All in One, The Web Designer's Guide to Color and SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Illustrator in 24 Hours. Mordy has also recorded several training videos including Illustrator Fundamental Techniques and Advanced Techniques by Software Cinema (www.software-cinema.com) and Learning Adobe CS Integration and Version Cue by Lynda.com (www.lynda.com). Mordy worked at Adobe as the product manager for Adobe Illustrator 10 and Adobe Illustrator CS, and in October of 2003, Mordy was named a 'Champion of Graphic Design' by Graphics IQ.

Dov Isaacs

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist in his eighteenth year at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has responsibility for workflow and product interoperability issues associated with print publishing workflow products as well as serving as the "spiritual venture capitalist" for the Adobe PDF Print Engine technology. Additionally, he monitors numerous InDesign, FrameMaker, PDF, VDP, prepress, and printing mailing lists and on-line forums, not only contributing advice and solutions, especially in the area of printing and PDF creation, but also using the issues raised and problems identified as feedback for Adobe product development. Previously, Dov founded Adobe's corporate Product Interoperability Group and also served in other engineering and marketing management positions within Adobe including serving seven years as Director of Quality Assurance for Adobe's PostScript printing products and drivers.

Ted LoCascio

Ted LoCascio is a professional graphic designer and an expert in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, InDesign, Illustrator, and QuarkXPress. He served as senior designer at KW Media and the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) for several years, and has created layouts and designs for many successful software training books, videos, and magazines. He is the author of InDesign CS2 at Your Fingertips, The InDesign Effects Book, and Combining Images with Photoshop Elements. He has contributed articles to Photoshop User magazine, InDesign magazine, Creativepro.com and has taught at PhotoshopWorld. Ted is also the video author of InDesign CS2 Essential Training, Font Management, Illustrator CS2 Creative Techniques, and Creative Suite 2 Integration: Print Project Workflow--all available at www.lynda.com. He also teaches a Digital Graphics course at St. Petersburg College, in Seminole FL.

Jim Maivald

Jim Maivald is a graphic designer and consultant who has over 25-years' experience in design, and 20-years' experience in computer-based design and publishing. Jim teaches for Ascend Training, in addition to other clients around the country such as Purina, WorldBook, Grainger and others. He is an Adobe Certified Expert, and teaches InDesign, XML, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. His course in XML and InDesign has been groundbreaking in bringing the publishing and web development fields together. Jim is the author of Photoshop Complete, and was the Technical Editor for Personal Publishing/Business Publishing magazine, and the Editor of Design Graphics World Magazine. Jim is also a regular featured speaker at the Chicago InDesign User Group meetings.

Deke McClelland

Pioneering electronic publisher Deke McClelland is a popular expert and lecturer on Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. Having written more than 70 titles translated into 25 languages with 3 million copies in print, Deke is perhaps best-known for his long-running Photoshop Bible, the most successful third-party book about digital imaging. He is an Adobe Certified Expert, a member of the PhotoshopWorld Instructor Dream Team, and a contributing editor for Macworld and Photoshop User magazines.

Bert Monroy

Artist, Author, Lecturer

Bert Monroy is an accomplished teacher and lecturer who has served on the faculty of The School of Visual Arts (NYC), Center for Creative Imaging (ME), Dynamic Graphics Educational Foundation (IL), California College of Arts & Crafts (CA) and lectures at many other institutions and conferences around the world. He currently teaches at San Francisco State University. He teaches a long roster of corporate clients which includes Pixar Animations Studios. Bert is also a featured speaker at many world-wide conferences and is part of the Photoshop Dream Team of Photoshop World. Bert now lives in Berkeley, California. He continues to serve his installed base of clients which include Apple Computer, Adobe Systems, Pioneer Electronics, Fujitsu, SONY, AT&T, Chevron and American Express. Bert has also done a considerable amount of film work for Industrial Light & Magic, Pacific Data Images and R/Greenberg Assoc.

Michael Ninness

Senior Product Manager, InDesign, Adobe Systems, Inc.

Michael Ninness grew up in the Redwoods of Arcata in Northern California. He moved to Seattle in 1989 to study for a Graphic Design BFA at the University of Washington and fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. He paid his way through design school by teaching designers and photographers how to use digital tools and techniques. Michael has over ten years experience as a product manager and user interface designer of software products for creative professionals. Past positions include LiveMotion Group Product Manager and Senior User Interaction Designer for the Creative Suite at Adobe, and Program Manager for Expression Blend at Microsoft. Michael is a frequent and top-rated presenter at numerous industry events including Photoshop World, PhotoPlus Expo, PMA, Macworld, FlashForward, Flash on the Beach, Web Design World, the HOW Design Conference and Pacific New Media at the University of Hawaii. He is also the author of several video training titles published by Lynda.com.

Adam Pratt

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Adam Pratt is an Application Engineer at Adobe Systems where he supports all of Adobe's products for creative professionals. He's an Adobe Certified Expert in every application in Adobe's Creative Suite, and the first certified Creative Suite Master in the world. He's the co-author of three GoLive books including Adobe GoLive CS Tips and Tricks and he has extensive professional experience in Web, print, and multimedia design.

Colin Smith

Colin Smith is a best-selling author, trainer, and award-winning new-media designer who has caused a stir in the design community with his stunning photorealistic illustrations composed entirely in Photoshop. He is founder of the world's most popular Photoshop resource site, PhotoshopCAFE.com. He is a regular columnist for Photoshop User magazine, PlanetPhotoshop.com, and the official site of the National Association for Photoshop Professionals. He has authored or co-authored more than fifteen books on Photoshop, including the best-selling How to Do Everything with Photoshop CS and CS2 and award-winning Photoshop Most Wanted: Effects and Design Tips. Colin is also creator of the Photoshop Secrets Video training series (PhotoshopCD.com). You can see more of Colin's portfolio at pixeloverload.com.

Steve Whatley

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Steve Whatley is a Dynamic Media Systems Engineer at Adobe and is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, and InDesign; he is also an Adobe certified Video Specialist. Steve's career started in the 70's as a commercial airbrush illustrator for print. 20 years of illustration and design gave Steve the opportunity to work as Art Director and creator of most of the Posters for the original 3 StarWars movies. After 20 years in his own Graphic Design Studio doing both print design and photography, Steve started moving into Video and Animation in the early 90's.  Steve worked in both 2D (After Effects) and 3D for corporate and Broadcast Television, with a stint doing nightly news graphics for the Fox Network. Steve is a multi-platform guy working with Mac, PC and SGI computers. You can also see Steve on the web with his blog called "aftereffectscookbook."