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David Blatner

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.

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.

Tim Cole

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Tim Cole is Adobe's senior InDesign evangelist. In 1998, Tim began working with InDesign developers and product management, prior to the release of version 1.0. He currently evangelizes InDesign and other Adobe products and technologies to newspaper, magazine, ad agency and other markets. Prior to his current position, Tim worked in tech support and technical training at Aldus for six years, wrote for Aldus Magazine, and also spent three years working for internet technology startups. Tim's current primary focus are InDesign features and techniques, and he's spent the last 5 years introducing publishers to InDesign and its superior tool set.

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 ³cross-media guru² 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.

Peder Engrob

Apple, Inc. (3rd Party Presentation)

Peder Engrob is Apple’s European Business Develop Manager for Pro Design, Print and Photography. He began his career in 1995 as sales manager at a leading Apple Center in Denmark. He moved to Adobe in 1998 where he had a  variety of positions with Adobe in Europe and the US. In the summer of 2004  Peder took up his current position with Apple Europe to support the regional marketing and seminar activities throughout Europe. Peder also concentrates on supporting Apple’s many European partnerships, examples of which include IFRA, Adobe, HP, Extensis, Enfocus, GretagMacbeth and the European network of Apple Solution Experts. Peder holds a degree in Psychology from the University of Copenhagen.

Ton Fredericks

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Ton Frederiks is a senior Application Engineer at Adobe Systems Benelux. When Ton finished his graphic design study he worked as a freelance illustrator for magazines, newspapers, and children books. In 1985 he and his brother started the first DTP company in Amsterdam. During this time he was involved with software localization and writing manuals for Adobe, Agfa, and Quark. When Photoshop 1.0 was launched, Ton was asked to support, demonstrate, and train Photoshop for Adobe's European organization. Currently Ton is working at the Adobe Amsterdam office showing customers the wonderful world of the Creative Suite.

Dov Isaacs

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Dov Isaacs is a Principal Scientist in the Print Workflow Products Group at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has responsibility for workflow and product interoperability issues associated with print publishing workflow products. Additionally, he monitors numerous InDesign, FrameMaker, PDF, prepress, and printing mailing lists and user 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.

Olav Martin Kvern

Adobe Systems, Inc.

Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, software developer, and writer. He is the author of Real World Adobe InDesign, Real World FreeHand, and the coauthor of the groundbreaking Real World PageMaker. He is currently the InDesign scripting guru on the Adobe Development Technologies team.

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.

Andreas Pfeiffer

Paris, France

Andreas Pfeiffer has been involved in computer based publishing and new media since the early eighties. Mr. Pfeiffer has been a consultant and technology advisor to publishers, advertising agencies and technology providers, as well as editorial director for a major European technology magazine.

In 1998, Andreas Pfeiffer founded Pfeiffer Consulting, a Paris-based consulting firm which has published several in-depth reports on publishing technology. Mr. Pfeiffer¹s comments on technology and media have appeared in newspapers and magazines around the globe and he is a regular speaker at industry events, such as Ifra and Seybold.

Karin Söderlund

Sweden

Karin Söderlund is a consultant spezializing in newspaper production. She has been involved in several major QuarkXPress and InDesign implementations at the largest newspapers and magazies in Scandinavia, resulting in a deep knowledge how to work efficently with InDesign.

Jan Suhr

Stockholm, Sweden

Jan Suhr's experience with colormanagement goes back many years. Suhr started to work with it in 1998 and had followed it since it became a reality in 1997. Late in 1999 he implemented it in their workflow at the printshop he was prepress manager at. We used a RGB-workflow through Creo Prinergy. Jan Suhr has been part of the betagroup for InDesign since the beginning and especially followed output questions. He has also participated in other betagroups like the colorgroup Adobe had before the latest betacycle started.

Today Jan Suhr has a full understanding of how it works in Adobe applications and what to look out for. He has been conducting seminars and training in Color Managment for end users. In some cases in collaboration with Adobe Sweden. Colormanagement is a very important technology with a great future; it needs understanding and training to work as expected. But for the everyday user it will be of great help in production since the user now can see on the monitor how the work will look when printed.