A full list of speakers will be posted soon.

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.

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.

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.

Nigel French

London

Nigel French is an Adobe Certified Instructor, author of InDesign Type: Professional Typography with InDesign CS2 (Adobe Press) and Photoshop Unmasked: The Art and Science of Selections, Layers and Paths (late 2006, Peachpit Press). He is the former director for Graphic & Interactive Design program at UC Berkeley Extension and over the last ten years has taught Photoshop, InDesign, Typography, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Dreamweaver, Flash,and many other graphic design-related courses. Currently he works for Media Training in London and as a freelance graphic designer.

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) : milic.net/indesign. Branislav is also an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor in Acrobat 7.0 Professional, Illustrator CS2, InDesign CS2, Photoshop CS2 and his training center in Brussels is an Adobe Authorized Training Center. Due to the current InDesign frenzy among pressgroups, institutions, and agencies, he works as a full time consultant and trainer in a dozen European countries.