PDF Day program for December 10 in Washington DC
October 1, 2014
PDF Day in Washington DC is 18 fast-paced educational sessions packed with non-commercial information for IT executives on a range of PDF technology related topics.
About PDF Association staff
The PDF Association staff delivers a vendor-neutral platform for PDF’s stakeholders, facilitating the development of open specifications and ISO standards for PDF technology. The staff are located in Germany, the United States and Australia.
Staff members include:
- Alexandra Oettler (Editor),
- Betsy Fanning (Standards Director),
- Duff Johnson (Chief Executive Officer),
- Melina Tusch (Member Benefit Manager),
- Matthias Wagner (CFO & Operations Director),
- Peter Wyatt (Chief Technology Officer),
- Thomas Zellmann (PDF Evangelist).
PDF Day is 18 short, fast-paced educational sessions designed to convey non-commercial information meeting the interests and concerns of IT executives. Download the program as a PDF/UA and PDF/A-conforming document, or see the table below.
Educational session videos and "4 minutes with a PDF vendor" videos are now posted on YouTube.
More information is available at pdfa.org/dc.
PDF Day - Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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| 8:00 | Registration opens | |
| 8:30 | Introduction: What is PDF, who owns it and why does it matter? Duff Johnson (PDF Association), Leonard Rosenthol (Adobe Systems) |
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| 9:00 | PDF/A 101 David van Driessche (Four Pees) What PDF/A is, why it’s necessary, and how its various parts can affect procurement. | ECM and Dark Data Peter Duff (Adlib Software) 70% of content is Dark Data. Turn on the light to improve compliance, cut storage, and leverage this asset |
| 9:40 | NARA's new Transfer Guidance Kevin DeVorsey (NARA) The 2014 Transfer Guidance: a major change for federal agencies' document handling and archiving | Collaborating with PDF James Borthwick (PDFTron) What’s holding back the document management industry from using PDF more, and what comes next. |
| 10:10 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Scanning to PDF/A Thomas Zellmann (Luratech) Benefits and opportunities from converting scanned documents to PDF/A. | I sign therefore I am Tim Sullivan (ActivePDF) Electronic signatures vs. digital signatures and understanding identity repudiation |
| 11:10 | PDF/A in the US Stephen Levenson (PDF/A convenor) Understand when using PDF/A will lower costs and improve document integrity | How standards drive business Bruno Lowagie (iText Software) They sound dry, but software standards are instrumental in enabling new business models |
| 11:40 | PDF/A-3: Practical and powerful Dietrich von Seggern (callas software) How PDF/A-3 differs from PDF/A-1 and 2; making the most of archives with attachments | PDF/UA as a means to Section 508 compliance Jeff Williams & Shannon Kelly (Actuate) How PDF/UA delivers Section 508 compliance for electronic documents |
| 12:10 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Content extraction from PDF Matt Kuznicki (Datalogics) What can you learn from the guts of a PDF file, how to get it and what you need to know | Making document communications accessible David van Driessche (Four Pees) & Dietrich von Seggern (callas software) How PDF/UA is useful in meeting other accessibility standards, and a survey of available technologies |
| 13:40 | Common criteria for redaction tools Mark Gavin (Appligent) What the Common Criteria Protection Profile for Redaction Tools will mean for document redaction | PDF/UA vs. HTML as an accessibility strategy Wendy Lockyer (Accessibil-T) Why PDF/UA is the best strategic option for cost-effective implementation of document accessibility requirements |
| 14.20 | The real state of document productivity Sam Thorpe (Nitro) Results from a grass-roots survey of document productivity in the workplace | 5 key steps to a successful document accessibility program Greg Pisocky (NetCentric) Like HTML, Making volumes of PDF content accessible requires a strategic approach |
| 14:50 | Break | |
| 15:10 | 4 minutes with a PDF vendor - Commercial Session Moderated by Duff Johnson (PDF Association) |
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| 15:50 | Officially PDF: Trends in government adoption of document technology Panel discussion with Federal employees* |
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| 16:50 | Closing remarks | |
* - The panel is moderated by John Mancini, President of AIIM. Panelists include:
- Kevin De Vorsey, NARA
- Mark Patrick, DoD
- Stephen Levenson, PDF/A Convenor
Program Committee
The following contributed their own time and that of their respective companies to developing and organizing PDF Day.
- Sean Zinsmeister, Nitro | Senior Marketing Manager, Desktop
- Duff Johnson, PDF Association | Executive Director
- Ivan Nincic, PDFTron | CTO
- Matthew Kuznicki, Datalogics | CTO*
- Peter Duff, Adlib Software | CEO*
* - A member of the PDF Association's Board of Directors
