PDF Days Europe 2018 – schedule of sessions
Fittingly for the tenth anniversary of PDF’ becoming an ISO standard, standardization will play a significant role this year. The focus will be on recent developments, with an eye on the future. The agenda also includes PDF market analyses, next-generation PDF for mobile devices, universally accessible PDF files and the industry-supported veraPDF validator initiative.About the author: 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 … Read more
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Day 1 - Monday | Day 2 - Tuesday | Day 3 - Post Conference
| Monday, May 14, 2018 | |||
| 10:00 | WELCOME: Matt Kuznicki, Thomas Zellmann, PDF Association KEYNOTE INTRODUCTION: Stephan Jaeggi, PrePress-Consulting |
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| 10:30 | KEYNOTE: 25 Years of PDF Richard Cohn, Adobe Systems, co-author of PDF 1.0 |
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| 11:15 | Coffee break and networking | ||
| Tracks | PDF for users Moderation: Thomas Zellmann |
PDF for developers Moderation: Boris Doubrov & Dietrich von Seggern |
PDF for marketers Moderation: Duff Johnson |
| 11:45 | Ersetzendes Scannen für die elektronische Personalakte Anwendervortrag  Holger Wiegratz, Bundesanstalt für Immobilienaufgaben |
Tagged PDF 2.0 What PDF 2.0 tagging brings in the context of format interchange and repurposing? Roman Toda, Normex / Yulian Gaponenko, Dual Lab |
PDF’s ISO-standardized subsets: a tour Background, key features and utilization of ISO standards for PDF technology Dietrich von Seggern, callas software |
| 12:30 | Lunch and networking | ||
| 13:30 | Studie PDF-Barrierefreiheit 2018 Ergebnisse des PDF/UA-Monitoring bei Deutschen Bundesministerien | Ausgabe 3 Markus Erle, axes4 |
PDF 2.0 Updates to rendering and color processing Differences between ISO 32000-1 and ISO 32000-2 Matt Kuznicki, Datalogics |
PDF statistics The electronic document galaxy Duff Johnson, PDF Association |
| 14:15 | PDF/UA in der Office-Welt Barrierefreie PDF mit Bordmitteln – Möglichkeiten und Grenzen Dirk Frölich, PC & EDV Support |
Encryption with PDF 2.0 Changes and powerful, lesser-known options beyond standard passwords Roman Toda, Normex |
veraPDF after PREFORMA Real world adoption and industry needs for more PDF standards Boris Doubrov, Martin Wrigley, veraPDF Consortium |
| 15:00 | Coffee break and networking | ||
| 15:30 | Creating more accessible documents from scans Demonstration and discussion of augmenting scanned documents through automated PDF tagging Armin Ortmann, Foxit Europe |
Text and fonts in PDF What has PDF 2.0 (not) changed for font encoding? Dietrich von Seggern, callas software |
Developing PDF What's happening in the next generation of PDF Matthew Hardy, Adobe Systems |
| 16:15 | PDF/UA for design agencies Mastering daily challenges of design driven documents Klaas Posselt, digital Prepress & ePublishing Consulting |
Structure recognition for information retrieval and layout Mining for structure in a reliable, scalable way Joris Schellekens, iText Software |
How to market PDF? Catherine Andersz, PDFTron |
| 17:00 | Review of the day and summary of what we learned today (for all attendees) | ||
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| Tuesday, May 15, 2018 | |||
| 9:00 | KEYNOTE: Beyond the page: my story with PDF 2.0 Duff Johnson, PDF Association |
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| 9:45 | 5 minutes with a PDF solution PDF vendors show off their products in a race against the clock! |
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| 10:30 | Coffee break and networking | ||
| Tracks | PDF for users Moderation: Thomas Zellmann |
PDF for developers Moderation: Boris Doubrov & Dietrich von Seggern |
PDF for marketers Moderation: Duff Johnson |
| 11:00 | GDPR and PDF – Are you ready? An overview of GDPR compliance requirements highlighting PDF-specific considerations including identification of personal data in PDFs, exporting, security and redaction Neil Pitman, Aquaforest |
Can computers understand PDF documents as humans, or better? What recent AI developments bring to our community and how to take advantage of them Alexey Subach, Dual Lab |
PDF interoperbility concerns Some things are less portable than others Vel Genov, Datalogics |
| 11:45 | Redaction in electronic documents How I learned stop worrying and love PDF Kevin Willems, iText Software |
The power of 3D PDF 3D PDF Use cases, with history, status and future of 3D PDF in terms of ISO Ulrich Isermeyer, Adobe Systems |
PANEL: Driving interoperability Broadening support for full-function PDF Moderated by Duff Johnson, PDF Association |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | Introducing ISO standards for PDF "processing steps" and "print product metadata" New opportunities for managing print output René Treuber, axaio software |
ETSI-compliant Signing of PDF News from ETSI about signing and validating PDF documents Dr. Bernd Wild, intarsys |
Membership has its privileges How software developers, non-profits and government agencies use the PDF Association Duff Johnson and Matthias Wagner, PDF Association |
| 14:15 | Implementing PDF/A-based eIDAS trust services Longterm Preservation and the use of PDF/A-3 as universal container format Dr. Bernd Wild, intarsys |
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology for documents How blockchain made me love everything I hate about digital signatures Joris Schellekens, iText Software |
PANEL: Members' question-time Moderated by Matt Kuznicki, PDF Association |
| 15:00 | Coffee break and networking | ||
| 15:30 | Choosing a PDF conversion server for Schindler Elevators Sebastian Schütze, Senior Azure / DevOps Consultant |
PDF & Open Data PDF Beyond final form visual content Dov Isaacs, Adobe Systems |
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| 16:15 | PANEL: Five visions of a PDF future Catherine Andersz (PDFTron), Richard Cohn (Adobe), Harald Grumser (Compart), Carsten Heiermann (Foxit) and Duff Johnson (PDF Association) present their ideas for the next 25 years of PDF Moderated by Matt Kuznicki, PDF Association |
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| 17:00 | Member meeting | ||
The Post-Conference offers all-day sessions; all at the same location!
| Wednesday, May 16, 2018 – Post-Conference Workshops | |||
| 9:30 - 17:00 PDF 2.0 Interop Workshop PDF Association PDF 2.0 Interop Workshops are intended to help achieve industry-wide consensus on the meaning and application of PDF technology standards.Intended for software developers, this Workshop offers a unique opportunity to test implementations and exchange test-files in a vendor-neutral space. |
9:00 - 17:00 PDF Accessibility Best Practices 2018 axes4 Lernen von den Besten: Use Cases, Werkzeuge, Trends und Praxistipps rund um das effiziente Erstellen barrierefreier PDF-Dokumente /span> |
9:30 - 17:00 Barrierefreiheit für designlastige Publikationen – mit InDesign & MadeToTag axaio software In diesem Mitmach-Tagesworkshop lernen Sie, wie Sie zielführend beim Erstellen von barrierefreien PDFs aus Adobe InDesign vorgehen. |
10:00 - 17:00 callas presents the brand new pdfToolbox 10 callas software The most important PDF solution for output and prepress automation upgrades to:
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Further Information about the Post-Conference:
https://pdfa.org/post-conference-of-pdf-days-europe-2018/
Hotel recommendations and sightseeing tips:
https://pdfa.org/hotel-recommendations-and-sightseeing-tips-for-pdf-days-europe-2018-in-berlin/