Khara Plicanic

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A camera slinging design geek and Adobe nerd, Khara’s a natural born teacher who’s been sharing inspiration & know-how with fellow creatives around the globe for more than 15 years. Khara’s proud to have authored several books for Peach Pit and Rocky Nook Press and enjoys contributing to CreativePro Magazine. When she’s not presenting at creative industry events, making futile attempts at reclaiming hard drive space, or searching the sofa cushions for a runaway Wacom pen, Khara can be found plotting her next craft project, catching up with her favorite late night hosts, or trying to remember where she left her phone.

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Julieanne Kost

Julieanne Kost

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Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Julieanne Kost is the Digital Imaging Evangelist Director at Adobe, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide via live events, Adobe.com, and her blog (jkost.com/blog). She is also the author of “Passenger Seat — Creating a Photographic Project from Conception Through Execution” and “Window Seat — The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking”, an accomplished photographer and fine artist, and creator and host of the popular Photoshop Essential Training for LinkedIn Learning.

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Russell Brown

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Russell Brown is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems, and an Emmy Award-winning instructor. His ability to bring together the world of design and software development is a perfect match for Adobe products. In Russell’s thirty-two years of creative experience at Adobe, he has contributed to the evolution of Adobe Photoshop with feature enhancements, and advanced scripts.

With complete mastery and breath taking style, Russell has shown users how to work – and play – with Adobe software. He has helped the world’s leading photographers, publishers, art directors, and artists to master the software tools that have made Adobe’s applications the standard by which all others are measured. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools as a prolific creator of an entertaining collection of Photoshop tips and tricks. His in-depth design knowledge and zany presentation style has won him a regular following among beginning, intermediate, and advanced users alike. Keep in mind, a live performance of the Russell Brown Show is not to be missed.

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    Bill Carberry

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    Bill Carberry has been using and teaching Adobe InDesign as an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor for Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop in good standing since 1999. He has a commercial printing background and enjoys providing simple solutions to complex problems, especially solving stubborn font problems.

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      Chuck Weger

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      Chuck Weger specializes in workflow automation, architecting solutions using off-the-shelf or custom software to create and process pages quickly and efficiently. Chuck also designs and creates iOS apps, database and cloud-based solutions for client-specific needs.

      More than 20 years ago, he came up with the concept of “preflight,” which changed graphic arts workflows forever (although that and a dollar won’t get him on the subway). He also does work for vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Xerox, etc. both at the strategic level (whitepapers or other analysis) and tactical (writing and/or presenting training materials). Chuck is a well-known speaker and has written for many publications.

      Dan Rhatigan

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      Dan Rhatigan works with Adobe Typekit in New York as the Senior Manager of Adobe Type. He has over 25 years of eclectic experience in various industries as a typesetter, graphic designer, typeface designer, and teacher, including several years in London and New York serving as Type Director for Monotype. He has a BFA in graphic design from Boston University, and MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in the UK, and a very tattered passport.

      Matthew Cokeley

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      Matthew Cokeley is the Executive Creative Director and VP of Product, Services and Operations for Mag+. With 20 years in the print and e-publishing industry, Matthew brings a wealth of experience in both success and failure. He was the Art Director of Popular Science magazine when it launched on the iPad April 4th of 2010 and is a founding member of the Mag+ team since 2011.

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        Ferdinand Schwörer

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        Ferdinand is the developer of MathTools, the only Equation Editor for Adobe InDesign and InCopy that is entirely based on InDesign’s type engine. Major scholarly, academic and STM publisher use MathTools, formerly known as InMath, for many years. He is the founder of movemen GmbH, specialised in InDesign Plug-In development and developer training. Ferdinand gave various technical presentations concerning InDesign and InDesign Server SDK.

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          Briar Levit

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          Briar Levit is an assistant professor of graphic design at Portland State University, and holds a master’s in communication design from Central St. Martins College of Art & Design in the UK. She came up as a designer in San Francisco in the late 1990s, and missed the cold type era by just a few years.

          Briar cut her teeth as a designer working in-house for Discovery Channel Stores, and not long after that became art director at magazine Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture. Her graphic design focus and practice consists primarily of publication design, with a special interest in independent publishing, small presses, and hiking guides (a few of which she has self-published).

          Graphic Means: A History of Graphic Design Production was a significant jump out of her comfort zone—but once the idea came to her, it simply wouldn’t go away. She has been working on the film since 2014, while teaching design full time.

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            Joe Crocenzi

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Sr. Product Manager 
Blurb, Inc.

            Joe has been involved in print and InDesign prepress work for over 20 years, helping designers and graphic artists overcome the technical challenges of publishing. Passionate about InDesign and high-quality print products, he is most at home when helping creatives bring their best ideas to life on the pages of beautiful books.

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