Dana Kendall is an InDesign enthusiast who dabbles in scripting. She is the associate editorial and publishing manager at Sundance Institute, where she creates automated solutions for publications of the Sundance Film Festival. Dana is originally from Los Angeles and currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Darlene Shelton is a Keynote master. She has learned the ins and outs of presentation design through her 11 years at Duarte. Working primarily with the world’s largest “fruit” company, Darlene can attest to the power of systems and organization in keeping her sanity through countless events and product launches.
Darlene is an experienced trainer in Keynote and presentation design workflow. She produces in-house training videos and extensive materials to assist in major event preparations, when her team needs to quickly scale up to meet the needs of the client. Darlene’s passion lies in the details and she makes sure to share that enthusiasm with any designers she has worked with or trained. You will find Darlene is an open book when it comes to sharing what she has learned throughout her career.
Darlene is originally from the Monterey Bay and now lives in the Pacific Northwest, in the beautiful city of Tacoma, where she continues to support Duarte from home. Her hobbies include illustration, photography, playing the guitar very badly, and hiking with her husband and dogs. Darlene is also a budding stand up comedian, attending open mics throughout Tacoma.
Author and photographer Jeff Carlson writes for publications such as CreativePro, Popular Photography, DPReview, and Macworld, and is a contributing editor at TidBITS. He is the author of numerous books, including The Photographer’s Guide to Luminar AI, Take Control of Your Digital Photos, Take Control of Your Digital Storage, and Take Control of Apple Watch, among many other titles. He also co-hosts the podcasts PhotoActive and Photocombobulate, and leads photography workshops in the Pacific Northwest. He believes there’s never enough coffee, and does his best to test that theory.
With over 20 years experience in prepress for offset, digital and flexographic printing, Colin Flashman is a prepress operator for Openbook Howden Print & Design in Adelaide, South Australia.
A previous speaker at PePcon 2016 and The InDesign Conference 2016, he has also spoken at previous CreativePROWeeks at the Ignite and CreativeWOW sessions. An Adobe Community Professional, he also runs his own “Colecandoo” prepress blog and YouTube channel, contributes to both InDesignSecrets.com and InDesign Magazine, and is an InDesign javascripter.
Brian Wood is a web developer, the author of 15 books, including Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 Classroom in a Book and Adobe XD CC Classroom in a Book. The author of numerous training titles including Muse, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator and more. In addition to training many clients, including Adobe, Nordstrom, REI, Boeing, Starbucks, Nintendo, and many others, Brian speaks regularly at national conferences, such as Adobe MAX, HOW Design, HOW Interactive, as well as events hosted by AIGA and other industry organizations. For 2017, Brian was named a MAX master and was the top speaker at Adobe MAX. He has also written articles for SmashingMagazine.com, Peachpit.com, CreativePro.com, and more. Brian has a YouTube channel and a corporate training site at: brianwoodtraining.com.
Twitter: @askbrianwood
Guy layed out his first pages in yearbook class at the International School in Ivory Coast and knew that he was hooked on this publishing thing. Two decades later he is a Senior Solutions consultant for Typefi Systems, empowering companies and organizations world-wide to embrace multi-format and multi-lingual publishing from a single source. Being fluent in 3 languages and color-blind, he has an interest in making content as accessible as possible.
He is a speaker, trainer and has been organizing and speaking at Apple* and Adobe User Group events in Holland for years. When he is not geeking out on InDesign, EPUB, or the newest sneakers, he loves playing basketball, cats and his family… in no particular order.
*Ask him about the introduction of the first iPad when you meet
Doris Brown-McNally is the Global Brands Innovation Manager and HP Inc., responsible for fostering relationships with many of the world’s most recognizable brands, and their creative agencies, through meaningful and inspirational digital print instruction, and campaign development. She has been an outspoken leader and advocate regarding digital print production, color communication, and cross media marketing.
For close to 40 years Doris has been recognized in the printing, textile and plastics industries as one of the foremost experts on color, a crucial element in corporate branding and identity. Her greatest strengths are her passion, creativity, drive and leadership. She thrives on challenges, particularly those that expand the company’s reach.
As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry, she devises and presents motivating and educational presentations, sharing digital print capabilities and brand use stories worldwide.
In 1993, Eric Menninga started working on the PageMaker rewrite that became Adobe InDesign. He was responsible for much of the text and typography in InDesign, including the Glyph Palette, the Paragraph Composer, OpenType font feature support, the Hyphenation Slider, and others. Menninga joined Amazon Kindle in 2011, where he developed the KFX Kindle Format and has been working to improve digital book layout and typography.
Steve Laskevitch is lead instructor and founder of Luminous Works, the only Adobe Authorized Training Center in the northwestern United States. He is an Adobe Certified Expert (and Adobe Certified Instructor) in Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign.
While studying as a physics undergraduate, Steve was invited to instruct a few courses and immediately fell in love with teaching. He discovered his creative passions while learning photography and designing posters and flyers for the organizations he led in college. The worlds of graphic design and photography led him merrily away from a career in physics.
Steve has spent the 21st century both teaching and doing desktop publishing and building production workflows for many companies and individuals. He’s taught at Cornish College of the Arts (where he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award), University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education (nominated for their Excellence in Teaching Award), and Seattle Central College.
Steve regularly helped Adobe Systems prepare Certified Expert exams, and for nearly five years he led the InDesign User Group in Seattle, InDesign’s birthplace. Now he’s Luminous Works’ curriculum director and lead instructor and author of Adobe InDesign CC: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features and several Photoshop books.
Steve is obsessed with New Haven-style pizza. Don’t tell, but the best of that is to be had in Portland, Oregon. Despite this fact, he lives with his wife in Seattle.
Mike Rankin has been involved in the design, editing, and production of books, magazines, and newspapers for almost 30 years. He is the Editor in Chief of CreativePro Magazine and CreativePro.com, co-author of the Adobe Photoshop Visual QuickStart Guide, and an Instructor for LinkedInLearning with over 30 video courses on InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, GIMP, Inkscape, and Affinity Publisher.