Darren Di Lieto

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Darren Di Lieto was born in Central London, but most of his youth was spent by the sea in South Devon. He now resides in Leicester in the Midlands where he lives and works with his other half, Morgan, and a garden full of corvids.

Trained traditionally as an illustrator and graphic designer, Darren is the founder and creative director of Hireillo, aka Hire an Illustrator, a community and service for illustrators which was established in 2005. He spends his days (and many evenings too) advising, promoting and helping illustrators find commissions, while guiding them to further their careers and maintain professional standards.

Hireillo is an independent organisation whose sole purpose is to do what is right for its members, while leading the charge for the betterment of freelancers and the illustration industry it represents.

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Ingrid Mengdehl

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Ingrid is a Managing Design Consultant at BrightCarbon, a presentation and eLearning agency. Originally from an animation background, she stumbled into PowerPoint almost by accident and has not looked back ever since. She is passionate about good design, engaging animations, and teaching people how to make amazing presentations.

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Scott Benson

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Scott has been a presentation designer for Adobe (and Macromedia before that) for 17 years. Recently due to the change in the landscape, he has been focusing more on animation and editing to bring 200-foot large experiences to monitors and phones for shows like Adobe MAX and Summit. Prior to that he’s done everything from print design to web design to legal illustrations. When not working or spending time with his wife and dog, Scott has been feeding a ravenous 3D habit.

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Monika Gause

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Monika Gause is a graphic designer based in Hamburg, Germany. After being involved in the production of a couple of interactive installations in museums she is now a freelancer designing mostly for print.

Monika is a lecturer at the University of Lüneburg and produces tutorials for LinkedIn Learning (formerly video2brain) trainigs on vector graphics apps with a strong focus on Adobe Illustrator.

Her »Adobe Illustrator Praxisbuch« has been published in its 8th edition in 2020. She celebrates her love for all things vector writing about it for German design and computer magazines. As an active Adobe Community Professional she is helping people in Adobe’s online forums, in Facebook groups and wherever she comes across an interesting problem.

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Jon Schwabish

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Jon Schwabish is an economist at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC. In addition to his research on programs that support low-income communities, he is a writer, teacher, and creator of policy-relevant data visualizations and am considered a leading voice for clarity and accessibility in how researchers communicate their analyses. He helps nonprofits, research institutions, and governments at all levels improve how they communicate their work and findings to their partners, constituents, and citizens.

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Haley Rich

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Haley Rich is a Senior Art Director and Creative Doer from California. She has a love for all things plants, an infatuation for the color yellow and is rarely without a Tide pen. She spends any extra time she can get traveling the world, and until that is possible again she enjoys planning her next trip in her plant filled studio.

Haley has been in the design industry for 14+ years in various roles ranging from editorial, print, web and packaging, most recently finding herself in the world of presentations and becoming an expert in all programs that go with it. She traveled world-wide to provide event support for some of the largest Silicon Valley companies. She has developed extensive training programs on the intricacies of Powerpoint, keynote, Google slides and Adobe and until recently she was also running monthly craft workshops to create a break to learn something new each month.

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Hugh D’Andrade

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Hugh D’Andrade is an artist and designer based on Oakland, California. He has designed book jackets for MacMillan, Random House and Penguin, as well as rock posters for Elvis Costello and Lucinda Williams. He currently works as Creative Director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

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Brad Miller

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Brad Miller is the Director of Marketing for CreativePro Network. With over fifteen years of experience, Brad navigates the continually evolving digital landscape to help brands successfully manage their digital presence, reach new audiences, and create unique campaigns to effectively communicate with customers and potential new customers.

Brad is an expert in brand management and development, digital and traditional ad strategy, email marketing, and social media strategy. Brad has extensive experience marketing to a diverse, wide-ranging spectrum; from marketing small nightclubs and restaurants locally, to a 25,000-attendee music festival nationally, to online and in-person conferences internationally.

Brad owns and operates Wedgewood Media, a digital and experiential marketing firm specializing in marketing for events and entertainment.

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Peter Kahrel

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Peter Kahrel was trained as a linguist, and after a brief spell in academia in the Netherlands and the UK, drifted into typesetting, copy-editing, and indexing. To make life easier for himself he taught himself how to script InDesign with JavaScript and use regular expressions to format InDesign documents (even before InDesign itself knew GREP). He has worked as a script engineer for Typefi since 2010.

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Paris Sims

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“I’ve spent nearly 20 years in the creative field, with over half of those dedicated to presentation design. My most recent agency stops include global communication firms Edelman (Art Director) and Golin (Creative Director). The last few years I’ve had the great honor to work independently for clients such as Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Youtube. My goal is to tell visual stories that move people. Whether it be conferences, trade shows or new business pitches, I aim to create something unique, memorable and to change the way people think about how they deliver information.”

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