Richard Turner-Jones

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Richard is a bit of a renaissance man when it comes to all things Adobe, with expertise across the Creative, Document and Experience Clouds. By understanding not only how they work but how they can work together, he has developed workflow solutions for organizations across the legal, commercial, government and education sectors, including Airservices Australia, Caterpillar Inc., and the Australian Defence Forces, to name but a few.

Whether scripting within the design tools, adding functionality to Acrobat Forms via JavaScript, extending the AEM platform, or integrating the various cloud APIs, he thrives on the challenge of finding solutions to streamline client creative pipelines.

For nearly three decades he has tinkered, hacked or just plain read the manual to expand this product knowledge, and with a desire to share this experience is why he’s also engaged as a freelance trainer and has lost count of the number of times a student has uttered the phrase: “I didn’t know It could do that”!

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Bruce Watermann

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In 2005, color print-on-demand books were too expensive to be practical for authors and businesses. Bruce Watermann’s task as part of the founding executive team at Blurb was to solve that problem and he changed the industry in the process, taking the company from $0 to $40M+ in revenue and profitability three years after launch.

As Blurb’s SVP Operations, Bruce Watermann oversees global print production strategy and technology, partner relationships, customer support, volume sales, and fulfillment. He is responsible for the creation of what is widely regarded as the most comprehensive and agile digital and offset print network in the self-publishing industry, with multiple locations in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Bruce has worked in the photography and printing industries for over 40 years, merging traditional skills with state-of-the-art digital technologies to accurately represent fine art and photo imagery. Prior to joining Blurb, Bruce worked as an executive consultant to the digital imaging industry, advising established companies and start-ups including Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Costco, art.com, and MyPublisher in developing efficient and forward-thinking processes to promote access and sales of photography, fine art, and photo products.

He was a member of the senior management team that took Bill Gates’ Corbis Corporation out of R&D into a real-world business as Director of Global Imaging Operations from 1994-2000. From 1981-1993 Bruce was Vice President-Production for Pacific Color, Inc., the Pacific Northwest’s premier digital and photographic imaging laboratory, at the introduction of analog-to-digital conversion, supporting clients including Microsoft, Adobe, Weyerhaeuser, Westin Hotels and PhotoDisc.

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    Clint Loveman

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    Clint leads a cross-disciplinary team that designs and developments map-based information products. He has 20 years of experience in the graphic design and mapping industry. During that time, he’s supported some of the most well-known organizations in both the private and public-sectors including; NOAA, USGS, Swiss Federal Office of Topography (SwissTopo), National Geographic, Nike, CBRE and USA Today.

    His team supports both project and product business lines; creating client specific data viz solutions and product/feature development for Esri. Clint’s personal production experience includes creating maps and charts for both web and print media. He’s dabbled in freelance design as well, however his friends and families’ budgets don’t allow him to quit his day job. He likes design, dev, UI/UX, sci-fi, hockey, running, music, and other things he’s not always great at…but hopes to be someday.

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      John D. Berry

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      After thirty years of book and editorial design, as well as writing about type and design, John D. Berry has become a passionate advocate for effective text typography, both onscreen and off. He is a typographic consultant to many software companies and has spoken about typography around the world. He is the former President of ATypI, and was the final editor of U&lc magazine. He is founder and director of the Scripta Typographic Institute. Learn more at johndberry.com

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        James Fritz

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        James graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. After beginning his professional life as a designer for a variety of clients, he became hooked on helping others learn. Over time he became an Adobe Certified Design Master and began teaching, speaking and writing worldwide. After joining Lynda.com, now LinkedIn Learning, he built a robust collection of content for creative, design and engineering professionals. Today he is the senior manager of content at LinkedIn Learning and spends his time helping the world learn creative skills.

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          Dana Kendall

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          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.

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            Colin Flashman

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            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.

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              Brian Wood

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              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

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                Guy van der Kolk

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                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

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                  Doris Brown-McNally

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                  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.

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