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4th PDF/A Conference in Italy
Rome, September 30th and October 1st


Colosseum in Rome

First International PDF/A Conference – Amsterdam

Agenda as of December 20th, 2007

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

9:00Registration, Exhibition
10:00Welcome: Thomas Zellmann, Chairman of the PDF/A Competence Center
10:30Keynote: The Value of PDF/A for Archiving and Compliance
A critical factor in your long term information strategy
Rory Staunton, Managing Director, Strategy Partners UK
11:15Keynote: The Making of PDF/A
Stephen Levenson, US District Courts and Convener of the ISO PDF/A committee
12:00Lunch break, Exhibition
Track 1:
What You Need to Know About PDF/A
(for novice to intermediate level attendees)
Programme Chair:
Thomas Zellmann
Track 2:
Beyond the Basics of PDF/A
(for intermediate to advanced level attendees)
Programme Chair:
Harald Grumser
Track 3:
Technical Track
(for developers, integrators and IT staff)
Programme Chair:
Olaf Drümmer
14:00PDF/A 101
Introduction to PDF/A
Stephen Poe, VP Product Management, Crawford Technologies Inc.
PDF/A Conforming Digital Signatures
Bringing electronic signatures to PDF/A documents
Dr. Bernd Wild, Managing Director, intarsys consulting GmbH
Fonts, Text and Unicode in PDF/A
How to correctly embed fonts
Dr. Hans Bärfuss, CEO, PDF Tools AG
14:45Application Scenarios with PDF/A
Create, convert, sign and validate
Roberto Nagel, Technical Director, Document Dialog B.V.
Migrating Archives to PDF/A
Strategies and solutions
Vincenzo Zocca, Senior Consultant, DocuCom (Schweiz) AG
XMP Metadata in PDF/A
Using predefined and custom XMP schemas
Thomas Merz, President, PDFlib GmbH
15:30Coffee break, Exhibition
16:00Scan to PDF/A with OCR
Paper becomes digital
Carsten Heiermann, Managing Director, LuraTech Europe GmbH
Legal Implications
What legal aspects must be considered?
Prof. Siegfried Hackel, Physikalisch-Technische Bundeanstalt (PTB), Braunschweig
Colour in PDF/A
Correct use and necessary adjustments of colour definitions in PDF/A documents
Olaf Drümmer, Managing Director, callas software GmbH
16:45Archiving Digital Documents
Conversion of digital born interactive documents to PDF/A
Michael Karbe, Managing Director, Actino Software GmbH
PDF/A-2
Preview of ISO 19005-2
Leonard Rosenthol, Technical Standards Evangelist, Adobe Systems Inc.
Digital Signatures in PDF/A
How to correctly create a signed document
Armin Lunkeit, Managing Director, OPENLiMiT SignCubes GmbH
17:30Closing session
Wrap-up and hot topics from the first day
Guido Schmitz, Pentadoc AG & Carsten Heiermann, LuraTech Europe GmbH
18:15End of first conference day
19:30Evening Event

Friday, April 11th, 2008

9:00Keynote: PDF/A and Adobe
Dr. Jim King, Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems Inc.
Track A:
Archives & Libraries, Public Sector / eGovernment
Programme Chair:
Thomas Zellmann
Track B:
Engineering / Manufacturing / Construction
Programme Chair:
Johannes Hesel
Track C:
Business to Customer (e.g. banks, insurances, telcos)
Programme Chair:
Harald Grumser
10:00Relevance of PDF/A in this sector / Digital Preservation
Retrospective digitization with PDF/A
Hans-Joachim Hübner,
Senior Consultant,
Satz-Rechen-Zentrum Hartmann+Heenemann
GmbH & Co. KG
PDF/A in Product Life Cycle
Engineering requirements for PDF/A
Dr. Uwe Wächter, Sales Manager, SEAL Systems AG
Digital Mail Room with PDF/A
Standardised format in information capture and exchange
Alexander Goerke, CTO Transformation Products, Kofax Image Products, Inc.
10:45Office to PDF/A Migration Software
Implementing a long-term preservation solution
Wouter Kool, Research and Development, National Library of the Netherlands
PDF/A in a Highly Regulated Industry
Legally binding power plant documentation
Nils Holger Wenck, SWB AG
eBilling and PDF/A
An integrated approach
Sandro Pfamatter, Director Informatics, Rhätische Bahn AG
11:30Anything to PDF/A?
Recommendations, samples and best practice discussion
Thomas Zellmann, Managing Partner, LuraTech Europe GmbH and Natascha Schumann, German National Library
Processing PDF/A Documents in SAP Environments
Dr. Matthias Flury, Managing Director, joinApps AG
Implementing PDF/A for High Volume Output Management
Aren’t PDF/A files too big for massive archives?
Harald Grumser, Managing Director, Compart Systemhaus GmbH
12:15Lunch break, Exhibition
14:00Archiving Construction Documents for the A380
Gunnar Wiebecke, Airbus Deutschland GmbH
14:30Does PDF/A Make Sense in the World of Patents?
Prof. Dr. Matthias Blumenfeld, European Patent Office
15:00Panel Discussion
Betsy Fanning (AIIM), Stephen Levenson, Leonard Rosenthol, Rory Staunton
Moderators: Harald Grumser & Olaf Drümmer
15:40Prize Draw
16:00End of second conference day

Exhibitors: callas software, Compart, Datalogics, DocPath, intarsys, LuraTech, M & R micro-imaging, MagSoft, Nuance, PDF Tools, PDFlib, Beta Systems, DETEC, Document Dialog, icon Systemhaus, SEAL Systems

Logo-Partner: Adobe Systems Benelux, forcont business technology, GMC

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Location

Hilton Amsterdam
Apollolaan 138
Amsterdam, 1077 BG

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