PDF Days Europe 2022

The world-wide PDF technology event of the year brings together PDF’s top experts for two days of presentations from across the industry and the world. Developers should also consider Peter Wyatt’s Deep Technical Workshop on September 8-9.

Monday, September 12

All times are CET (Central European Time).

10:00	Welcome to PDF Days Europe 2022! PDF Association CEO Duff Johnson and PDF Evangelist Thomas Zellmann provide an overview of the next two days.
10:30	The future: re-imagining the best possible definition of PDF Peter Wyatt, PDF Association Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Peter-Wyatt.pdf We can and must do better if PDF is to remain reliable, portable, and relevant – and thus grow into the future for all its stakeholders. And now, we have that chance…
11:15

	Experience Moderated by Thomas Zellmann	Implementation Moderated by Kenny Swope	Core technology Moderated by Raf Hens
11:45	Facing a pandemic: hit and miss of PDF, how could we have done better? Elodie Tellier, Orpalis Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1145-Tellier.pdf	ISO TC 171 SC 2 and TC 130: a summary Duff Johnson, PDF Association Dietrich von Seggern, PDF Association Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1145-vonSeggern.pdf	Strategies for Testing PDF Files Michael Demey, iText Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1145-Demy.pdf
12:30
13:30	10 Years of PDF/A-3 Based Electronic Invoicing Bernd Wild, intarsys GmbH Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1330-Wild.pdf	Email Archiving in PDF Peter Wyatt, University of Illinois Prof. Chris Prom, University of Illinois Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1330-Prom.pdf	Aligning PDF 1.7 and 2.0 through ISO 32005 and using these for Reflow, Reuse and Accessibility Matthew Hardy, Adobe Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1330-Hardy.pdf
14:15	How to make your PDF/A conversion easier Akash Choudhary, callas software GmbH Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1415-Choudhary.pdf	PDF and CQRS/ES Francois Fernandes, Digital Frontiers GmbH & Co. KG Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1415-Fernandes.pdf	The PDF Detectives Michael Demey, iText Kevin Willems, iText Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1415-Demy-Willems.pdf
15:00
15:30	What’s stopping PDF from ubiquitous acceptance? Shawn Gaither, Adobe Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1530-Gaither.pdf	Navigating the PDF ecosystem Peter Wyatt Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1530-Wyatt.pdf	Putting a squeeze on your PDF Maksim Bezrukov, iText Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1530-Bezrukov.pdf
16:15	What’s holding PDF back? Dr. Tamir Hassan, Tamir Hassan Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1615-Hassan.pdf	Tagged and Accessible PDF with LaTeX Frank Mittelbach, The LaTeX Project Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1615-Mittelbach.pdf	PDF Optimization horror-stories Patrick Gallot, Datalogics Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1615-Gallot.pdf
18:00

Tuesday, September 13

All times are CET (Central European Time).

09:00	Is Digital Transformation the end of PDF? Kenny Swope, Boeing Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Kenny-Swope-Boeing.pdf At Boeing, the company is fully engaged in a digital transformation that seeks to redefine how aerospace products are defined, developed, produced, and serviced. We will examine PDF use in Boeing and share thoughts on its role relative to digital transformation.
09:45	Our sponsors deliver their elevator pitches against the clock!
10:30

	Experience Moderated by Thomas Zellmann	Implementation Moderated by Akash Choudhary	Core technology Moderated by Peter Wyatt
11:00	Making digital signatures in PDF more usable Bernd Wild, intarsys GmbH Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1100-Wild.pdf	The Ghent Workgroup 2022 specifications David van Driessche, Four Pees Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1100-vanDriessche.pdf	New Clay Joris Schellekens, borb Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1100-Schellekens.pdf
11:45	Smart Legal Contracts and PDF Neil Pitman, Aquaforest Limited Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1145-Pitman.pdf	PDF in Variable Data Printing Dietrich von Seggern, callas software GmbH Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1145-vonSeggern.pdf	Leveling up RichMedia Patrick Gallot, Datalogics Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1145-Gallot.pdf
12:30
13:30	How document understanding can leverage your PDF workflow Elodie Tellier, Orpalis Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1330-Tellier.pdf	Implementing a PDF Library in Ruby Thomas Leitner, gettalong EDV-Dienstleistungen e.U. Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1330-Leitner.pdf	On the security of PDF Signatures Dr. Vladislav Mladenov, Ruhr University Bochum Simon Rohlmann, Ruhr University Bochum Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1330-Mladenov.pdf
14:15	PDF’s mindshare Duff Johnson, PDF Association Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1415-Johnson.pdf	Making more sense of PDF structures in the wild at scale Tim Allison, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/1415-Allison.pdf	Interoperable document-based signatures Roman Toda, Foxit Corporation Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1415-Toda.pdf
15:00
15:30	Barrierefreie PDF und Office – aktueller Stand Dirk Frölich, PC & EDV Support Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1530-Froelich.pdf	Deformed table restoration in scanned PDF Xiong Longfei, Kingsoft Office Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1530-Longfei.pdf	Next Generation Forms for PDF John Brinkman, Adobe Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1530-Brinkman.pdf
16:15	It’s your PDF Association Duff Johnson, PDF Association Thomas Zellmann, PDF Association Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/1615-Zellmann.pdf	How PDF/R helps transforming image capture for mobile and cloud Rene Rebe, TWAIN Working Group Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1615-rebe.pdf	Ideas for interoperable self-updating PDF documents Matthias Valvekens, iText Slides: https://pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/1615-Valvekens_incl_demo.pdf
17:10	PDF Association members-only meeting