PDF Day program for December 10 in Washington DC
PDF Day in Washington DC is 18 fast-paced educational sessions packed with non-commercial information for IT executives on a range of PDF technology related topics.
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PDF Day is 18 short, fast-paced educational sessions designed to convey non-commercial information meeting the interests and concerns of IT executives. Download the program as a PDF/UA and PDF/A-conforming document, or see the table below.
Educational session videos and "4 minutes with a PDF vendor" videos are now posted on YouTube.
More information is available at pdfa.org/dc.
PDF Day - Wednesday, December 10, 2014 |
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| 8:00 | Registration opens | |
| 8:30 | Introduction: What is PDF, who owns it and why does it matter? Duff Johnson (PDF Association), Leonard Rosenthol (Adobe Systems) |
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| 9:00 | PDF/A 101 David van Driessche (Four Pees) What PDF/A is, why it’s necessary, and how its various parts can affect procurement. | ECM and Dark Data Peter Duff (Adlib Software) 70% of content is Dark Data. Turn on the light to improve compliance, cut storage, and leverage this asset |
| 9:40 | NARA's new Transfer Guidance Kevin DeVorsey (NARA) The 2014 Transfer Guidance: a major change for federal agencies' document handling and archiving | Collaborating with PDF James Borthwick (PDFTron) What’s holding back the document management industry from using PDF more, and what comes next. |
| 10:10 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 | Scanning to PDF/A Thomas Zellmann (Luratech) Benefits and opportunities from converting scanned documents to PDF/A. | I sign therefore I am Tim Sullivan (ActivePDF) Electronic signatures vs. digital signatures and understanding identity repudiation |
| 11:10 | PDF/A in the US Stephen Levenson (PDF/A convenor) Understand when using PDF/A will lower costs and improve document integrity | How standards drive business Bruno Lowagie (iText Software) They sound dry, but software standards are instrumental in enabling new business models |
| 11:40 | PDF/A-3: Practical and powerful Dietrich von Seggern (callas software) How PDF/A-3 differs from PDF/A-1 and 2; making the most of archives with attachments | PDF/UA as a means to Section 508 compliance Jeff Williams & Shannon Kelly (Actuate) How PDF/UA delivers Section 508 compliance for electronic documents |
| 12:10 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 | Content extraction from PDF Matt Kuznicki (Datalogics) What can you learn from the guts of a PDF file, how to get it and what you need to know | Making document communications accessible David van Driessche (Four Pees) & Dietrich von Seggern (callas software) How PDF/UA is useful in meeting other accessibility standards, and a survey of available technologies |
| 13:40 | Common criteria for redaction tools Mark Gavin (Appligent) What the Common Criteria Protection Profile for Redaction Tools will mean for document redaction | PDF/UA vs. HTML as an accessibility strategy Wendy Lockyer (Accessibil-T) Why PDF/UA is the best strategic option for cost-effective implementation of document accessibility requirements |
| 14.20 | The real state of document productivity Sam Thorpe (Nitro) Results from a grass-roots survey of document productivity in the workplace | 5 key steps to a successful document accessibility program Greg Pisocky (NetCentric) Like HTML, Making volumes of PDF content accessible requires a strategic approach |
| 14:50 | Break | |
| 15:10 | 4 minutes with a PDF vendor - Commercial Session Moderated by Duff Johnson (PDF Association) |
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| 15:50 | Officially PDF: Trends in government adoption of document technology Panel discussion with Federal employees* |
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| 16:50 | Closing remarks | |
* - The panel is moderated by John Mancini, President of AIIM. Panelists include:
- Kevin De Vorsey, NARA
- Mark Patrick, DoD
- Stephen Levenson, PDF/A Convenor
Program Committee
The following contributed their own time and that of their respective companies to developing and organizing PDF Day.
- Sean Zinsmeister, Nitro | Senior Marketing Manager, Desktop
- Duff Johnson, PDF Association | Executive Director
- Ivan Nincic, PDFTron | CTO
- Matthew Kuznicki, Datalogics | CTO*
- Peter Duff, Adlib Software | CEO*
* - A member of the PDF Association's Board of Directors