PDF Day program for December 10 in Washington DC

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 de5.pdfa.org/dc.

PDF Day - Wednesday, December 10, 2014
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)
	Track A	Track B
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)
15:50	Officially PDF: Trends in government adoption of document technology Panel discussion with Federal employees*
16:50	Closing remarks