PDF Day program for December 11 in New York City

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 about the event is available at de5.pdfa.org/nyc.

PDF Day - Thursday, December 11, 2014
8:00	Registration opens
9:00	Introduction: What is PDF, who owns it and why does it matter? Duff Johnson (PDF Association), Leonard Rosenthol (Adobe Systems)
9:40	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
10:10	Coffee break
	Track A	Track B
10:30	Optimizing transactional output with PDF workflows Drew Sprague (Solimar Systems) How PDF is improving personalized customer communications in financial services	The real state of document productivity Sam Thorpe (Nitro) Results from a grass-roots survey of document productivity in the workplace
11:10	How standards drive business Bruno Lowagie (iText Software) They sound dry, but software standards are instrumental in enabling new business models	Collaborating with PDF James Borthwick (PDFTron) What’s holding back the document management industry from using PDF more, and what comes next.
11:40	Avoiding pitfalls in transaction documents Mark Mansoor (ClosingBinders.com) Ensure transaction closings aren’t marred by delivery of imperfect or corrupt PDFs	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
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	I sign therefore I am Tim Sullivan (ActivePDF) Electronic signatures vs. digital signatures and understanding identity repudiation	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	Common criteria for redaction tools Mark Gavin (Appligent) What the Common Criteria Protection Profile for Redaction Tools will mean for document redaction	PDF/UA as a means to ADA compliance Jeff Williams & Shannon Kelly (Actuate) How PDF/UA delivers ADA compliance for electronic documents
14:50	Coffee break
15:10	4 minutes with a PDF vendor - Commercial Session Moderated by Duff Johnson (PDF Association)
15:50	The best possible electronic document format Panel discussion*
16:50	Closing remarks