Adam Spencer has been a global leader in the document accessibility field for over 10 years. He is the founder and President of AbleDocs (GLOBAL). He specializes in PDF Accessibility, Accessibility Standards, Document Usability by Adaptive Technology Users.  Adam is also the Vice-Chair of the Standards Council of Canada responsible for the authoring of the … Read more

Mark Gavin has been working with computers for more then thirty years. He has over twenty-five years experience in cross-platform development; and, more then twenty years experience in designing and developing applications to read and write Portable Document Format (PDF). In 1988, Mr. Gavin co-founded Appligent, Inc., originally named Digital Applications, Inc., to be a leading provider … Read more

Catherine Andersz is the Co-Founder and CEO of PDFTron Systems Inc. Catherine is responsible for driving PDFTron’s strategy, and is passionate about building happy teams that consistently deliver the best customer experience. With a background in International Relations and Business Development, for the past 17 years Catherine has worked at an intersection of highly technical and … Read more

Ferass is in charge of CommonLook’s product research and development with overall responsibility for the specification, architecture and development of CommonLook’s market leading products. Ferass represents Canada at ISO TC 171 meetings on the ISO 14289 (PDF/UA), ISO 32000 (PDF) and ISO 19005 (PDF/A) Committees and is the Chair of the Canadian Advisory Committee (CAC) … Read more

Ivan Nincic is the Founder and CTO of PDFTron Systems Inc. Having founded PDFTron in 1998 with the development of PDFTron’s SDK from the ground-up, today Ivan is responsible for shaping the company’s long-term technology vision and driving the gears of innovation across the company. His passion fuels PDFTron’s mission to empower customers with high-quality document processing … Read more

Matthias obtained his degree in computer science in 1985 and possess comprehensive IT knowledge and experience dealing with the use of PDF format. Following his studies he was employed as a software developer, moving in 1990 to marketing for the Software AG. From 2000 to 2005 he led an international sales project for T-Systems International GmbH. … Read more