Dr. Masinter was a Principal Scientist and researcher at Adobe and Xerox PARC, working on a wide variety of document systems and services. He was instrumental in the development of web standards including HTML, HTTP and URLs and the use of MIME types to name formats on the web.  For publications and presentations, consult https://LarryMasinter.net.

Sheri Byrne-Haber has been working exclusively in the intersection of business/disability/technology for more than 15 years.  She previously built a global accessibility team at McDonald’s and is currently doing the same for VMware.  She has degrees in IT, law and business, and is CPACC and ADA certified.

Kenneth (Kenny) Swope chairs Boeing’s Enterprise Business Architecture Team and is responsible for the company’s Commercial Airplanes Business Capabilities Architecture organization which oversees the integrated set of architecture products that describe Boeing’s multiple lines of business. With over 24 years at Boeing, Kenny provides technical oversight to business requirements, value stream definition, performance measures, business … Read more

David Blatner is the author of 15 books and over 20 video titles, including Real World InDesign, InDesign Essential Training, and Spectrums: Our Mind-Boggling Universe From Infinitesimal to Infinity. He is the president of the CreativePro Network (CPN.co) the founder and publisher of InDesign Magazine, and the co-host of CreativePro Week, InDesignSecrets.com, and CreativePro.com. With … Read more

Michael Vrhel was awarded his PhD from North Carolina State University in 1993; during his PhD, he was an Eastman Kodak Fellow. He has many years’ experience working in digital imaging, including biomedical imaging and signal processing at NIH; color instrument and color software design at Color Savvy Systems Ltd, and positions at Conexant Systems, … Read more

Robert Martinengo has over twenty years’ experience in accessible publishing for education. In the 1990’s as a Studio Director for Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D), he saw how the unmet demand for accessible textbooks was rapidly spilling over to publishers. In 1999 California enacted AB422, its pioneering “etext law”, and Robert set up … Read more

Jason Harrop is co-founder of Native Documents, which makes tools for editing Word documents in-browser, converting Word documents to PDF, and ingesting Word content in NLP/AI pipelines.  For the decade since its inception, Jason has managed the docx4j open source project, a Java library for dealing with Office documents (docx/pptx/xlsx). Prior to that he was … Read more