Damiano Viscardi

Consultant and trainer for graphic design, prepress, digital documents software and technologies. Expert in typography, publishing, graphic file formats. Focused on PDF standards, digital documents workflows and auto-pagination systems.

Mark Gavin

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

Nicole Gauger

Nicole Gauger is the managing partner of good news!, a communications agency based in Stockelsdorf near Lübeck, Germany. Communications and IT are in her blood. A graduate (BA) in information systems, she works with providers in fields such as document, content and knowledge management, as well as more besides. Since several years good news! supports … Read more

Ivan Nincic

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

Ferass Elrayes

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