About PG Bartlett
PG Bartlett leads all of Quark's product management and product marketing functions. With fourteen years of experience in dynamic publishing, Bartlett is a recognised expert in the industry. In his previous position at Arbortext, Bartlett was instrumental in establishing dynamic publishing as a market category and driving the company's growth through the introduction of new products, entry into new markets, and expansion in existing markets. Bartlett brings an extensive history of high-tech marketing and product management in factory and office automation.
About Bill Trippe
As Vice President & Lead Analyst at Gilbane Group Inc., Bill leads the Content Strategies Consulting business, helping enterprises leverage content management, publishing technologies, XML, and other technologies to better create, manage, and deliver information. Bill covers trends and technologies in the content management industry and develops tutorials on XML and content management. He specialises in large-scale applications of content management technology, working with publishers who are typically converting extensive legacy databases and systems into more contemporary, open technology. He brings a unique blend of strategic and hands-on knowledge of the products and trends that are shaping the publishing and content technology marketplace. Bill founded the Boston-based consulting practice New Millennium Publishing in 1997 and has more than 20 years of technical and management experience in content management, XML, and related technologies. He is a sought-after speaker and author in the XML field and a regular contributor to several industry publications. He co-authored Digital Rights Management: Business and Technology (John Wiley & Sons) and SVG for Designers: Using Scalable Vector Graphics in Next-Generation Web Sites (Osborne/McGraw-Hill).
About Ann Rockley
Ann Rockley is President of The Rockley Group, Inc, a consultancy that has an international reputation for developing effective content management strategies. She has established herself as a leading authority in the field through her ground-breaking work in information architecture of intelligent content. Rockley is also the lead analyst for the CMS Watch XML & Component Content Management Report.
About Jörg Oyen
Jörg Oyen has been involved with DTP development since 1986. As an independent consultant he supports businesses in creating more efficient publishing and communication processes for Web and print. For example, he supports companies in introducing database publishing systems — from planning through analysis to training of employees. Jörg Oyen is one of the founders of “Publishing Report.” As an author he reports on trends, software, and technologies that influence the evolution of system-supported publishing.
About Bernd Zipper
Bernd Zipper, Technology and Strategy Consultant, ZIPCON Consulting, Germany
Web-to-print is one of the personal areas of focus for Bernd Zipper, a consultant from the Ruhr area in Germany. He has been active as a consultant in this field since the mid-1990s and actively disseminates his knowledge to his clients. The consultant and author is known around the world through his publications in the Seybold Report, Publishing Praxis, and Deutscher Drucker, and he is considered to be a trend scout in matters relating to publishing and communication technologies. As the publisher of the online service www.beyond-print.de, he is respected as a practically oriented and critical technology and strategy consultant, as well as a speaker and facilitator. His "visionary" presentations are considered around the world to constitute management recommendations that point to the way ahead for the print and media industry. His motto is "You can prepare for what is certain to happen tomorrow. Do it well and do it thoroughly." In his role as consultant, journalist, and thought-provoking speaker, Bernd Zipper has for many years been a helping hand along the way for all those who generate business by promoting and systematically utilizing development. His feeling for issues and trends is strong – and his forecasts are verifiably among the most stable and reliable ones in the industry. Bernd Zipper is a "self-confessed networker" – he is able to motivate and bring together (under one roof and in think tanks) people from a variety of different functions, occupations, interests, and roles.
About Scott Abel
Scott Abel is a content management strategist and structured-XML content evangelist whose strengths lie in helping organizations improve the way they author, maintain, and deliver their information assets. Scott’s blog, The Content Wrangler, is a popular online resource for technical writers who have an interest in content management. Scott’s social-networking site, The Content Wrangler Community, is a global network of content professionals that attracts thousands of members from around the world. A founding member of Content Management Professionals, Scott previously served as executive director of the organisation.
Scott writes regularly for trade and industry publications, blogs, and newsletters. He also runs several industry events, including the DocTrain and Web Content conference series, and is a regularly featured presenter at communication industry events.
About Joshua Duhl
Joshua Duhl has over 20 years of marketing, product management, market analysis, and consulting experience. In his role as director of research for IDC's Content Management and Rich Media software service (covering content management, DAM, authoring software, and dynamic publishing), Duhl co-authored the first market analysis on worldwide dynamic enterprise publishing software. He was also selected by IDC's clients as one of three 2003 Global Research Advisory Council Analysts of the Year. Throughout his career Duhl has provided strategic marketing, product planning and positioning guidance to a variety of software companies.
About Georg Obermayr
Georg Obermayr is Technical Director at the Adverma agency in Bavaria, Germany. He is an expert in prepress and dynamic publishing and writes for several renowned trade journals, as well as giving lectures on the subject. As member of the Swiss organisation PDFX-ready he also offers his know-how to a wider audience of publishing and print businesses looking to fully implement the ISO-Standard PDFX. With cross-functional expertise in design, prepress, technology, marketing and consulting Georg Obermayr can rely on both hands-on experience and strategic thinking to deliver first class analysis and market insight.
About Sarah Rector
Sarah Rector is a senior public relations specialist for Quark, focusing on the Americas. Before joining Quark, she spent eight years working in technology PR with agencies Burson-Marsteller in San Francisco and Ogilvy Public Relations in Denver.
About Stéphane Malagnac
Stéphane Malagnac is a Journalist and cross media consultant in free lance. Stephane brings 11 years of experience as a journalist to Quark. During this period, he was chief editor for several monthly magazines dedicated to broadcast, CG, animation, photography, graphic arts, and design. He’s also the author of two books about movie production.
About Sandra Guiard
Sandra Guiard has been working at Quark since 2006 as a public relations specialist for Central and Eastern Europe. She has more than 10 years of experience in the publishing industry; prior to joining Quark she worked for large publishing houses such as Gruner + Jahr and Axel Springer, as well as in the trade magazine sector, where she worked in the fields of marketing and PR and as a freelance journalist.