2013 PEPCON: The Print + ePublishing Conference™
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2013 Conference Overview
April 29
| 8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration and Breakfast Start the day right by registering early! Then grab some food and coffee, tea, or juice, and meet your fellow conference attendees. |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am Independent Tablet Publishing from InDesign with Twixl Publisher In this sponsored breakfast session, Luk Dhondt will present the complete Twixl portfolio for tablet publishing. We'll start with InDesign and the creation tool Twixl Publisher, and carefully explain the three-step process "Design, Build and Publish." We'll also look at the Twixl Distribution Platform for multi-issue App Store distribution, and the Twixl Enterprise Kiosk solution for in-house content distribution. |
| 9:00 am – 9:40 am Introduction and Keynote: Creativity and Community  Eric Snowden, Behance/AdobeIf you're still thinking print or digital you're in for a surprise! It's all about "and" now, and the future shock is hitting the whole industry like a train. To succeed in today's publishing landscape, we need to remember that we are part of a large community, and together we thrive.
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9:45 am – 10:15 am
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| 10:20 am – 10:40 am FX You Didn't Know InDesign Could Do  Mike RankinNeed to make a shiny-object effect in InDesign? Build interlocking objects? InDesign expert Mike Rankin makes it all step-by-step simple in this short but way-sweet guide to fx. |
| 10:55 am – 11:15 am Top 10 Scripts and Resources for EPUB Production  Anne-Marie ConcepcionYou want to make EPUBs from InDesign? Learn about 10 essential InDesign scripts, plug-ins, online services, and utilities. Without these, you'll never be efficient! |
| 11:20 am – 11:40 am Using Muse for Magic  James FritzePublishing includes a wide spectrum of media, including the Web! Learn how Adobe's newest updates to Muse and Edge make building HTML pages easier than ever, without ever having to touch a line of code! |
| 11:45 pm – 12:05 pm Unexpected (and cool!) Uses for DPS Slideshows  Bart Van de WieleSometimes you need to be creative when building interactive elements for your DPS folios. Make your Adobe DPS publication pop! by adding a slide shows and video pop-ups with custom controls. |
| 12:10 pm – 12:30 pm Top Free Plug-ins and Scripts for Every InDesign User Erica Gamet  InDesign doesn't exist in a vacuum! If you really want to be efficient, you need to take advantage of add-ons (plug-ins and scripts) that give you more functionality. |
| 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Lunch (Provided) Dine with a presenter, network with your peers. |
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Salon AB Moving Your Publication From Print to Tablet  Diane Burns (moderator), Keith Gilbert, Margot Knorr ManciniYou want to start producing tablet publications, or you want to get better at it. Come see how others have done it, and learn from their wisdom (and mistakes)!
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Room 400/402
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Salon C
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| 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Salon AB Producing eBooks from InDesign: ePub and Kindle   Ron Bilodeau, Gabriel PowellAmazon.com now sells more Kindle ebooks than paperback books! The future is today! Join us as we introduce ePub and mobi, what they're about, what they're good for, and — most importantly — what they're bad at!
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Room 400/402
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Salon C |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm -- Salon AB Snapshot: Today’s Digital Publishing Landscape James FritzThe tablet publishing industry has exploded in the past two years, and you can't make a good choice about platform, tools, and workflow without knowing all the options. Join Fritz as he explores the big picture and offers insights on where we are and where we're headed.
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| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm -- Room 400/402 Look Ma’ No Hands! Amazing Feats of InDesign Automation     Kris Coppieters, Gavriel "Harbs" Harbater, Olav Martin Kvern, Caleb Clauset, Chuck Weger (moderator)You think InDesign is cool? Just wait 'til you see the magic that happens when you combine InDesign, InDesign Server, Web browsers, and a dash of scripting!
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4:00 pm – 5:00 pm -- Salon C
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| 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Networking Reception Join the fun, meet others in your field, share ideas and try to win prizes as you test your publishing know-how! |
| 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Ignite InDesign! Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Come join us for dessert and some late night, after-dinner tips, tricks, and fun! Or sign up to present 20 slides in 5 minutes. This was a huge standing-room only hit at the San Franciscoevent last year. |
Claudia McCue
Thomas Phinney
Justin SeeleyApril 30
| 8:00 am – 9:00 am Breakfast We do breakfast right: Food, coffee, networking, and learning all in one place! |
| 8:30 am – 9:00 am Zen and the Art of Application Maintenance Our natural tendency to lean toward either form or function is disrupted when producing digital publications. Form is critical to the end product but without an appreciation of underlying function, a robust, absorbing app will be out of reach. Join Paul Danter from the App Studio team in this sponsored breakfast session as he discusses the challenges we all face as designers when working on digital projects. Covering a range of topics from design choices to technical considerations, Paul will lead you through some key questions to consider and offer an approach that will enable you to make the right choices for the apps you launch and maintain. |
| 9:00 am – 9:45 am Keynote: Steal Like an Artist  Austin KleonNothing is completely original, and all creative work builds on what came before. Based on Austin Kleon’s best-selling book, Steal Like An Artist, this inspiring opening keynote will teach you how to embrace influence, establish a creative lineage, and think of yourself as a mashup of what you let into your life. |
| 9:50 am – 10:10 am YabbAdobeDoo: Make the Suite Work For You  Russell ViersWhat do you get when you add InDesign plus Illustrator plus Photoshop plus Russell's brain? Non-stop wow! |
| 10:15 am – 10:35 am Top Ten Type Tips Anne-Marie ConcepcionWe all use type, but do you use it efficiently? Is it as attractive and clear as it should be? We'll give you ten quick tricks that will take you from mediocre to maven!
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| 11:40 am – 12:00 pm Publishing PDF to iPad and Tablets  David BlatnerWhile DPS and many other digital publishing solutions are sexier, PDF is a proven file format that works great on tablet devices (as well as desktops and smartphones). Learn what you can and can't achieve with PDF, what are the best PDF readers, and how to distribute PDF files to your audience. |
| 12:00 pm – 1:20 pm Lunch with Adobe: Sit Down with the Adobe Development Team Here's your chance to hear it from the source! Grab some food (provided) and sit down with Adobe's product development team. Learn about CS6. Then talk back and know that the right people are listening.
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1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Salon AB |
| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Room 400/402 Creating Enhanced eBooks with EPUB2 and EPUB3  Rick GordoneBooks are usually as linear as a Word document and just about as interesting. Learn how to spice them up with fixed layouts, read aloud, audio, video, and amazing enhancements!
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| 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm -- Salon C Creating One-Off Tablet Apps from InDesign  Colin FlemingIt has never been easier to create an iPad app from InDesign! Learn the steps involved in making rich, interactive publications‹and pitfalls to avoid when building your apps with the Digital Publishing Suite. Colin Fleming, Adobe's Digital Publishing Evangelist, will help you understand how to create your content, interactivity, and create an app using InDesign and Adobe Creative Cloud.
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| 2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Salon AB Deke’s Techniques  Deke McClellandJoin self-appointed Photoshop and Illustrator expert Deke McClelland for a live presentation of some of his most popular Deke's Techniques. In roughly ten minutes each, Deke will show you how to:
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Room 400/402
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2:45 pm – 3:45 pm -- Salon C |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Prizes, Tips, Q&A Which of our priesenters has the most useful InDesign tip? Plus, stay until the end for a chance to win great prizes worth thousands of dollars! |
Thad McIlroy
Nigel French
Anne-Marie Concepcion (moderator), Thad McIlroy, Steve Bercu, Colleen Cunningham
Pre- and Post-conference Tutorials
On Sunday, April 28, we'll offer four pre-conference tutorials; on Wednesday, May 1, we'll offer six half-day post-conference tutorials. (Please note that these tutorials require an additional fee, but are included with the Gold Pass.) If you are not attending the conference, you can still sign up for the tutorials at the Registration Site.
April 28, 2013
May 1, 2013
Program note: This page features a preliminary list of conference sessions and speakers. Speakers and session descriptions are currently being confirmed and are subject to change. Check back frequently to find the most up-to-date information.