Steve Bercu is co-owner of BookPeople in Austin and currently President-elect of the American Booksellers Association Board of Directors. He began his retail life at the age of five in his family’s toy store (the first in Dallas). Every store in the shopping area was locally owned then. Customers knew the owners of the stores and knew they were their neighbors. That experience has been the strongest influence on his sense of retail. He founded the Austin Independent Business Alliance in 2001 and still serves as president. He is committed to local, independent business and seeing that it play an important role in future retail.

Ron Bilodeau is a graphic designer specializing in book template design and digital media. He has designed and refined interior templates for Cooks Illustrated and O'Reilly Media. In addition to his design work, Ron is using InDesign to develop a seamless workflow for easily exporting print-ready PDFs and web-ready digital formats from the same source files. He is currently the Production and Design Specialist at O'Reilly, where he is focusing on producing valid ePub documents from InDesign.

David Blatner is the author or co-author of 15 books, including Real World InDesign and InDesign for QuarkXPress Users, and presents many InDesign video titles at lynda.com. He is the Editorial Director of InDesign Magazine and the co-creator of InDesignSecrets.com, the number one source of InDesign information on the planet. He has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and South Africa. You can find more about David at 63p.com.

Diane Burns is an author, trainer, consultant, and founder of San Francisco-based TransPacific Digital, a leading print and digital localization company. She is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign and Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). She developed and teaches the InDesign curriculum at UC Berkeley Extension and provides custom training and consulting services to corporations and publishing companies throughout the United States. A regular contributor to InDesign Magazine, she is the co-author of the Adobe Press book, Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign CS6. She is also an author for lynda.com's Online Training Library. For more information, visit www.dianeburns.com.

Sandee Cohen is the only third-party author to have written educational materials for all versions of InDesign. Her latest books are Digital Publishing with Adobe InDesign CS6 and the InDesign CS6 Visual QuickStart Guide. She has spoken at many conferences and seminar around the world.

Colleen Cunningham is an eBook Developer at F+W Media, Inc and an adjunct professor at Emerson College in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing. As a print book designer, Colleen found that having a strong sense of order, organization, and information hierarchy could be directly applied to ebook design and has transitioned in-house to full-time ebook developer. A member of AIGA and Bookbuilders of Boston, she also presents regularly on the challenging and ever-changing, yet rewarding, world of ebook production. Venues include the Digital Book World Conference, HOW Design Conference, Bookbuilders of Boston Spring Forum Series, Boston InDesign User Group and the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a founding member of the friendly and helpful #ePrdctn group on Twitter (@BookDesignGirl).

Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion owns a busy cross-media design studio in Chicago and is one of the industry's best-known Adobe trainers and consultants. She also presents many video tutorials at lynda.com. In addition to her work here, Anne-Marie hosts InCopySecrets.com, for editors and designers working in an InDesign/InCopy worfklow, and writes the free monthly e-zine InCopyFlow. The tips and insights she shares in her free DesignGeek e-zine are enjoyed by thousands of designers, publishers, and prepress professionals around the world. Learn more about Anne-Marie at her company's web site, senecadesign.com

Colin Fleming is the Digital Publishing Evangelist for Adobe Systems. He speaks to and helps a variety of users ranging from cartographers, medical illustrators, and advertising/design agencies to publishing and print media outlets. Before joining Adobe, Colin was a freelance trainer specializing in workflow conversions to InDesign and the Creative Suite. He has taught intense, high-level classes in design and production techniques since 1999. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor in many Adobe Creative Suite applications, Adobe Acrobat, and Lightroom, as well as a Creative Suite Master Instructor. Colin has also published more than a dozen videos on AdobeTV.

Nigel is a graphic designer, photographer, author, and teacher living in Brighton, UK. Between 1991 and 2001 Nigel operated Small World Productions, a graphic design firm in San Francisco. In 2001 he became the director of the Graphic and Interactive Design program at University of California Berkeley Extension. He is the author of InDesign Type and Photoshop Unmasked, both from Adobe Press. Nigel travels internationally teaching InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom, and design classes.

James graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. After beginning his career designing catalogs and collateral, he worked as a full time instructor for a training center and subsequently become an Adobe Certified Design Master. Today he is the Content Manager of Design at lynda.com. James has spoken at variety of conferences and groups including: the InDesign Secrets Print & Electronic Publishing Conference, Mogo-Media, AIGA, and multiple InDesign User Groups.

Erica Gamet has been involved in graphics and pre-press for nearly 25 years. She is a speaker, writer, and trainer, focusing on Adobe InDesign, Apple Keynote and iBooks Author, and other print- and production-related topics. She regularly contributes to InDesign Magazine and Design Tools Monthly, tech edited How To Do Everything with Adobe InDesign CS4 from McGraw-Hill Osborne, and is the leader of the Denver InDesign User Group. When she's not keeping students from their Angry Birds games, Erica can be found propelling herself around beautiful Colorado on two wheels or watching campy British sci-fi. Check out ericagamet.com to see all of Erica's upcoming events and classes.

Keith Gilbert has worked as an independent consultant and educator in the design industry for 25 years for clients such as Apple, Adobe, Best Buy, Cargill, General Mills, Lands' End, Medtronic, Target and the United Nations. His work has taken him throughout the US and Canada, as well as to Barbados, Kenya and Monaco. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat, and the Chapter Representative for the Minneapolis InDesign User Group. You can read his Tips & Techniques Blog at blog.gilbertconsulting.com.

Rick Gordon brings 23 years of experience in print production and design, working as production manager for publishers and production houses, along with freelance work. He has been the Director of Production at Shelter Publications since 1997. Rick has also produced a string of critically acclaimed releases for Shelter Publications, including Stretching, by Bob Anderson, which won the first prize in the Enhanced eBook category in the DBW Publishing Innovation Awards. Targeted to iBooks, it uses JavaScript liberally, often in ways previously not implemented in ebooks. A portion of his session will focus on some of those techniques. Rick is currently working on an ebook on enhanced ebook techniques using JavaScript and jQuery.

Chris Kitchener is the Lead Product Manager for Adobe InDesign. Today Chris spends his time focusing on the evolving world of publishing across all forms of media—from print to web, mobile, and beyond. Before moving to the US Chris worked at Adobe UK with influential design, advertising, print and publishing companies, helping them in their transition to InDesign. Chris speaks regularly at industry events on topics such as Adobe InDesign, InDesign Server, workflow productivity, and the future of print and digital publishing. In his spare time he cleans up after his two young children and a smelly dog.

Austin Kleon is a writer who draws. He’s the author of two best-selling books: Steal Like An Artist (Workman, 2012) is an illustrated manifesto for creativity in the digital age, and Newspaper Blackout (Harper Perennial, 2010) is a collection of poetry made by redacting words from newspaper articles with a permanent marker.
His work has been featured on NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS Newshour, and in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. New York Magazine called his work "brilliant," The Atlantic called him "positively one of the most interesting people on the Internet," and The New Yorker said his poems resurrect the newspaper when everybody else is declaring it dead. He speaks about creativity in the digital age for organizations such as Pixar, Google, SXSW, TEDx, and The Economist. He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife, Meghan, his son, Owen, and his dog, Milo. Learn more at www.austinkleon.com

Olav Martin Kvern is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, software designer, and writer. He is the author of several groundbreaking books, including Real World InDesign, Real World FreeHand, and Real World PageMaker, and was a columnist and Contributing Editor for Adobe Magazine He currently works on the development team creating interactive web to print solutions at Silicon Publishing.

Margot Knorr Mancini is the CEO and Founder of Technology for Publishing, a Boston-based publishing consulting firm that has helped numerous publishers redefine their approach to publishing content. In addition to content strategy consulting, Margot and her all female team provide InDesign, InCopy, Publishing Systems, and Digital Publishing Suite training, support, and workflow implementation services. Margot helped implement Adobe DPS for several early adopters such as National Geographic, Men's Health, Motor Trend, and Cook's Illustrated – and has developed DPS specific tips, handbooks, virtual training, and a DPS reference apps titled DPSCreate and DPSPublish.

Brooks Jensen is a maker of things, an observer, a commentator. He works with cameras, lenses, computers, paper, chemicals, inks, to make images — with microphones, recorders, digital memory, and tape to make audio tracks and video segments. He works with ideas, flits of thought, emotions, moods, stories, artifacts. A photographer, a designer, a typographer, an audio engineer, a visual artist, an aural artist. He is also the editor of Lenswork magazine.

Deke McClelland is the author of more than 50 video courses on creative imaging, graphics, 3D, and design for the industry-leading online library lynda.com. One of the most award-winning writers in the business, Deke has written over 80 books translated into 24 languages, with more than 4 million copies in print. These have included the Photoshop Bible, several For Dummies books, and his own One-on-One series published under Deke Press. In his spare time, Deke runs dekeOnline (deke.com), where he posts episodes of his popular lynda.com weekly series, Deke’s Techniques. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his two sons.

Claudia McCue spent more than 20 years in real-world print production -- from paste-up through early electronic prepress to current Mac and PC systems. She now specializes in teaching both creative and production professionals how to use Adobe products without hurting themselves or others. She is the author of Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications (Peachpit Press, 2009), and Fearless Flash: Use Adobe InDesign CS5 and the Tools You Already Know to Create Engaging Web Documents (Adobe Press, 2010). She is a Certified Technical Trainer, and an Adobe Certified Expert for Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing analyst and author based in San Francisco and Vancouver, BC. His site, The Future of Publishing, is the most in-depth on the industry. During the past 25 years he has educated and entertained audiences around the world on every aspect of digital publishing. His latest book (co-authored) is The Metadata Handbook: A Book Publisher’s Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks.

Thomas Phinney is Guru of Fonts & Typography at Extensis, since 2009, and also does outside consulting and type design. He has an MS in Printing, specializing in design and typography, from the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology. Prior to Extensis, he worked in fonts at Adobe for over a decade, lastly as product manager for fonts and global typography. Thomas is a board member of the international typographic association (ATypI) since 2004, writes occasionally for Communication Arts, and is an invited outside expert to the Book Industry Study Group's Fonts in eBooks Working Group..

Gabriel Powell is the author of Instant InDesign, Creating eBooks with Adobe InDesign CS4 & CS5, and Learn Adobe Photoshop CS4 by Video. He is also a contributing author to InDesign Magazine and the producer of the Instant InDesign Video Podcast. As a Senior Solutions Consultant for Typefi Systems and an Adobe Certified Instructor, Gabriel teaches InDesign, Typefi Publish, and other applications to creative professionals throughout Western Europe and the United States. He specializes in automated XML publishing, template building, and eBook publishing. He is also the founder of The Netherlands InDesign User Group in Amsterdam.

Mike is the Editor in Chief of InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com. He is also the author of lynda.com video training series InDesign CS6: Interactive Documents, InDesign FX, and Creating Long Documents with InDesign. Since 1995, Mike has enjoyed working in nearly every aspect of publishing production, including design, project management, layout, illustration, and prepress. Mike is a contributing author at InDesignSecrets.com and has written ebooks on InDesign, including The InDesignSecrets Guide to the Adobe InDesign ACE Exam and The InDesignSecrets Guide to Graphic Effects.

Acclaimed instructor, author, and speaker, Mira Rubin is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign, Digital Publishing Suite, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, Flash and Captivate. Incorporated in 2003, Mira’s company: Mira Images, is an Adobe Authorized Training Center (AATC) and consultancy with a specialty in digital publishing and production, curriculum development, and courseware creation. Mira has written numerous demo scripts and tutorials for Adobe and is the author of Interactive InDesign CS5 (Focal Press) and Interactive InDesign CS6 (to be released in Spring of 2013.) Mira holds a BFA from Alfred University NY State College of Ceramics with concentrations in Bronze Sculpture and Photography, and an Associates degree in Multimedia and Animation from the Art Institute of Philadelphia.

Justin Seeley is a staff author for lynda.com and an Adobe Certified Expert. He has several years experience in both print and web design, and has authored over 100 hours of instructional content to date. Justin is the creator of the Photoshop Quicktips Podcast, a show that consistently ranked in the top 25 software how-to podcasts in the iTunes store and his techniques have been featured in several digital publications, podcasts, and blogs.

Eric is Senior Designer and Head of Mobile for Behance at Adobe. Previously he has worked for Atlantic Records, Warner Music Group, Lynn Goldsmith, and Thomas-Bradley Illustration and Design. His clients/partners have included Atlantic Records, Warner Music Group, Rhino Records, Pfizer, Sports Illustrated, Nikon, Olympus, Eureka, John Deere, Disney, Nascar, Kia, and Adobe. Eric teaches photography and web design part time at Parson's School of Design.

Joshua Tallent is a well-known eBook expert and teacher, and is a vocal advocate for beautiful, functional, accessible eBook files. eBook Architects, Joshua’s eBook development company, was acquired by Firebrand Technologies in February 2013, where he and his team continue to provide eBook design and consulting services to both publishers and authors, specializing in complex and enhanced eBook projects and grand ideas. You can find him at ebookarchitects.com, or Twitter @jtallent

Aaron Troia is a pBook Designer turned eBook Developer who relocated from Nampa, Idaho to Austin, Texas in April of 2012 to work at eBook Architects. His current focus is on iBooks Author and InDesign Epub/Kindle development. You can find him on twitter at: @aarontroia

Bart Van de Wiele is an experienced Creative Suite trainer and speaker from Belgium. He currently works as a trainer and consultant for an Adobe reselling company called Lab9 where he specializes in Adobe Digital Publishing Suite and Twixl Publisher tablet solutions. He's a contributing author at InDesignSecrets.com and InDesign Magazine and also co-author of the InDesign CS6 Examaid study guide. Follow him on Twitter @BartvdWiele

Russell Viers started his career as a staff writer/photographer in 1981, at the age of 16 for his local daily newspaper. Since then, he has been involved in most facets of the newspaper business, as well as printing and publishing. For the past 11 years he has shared his vast knowledge of publishing production techniques as speaker, trainer and workflow consultant. As an Adobe Certified Instructor, his expertise is in teaching publishers how to use Adobe and Quark software to create better documents faster. His customer list is long and varied, but includes such names as Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, New York Times Regional Media Group, San Diego Union Tribune, Primedia Business and more. As a speaker, he is hired by printing and newspaper associations throughout the world to be a presenter at conferences and workshops, including the HOW Conference, IFRA, and NEXPO. You can find more about Russell at www.russellviers.com.

Chuck Weger started Elara Systems in 1992 to focus on what is loosely termed “publishing systems,” which is the body of software and hardware necessary to conceptualize, create and produce printed and online publications. He specializes in workflow automation, architecting solutions using off-the-shelf or custom software to create and process pages quickly and efficiently. Chuck also designs and creates iOS apps, database and cloud-based solutions for client-specific needs. More than 15 years ago, he came up with the concept of "preflight," which changed graphic arts workflows forever (although that and a dollar won't get him on the subway). He also does work for vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Xerox, etc. both at the strategic level (whitepapers or other analysis) and tactical (writing and/or presenting training materials). Chuck is a well-known speaker and has written for many publications. Chuck left the DC Beltway a few years ago, and is now sequestered (!!) in the bucolic country town of Underhill, Vermont.