| Jack
Bisset
Technical Director
Polestar Imaging
Jack’s experiences include: CTP, colour proofing (digital
hard copy and soft proofing), colour management issues, file
conversion, communication solutions, digital variable printing,
automated workflow, remote output; plus installation throughout
Europe of digital design solutions for Polestar customers,
press profiling and gravure printing.
Jack is currently responsible for Polestar’s electronic
solutions and developments within production.
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Lauren Browne
Director of Colour Services
Getty Images Limited
Lauren’s role is truly global, talking to clients about
their issues and concerns with RGB files. She discusses with
clients the possibilities of colour management and educates
them in the correct use of digital files.
Getty Images is the world's leading imagery company, creating
and providing the largest and most relevant collection of
still and moving images to communication professionals around
the globe. Getty have a passion for pictures. |
Ian
Buttery
Publishing Database and Technical Support Manager
Thomas Cook Tour Operations Ltd.
Ian Buttery has 24 years experience working in varying aspects
of pre-press including packaging, self-adhesive labels, plastics,
CTP and publishing, managing both the workflows and databases
linked to the process.
Workflow systems have varied and include Mac, NT and Unix
platforms where Buttery managed Engage, Filemaker and currently
AO International databases for pre-press and publishing. Sun
(Solaris), Apple, MCP and NVQ D32/33 (BPIF) certified.
Buttery is a regular attendee/participant at both European
and American Seybold events, drupa and Apple Expo, and contributes
to various forums including Adobe, Mac, PlanetPDF, IT Toolbox
for Unix and MacScripter. Current projects in progress with
Thomas Cook include E-Brochure development; Adding value to
PDFs (metadata); OSX shell/Applescript development; and Print
on demand. |
Giovanni Cantarella
Chairman Lowe Broadway
Chair Digital Ad Lab
Giovanni worked for General Motors for 26 years in various
sales and marketing capacities in the United States and Europe
with his last assignment as Marketing Director of Vauxhall
Motors in the UK before joining The Broadway Group in 1992.
At Broadway he was instrumental in developing the growth of
the company to its position in 1999 of one of the largest
privately owned independent integrated Advertising and Marketing
organisations in the UK, with turnover in excess of £20
million.
In July 2000 Broadway was renamed Lowe Broadway when it became
affiliated with Lowe, part of Interpublic Group. The company
specialises in client-focused IT automated solutions, with
DataActive™ and Admaster™ being two of its proprietary
products dedicated to saving time and costs.
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Simon
Daukes
Managing Director
Haymarket Magazines Ltd
The consumer magazine publishing arm of the
Haymarket publishing group.
Simon
joined Haymarket as a sales executive on Autosport in
1979. After experience in sales management on a gardening
monthly and a weekly classified title he became classified
sales manager of Autocar. From there he became Sales
Director of the motoring group then its Publishing Director
and later its Managing Director. He is now Chairman of Haymarket
Motoring Publishing as well as Managing Director of Haymarket
Motorcycle Publications. |
| Grant
Deudney
Digital Production Manager
Sotheby's
Grant's training is in Conventional Photography and as a Photographer
at Sotheby's he worked with the Impressionist and Contemporary
art departments.
He was one of the first to work with high end digital cameras,
and inevitably and swiftly became involved in the repro process.
Once Sotheby's decided to make the digital investment he was
asked to set up an internal repro department. Sotheby's UK
shoots on average 60,000 images per year and publishes over
150 catalogues. |
Dominic
Duffy
Managing Director
Applecart
As
Managing Director of Applecart solutions, a leading technology
consultant, Dominic is spearheading the company’s charge
into bringing dynamic content to expanding audiences. Dominic
was previously Technical Director at Colour Systems, one of
the original building blocks of Fresh Media Group. Dominic’s
forward-thinking and technological prowess at Colour Systems
evinced that he was ready to launch Applecart with the innovative
and flexible approach that would take the company into the
next level. His solid and diverse background in pre-press
and production working in both the front-end and back-office
areas of the industry along with his visionary ideas has helped
Applecart become a cutting-edge competitor in the technology
consulting industry. Prior to joining Applecart and Colour
Systems, Dominic worked in Brussels with RealTimeImage as
European Support Manager.
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| Bronwen
Edwards
Graphics Operations Director
Andrew Bartlett
Graphics Operations Manager
Andy McCulloch
Reprographics Manager
Dyson
Discover how the graphics team at Dyson has achieved savings
of nearly £10 million over the last three years by transforming
the way they produce print. And as the firm expands into the
US market the team reveals that further innovations are in
the pipeline. |
| Simon
Hedger
Group Publishing Solutions Manager
Penguin Group (UK)
Simon Hedger began his IT career 20 years ago as a programmer
with IBM designing the user interface for a hospital database
system. In 1988 he set up Face-to-Face Publications, Brighton's
first walk-in desktop publishing studio before going on to
manage Neals Yard DTP Studio in London.
He has also been a consultant for GE Publishing on its national
ME Magazine, designed the network infrastructure for MediaLan,
a new media group in Brighton, and worked as the technical
manager and designer for an international graphic design group
in Australia.
As a senior associate member of the Institute of IT Trainers,
Simon has also been responsible for managing the training
needs of Dorling Kindersley, prior to its acquisition by Pearson
plc. Hedger is currently Group Publishing Solutions Manager
for Penguin Group (UK), a Pearson company, with responsibilities
across all retail divisions to provide a strategic approach
in managing the introduction of new publishing processes and
technologies.
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| Professor
Anthony Johnson
Principal Lecturer Colour Imaging Group - London School of
Printing
Technical Secretary, International Color Consortium (ICC)
Tony Johnson first joined the printing industry as an apprentice
hot metal compositor. After studying Printing Technology at
LCP he carried out postgraduate studies in colour physics
at Imperial College, and studied mathematics with the Open
University. After 10 years research into colour reproduction
with Pira he was appointed research manager of Crosfield Electronics
Ltd in 1983 - where his main interests were colour and image
processing. He took the post of Principal Lecturer at LCP
in 1997 where he is now Professor of Colour Imaging. He is
active in the international standards community including
ISO TC42 (Photography), ISO TC130 (Graphic Technology) and
CIE TC8 which is dealing with various issues associated with
the use of colour measurement in colour imaging.
His current research interests include various aspects of
colour management, colour difference and the colorimetry of
graphic arts media. His standards activities also include
issues of process control and encoding spaces for colour reproduction. |
| Marcus
Kirby
Systems Director
TfG
Marcus
read accountancy at University College Cardiff, before going
to drama school and working as a professional actor for five
years. He subsequently worked in video production and was
manager of a computer dealership. He then joined The Lowe
Group as Creative IT Manager in 1989, left to become IT Director
of The Admagic Group (an advertising pre-press house) in 1992,
before being asked back to Lowe Howard-Spink as IT Director
in 1995.
He joined TfG in 1998 as Systems Director. TfG is a design/production
house providing photography, design, pre-press, video, audio
and new media services to advertising agencies and corporate
clients.
Marcus is also chairman of the Advertising Pre-Press Association,
is on the executive committee of Digital Ad Lab UK and sits
on the technical sub-committee for the PPA (Periodical Publishers
Asociation) advising on such areas as Pass4Press, Proof4Press
and flightchecking solutions. |
| Bill
Lanyon
Head of Creative Systems
Ogilvy Group, London
Bill joined Ogilvy following careers ranging from the capital
markets to graphic design. He happily admits to being a self-taught
Macintosh user and sees Macs as the real workhorses of the
agency world in terms of the revenue they generate. Lanyon
regards his current role as akin to being chief engineer in
Ogilvy's production engine room, responsible for all creative
computing and digital asset management. The big challenges
he sees include the OSX, Adobe InDesign and Quark migrations,
local and global digital rights management and implementing
real automated workflow. |
| Bob
Marchant
Managing Director
Colour Therapy
Bob is a long-established award-winning advertising photographer
who has been shooting digitally on high-end systems for the
past five years. The studio has a Blue Chip client list and
supplies press-ready image files on a daily basis direct to
client or printer. Bob is also current Chair of the Digital
Imaging Group of the Association of Photographers, and has
been working closely with all the major relevant bodies such
as the Advertising and the Digital Ad Lab in order to help
establish standard, open and transparent methods of image
file supply. He also sits on the Technical Committee of the
Proof4Press initiative of the PPA. In addition to the core
business of photography, his company provides consultancy
on digital image workflows and system calibration and profiling. |
| Allan
Marshall
Group Technology Director
Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL)
Managing Director Associated Mediabase (AMB).
Allan has been instrumental in the development of Associated
Newspapers' IT division. Under his leadership AMB took formation
in 1995 and has grown to a multi-faceted operation responsible
for support, maintenance, evaluation and deployment of leading-edge
technical solutions for Editorial, Advertising, Commercial
Operations, Publishing, Content Management and Digital Media.
In addition to his ongoing contribution to ANL he is very
active within the industry. He currently sits on the board
of Ifra (the worldwide association for newspaper and media
technology based in Darmstadt, Germany) and is Chairman of
its Operations Committee (its technical advisory group). He
sits on the Technology & Telecom Executive Committee for
the National Newspaper Association of America (NAA). Allan
is also heavily involved with the World Association of Newspapers
(WAN), sitting on its Task Force on Digital Media and is a
sought-after industry speaker around the world.
Allan is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s
PMD program. |
| Richard
Mason
Publishing Analyst
EMAP UK
Richard was technical production director for Electronic Solutions
prior to joining EMAP where he is currently involved in a
strategic evaluation of Quark XPress 6 and InDesign across
various parts of the business as part of the scope for the
Publishing Project.
Mason is mapping out existing workflow; plans the format of
the pilots; and gives technical and administrative support
to the magazine teams that are taking part. |
| Patrick
Morgan
Creative Director
Patrick Morgan Associates
Patrick Morgan is the Creative Director for Patrick Morgan
Associates. He is passionate about faithful colour reproduction
based on a combination of good management, proofing and a
comprehensive understanding of print processes and stocks.
Patrick’s work has been short-listed for a number of
awards, including the Marketing Week Design Award for Corporate
Design and Illustration, and the Design and Art Direction
Award for Corporate Design and Illustration. Both of these
are a result of his work on the Selfridges Annual Report 2003.
Patrick is currently working with Hewlett Packard as a consultant
on Large Format Printing. Prior to founding Patrick Morgan
Associates, Patrick was Art Director at International Trade
and Exhibitions Plc. |
| Kevin
Pembroke
Director of Managed Services
Direct Communications Brann Direct
A
production and electronic printing specialist with 19 years'
experience in the Direct Marketing Industry.
Kevin set up and managed Brann’s internal laser printing
division as well as having project managed one of the largest
mail campaigns in the industry for Royal Mail.
He is currently working with EHS/ Brann Agencies and Brann
Direct Communication (EHS/Brann’s Direct mail division),
developing collaborative workflow processes and e-procurement
to support Brann’s managed services clients. Kevin is
currently responsible for the new business development, PR
and the technology focus of Brann Direct Communications.
Kevin has held a number of industry posts, including DMA suppliers
council member, the electronic printing foundation, Xplor
and is a frequent speaker at International and National conferences. |
| Marcus
Scott-Taggart
Chief Consultant Graphic Technology
Pira International
Marcus is responsible for the operation and development of
Pira International’s Pre-Press Technology Centre.
His work encompasses research, consultancy and training related
to: Origination and design; The application of computer technology
in design and pre-press; Monochrome and colour reproduction;
The application of new technology for document preparation,
colour proofing and workflow management. |
| Mal
Skelton
Production Director
BBC Worldwide
Mal Skelton believes the digitisation of workflows from content
creation to print is transforming the entire supply chain.
BBC Magazines completed the transition to a totally PDF workflow
feeding CtP at the printers in 2002. Yet for Skelton proofing
remains an issue. He observes that despite digital transmission
of files the BBC is still biking hard-copy proofs to printers. |
| Duncan
Stokes
Managing Partner
Ogilvy & Mather London
Duncan is responsible for a 15-strong creative service team,
internal studio, TV production and pre-press and also sits
on the O&M Exec Board. Additional responsibilities include
managing Ogilvy eCampaign, Director for the EMEA and AP regions.
Recently Duncan has also taken on managing production across
Europe, working with local offices on new production technology,
processes and techniques. A member of the IPA’s Creative
Services Committee for the past five years, Duncan is also
a regular speaker for major print and advertising professional
bodies. |
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