Typefi User Conference 2018

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The Typefi team was delighted to host the 2018 Typefi User Conference at The Old Ship Hotel in Brighton, England, on 22–23 March 2018.

A diverse group of publishers from the UK, Europe, and even the US, enjoyed two days of education, updates and networking with Typefi staff and partners.

Day 1 was dedicated to in-depth workshops, including a morning seminar on accessible publishing, and a hands-on Advanced Typefi Designer templates tutorial in the afternoon. Typefi partner Inera also hosted an All about eXtyles XML Exports workshop.

Day 2 featured a range of guest speakers, real stories from Typefi users, Typefi product and services updates, and sessions on getting the most out of Typefi-based production processes.

Attendees had opportunities to provide ideas and feedback on Typefi’s automated publishing platform and vote for features they’d like to see in upcoming releases.

The conference sessions were all recorded, and are available for viewing below.

A very good combination of short presentations, all very informative. High quality seminar. Very nice Typefi team!




Speakers

Adrian Driscoll from Aimer Media
Co-founder | Aimer Media

Adrian Driscoll

Caleb Clauset
VP Product + New Markets | USA

Caleb Clauset

Chandi Perera
Chief Executive Officer | Australia

Chandi Perera

Chris Kaefer, Flatirons Solutions
Director of Consulting | Flatirons Jouve

Chris Kaefer

Clive Bullen, London School of Business and Finance
Publishing Director | London School of Business and Finance

Clive Bullen

Emily Johnston
Business Development Director | USA

Emily Johnston

Eric Damitz
Senior Solutions Consultant | USA

Eric Damitz

Guy van der Kolk
Product Manager | Netherlands

Guy van der Kolk

Jason Mitchell
VP Customer Success | UK

Jason Mitchell

Sarah Crouch, RICS
Head of Publishing and Content | RICS

Sarah Crouch

Simon De Nicola
Head of Publication Production | ITU

Simon De Nicola

Co-founder | Aimer Media

Adrian Driscoll

VP Product + New Markets | USA

Caleb Clauset

Caleb drives the vision and strategy for Typefi’s products, and cultivates strategic partnerships with developers to extend Typefi’s core capabilities. He is an award-winning designer and Adobe Certified Expert in InDesign with over a decade’s experience designing, developing and implementing publishing technology. He holds a Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Chief Executive Officer | Australia

Chandi Perera

Chandi joined Typefi in 2006, and has over two decades of publishing and media technology experience. He has acted as a technology consultant to corporations and government agencies around the world, and is a frequent conference speaker in the areas of content management, publishing, media, XML, structured content and digital rights management. Chandi is a board member of a number of industry bodies and has degrees in Engineering and Computer Science.

Director of Consulting | Flatirons Jouve

Chris Kaefer

Publishing Director | London School of Business and Finance

Clive Bullen

Business Development Director | USA

Emily Johnston

After graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a Juris Doctorate (JD), Emily’s first job was as a project manager at Apex CoVantage, a publishing services company, where she coordinated production of publications for the American Bar Association. She continued to work in publishing services for 15 years before joining Typefi, and has an in-depth understanding of the challenges that publishers face every day.

Emily works closely with a variety of publishers and organisations in North and South America and Asia to understand their unique needs and recommend solutions that will optimise publishing workflows at all stages of the production process.

Senior Solutions Consultant | USA

Eric Damitz

As a Senior Solutions Consultant, Eric works with customers to determine the best way to use Typefi for their particular needs, and then implements their solution. He started in publishing over 20 years ago as a TeX typesetter at a small development house, where he learned such valuable skills as opaquing film, making Dylux proofs, and pasting up forms with hot wax. He also learned desktop publishing, which was somewhat more useful. He moved to a large educational publishing company and spent 17 years as a production manager working with his colleagues to re-invent how publishing works—several times.

Eric’s particular skillset focuses on publishing automation, workflow improvement, and single-source publishing for both digital and print. He has a degree in Rhetoric (writing, not arguing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Product Manager | Netherlands

Guy van der Kolk

Guy first got hooked on publishing while attending an international school in Ivory Coast, where he used Pagemaker, Photoshop and an Apple Quicktake 100 camera to help create the yearbook. After many hours of hard work, while holding the final printed product, he knew this was an industry he wanted to be a part of.

Having spent the first 17 years of his life in West Africa, Guy is fluent in three languages and has a multicultural background that has served him well in his career. As an IT consultant and trainer for an Apple Premium reseller and then as a Senior Solutions Consultant for Typefi, he has trained thousands of people to get the most out of their software.

In 2020, Guy moved into the role of Typefi Product Manager, working with the product and engineering teams to continue to improve on our world-leading publishing software and bring you exciting new features. He continues to apply his deep product knowledge in a Professional Services capacity, working on projects with new and current customers.

VP Customer Success | UK

Jason Mitchell

Jason leads Typefi’s global Professional Services team and has over 15 years of experience in managing publishing operations and digital products for both small and large publishing houses. He has successfully led teams to redefine the publishing process to include digital products and improve profitability in the travel and medical publishing sectors.

Head of Publishing and Content | RICS

Sarah Crouch

Head of Publication Production | ITU

Simon De Nicola


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