Thursday, June 14

3:00-4:15
MODERATED ROUNDTABLES
Open the convention with spirited discussions on thought-provoking topics that challenge design and production professionals every day. Great opportunity for peer-to-peer learning.

4:45-6:00
IMAGE COPYRIGHT ISSUES FOR AD AND EDIT
Learn what you can and can’t use, as well as tools for dealing with clients and ad staff.
Speaker: Kohel Haver, Swider Medeiros Haver LLP

Friday, June 15

10:00-1:00
“You Work Too Hard ... and I’m Here to Fix It”
In this three-hour session software expert Russell Viers will show you how to get the most from the software you have and then introduce the latest features Creative Suite 3 has to for print design and production personnel.
Speaker: Russell Viers

3:00-4:15
ALTERNATIVE TO THE ALTERNATIVES
Plazm’s Joshua Berger will look at type as art and design without boundaries. Joshua was part of the new-school design magazine vanguard of the late 1990s—where others faded away, Joshua and Plazm continue to defy conventions.
Speaker: Joshua Berger

4:45-6:00
INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE SUITE 3
Why you ask? Creative Suite 3 is geared for cross media: integrated software for print, web and video. Whether front line D&P guru or publisher evaluating software upgrades, take a look at CS3, ask questions of software expert Russell Viers and see if you are ready to take the plunge. The new suites even come with software that lets you test files on mobile phones. Yep, the days of using Adobe just for print are over.
Speaker: Russell Viers

Saturday, June 16

10:00-11:15
ISN'T THAT SPECIAL!
How many “Special Issues” do you have? Music Issue? Books Issue? Best-of? Dining Guide? Summer Guide? Film? Real Estate? Education? Gardening? Drinking? AAIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!!! Designer, writer, editor, sales—all are invited to participate in a heated debate on things Special (and not-so-special) from covers to (ulp!) charticles and we’ll contemplate the paradox of a “themed” Best-of issue the Whole Office can agree on - even the Boss! Moderator Joe MacLeod has been Art Director at City Paper in Baltimore for 10 years and while he believes Every Issue is a Special Issue, he will employ Modern Technology and project images of “Special Issue” covers and pages he’s been responsible for on a large reflective surface for the amusement of participants. Please send PDFs of Special Issue covers or pages you are proud or ashamed of to jmacleod@citypaper.com for all to enjoy.
Moderator: Joe MacLeod, Baltimore City Paper

11:45-1:00
POYNTER EYETRACK07
How do people read a newspaper? How is that different from how they use a website, and how should those differences inform your work? Sara Quinn will answer these questions and more in this presentation of the results from Poynter's major eye tracking study of print and online news reading, in which 600 readers were tested to make comparisons between tabloid, broadsheet and online formats. Find out how various story and visual forms engage readers and help them better comprehend what they've read.
Speaker: Sara Quinn, Poynter Institute

3:00-4:15
TROUBLESHOOTING FILES FOR MANAGERS
Printer issues? Preflight issues? Confront problems likes these head on and learn how to teach trouble shooting techniques to staff.
Moderator: Mike Kalyan, Washington City Paper. Panel: Erik Cullins, Enfocus, and Colin Fleming, Adobe

4:45-6:00
CONVENTION WRAP-UP
Interactive what-you-learned session. What was the best idea you got from the 2007 convention? Share those with your peers and strategize on next-year’s convention … with beer!

On-going, in the Trade Show

D&P BUZZ LOUNGE
We’ll have a dedicated area in the Trade Show for D&P. Network. Talk. Engage in informal critiques. “Ask an Expert.” And more.

NEWSPAPER DISPLAY
Not just the same old, same old. We’ll have a running presentation of covers of members’ papers. Start thinking about some of your favorites and we’ll collect PDFs closer to the convention to create a digital display to accompany all those papers.