John Warnock and the page that refused to change
Before PDF became an everyday attachment, John Warnock had to convince people that a page should survive the journey between computers. The Adobe co-founder brought a mathematician’s precision and a photographer’s eye to the argument.
Drew Sprague and the art of keeping things moving
At Solimar Systems, Drew Sprague has spent decades connecting the old machinery of business to its next chapter. His working philosophy begins with a practical question: where does the document go, and how do you know it got there?
Jeong Kim Built a PDF Company in a Sushi Shop. Then He Bought His Old Employer.
He left Artifex to turn printing technology into paperless software. Eighteen years later, he returned as the buyer - and now wants PyMuPDF to become a gateway between the world's documents and its AI models.
Scott Sackett
Scott Sackett is Chief Advisor to the CEO at Artifex Software, the San Francisco company behind Ghostscript, MuPDF, and PyMuPDF. He has been at Artifex since January 1998, spending more than two decades running sales and licensing before shifting into an advisory seat. Before software, he was a working musician in the Bay Area and then an airline pilot for Braniff. He lives in Krum, Texas, and sits on the Denton Record-Chronicle editorial board.
Michi Alexander
Michi Alexander is VP of Product Marketing for Adobe's Document Cloud, where she leads go-to-market strategy for Adobe Acrobat and its AI-powered document suite. With over 15 years in technology and digital media, she has overseen the launch of Acrobat Studio - what she calls the biggest milestone for Acrobat in its 32-year history - and is focused on bringing generative AI capabilities to over 600 million users worldwide. Before Adobe, she led global brand management for EA SPORTS at Electronic Arts.