PDF Days Europe 2021 in Berlin and Online

PDF Days 2021

Preparations are in full swing: PDF Days Europe will take place in September 2021. It is one of the best-known and largest events focused on PDF technology. This year, you can participate online and on site in Berlin.

This year, the agenda once again offers a strong mix of high-quality presentations, training, and networking opportunities. All presentations will be streamed live to provide a full online experience. As a hybrid event, it gives attendees maximum flexibility.

Safety Concept Due to COVID-19​

The event was adapted to current conditions in cooperation with the venue and includes a comprehensive safety concept. The so-called 3G concept ("Tested - Vaccinated - Recovered") ensures that only recovered, vaccinated, or tested people can access the event area. This applies to participants, staff, and speakers.

Both the organiser (PDF Association e.V.) and the venue (Steglitz International Hotel, SI Hotel), together with local security services in Berlin, ensure that all current COVID regulations are implemented.

The Agenda 2021​

This year's programme offers high-quality presentations on the world's most popular digital document format, PDF, as well as various networking opportunities.

The "Technical Days" take place on September 27 and 28, 2021, and are primarily aimed at developers, integrators, and other interested professionals. The "Solution Day" on September 29, 2021, is tailored more to users.

What Awaits Participants?​

The introduction will be given by CEO Duff Johnson. Overall, attendees can expect detailed information about the PDF Association's initiatives over the past year and its future plans. True to the motto "PDF experts come together", the event focuses entirely on PDF technology and its broad range of applications. In addition, Technical Days sessions are explicitly vendor-neutral and avoid product promotion.

PDF Days 2021: Overview of Presentation Topics​

  • Create PDFs using HTML: how to use HTML to generate PDF documents
  • How to make e-Signing interoperable: Getting rid of proprietary data and closed workflows
  • PDF/A Conversion and Validation Challenges
  • Validating digital signatures in PDF: About user experiences and pitfalls
  • Two Standards, One Goal, Modernizing Print Communication Production: PDF+JDF=ADF
  • Cryptography in PDF: future perspectives
  • STOP PRESS, or how to avoid it: how to streamline problematic PDFs into the print workflow
  • Content Authenticity and PDF: Support of PDF as part of the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity
  • Archiving email - as PDF? The current state of discussions and developments in the field of interoperable email archival
  • SafeDocs - towards a more secure future: Securing file formats through provable techniques
  • A work-in-progress: PDF/R revisions and new, highly compressed image format
  • Making sense of PDF structures in the wild at scale
  • WCAG or PDF/UA: what's the difference
  • The Low Code Revolution and PDF: What does it mean for PDF Developers and PDF Technology Companies?
  • Accessible PDF - How to tag content the right way: Finding appropriate Tags for content
  • Future of Traversing PDF Files: SELECT future FROM pdf.*;
  • What makes a tagged PDF a proper tagged PDF/UA document? Let us show you how the Matterhorn Protocol helps to generate a PDF/UA compliant document
  • OpenType color fonts in PDF: Implementing emoji and other colored symbols in PDF
  • Lessons from implementing a PDF/UA-centric mobile reader: What we've learned while making a better mobile experience
  • 3DPDFs + the future
  • Content accessibility for all screen sizes
  • The Arlington PDF Model: A specification-derived, machine-readable definition of PDF
  • Deriving HTML from PDF - lessons learned
  • Survey of open-source PDF solutions

The talks are held in English.

Detailed information on each programme item can be found here:

https://www.pdfa.org/pdf-days-europe-2021-internationale-experten-treffen-sich-in-berlin-und-online/