Chief Enchantments Officer at Wizardry Ltd, Tony Harmer (a.k.a The Design Ninja) is a creative Swiss-army-knife and learning-content author with a three-plus-decade career that has given him a broad experience base to draw upon including some time as a press operator, several years as a concept artist in IP development, and as an instructor in many applications, delivering graphic production training worldwide. He is the author of several video titles for LinkedIn Learning (formerly lynda.com) as well as running a growing channel on YouTube.

Tony is a popular speaker/presenter and his often-off-the-wall sessions always provide a ton of tips, techniques, insights and inspirations delivered with humour and enthusiasm that is totally infectious.

Presentation: What’s Hot in Photoshop and Creative Cloud
The latest version of all of the design applications in the Creative Cloud ecosystem is here, and in this session you’ll get to see for yourself what’s new, hot and exciting in Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and more.

Carol is an Imaging specialist within the Panasonic Lumix Imaging team. She has over 18 years of professional photographer experience and has worked within the Lumix Imaging team for over 5 years. Carol’s experience of both the Lumix range of cameras and life as a professional photographer means she is a font of information and knowledge.

Presentation: Looking good in a virtual world
As online meetings and remote streaming become the norm you need to ensure that how you look online matches the content you are delivering. During this 15 minute session Carol will share her tips and tricks on camera positioning, lighting, audio and the myriad of other details which all add up to a professional and successful web meeting or content stream.

Chelsie has a BSc Honours degree in Psychology from the University of Stirling and works for Scottish Association for Mental Health. She works in a ‘care at home’ service – providing support to individuals with complex mental health problems in a variety of ways, such as emotional support, household support, building resilience and crisis intervention.

Presentation: Looking after our well-being
Facing the Covid-19 pandemic has been one of the most unsettling challenges many of us will face in our life. Whilst the pandemic has had a negative effect on so many aspects of our lives, there have been some positives to come from it. A huge positive from the national pandemic is that we now not only realise, but also appreciate how important it is to look after our own wellbeing on a regular basis – whether this be taking a day to relax and to pursue your favourite pastime, (virtually) socialising with friends or giving back to the community and helping those less fortunate in the current climate.

Although the pandemic will not last forever, the importance of looking after our well-being will and is something we must all continue to do when the 2020 pandemic becomes a distant memory.

After finishing university and then travelling for 9 months Paul started his career in print at Watmoughs Financial Print based in Bradford in 1995, as a sales rep, before changing role to the Production Planner and ultimately the Production manager, by which time the company was known as Polestar and based in Leeds.  The division of Polestar that he worked for, specialised in sheet fed print.  The sheet fed division in Leeds was closed in 2004, so he moved to Loxleys printers in Sheffield as the Production Planner. After 9 months at Loxleys an opportunity came up to be the Print Manager at Sheffield Hallam University where Paul has led a team for 15 years.

‘Lightning talk’ – Getting creative in a crisis
Paul’s presentation will cover how his team managed to ensure that the Print Department at Sheffield Hallam University was an integral part of the plans to reopen the campus after the first lockdown. It will include the challenges they faced and how they overcame them to get to a situation where they printed almost 50,000 social distancing related signs.