The PowerPoint Live User Conference 2008  •  Sep 21-24  •  San Diego

Rick Altman has been hosting end-user conferences since 1989. He is the author of 15 books on presentations and graphics, including Why Most PowerPoint Presentations Suck...and how you can make them better.

Richard Bretschneider has spent over 12 years with Microsoft, having started his tenure with version 4 of PowerPoint. He is the lead program manager for the next version of PowerPoint.

Geetesh Bajaj (center of photo) is involved with print, presentation, and web media and has been a Most Valued Professional (MVP) for PowerPoint since 2001, Geetesh creates presentations and templates professionally and also manages the indezine.com and powerpointed.com Web sites.

Tom Bunzel is a writer, trainer, and consultant specializing in multimedia in PowerPoint. He is also a prolific writer, having updated the Visual QuickStart Guide to PowerPoint 2002/2001 Mac for PeachPit Press, and Teach Yourself PowerPoint 2003 in 24 Hours for QUE.

Nancy Duarte has been Principal of Duarte Design, a Visual Communications agency in the Silicon Valley, since 1988. Her niche in presentation development has contributed to a decade-long relationships with several Fortune 100 customers. Her team of 30 employees conceive and design over 200,000 slides per year.

As a Multimedia Presentation Specialist with 18 years of experience in live event production, Todd Dunn has earned a reputation for making clients look and sound great. He is a Microsoft PowerPoint Certified Expert and the chair of InfoComm's Presentation Council. To us, he's nothing less than the go-to guy for anything related to hardware or something funky that isn't behaving properly.

Jim Endicott is the founder and creative force behind Distinction Services, a specialist in message perfection for clients with an important presentation to deliver next month, next week, or the next morning.

A refugee from corporate marketing, Rikk Flohr founded his design firm, Fleeting Glimpse Images, in January of 2006. After receiving his degree in computer science in the early 80s, Rikk turned to photography as a passion and has been shooting professionally since 1983. His work has been featured in several media and has won numerous awards.

Steve Rindsberg (standing), MVP since 1996, has assisted PowerPoint users online for ten years. He has conducted numerous seminars and written magazine articles and books on PowerPoint. In a former life, he ran a slide service bureau and learned far more about PostScript and Acrobat PDF than is reasonable for a growing boy. He is the author of many of the popular PPTools PowerPoint add-ins. He swears he talked Rick into hosting PPTLive in the first place. [editor's note: he did]

Echo Swinford began making slides as a medical meeting planner in 1997 and just never stopped. She uses PowerPoint as the basis for webcasts, CDs, and online applications. Her web site is graced by dozens of downloadables and helpful documents, and she has been a member of the MVP team since 2000.

Julie Terberg specializes in presentation design and development. She is a regular contributor to the Creative Techniques column in Presentations magazine, and has recently co-authored a book on crafting medical presentations. As a consultant, writer, trainer, and graphic designer, she is passionate about visual presentations.