From PDF to the Age of Smart Information

Few technologies have shaped how the world creates, shares, and preserves information quite like the PDF. In this fireside chat, Mike Pell, co-inventor of PDF and Acrobat at Adobe, reflects on the origins of a format that became a global standard and looks ahead to how documents are evolving in the age of AI. From static files to intelligent, searchable, and context-aware information, the conversation explores what "smart documents" mean for the future of work, knowledge, and how we interact with information itself.