Lucas Adamski is Sr. Product Manager for Platform Security at Adobe. Lucas has over 10 years of experience with software development, security, and architecture for companies such as @stake, Breakwater Security, and Inktomi Corporation. Lucas is responsible for the trustworthiness of runtimes, including Flash Player, Flash Lite, and the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Security
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Flash Player Cross-Domain Security
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Andy Allan is the owner of Fuzzy Orange Ltd, a ColdFusion consultancy, training and support company based out of Glasgow, Scotland. He is a regular contributor to the ColdFusion community, and co-manages the Scottish ColdFusion User Group.
- ColdFusion Server Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- ColdFusion Powered Ajax
- Wednesday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Collaborative Hosted Services Roadmap
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Introduction to Streaming with Flash Media Server
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Building Global Flex Applications
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Wednesday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Giovanni Antico is an AdobeGuru specialized in video and Flash, with a deep passion in postproduction and photography. He collaborates with Adobe and various training centers in Italy.
His working experience started in motion graphics and interactive television, then continued in DVDs, Internet, mobile devices and broadcast. His portfolio includes projects for clients such as: Disney, ESA, H3G, MTV, Nokia, Nec, Pirelli, Prada, Telecom, Sky.
He strongly believes that taking advantage of the integration opportunities between Adobe's programs is the best way to improve his multidisciplinary know-how and to enjoy his freelance activity.
- Advanced Video Encoding
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Bob Bailey is currently a Training Specialist within Adobe's Partner Enablement group. He has been delivering technical training on LiveCycle products to partners and customer for over two years. Prior to joining Adobe, Bob held various sales engineer positions with companies such as Sybase, Allaire, and Macromedia.
- LiveCycle ES: Building Applications
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Aral founded and coordinates OSFlash, is the author of the widely-used RIA framework, Arp, and the creator of SWX, the native data format for Flash.
Aral is a published author and has contributed to several books and magazine articles. He is the author of the Adobe Flex 2 QuickStart Guides and has written six courses of his own that cover topics ranging from introductory Flash and ActionScript 2 to Flex 2, ActionScript 3, best practices, and open source development.
When he's not flying around the world consulting, he can be found enjoying Life, the Internet, and Everything in the lovely seaside town of Brighton, in the United Kingdom.
Aral blogs on aralbalkan.com.
- Inspire Session: Rediscovering Fun
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Since December 2005, Jimmy Barens is Western Europe Technical Sales Group Manager. Before, he held several positions in Adobe as Partners & Professional Services Manager, Sales Manager, EMEA Business Development manager and Pre-Sales Engineer. He provides 14 years of experience around PDF and the Document management market with mix skills from his System integrator and Software editor background. Since 2006, he is the Chairman of the French Document Management Association (www.aproged.org). He has a Master of Computer Sciences in Information systems and structured languages (XML and SGML) obtained at EPITA.
- Adobe's "Mars" Project: XML-friendly PDF
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- The Future of PDF and Standards
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Charlton Barreto, Ph.D., has developed enterprise product architectures for Lawrence Livermore National Labs, UnifAce, Illustra/Informix, Visigenic/Borland, webMethods and Adobe, and has done related work in OASIS, W3C, the Java Community Process, OMG, and the IEEE. Charlton gained a Ph.D. from Columbia University. As a Senior Computer Scientist and Architect at Adobe, he concentrates on LiveCycle, Adobe's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. He is a co-author of the WS-BPEL, WS-Choreography, WSDL 2 and Java Enterprise Edition, and has been a contributor to the SOA Reference Model, WS-Transaction, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy specifications. He writes and presents regularly on Web and SOA technologies.
- Realizing SOA Enterprise Architecture with LiveCycle ES
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Joe Berkovitz is VP Engineering at Allurent, leading the development of products offering a new level of user experience in online commerce. He has spent over 25 years in the software profession, as an architect, interface designer and engineer. He was Chief Architect at startups Ruckus Network and Unveil Technologies; before that he spent 8 years at ATG developing many of the core components of that company's products, originating a number of key ideas with patents granted or pending. Prior to ATG, he worked at Houghton Mifflin Co., Stratus Computer and Bolt, Beranek and Newman, among others. His experience includes consulting as well as product development; he has worked with such diverse clients as Harvard Business School, Sony and BMG Music Club.
- Continuous Integration with Flex, FlexUnit, and Ant
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Flex Best Practices
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Practical Patterns in Flex
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Xavi Beumala is a hands-on, analytical and passionated RIA solutions developer. He has been really closed to Adobe and Macromedia developing tools since early Flash 4 times. Being a Flex Community Expert, Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash Media Server and a certified developer for Flash and Flex he is the manager behind the Flex spanish Adobe user group madeinflex.com. During these years he has produced, spoken, participated and collaborated with many Flash and Flex conferences, trainings and workshops.
Xavi is developing cutting edge enterprise product architectures for Communi.tv Media Labs offering a new level of user experience in collaboration and content management systems.
- Using Flash and Flex Together
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
- Inspire Session: Web 2.0: Flash vs. AJAX - Best of both worlds
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Matthew Boles is the Technical Lead for the Adobe Partner Enablement group and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matthew has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching in both professional computer classes and secondary public schools. He is also one of the authors of the Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source book, as well as a version of the Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide. Matthew has spoken at all of the Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe developer/MAX conferences, as well as many other conferences.
- Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and Java (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and Java (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: Building your First Rich Internet Application With Flex 3 (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Building your First Rich Internet Application With Flex 3 (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Discover the mobile ecosystem opportunity with Flash Lite 3 and Flash Video on Nokia platforms
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Hands On: Ajax for Web Designers (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Ajax for Web Designers (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Mobile Workflows with Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Author of Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers book (http://www.amazon.com/Flex-Solutions-Essential-Techniques-Developers/dp/1590598768) edited by FriendsOfED/Apress, Marco has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5.)
In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog entitled "hands on Adobe world" (casario.blogs.com,) which is currently receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day.
In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com,) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices—MobyMobile (www.mobymobile.com) ,YouThru (www.youthru.com) and UserMatter(s) (www.usermatter.com) are representative of their recent work.
Another example of Marco's achievements is that he is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/) and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, in which he carries out the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.).
Marco is currently busy working on the development (in Flex and Adobe AIR) of a very ambitious project concerning bank counters at European level, and in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realisation of Rich Internet Applications on behalf of buyers of the calibre of Capgemini, Engineering, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd.
He was Technical Editor for Apress, FriendsofED and Wrox for books such as Essential Flash 8, Professiona Flex 2, Flash Application for mobile devices.
- Creating New Flex Components
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Leveraging PDF within Adobe AIR Applications
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Philippe Chassany
Founder and CEO of Mobitween
Philippe is a serial entrepreneur with 15 years in management and technology involvement within self-founded companies. Philippe has an extensive knowledge of the online and wireless industries acquired while creating products & technologies and involved in business development of innovative concepts. Flash on mobile visionary since 1998.
- AdverGaming
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Matt Chotin is a Product Manager on the Adobe Flex team who focuses on the Flex SDK. He has been a member of the Flex team since 2003. Prior to joining the "dark side" of Product Management Matt was a principal engineer contributing to the Flex 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 releases.
- Boot Camp for Flex
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Open Source Flex
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Sean Christmann is an Experience Architect for EffectiveUI with over 7 years work in online applications and games. Originally trained in design and media, he found reading code easier then designing web sites and now applies his knowledge of both worlds to help create compelling user experiences in the RIA space. Sean is currently leading the development of eBay's disruptive new desktop application codenamed 'San Dimas' built on the AIR platform.
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR): Bringing Rich Internet Applications to the Desktop
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Project San Dimas: Under the Hood of eBay's Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) project
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Sven Claar is working as a Flex Consultant and Developer since the initial release of Flex in 2003/2004 from ex. Macromedia and now Adobe. With over 8 years experience in building richt clients based on technologies from Adobe, (Flex 1.0/1.5/2.0/3.0, LiveCycle Data Services, LiveCycle ES, ColdFusion, Flash Media Server, Flash CS3, AIR) he shares this knowledge with customers and the community to engage people in building expressive rich frontends. Sven is also the Manager of the Flex Squad Central Europe & MX|Usergroup Central Europe and has written flex articles for magazines and hold online seminars that brings the Flex & AIR technology to the audience.
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and .NET (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and .NET (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Jeremy Clark is an Experience Design Manager for Adobe Systems, Inc., where he manages a team of designers focusing on Adobe's platform and mobile design products, including Flash, Flex, Fireworks and AIR. In his eight years at Adobe he has worked on various design teams and was product manager for Flash 4, 5 and MX. Jeremy returned to Adobe in 2005 to join the Experience Design (XD) team after a three year hiatus working as a senior producer at Second Story in Portland, Oregon, where his projects for National Geographic, AIGA and the Smithsonian Institute have won numerous industry awards.
- XD: Designing Engaging Mobile Experiences
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- XD: Initial Visions for the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Experience
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- XD: Prototyping Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications with Creative Suite 3
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- Local Database Access with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Data Synchronization Strategies
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Sean Corfield is the architect behind large-scale, high-availability websites for companies such as Macromedia, Toshiba, Oracle, Toyota and Thomas Cook. He is currently a freelance developer and CTO of Scazu, Inc., a health and wellness social network. His passion for standards and software engineering led him to work on the C++ Standards Committee for eight years. He is a frequent speaker on software design within the ColdFusion community, at user groups and conferences across the world.
- Inspire Session: Design Patterns and ColdFusion
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Manny Correia is the Software Architect for client applications at Betfair.com. Since 2002 Manny has been working for Betfair.com on various applications that completely embrace the Web 2.0 patterns and best practices. Betfair’s challenges are both unique and exciting in terms of the sector it operates in, and the technology barriers it overcomes. As a betting exchange with data volatility that rivals stock exchanges, performance is a very key part of any product we produce. Manny has over 9 years of experience in building Rich Internet Applications; battling with browsers in the early days using HTML/JavaScript, Flash, and more recently embracing the new Flex platform. When not experimenting with new UI technologies, you can find him with a face full of snow after attempting something silly with a snowboard.
- Case Study: Betfair's Next Generation Exchange Games UI
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sheila Dahlgren -Director of Product Marketing - Scene7 OnDemand Media Solutions at Adobe
Sheila Dahlgren leads the marketing efforts for Scene7 OnDemand, the leading on-demand rich media platform, now part of Adobe. Prior to joining Adobe, Dahlgren was co-founder and senior vice president of Marketing for Scene7, which Adobe acquired in May 2007. Under Dahlgrens leadership, Scene7 implemented highly successful marketing campaigns utilizing direct, online and mass media channels, and employing an ROI-based framework for measuring effectiveness. Previously, Dahlgren was vice president of Product Marketing at Broderbund Software. Prior to joining Broderbund, she was a Marketing Manager for Clorox Corporation, providing leadership for the flagship product, Clorox Bleach. Dahlgren holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from University California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the University California, Los Angeles.
- Case Study: RIAs and E-commerce
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
as Business Unit Manager of the Joh. Ensched IT&Consultancy department, Lennart de Graaff is responsible for Business Development, overall sales strategies and key accounts.
Joh. Ensched IT&Consultancy provides turnkey solutions for self-service publishing, enterprise and corporate publishing and business process management. JE IT&C works as a full service provider and consultancy firm. Founded as a media and publishing company, we are moving the publishing industry forward with our vision. We plus your software, we plus your work.
Lennart de Graaff is one of the founders of JEA PLUS2, a distributed framework, is based on Adobe Flex, Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe InDesign Server and provides all the necessary functionality to streamline business processes.
- JEA PLUS2 - a SelfService Publishing Portal
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Koen De Weggheleire is a faculty member of the Technical University of West-Flanders (HOWEST), department PIH-Multimedia and Communication Technology (MCT) where he teaches Flash Platform Solutions (Flash, Flex, AIR) with a smile. As the Adobe User Group Manager for Belgium (http://www.adobeusergroup.be) Koen is heavily addicted to the community and inspires the community by his blog at http://www.newmovieclip.com and by speaking at several events. He coordinates the yearly Belgian multimedia conference “Multi-Mania” (http://www.multi-mania.be) where 800 people come together to learn from industry experts and to share knowledge. When there is still some time left you can find Koen doing freelance Flash Platform consultancy on advanced award-winning Rich Internet Applications.
When Koen is not talking Actionscript you can find him producing music, collecting goodies, eating pizza or renovating his 100 year old house.
- Play with pixels : Bitmap manipulation with Flash CS3
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
For over ten years at Adobe, Lori DeFurio has worn many hats. Throughout it all, she's worked closely with Adobe Acrobat software, first as a systems engineer involved with the sales team, then as the Acrobat/PDF technical evangelist. Now, she has a new and exciting role working closely with the Acrobat User Community, including Acrobat Connect users. In addition to writing an informative blog at blogs.adobe.com/loridefurio and an ongoing column at www.acrobatusers.com, Lori travels around the world, speaking at conferences, workshops, and Acrobat User Groups, helping anyone who is interested learn how to get the most out of Adobe Acrobat software. Prior to joining Adobe, Lori served as a technical consultant at Information Architects, a an SGML/XML consulting firm, and was a pre and post-sales engineer at Agfa, a developer, manufacturer and distributor of products and systems for the making, processing and reproduction of images.
- Hands On: Adobe Acrobat: I didn't know you could do that! (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Hands On: Adobe Acrobat: I didn't know you could do that! (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- The Design Shootout with Adobe Gurus
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- What Is the New Publishing Workflow Anyway?
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Working With Bits and Bytes in AIR
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Mike Downey is Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe Systems, leading a team focused on promoting Adobe’s platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) (formerly codenamed “Apollo”). Mike joined the Adobe AIR team as Senior Product Manager in December of 2006 before moving to his current role. Prior to joining the Adobe AIR team Mike spent four years as Senior Product Manager for Flash. Since joining Macromedia in 2000, which merged with Adobe Systems in December of 2005, Mike has been a prominent figure in the Flash community and has been a featured speaker at conferences throughout the world. With a passion for web technologies, working with customers to understand their technology and business challenges, and building great software, Mike aims to work with his talented team and user community to make software that can change the world.
- Boot Camp for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Introduction to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Wednesday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Top Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications: Visualizing the Possibilities of a New Platform
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- Integrating Flex with Ajax and the Browser
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mark has been programming Coldfusion since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with ColdFusion, so much so that he decided to be part of the CFEclipse team and build an even better editor to write CF with. As a day job he is Product Manager at Design UK http://www.designuk.com, a London based agency providing ecommerce, content managament, CRM and creative marketing solutions to some of the rather more well known high street stores. Apart from this Mark still has time to develop CFEclipse (http://www.cfeclipse.org) and blog about coldfusion and related subjects over at http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/. Mark is also co-manager of the UKCFUG http://www.ukcfug.org and has spoken on a number of subjects including ORMs, Frameworks and CFEclipse.
- Using Eclipse for ColdFusion Development
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Tips and Tricks
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Boot Camp for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Taking a Flex Application from the Web to the Desktop with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Working with Persistent Data in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
As a Senior Platform Evangelist my role is to help customers, partners and developers across Europe understand and adopt the benefits and characteristics of some of the Adobe core platform technologies, such as Flash, PDF, AIR, Flex and LiveCycle.
Prior to the Adobe merger I was part of the Macromedia technical sales team specialized in the companys enterprise portfolio of technologies.
With a major in Computer Science and a Master's in distributed applications, my background includes more than ten years in the Software industry, five of them in R&D as Senior Software Architect designing and developing J2EE enterprise solutions for Macromedia US.
- Boot Camp for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Building Stunning Flex Applications with Flex Builder and Creative Suite 3
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Using Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) APIs
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
After working for more than ten years as a consultant and creative director developing online strategies for top brands, Massimo Falvo funded 01design, a cross media solutions company bringing to the market an extremely innovative concept of communication, Mobile branded applications.
Massimo has a multi-perspective approach and knowledge of all aspects of a project enabling to bring to life the perfect mix between emotional design and technical infrastructures.
He demonstrated experience in "People, Process, Structure" style management working on successful projects for companies such as Tiscali, IBM, TIM, Eni, Ferragamo, D&G, Mtv, Enel, ATAC and Air One. In the last three years his interest included developing mobile applications on Adobe Flash Lite. Award winning like Best Business Application on Macromedia PocketPC Contest 2005, Tourism@ Award 2006, and he has been Finalist in the MAX Awards 2006 and 2007.
- Designing for Mobile Experiences
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Introduction to the Spry Framework for Ajax
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Using ColdFusion With LiveCycle Data Services
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Ben Forta is a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems and has two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, JSP, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in a dozen languages worldwide. Ben writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide. His website is http://forta.com, and he blogs at http://forta.com/blog.
- Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Ajax Applications (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Ajax Applications (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Leveraging ColdFusion with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Securing ColdFusion
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- The New Creatives
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Functional & Performance Testing Flex Applications: Borland's Approach
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Luigi Greco is co-founder and Creative Director of 01design a cross media solutions company that introduced in the market the innovative concept of Mobile branded applications. Working since the dot.com era like new media designer and mixing these technical skills with a unique multi-perspective approach and knowledge that comes from a solid background in communication and new media studies, Luigi shared the vision in 01design of the mobile business as in an "open garden" approach trying to develop communication format able to help global brands such as MTV, D&G to start establish a unique one to one marketing communication approach that turns the third screen into a real communication medium.
- Designing for Mobile Experiences
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Ely Greenfield is a Principal Scientist in Adobe's Platform Technologies group. He has been with Macromedia, now Adobe, for over ten years, first as an engineer on the Director/Shockwave development team, and for the past five years as architect for the Flex SDK. He is the author of quietlyscheming.com, a source of samples, components, and source code for the flex development community. He has been known in the past to hand out cookies at his presentations.
- Customizing the Flex Framework
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Data Visualization with Flex
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Flex Roadmap
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Jonathan Herbach works as a Product Manager for Adobe. Since joining Adobe Systems in 2001, Jonathan has played an integral part in the company’s effort to develop and deliver effective digital rights management (DRM) solutions. He co-created Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management, which, as part of the LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, has won numerous accolades for innovation and emerging technology. Mr. Herbach holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University and is the recipient of a number of honors from Princeton University, where he received his B.S.E. in Computer Science.
- LiveCycle Digital Security & Developer Opportunities in the DRM Ecosystem
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Strategic, 360-Degree Design
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Raf Hofmans is an Adobe Certified LiveCycle Expert and Master Trainer employed by iDA, the premier Adobe Solution Partner based in Belgium. The combination of his Adobe LC and Sr. Level Java skills allowed Raf to architect and implement many LC based solutions that are in production and delivering a high ROI to the iDA customers. As a Master trainer Raf delivered many Adobe LC DeepDive training programs to audiences across EMEA and ASIA. His expert level knowledge of theory and extended hands-on practical experience always result in a great transfer of know how during his workshop sessions.
- LiveCycle ES: Building Applications
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Andy Hood founded and continues to lead the Creative Development team at AKQA, a global interactive agency that uses innovative ideas and technology to deliver results for the world's leading brands. Over the past 10 years Andy and his team have developed award-winning websites and applications for clients including Nike, Microsoft, Xbox, Coca-Cola, Fiat, Unilever and Diageo. AKQA has been closely with Adobe for many years and Andys team have won many awards for their Flash work during this time, including the MAX award and various FlashForward awards. Andy has featured at many industry events and expert panels, including Adobe Live and FlashForward.
- Case Study: AIR project from AKQA
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
- Strategic, 360-Degree Design
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Craig Hordlow
Chief Search Strategist, Red Bricks Media
Half scientist, half entrepreneur, Craig is Red Bricks Media’s Chief Search Strategist and guardian of the “special sauce” that makes up our search strategy. Since 1999, he has been on the cutting-edge of Search Engine Optimization, helping a range of clients achieve significant sales improvements through higher search rankings. Craig’s rigorous experimentation and innovative analysis have become the basis for Red Bricks Media’s approach to all SEO engagements. Before Red Bricks Media, Craig founded and was CEO for Community Musician, an online service that grew to over 90,000 members and over six figures in revenue in just one year. When he’s not playing guitar and singing lead in his band, Erogenous Jones, Craig publishes thoughts on his Mostly Search Blog and teaches Search Engine Optimization at Academy X in San Francisco, CA. Craig holds degrees in English and Molecular Biology from St. Lawrence University and the University of Oregon, respectively.
- Optimizing Search for Rich Internet Applications
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Search Engine Optimization
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe. Passionate about engaging user experiences, you'll most often find him meeting with customers, speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography and general aviation.
- Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications Using Ajax and the Aptana IDE
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Hands On: Deploying Flex and HTML/JavaScript Applications to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Hands On: Deploying Flex and HTML/JavaScript Applications to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- HTML and Script Bridging for Flex Applications in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Stephan is the founder and chairman of the Belgian Java User Group since 1996 and founder of JavaPolis in 2002. He has been using Java since its early releases in 1995 with experience of developing and implementing real world Java solutions in the finance and manufacturing industries. He also founder and managing director of JCS Int. a Sun authorized Java Center with an exclusive focus on J2ME, J2SE and J2EE since 1997. JCS is also the very first Belgian Java company to speak at JavaOne 2003. He was selected by BEA Systems as the first European (independant) BEA Technical Director. He has also been recognized by the Server Side as one of the 54 Who is Who in Enterprise Java 2004. Sun has recognized in 2005 his efforts for the Java Community and has engaged me in the Java Champion project. He has spoken at numerous Java and JUG conferences including Java '98 (UK), JAOO '99 (Denmark), JavaDays 2000 (Norway), TMAB (Belgium), JavaPolis 2002-04-05, JavaOne 2003, SpringOne 2006, JavaZone 2007, SAI, IT Works etc.
- Case Studies: Flex/AIR & Java integration for Parleys.com
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Serge has been working with Flash for over 9 years
now. 5 of which he worked for the largest media
company in Belgium doing online projects for TVshows
like Idols, Big Brother, Miss Belgium, ... He’s one
of those people who thinks you can do anything with
Flash. During his freelancing years, he’s worked on projects
for Sony Europe, Coca Cola, Jay Z, Playstation, Nokia,
Mary J Blige for various interactive and creative
agencies in Europe and the US. Just 6 months ago he
joined Adobe Benelux.
- Creating Interactive Video with After Effects and Flash
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Hands On: After Effects 101 for Interactive Designers (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
- Hands On: After Effects 101 for Interactive Designers (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
- Accenture presents Adobe interactive forms and document related solutions for SAP ERP HCM applications
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Mario Klingemann is a computational artisan who explores the grey area that is located somewhere in between code, design, and art. Whilst the focuses of his research are the secrets of computer-generated beauty and artificial creativity, he also provides solutions to real-world challenges, especially if they are related to Flash or Processing and publishes his findings on Quasimondo.com. He is a regular speaker at international technology and design conferences and official ambassador of vuvox.com.
- Inspire Session: The Blind Sketchmaker - exploring evolutionary and generative art with Flash
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Richard Koshalek is President of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Under his leadership, Art Center has invigorated its educational goals with a transdisciplinary curriculum and has implemented a “research and development” mission to explore projects that are relevant to the future. Art Center is a vital advocate for design's expanded range of responsibilities in today's world. In recognition of a wide variety of projects produced, Art Center is the sole US design institution formally affiliated as an NGO with the United Nations. In addition to embarking on a campaign to increase annual and endowed scholarship funds, President Koshalek is addressing the long-range physical and environmental needs of the College by establishing a new South Campus facility and working with the Pritzker Prize winning architect Frank Gehry on the expansion of Art Center’s main hillside campus.
Koshalek was formerly the director of The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles for nearly two decades. He has participated as a delegate and panelist at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland in 2003 and in New York in 2002; was a juror at the 2002 Venice Biennale; was a juror and advisory Panel Member of the 2002 Chrysler Design Awards; served on the Nominating Committee led by David Rockefeller for the Praemium Imperiale Award; and was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres from the French Government in 1999. He was chairman of the Architectural Subcommittee to select the architect of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and was on the Committee of Assessors to help determine the architect to design the Tate Gallery of Modern Art at Bankside in London.
- Designer 2015
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Tom is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe. He joined Allaire almost 10 years ago and has worked on a variety of Macromedia and Adobe products such as ColdFusion, Contribute and Breeze before joining the Flex Builder team in 2005. Some of his current responsibilities include Flex Builder support for AIR, modules, and data/service features. He's particularly interested in making Flex and AIR simple, powerful and accessible to web developers and designers.
- Working with Data in Flex 3
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Priscilla Lawrence, Principal Product Marketing Manager for Adobe Systems, Inc., has over thirty years of experience in senior marketing, technical & business management roles. At Adobe, Ms. Lawrence leads product management & marketing efforts for Scene7 OnDemand Rich Media Solutions. Her responsibilities include business strategy, brand positioning, lead generation campaigns and developing new rich media products. Ms. Lawrence holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics, emphasis in Computer Science.
- Case Study: Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Ty Lettau is a Senior Experience Design Lead of Emerging Products with Adobe's XD Team. Leading design for key new initiatives such as Adobe Media Player and the Express Suite, Ty is crafting a vision for online applications that are easy to use, yet highly powerful. Ty works closely with other teams to drive designs from concept vision to shipping product. In his spare time, he operates www.soundofdesign.com where he catalogs his personal explorations. Ty has been featured in many international publications and has done work recognized by several film festivals and award shows. He also teaches interaction design and Flash part time.
- XD: Adobe's Approach to Application Design
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- XD: Bringing the Desktop to the Web
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- XD: Customizing and Deploying Adobe Media Player
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jason Levine, Sr. Worldwide Product Evangelist for Adobe Dynamic Media, travels the globe promoting the Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium. Levine has conducted training and workflow sessions for some of the top broadcast corporations in Europe, including BBC, RTL and SVT. Prior to Adobe, Jason was a full-time recording and mastering engineer, working in studios coast-to-coast, and engineering hundreds of recordings from Classical to Country, Rock to Reggae. Jason also started BoodahJooMusic Publishing, and created the over 5,000 loops that ship with Adobe Audition. In 2006 alone, Jason presented to over 100,000 people from San Francisco to Singapore, Amsterdam to Auckland, and everywhere in between.
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- The Design Shootout with Adobe Gurus
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- XD: Best Practices for Creating Great Web Experiences
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- XD: From Zero to Bike Race in Six Weeks: The Amgen Tour of California
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- XD: Prototyping Rich Internet Applications with Fireworks CS3
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Hands On: What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended (MAC)
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended (WIN)
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: Designing PDF Forms and Flex-based Form Guides (MAC)
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: Designing PDF Forms and Flex-based Form Guides (WIN)
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Giorgio Natili is an Adobe community expert, a W3C member and a UG manager. He is head of his own company, which has been operating in the web development filed for the past six years. His field of expertise focuses on Adobe Flash, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, ColdFusion Flash Media Server, Flex and their integration, as well as accessibility both in html and Flash. More recently his interests have broadened to include developing mobile applications and e-learning tools. He also works on various education initiatives to spread awareness on accessibility issues, especially to flash developers.
- FlashLite and integration with C++
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Erik Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology. With a keen awareness for how and where to push the limits of the medium without isolating the audience, Erik is a consistent risk-taker. Crediting his success with having the willingness to fail and the stubbornness not to give up, Natzke’s work ethic has pushed the boundaries of what previously had been considered possible. Imagination, adventure, and a desire to amaze as much as entertain are all part of the driving forces behind his work. Named one of the Top 10 Young Designers by HOW magazine, Natzke’s commercial, as well as personal, works have received numerous awards within the fields of both design and advertising.
- Inspire Session: The Art of Playing
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Duane Nickull works as Senior Technology Evangelist for Adobe. He participates in many architectural and developer forums on various subjects including Web Services, SOA, Ontology and Computational Intelligence as well as writing frequent trade publications on Web 2.0. He is currently the chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model TC and has worked on previous technology architectures for W3C (Web Services Architecture) and the United Nations. He is also in the process of writing a book on Web 2.0 for O’Reilly Media and Publishing.
- Forms Gone Wild
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
- LiveCycle Digital Security & Developer Opportunities in the DRM Ecosystem
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Cross-Media Design: Planned Workflows with Adobe Creative Suite 3
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Boot Camp for Flex
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Flex Best Practices
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Optimizing Flex Applications
- Tuesday, October 16 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
As the manager of global developer relations for Mobile and Devices at Adobe, Bill Perry works with developers, media brands, content providers, operators and device manufacturers to help shape the future of non-PC devices with Adobe tools and technologies. Bill joined Adobe in 2004 after working as a freelance mobile application developer. Before that, Bill was a senior consultant and lead mobile and wireless developer at Prosum, Inc., a technology services company that provides business consulting and technology solutions. Bill served as lead Flash animator/developer at GreatestTeachers.com, and began his career at Lockheed Martin as multimedia development team leader.
Bill is an accomplished speaker, having spoken at dozens of industry events including Mobile Monday, Game Developers Conference, BREW Developer Conference, FlashForward and MAX conferences in Las Vegas, Seoul, Singapore and Taipei, to name just a few.
- Flash Lite 3 Development
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and PHP (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and PHP (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Sven Ramuschkat, a highly regarded specialist for Adobe's server products Flex, ColdFusion, Connect, Flash Media Server, certified Adobe Professional and Trainer co-founded Herrlich & Ramuschkat in 1990 and was instrumental in developing the Interactice Content Server iRacer. As CTO of Herrlich & Ramuschkat - a Adobe Silver Soulution Partner and Training Provider - Sven Ramuschkat is responsible for managing the product engineering and services organization. Sven holds a degree in Business Science from the University of Hannover.
- Introduction to LiveCycle Data Services for Flex Developers
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Laurel Reitman is a Sr. Product Manager at Adobe working across Adobe’s Platform Technologies, including Flash, Flex, AIR, and Reader. For the last eight years she has been working on the web, helping to build applications and platforms.
- Adobe Platform Roadmap
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- The Design Shootout with Adobe Gurus
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Stefan is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash Media Server and a long standing Flash Platform developer. He currently holds the position of VP of Application Development at Dallas based POPview and also provides consultancy and development services to his own clients. He's the co-author of the Hands-on Guide to Flash Video and maintains one of the largest online resources on the subject at FlashcomGuru.com.
- Integrating Flex and Video
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Securing your Video delivery with Flash Media Server
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Christoph Rooms worked at SilverStream from 1998 to 2002. Silverstream was one of the first J2EE application server players and got acquired by Novell. In 2002 Christoph joined Adobe and became a product specialist for the LiveCycle platform. He's involved in enabling the technical sales team in Europe and acting as a Technical Evangelist for the LiveCycle and Flex products. He is also responsible for the electronic ID competence centre in Brussels, in this centre Adobe's digital signature capabilities are demonstrated in combination with different European eID initiatives.
Carlos Rovira is a consultant-project manager specialized in Rich Internet Applications for the Flash Platform. Since 1999 Carlos has been involved in high-scale enterprise solutions for well-known spanish clients. His early interest for the emerging technologies made him explore Flash and Flex in its beginnings. He started his own spanish blog (http://www.carlosrovira.com/blog) in 2004 to share his passion, thoughts and experiences about Adobe technologies.
In 2006 he co-created the flex spanish community-portal : Made In Flex (http://www.madeinflex.com) where helps to push Flex based RIAs in the spanish and latino american community.
Actualy he founded carlosrovira.com his own agency dedicated to provide Rich internet Application services and consulting build upon the Flash Platform. His architecture solutions and JEE integration help clients and organizations to build critical systems based on the RIA paradigm.
- Using Flash and Flex Together
- Monday, October 15 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Kevin Schmidt is a Senior Consultant for Universal Mind and an Adobe Certified Instructor as well as an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion and Flex. Kevin has worked with ColdFusion for over 7 years. He is the author of Macromedia ColdFusion MX: Training from the Source and Macromedia ColdFusion 5: Training from the Source. He is also the Adobe Flex User Group manager for Indianapolis, Indiana where he currently lives and works.
- ColdFusion 8 Crash Course
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Case Study: Hapag Lloyd integration trainings via Adobe Connect.
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
John Schuman currently holds the title of Senior Worldwide Evangelist for Adobe. John has almost twenty years of experience in the field of digital imaging with over ten of those years focused primarily on web design and graphic technology. John joined Macromedia in 1998 following several years of digital imaging production experience in the San Francisco Bay Area and subsequently served as regional Solutions Engineer for Macromedia in Singapore from 1999 to 2001 where he spoke to thousands of Web professionals across the Asia/Pacific region at seminars and industry events. Upon returning to the U.S. in 2001, he took the role of Senior Education Solutions Engineer, focusing primarily on Higher Education in the North American region.
John currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC)
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (WIN)
- Wednesday, October 17 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Getting Started Building Dynamic Web Applications with Dreamweaver CS3 (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Getting Started Building Dynamic Web Applications with Dreamweaver CS3 (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Tuesday, October 16 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Pixel Perfect Precision
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Leo Schuman has been working as a web developer, as well as writing and teaching about web development technologies, since 1998, as an Adobe Certified Master Instructor and certified developer on several products and languages. In 2006, he was invited to work as a Principal Instructor and Courseware Developer on staff with Adobe. Over the years, he has written and edited multiple training courses, tutorials, and conference presentations on ActionScript 2 and 3, MXML, Flash, Flash Lite, FlashCast, ColdFusion, XML, and LiveCycle Designer ES. One of his passions is to serve as a translator between software geeks and the rest of humanity.
- Design Patterns in ActionScript 3.0
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Flex 3: Integration with Java
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications with Dreamweaver CS3
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Designer/Developer Workflow with the Spry Framework for Ajax
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Grant Skinner is the CEO and chief architect of gskinner.com, a Flash development and consulting company. He works with leading new media agencies and progressive corporate clients to create cutting-edge applications, games, and multimedia pieces. His expertise in fusing coding with interface design, usability, marketing, and business logic has garnered him international acclaim and resulted in a number of prestigious industry awards, including Best Canadian Developer at FITC 2005. Grant maintains an active blog at gskinner.com/blog/ and an exhibit of his experimental work at incomplet.org.
- Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications Using Flash CS3
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
- Inspire Session: Fifty Reasons Why ActionScript 3 Rocks
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Simon Slooten is founder (1992) and CEO of Prisma IT (www.prisma-it.com), an Adobe Silver Solution Partner and Certified Training Partner, based in Rotterdam, Holland. He has over 20 years of international experience in the computer industry, in software development, consulting and training.
Simon has been an Adobe Certified Master Instructor since the ‘Allaire days’, back in 1997. He co-authored the official Adobe Flex 2 training material and he has been working with ColdFusion and Flex since the early beta’s of 1.0.
He is a regular speaker and has spoken at multiple Allaire Developer Conferences, Macromedia MAX and Adobe MAX conferences from 1999 to this year, as well as many other international events.
- Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Flex Applications (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Flex Applications (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Using ColdFusion Components as Objects
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
As Manager Operations of the Joh. Ensched IT&Consultancy department, Oscar Slot is responsible for day to day operations, product development and training.
Joh. Ensched IT&Consultancy provides turnkey solutions for self-service publishing, enterprise and corporate publishing and business process management. JE IT&C works as a full service provider and consultancy firm. Founded as a media and publishing company, we are moving the publishing industry forward with our vision. We plus your software, we plus your work.
Oscar Slot is one of the founders of JEA PLUS2, a distributed framework, is based on Adobe Flex, Adobe ColdFusion and Adobe InDesign Server and provides all the necessary functionality to streamline business processes.
- JEA PLUS2 - a SelfService Publishing Portal
- Tuesday, October 16 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Waldo Smeets is sales engineer at Adobe and has been focussing on Rich Internet Application development for over 5 years, making it his entire career. He currently works with banks and large internationals on defining their RIA strategies and identifying how Adobe's solutions fit into those ambitions from both a business, user experience and technical point of view.
Waldo will be 'just married' when MAX takes place and he finds that the perfect excuse to stay a bit longer in Barcelona with his wife ;-).
- Beyond the Basics of Flex Builder
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Karl Soule is an Evangelist for Production Premium CS3 and other Adobe video technologies. He currently spends most of his time traveling the world, speaking in front of thousands of people yearly. Karl comes to Adobe Systems through the acquisition of Serious Magic in 2006, where he was Product Manager for the DV Rack (now Adobe OnLocation) and ULTRA product lines. Prior to Serious Magic, Karl worked in video production and training, designing graphics and titles, editing, and providing training for companies like NFL Films and WWE.
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Thursday, October 18 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Video and the Web: How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video
- Monday, October 15 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Founder and principal of a web standards redesign company, W3Conversions, Stephanie Sullivan is a Dreamweaver, accessibility, CSS and XHTML expert, whose services are in demand by top firms across the United States. She's the top gun that companies go to for troubleshooting problems, or to work behind-the-scenes transforming their in-house designs into functioning standard-based websites. She serves as a member of the influential Web Standards Project (WaSP) Dreamweaver Task Force, sits on the International Advisory Board for the Web Developer's and Designer's Journal and is a partner at Community MX, a site offering over 2000 tutorials to web developers seeking to increase their skills.
- Hands On: Designing CSS-Based Layouts with Dreamweaver CS3 (MAC)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: Designing CSS-Based Layouts with Dreamweaver CS3 (WIN)
- Monday, October 15 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- Tuesday, October 16 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Craig Swann is founder of the award-winning interactive agency CRASH!MEDIA and has been a core part of the Flash community since its inception. As an educator, curator, speaker, and writer of new media technologies, Craig has given more than 40 international talks on Flash interactivity, written and contributed to seven Flash books, and curated over a dozen new media events featuring some of the worlds brightest Flash and interactive developers.
His Flash work at CRASH! has received over a dozen awards and has been featured in both print and television. Craigs interactive audio work was developed into the award-winning online music application Looplabs, which has been used by such clients as Coca-Cola, Sony, Miller, Bacardi, Calvin Klein, Volvo, and others.
When not working on client projects Craig has a strong belief that R&R is R&D and is continually dreaming up and prototyping interactive tools in the present in anticipation of the fast-coming future.
- Imagination & Technology
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Cedric Tabin is part of the Mediabox (www.mediabox.fr) forums since 2002 and moderator since 2004. He is also moderator on the big french developer community Developpez (www.developpez.net).
As "Flasher", he worked two years into e-learning development. And also elaborates big web sites (complex architecture and core) like Breitling. For now, he is trainer at Nomades.ch, giving advanced AS2 and AS3 formation and speaker at AUGG (Adobe User Group Geneva).
- Optimizing ActionScript 3.0 Performance
- Tuesday, October 16 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Lee Thomason is the Flash Player Architect at Adobe. Lee has over 13 years of experience with software development, computer graphics, mobile computing, and scientific computation. Lee is responsible for Flash Player technical direction, cross-team technical collaboration, and prototyping future player technology.
- A Guide to Tamarin
- Monday, October 15 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Flash Player Internals
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Wednesday, October 17 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Rick Treitman is President and CEO of Virtual Ubiquity. He founded the company on the belief that web-based applications will create new channels of collaboration and that a great word processor has yet to be built. Rick has been in the high tech field for over 30 years. As President and co-owner of Softpro Books, he built one of the country’s leading computer and technical bookstores. For the past 15 years it has been a mainstay resource for IT professionals, programmers and system designers. Prior to Softpro Books, Rick held several management positions at Lotus Development Corporation. He was Director Document Products, where he managed the Manuscript team and Director of Marketing for the Engineering and Scientific Products division. He was Manager of Lotus Books, Lotus' in-house publisher of training and technical materials to support Lotus’ product offerings. Prior to Lotus, he created, designed and developed the Polaroid Education Project for Polaroid Corporation. This project leveraged Polaroid’s instant photography technology for the classroom. He has also held marketing positions at International Data Corporation and Electronics for Medicine.
- Inspire Session: Building Buzzword, a New Breed of Word Processor
- Wednesday, October 17 10:15 am - 11:15 am
Carlos Ulloa is an interactive designer & developer, currently based in London and working under the studio name of carlosulloa.com. He has been passionately involved with interactive entertainment since the early 90s. During his experience in the games industry, while at Psygnosis and Sony, he oversaw and participated in the development of several titles for PC and PlayStation.
In 1999, he moved into Flash development where he worked for OgilvyInteractive in Madrid, DoubleYou in Barcelona and Hi-ReS! in London, among other design and advertising agencies. During these years, his Flash work evolved into the fields of graphic and typographic effects, motion design, interactivity and 3D.
Carlos' recent commercial work includes major projects for Mercedes, Sony and BBC. He is also the creator and Project Lead of Papervision3D, an Open Source 3D engine for Flash.
- Take the Web to the Next Dimension
- Tuesday, October 16 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Steven Webster is Technical Director for Adobe Consulting, leading the worldwide technology practice. In this role, Steven drives best-practices and methodology within the practice, while helping a number of strategic customers be successful in delivering solutions upon Adobe enterprise technologies. Prior to joining Adobe Consulting, Steven was founder and co-director of iteration::two, a software consultancy delivering Enterprise Rich Internet Applications which was acquired by Macromedia in September 2005. Steven has authored a number of books, whitepapers and articles around Rich Internet Applications, including "Reality J2EE: Architecting for Flash MX", "ActionScript 2.0 Design Patterns for Rich Internet Applications (ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary) " and "Developing Rich Internet Applications with Macromedia Flex", all from Macromedia Press. Steven is the founder of the open-source Cairngorm project, a best-practice architecture for Rich Internet Applications that has gained widespread adoption within the Flex community.
- Design-Led Innovation: Creating Disruptive Experiences
- Tuesday, October 16 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 17 9:00 am - 10:00 am
- Flex Best Practices
- Monday, October 15 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Dr. Woohoo (translation: Serious Fun), is a New Mexico based artist, designer and developer, who works as a Visual Engineer at Etsy.com. Working with digital media since 1993, Woohoo's professional projects are available at http://www.drwoohoo.com. His personal projects include In The Mod: Color Analytics (ITM), http://www.inthemod.com, a site which analyzes, finds relationships between and includes downloadable color palettes from (in)famous paintings and After Effects and Flash Scripts and Extensions.
- Inspire Session: swf Panels in Illustrator CS3!
- Wednesday, October 17 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
