Jim Babbage teaches imaging, web design, and photography at Centennial College's School of Communication, Media, and Design and at Humber College in Toronto, Canada, where he was born and raised. He is a partner in Newmedia Services and a regular contributing partner to Community MX, for which he has written many articles and tutorials about Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and general web- and photo-related topics. Jim has been a guest speaker at TODCON 2003–2007.
- Fitting Fireworks into the Design Spectrum
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 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.
- Hands On: LiveCycle ES Business Process Management and Design
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- LiveCycle ES: Building Applications
- Sunday, September 30 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
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Sunil is a Computer Scientist in the Data Management and Visualization team of Flex.
Sunil in the first seven years of his 11-year career was part of creating eCRM products for the small and medium businesses and moved on to architect a banking CRM application.
Sunil at present is gaining expertise in the Flex Charting Framework and in the recent past as part of his consulting job was architecting applications for major retailers in the area of e-commerce and other retail functions.
- Data Visualization with Flex
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Adobe Media Player: The New Model for Content Monetization
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 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
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Managed Workflows
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Simeon Bateman is a nine-year veteran of the Portland web development scene. By day, he is the Director of IT for Business Transitions LLC of Portland. By night, he is owner and operator of Simb Development, a web development and consulting company. Simeon is also a certified Adobe Flex trainer and travels the country enabling others to build RIAs utilizing the Adobe Flash Platform. Because of his efforts in the Adobe community, Simeon has also been bestowed the title of Community Expert, a title of which he is very proud. When not on his pulpit speaking the gospel of technology, Simeon loves to be at home with his wife and new daughter.
- Using Eclipse for ColdFusion Development
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Saskia Battersby is a senior product manager for Business Objects. She joined Business Objects in 2004 and currently manages the Crystal Xcelsius product line. Previous to working at Business Objects, Saskia spent several years as a developer, lastly with MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA). She holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Victoria and a MBA in Technology Management from Simon Fraser University.
- Unlock your Business Application Potential with Xcelsius and Flex
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Aaron Beall is an Interactive Designer for DLC Solutions, a small, award-winning web and elearning company based in Reston, Virginia. He specializes in creating Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flash, and rapid web design using Adobe Fireworks. Passionate about his trade, Aaron has actively contributed to the Adobe community his knowledge and expertise, as well as many extensions he has created for the Adobe applications he uses -- including the Path panel now shipped with Fireworks CS3.
- Bitmap and Vector Design
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Danielle Beaumont is the Group Product Manager for Adobe Illustrator and Fireworks. In this role, Beaumont is responsible for developing and marketing Illustrator and Fireworks. Beaumont joined Adobe when the company acquired Macromedia in December 2005. At Macromedia, Beaumont was the Senior Product Manager for Macromedia Director, Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Shockwave and Macromedia RoboHelp.
- Rapid Prototyping in Fireworks
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Partner Summit: Partner Event Overview
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 10:30 am
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.
- Flex Best Practices
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- INTERspectacular Presents Nicktoons Network's 3-Headed Monster
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Kin Blas joined the Dreamweaver team in late 2004 to work on Dreamweaver 8. He currently works on and oversees all things "Spry". In prior lives, Kin worked on many of other projects including Unix desktop publishing and pre-press software, server-side applications, Java AWT, Mozilla Editing/Layout, and miscellaneous PKI related projects for Netscape/AOL
- Building Widgets for the Spry Framework for Ajax
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Designer 2015
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 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: Integrating with ColdFusion
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Building your First Rich Internet Application With Flex 3
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Donald Booth works at Adobe as a Quality Engineer for Dreamweaver. As a core member of the Spry team, he has helped create the Spry framework from its inception. When not on the laptop, he is passionate about photography and sculpting. http://www.dbooth.net
- Hands On: Ajax for Web Designers
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
CEO of the world renowned ColdFusioneers at Daemon, Geoff's also the Keeper of the Goog, an Adobe Master Instructor, Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion, organizer of the webDU conference and proud father of the FarCry community. Based in Sydney, Australia, Geoff occasionally gets let out for overseas jaunts and is a conference regular "rabbiting on" about code management, account management and the FarCry Framework.
- Inspire Session: FarCry Core is More Than Just a CMS
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Kent Brewster is a Technology Evangelist for the Yahoo! Developer Network.
- Inspire Session: Yahoo! Presents "Examples of Integration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Christopher Brichford is a Sr. Computer Scientist working on HTML support in Adobe AIR. Christopher started working on AIR since the project kicked off in October of 2005. Christopher has been with Adobe for a total of six years.
- HTML and Script Bridging for Flex Applications in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Inspire Session: onAIR Back Seat Driving with Chambers and Brimelow
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Betsy Bruce is owner of Performance Factor, providing technology-based training programs and performance solutions. An expert in Adobe tools such as Dreamweaver, Flash, Authorware, and Captivate, she is most concerned with delivering effective solutions that actually increase learner performance. Betsy is the author of eLearning with Dreamweaver: Creating Online Learning Applications from Macromedia Press and Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Dreamweaver in 24 Hours. Betsy has consulted with clients such as Boeing, IBM, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, and Canon USA. She was born and raised in Iowa, received her B.S. degree from the University of Iowa, and an M.A. in Educational Technology from San Diego State University. She resides in Seattle.
- CSS Part 1: Introduction to CSS
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Craig Bryant is a founding partner and senior application developer at XOPrecious, a rich application development house based in Chicago.
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Planned and Ad Hoc Workflows
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Boot Camp for ColdFusion
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
As LiveCycle's Lead Architect, Matt Butler is responsible for translating the long term architectural view and product requirements into a complementary and compatible set of Services, along with the infrastructure to support those Services. Recently, Matt's focuses have been on an integrated design experience for LiveCycle applications and LiveCycle's service oriented architecture. In addition to his product responsibilities, Matt plays a key role in strategic acquisitions. Matt joined Adobe in 2002, following Adobe's purchase of Accelio (formerly JetForm). He had joined JetForm in 1998, and was the company's chief architect. Prior to JetForm, Butler worked at Nortel where he participated in the development of Nortel's next-generation network architecture. Earlier in his career, Butler spent 14 years at Simware. His final position at Simware was chief architect. While at Simware, he helped design one of the earliest data-aggregating server products.
- Boot Camp for LiveCycle
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: LiveCycle ES Business Process Management and Design
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
Raymond Camden is the owner of Camden Media, Inc, a web development and training company. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books and served as a technical editor and contributor for the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at numerous conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC (www.blogcfc.com) blogging application. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi) or via email at ray@camdenfamily.com.
- Working With Data Feeds
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Stefan Cameron obtained his bachelor's degree with Honors in Computer Science at the University of Ottawa and currently holds the position of Computer Scientist on Adobe's LiveCycle Designer ES Team. Since joining Adobe 5 years ago, he has actively contributed to Designer's architecture and user interface from versions 6.0 through to 8.1. Stefan is also very active in the form design community, posting to forums, answering customer questions and running his own blog on form design and LC Designer ES at http://forms.stefcameron.com.
- Hands On: Designing PDF Forms and Flex-based Form Guides
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Christian Cantrell is a Product Manager and Application Developer on the Adobe AIR team. He has been with Adobe (and formerly Macromedia) for close to five years doing everything from evangelism to development of applications like MXNA. He has been a web developer for the last eight years, and is now using Flex, HTML, and JavaScript to write desktop AIR applications. Christian loves open-source software, and open sources almost all the code he writes. While not on the clock, he writes about watches and other gadgets for various publications.
- HTML and Script Bridging for Flex Applications in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Bobby Caudill brings more than 20 years of technology and business experience to his role as solution manager for Adobe’s global government practice. In this role, Bobby is responsible for the identification and development of repeatable, high-value solutions for the government marketplace.
Starting in 1994, as CTO for VCampus Corporation, he worked to pioneer a number of techniques for delivering education and training content via the Worldwide Web. Becoming an expert in the field of developing and delivering internet-based services, his next opportunity allowed him to lead the creation of a new internet-based service designed to help organizations collaborate and respond to rapidly changing requirements in real-time.
Bobby’s blend of technology and business experience gives him a unique perspective to the application of Adobe technologies to government business problems.
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in Government
- Wednesday, October 3 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Boot Camp for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Inspire Session: onAIR Back Seat Driving with Chambers and Brimelow
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Introduction to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Inspire Session: Building AIR with HTML/AJAX
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in Financial Services
- Wednesday, October 3 10:45 am - 11:45 am
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 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Open Source Flex
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- RIA Panel: AJAX Security
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Lance Christmann graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film, animation, and video from the Rhode Island School of Design. He became a freelance UI designer in 2000 creating interfaces for organizations such as Qwest, Lucent, Comcast, and Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital. Lance was also the founder of Mustard Lab, a company that specialized in designing websites and game interfaces. In 2006, Lance was brought on to EffectiveUI as the Chief Interface Designer, his responsibilities include overseeing the design team and leading the direction of all EffectiveUI design projects. During his time at EffectiveUI Lance has directed the work of projects for NBC, eBay, the Discovery Channel and many others.
- Designers and Developers CAN Love Each Other
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 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.
- Project San Dimas: Under the Hood of eBay's Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) project
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Nino G. Cocchiarella's Evansville Indiana based studio "NINO's" is a well respected and clearly focused visual communications company. Founded in 1992 Cocchiarella celebrated 15 years in business in 2007. With a fine art background and over 25 years of professional photography experience Cocchiarella now specializes in the "visual communication" aspects of the advertising, marketing and public relations industries. Photography, graphic and dimensional design, interactive new media, all are his core disciplines. Currently Cocchiarella serves a large variety of local, regional and national clients from his studio in the historic Old Courthouse in downtown Evansville, Indiana.
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Planned and Ad Hoc Workflows
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Local Database Access with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and Data Synchronization Strategies
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Inspire Session: Yahoo! Presents "Examples of Integration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Michael Coleman is the product manager for Adobe After Effects, the industry-standard software for visual effects and motion graphics. In this role, Coleman is responsible for product strategy and incorporating customer needs into product plans.
Coleman previously served as the lead user experience designer for Adobe’s professional video and audio products, including Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Encore, and Adobe SoundBooth.
Prior to Adobe, Coleman worked as a creative director and in post-production for film and television. He has conducted numerous After Effects demonstrations and training sessions and has been involved with After Effects since version 1.0.
- Creating Interactive Video with After Effects and Flash
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
David Coletta’s career in software development has focused on collaborative applications as they have evolved over the last two decades -- email, groupware, online services, and rich internet applications -- at companies like Virtual Ubiquity, Ab Initio Software, eRoom Technology, Ziff-Davis Interactive, and Pacer Software. Since the beta 1 release of Flex 2 in January 2006, David has been digging Flex more than all other technologies combined. David holds a B.A. in Music from Amherst College.
- Inspire Session: Building Buzzword, a New Breed of Word Processor
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Optimizing Flex Applications
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
A graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology with a BFA in graphic design, Chris has evolved into a multimedia designer and developer in the Philadelphia area over the past fifteen years, and has worked in the mediums of print, CD-ROM, websites, animation, DVDs, photography, and package design. Chris brings real world project experience to the conference arena. His expertise in Adobe's Creative Suite, is showcased through work-flows and the integration of the tools to get the job done and your meet deadlines.
Chris designs and maintains the InDesign User Group and Acrobat Users websites for Adobe Systems, as well as advertisements for Adobe for placement in the creative pro's publication,InDesign Magazine. His portfolio includes work for international pharmaceutical companies, ivy-league academia, as national consumer brands including Nexium, Campbell's Soup, Splenda, Tylenol, and Motrin. See examples, watch videos, interact with his work at http://chrisconverse.com.
- Cross-media Design: Ad Hoc Workflows with Adobe Creative Suite 3
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Planned and Ad Hoc Workflows
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Web Premium
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
As a product manager in the Dynamic Media Organization at Adobe Systems, Cooley is responsible for the new Adobe Media Player. The AIR-based desktop application, which is still in development, enables content providers to brand and deliver RSS feeds from video websites to consumers who can watch the videos and interact with the content. As the product manager, Cooley is responsible for market research, defining product requirements from the perspective of both video publishers and consumers, and developing product messaging and positioning.
Cooley has spent a total of eight years at Adobe in two separate stints. He originally joined Adobe when it acquired Aldus Corp. After leaving Adobe, he held product management and development positions with Apple, LeapFrog and Netscape. He also founded and later sold PuppetTime, a company that developed 3D previsualization software for screenwriters. He rejoined Adobe through the company’s acquisition of Macromedia where he worked as a product manager for Contribute, the popular Web publishing software.
- Introduction to Adobe Media Player
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Managing Director of Avoka Technologies, Philip has over 20 years experience in enterprise computing, application architecture & development, software sales and distribution in both Australia and the United States. Philip is a proven entrepreneur, IT Executive and highly skilled technologist that brings to Avoka Technologies a wealth of business experience combined with in-depth technical knowledge and understanding of the IT industry.
- Case Study: Transforming eGovernment with Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Jim Corbett is a Sr. Computer Scientist on the Flash player team at Adobe. Jim has over 12 years of experience with software development, spending 6 years on Director, and then 6 years on the Flash player team. Jim has worked all over the player and has done recent features such as the ActionScript 3 displayList, and the upcoming cross domain caching. Jim tried the biophysics thing for a number of years but decided coding was more fun.
- Flash Player Internals
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
As a Senior Business Process Consultant at Avoka Technologies, Derek specializes in using IT systems to deliver tangible business benefits through Business Process Management. He has experience in all aspects of a project including sales, solution design, project management, delivery and implementation. Some of the clients he has assisted to achieve genuine process improvements are Westpac, Virgin, QBE, PMP Print and the Reserve Bank of Australia.
- Case Study: Transforming eGovernment with Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
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 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Sandro Corsaro serves as Creative Director for Disney Online, a unit of the Walt Disney Internet Group. He oversees innovative online initiatives, such as the newly updated flagship Web site, www.Disney.com. Prior to joining Disney in 2006, Sandro has worked extensively in creative development for a number of other leading entertainment companies, such as Warner Bros., MTV Networks, and Sony Pictures. Specializing in Flash animation, Sandro has created projects for Fortune 500 clients such as Intel, Mattel, and Universal. Among his many personal endeavors have been two published books, The Flash Animator and Hollywood 2D Digital Animation: The New Flash Production Revolution. In them, he shares his distinctive techniques for applying traditional animation principles in the Flash environment. As an accomplished author and animator, Sandro has spoken at SIGGRAPH, NAB, Flash Forward, and on G4Tech TV. He also served as an Adobe Systems Flash consultant. Prior to joining the Walt Disney Internet Group, he served as Creative Director at Crest Digital, a worldwide leader in CD/DVD production and manufacturing. He was instrumental in implementing Flash into the production pipeline and generated new services to produce games for DVD, Web, and Mobile content delivery. Sandro earned degrees in both Fine Arts and Animation from the University of Southern California.
- Character Animation with Flash CS3 Professional
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Brett Cortese is the President and co-founder of Universal Mind. At Universal Mind, Brett helps bring clients the exceptional quality of service that the company’s reputation demands. Specializing in Adobe products such as Flex, AIR, LiveCycle, and ColdFusion, Brett and his team have helped a wide array of organizations find success in their technology initiatives. This year he is proud to announce that Universal Mind has been named one of the nation's fastest-growing private companies as recognized by the Inc. 500 list.
- ColdFusion Server Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Gary Cosimini is the business development director of the Creative Solutions Business Unit at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In this role, Cosimini serves as a liaison between Adobe and potential customers of InDesign CS3 and related products in the professional publishing community, including book, newspaper and magazine publishers, independent software developers, and integrators. Cosimini joined Adobe as business development manager in 1992, responsible for the introduction of Adobe Acrobat electronic document technology to the publishing industry. Before joining Adobe, Cosimini spent 16 years at the New York Times, most recently as a senior art director . Prior tp New York Times, Cosimini was an art director and deputy editor of the Detroit Free Press Sunday Magazine, and production supervisor at the Vineyard Gazette in Edgartown, MA. He studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Cosimini is a frequent and popular presenter at industry events.
- Cross-media Design: Managed Workflows with Adobe Creative Suite 3
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Robert Crooks manages Partner Readiness at Adobe. His group also creates training for enterprise and mobile products, and ACE certification exams. He formerly managed Customer Training at Macromedia, and was Technical Lead for Customer Training at Allaire.
As Chief Technology Officer of Roundarch, Geoff is responsible for establishing the technology vision that guides the development of our service offerings, delivery methodology and vendor partner relationships. Together with the Chief Experience Officer, Geoff shapes a unified vision of user experience and technology that is the essence of Roundarch. Geoff has led the build-out of Roundarch’s highly successful J2EE frameworks and Rich Internet Application delivery offering. Geoff has 18 years of systems development, operations improvement and consulting experience, with the past ten years focused on eBusiness/CRM. Prior to joining Roundarch Geoff was one of the founding members of Deloitte Consulting’s CRM and eBusiness practice. Geoff has significant experience designing and managing complex Web solutions with integration to enterprise systems for several industry-leading organizations including American Express, Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase, Northern Trust, HP, Agilent, Molex, Waters, Baxter Healthcare and Best Buy. Geoff has an MS in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.
- The Evolution of Rich Portals
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Designer, art director, typographer, business professional and technologist: Eduardo Danilo is one of the few Mexican designers reknowned for his work, which has marked the identity of newspapers and magazines in Latin America.
Eduardo Danilo began his career in 1982 as Art Director of El Norte newspaper in Monterrey, Mexico, and has been recognized with more than 100 awards for his work in print design projects.
Eduardo Danilo has directed more than 150 media projects for companies in America, Europe, and Asia; his flagship projects include Reforma and Mural (both Mexican newspapers awarded as the Best Designed Newspapers in the World by SND), The Straits Times (Singapore) and The Nation (Bangkok). Magazine projects include Expansion, Letras Libres, and Quien -three of the most successful Mexican magazines.
His recent work includes the successful relaunch of Mexico City’s legendary newspaper brand, Excelsior and El Nuevo Dia (Puerto Rico); both, profound concept re-definitions that face the transformation of newspapers industry.
Eduardo Danilo is currently working as a creative-strategist for Indigo Media, a Mexican media company with whom Eduardo recently launched Reporte Indigo, the first digital publication that explores an innovative business, journalistic and visual format, feasible to become the future standard in content delivery and story telling in the digital media spectrum.
Danilo Black’s headquarters are located at Monterrey, Mexico, and are supported by offices in Mexico City, New York, and Buenos Aires. Its experienced teams in editorial design, web design, branding, market intelligence and business strategy combine skills and capabilities to help the newspaper industry shape its future.
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Managed Workflows
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Joshua Davis is a New York based artist, designer, and technologist producing both public and private work for companies, collectors, and institutions. Using technology and computers as a medium since 1995, he has been working on many personal projects: http://www.joshuadavis.com (his main site), conceptual project http://www.once-upon-a-forest.com, and others, including praystation, cyphen, and dreamless.
He is a professional designer and creative thinker, traveling the world speaking at conferences and workshops about his inspirations and motivations, building his own creative projects, and teaching as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
- Inspire Session: Dynamic Abstraction and Finding Creative Inspiration
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Anthony DeBonis is a Partner, Senior Technologist and Adobe Certified Instructor with Troy Web Consulting in Troy, New York. Anthony is responsible for designing, developing, managing and deploying RIA/web applications in Flex, ColdFusion and Java Platforms for both government and corporate entities. Anthony is currently working on Flex / Coldfusion Applications for several New York State and Federal Agencies including highly secure, mission critical dashboard systems. An avid developer community member, Anthony manages the Java Developer's Network in Albany NY and presents at many other user groups and nation conferences. He has been involved in beta program for both 1.5 and 2.0 as well as doing many presentations on Flex and AIR.
- Best Practices for Building Quality Flex Applications for the Browser and for Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 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!
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Rufus is Creative Solutions Evangelist at Adobe. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design with a BFA in Communication Design, Rufus has been active as a corporate and editorial designer across Europe over the past 15 years, and has been teaching graphic design since 1995. In 2002 Rufus was asked by Adobe Italy to become 'cross-media guru' and help spread the word around the country. This activity brought him to evangelize the Creative Suite and Adobe solutions to the creative pro market; he has since been providing consulting and training on Adobe software and workflows to major publishing companies in Italy. He has authored interactive courses, written for specialized publishing magazines, spoken at conferences worldwide, and manages the InDesign User Group in Italy.
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC Lab)
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (Windows Lab)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- The Design Shootout with Adobe Gurus
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Mariam Dholkawala develops Flash based content on various platforms; the primary focus being games for mobile phones. Mariam is also the Manager of IndiMaD—The Indian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. With more than six years' experience working with Flash and other Macromedia products such as Director, she has lead numerous games and applications, including the award winning Cryptic Capers and Acorn Mafia on the Flash Lite platform. When not working on Flash games, Mariam likes traveling to new countries and learning about new cultures and languages.
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Creating Flash Lite Multiplayer Games
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Eric Disend is a Solution Partner and Experience Design Competency Lead for BusinessEdge Solutions. Eric has developed innovative marketing, branding, product and Internet strategies for over 15 years. Eric manages a team of creative professionals dedicated to developing the highest quality solutions for Fortune 100 clients. Prior to BusinessEdge Eric was a Managing Director responsible for marketing and web strategy at New York Life Investment Management.
- Case Study: Seamless Online Account Opening for the Financial Industry Leveraging LiveCycle ES and Flex
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
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.
- Inspire Session: AIR Customer Panel
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Top Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications: Visualizing the Possibilities of a New Platform
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Andrei Dragomir is working in a cross position team (Flex and AIR) at Adobe. He has joined Adobe as part of the InterAKT team in 2006, where he worked on several advanced web applications. Andrei's interests range from compilers and languages to UI design. His major concern right now is making sure that Flex and AIR appeal to the web development crowd.
- Integrating Flex with Ajax and the Browser
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Steve Drucker, CEO of Fig Leaf Software, has been implementing innovative, award-winning web sites with Adobe tools since 1996. Most recently he completed a ground-up rearchitecture and reimplementation of the Voice of America web site (www.voanews.com) using Adobe ColdFusion and the CommonSpot Content Server from Paperthin, Inc. VOANews.com is comprised of 44 sites in 44 different languages supporting 500K content items, 120m+ hits/month and output to web/rss/windows mobile/wap/blackberry devices. He has been a featured speaker at several trade shows including the Macromedia/Adobe MAX Developers Conference and CFUnited. Steve has developed about a dozen courses -- including acting as course architect and lead developer for Adobe's recent revision of the official Advanced ColdFusion 7 courseware. Most recently he penned a one day hands-on course featuring ColdFusion, AJAX, and Spry. Steve became a certified Adobe instructor in October 1997, and earned an "Adobe Master Instructor" rating in 2003. Recently Steve has been focusing on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), courseware development with Acrobat Connect / Captivate, developing for handheld devices, having fun with Acrobat, and playing Frisbee with his four-year old son.
- Building a ColdFusion Multilingual Application
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Search Engine Optimization
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- What's New in ColdFusion 8
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Jeff Dyer has participated in the ECMAScript working group since 1998 and has been developing compilers since 1990. Jeff has worked as a technical lead on the ActionScript team since he started with Macromedia in 2003. Jeff is now a Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems.
- A Guide to Tamarin
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
As a director for the Adobe Web and Design Products at Adobe Systems Incorporated, Will Eisley is responsible for the company’s web and design products, which include Adobe InDesign, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Fireworks and others. Specifically, he is responsible for setting the company’s three- to five-year roadmap and strategic direction for these products, and he plays a key role in prioritizing the addition of new features and working with product engineers to ensure that product workflows are optimized.
Eisley came to Adobe in 1997. Before joining Adobe, he spent two years as an advertising production manager for the Capital Cities newspaper group. Prior to his time at Capital Cities, Eisley worked in ad production and writing for Gannet. He has also worked as a freelance writer. Eisley is currently a member of the Electronic Prepress Committee and the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation.
- What Is the New Publishing Workflow Anyway?
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Ethan Eismann is the Senior Experience Design Lead of Adobe AIR within Adobe's XD Team. Providing vision and pragmatic advice on AIR application design, Ethan works with internal and external clients to create successful new experiences. Ethan also leads the design of a new design tool that will make it easy for designers to create powerful next-generation experiences.
- XD: Prototyping Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications with Creative Suite 3
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Benjamin Elmore is the co-founder and Sr. Managing Partner of Twin Technologies, an enterprise consulting company that specializes in delivering rich Internet applications for Fortune 500 companies. Ben has been working in the RIA/Web 2.0 spaces since its inception and has authored several books on a variety of technologies. Ben founded Twin Technologies with a core principle of embracing a shared knowledge base within the development community. When not leading Twin Technologies, Ben travels to Africa and Turkey to speak on leadership on behalf of the EQUIP organization (www.iequip.org), whose goal is to raise a million Christian leaders over five years. A devoted family man, Ben lives with his wife Mary and their five children in upstate New York.
- Introduction to LiveCycle Data Services for Flex Developers
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Peter Elst is an Adobe Community Expert and certified Flash instructor. As a freelance Flash platform consultant, and a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and published his work in leading journals. Most recently, Peter was the lead author of Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 (Friends of ED, 2007).
- Introduction to OOP with ActionScript 3.0
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Jason Enzweiler has 10 years experience in the design and development of Teamcenter Enterprise based solutions. He has architected Teamcenter based solutions for the Consumer Packaged Goods, Medical Device, Apparel, Automotive, MRO, and Aerospace and Defense industries. In addition he has experience integrating third party PDF based applications into the Teamcenter Enterprise product.
- Extending the Product Lifecycle Management Enterprise with Adobe
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Renaun Erickson is a Flex Developer currently working for Adobe. He specializes in rich internet applications using Flex, Flash, PHP, and ColdFusion. He is active in the community through his blog, http://renaun.com, and the local Las Vegas Adobe users group. He also is a co-author on the Professional Flex series books by Wrox.
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and PHP
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Scott Fegette is the Technical Product Manager for Dreamweaver at Adobe - focusing on web standards, community outreach and developer relations. Aside from speaking around the globe on web development and design, video production and online communities, Scott's also a professional musician and independent photographer in his off-hours.
- Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications with Dreamweaver CS3
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Responsible Web Design with Dreamweaver CS3
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Adam Flater is a Software Architect at EffectiveUI. He began his career developing web and desktop applications with Microsoft and Java technology. On the release of the Flex 2.0 Beta, Adam jumped into the Flex world, developing user interface and server code. Mr. Flater contributed to the San Dimas project (also known as eBay Desktop), leading the development of the eBay ActionScript SDK. Recently, Adam has been working on MatchMine's MyMovieMatch, and Mygistic's application TrafficBug. He is the co-creator of Artemis, EffectiveUI’s Java bridge to AIR on the desktop. In his free time he enjoys playing the piano and keyboards.
- Designers and Developers CAN Love Each Other
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
A Solutions Engineer for Adobe Systems, Colin applies his knowledge of production, prepress, and software to provide appropriate workflow solutions for Adobe customers. His contacts include many ad and design agencies, publishing, and print media outlets.
Before joining Adobe, Colin was a freelance trainer specializing in workflow conversions to InDesign and Creative Suites. He taught intense, high-level classes in print and web applications and production starting in 1999. He helped write and review a number of Adobe Certified Expert exams, and then had to take them. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor in all Adobe Creative Suites 2 applications, Adobe Acrobat 7, Adobe InCopy CS2, a Suites Master Instructor, and authored the video-based training "InCopy CS2 Essential Training" from Lynda.com.
- Hands On: What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended (MAC Lab)
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended (Windows Lab)
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Building a LiveCycle Center of Excellence
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Steve Fletcher is an Applications Consultant with US Bank in their Document Solutions group. His primary focus is on using Adobe's LiveCycle products to produce documents used in the loan origination process at US Bank. He started this effort using Adobe Forms 6.0 and Adobe Doc Server 6.0 and is now concentrating on building new document service with LiveCycle ES.
- Hands On: Case Study: Building Document Solutions with LiveCycle ES
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Chris Florio is a professor of Interactive Media at the New England Institute of Art and the Director of Passion Records and IDV Media. He has been teaching Flash since Flash 2 and has produced Flash-based projects with and for Art Institute, Harvard Business School, Color Kinetics, Boston Scientific, Phiolographica Design, Passion Records, and many others. Chris is currently teaching classes in ActionScript, Flash gaming, Flash video, After Effects Production, and Interactive Performance at the Art Institute. He has three albums of original compositions released on Passion Records. Chris has created interactive compositions for the Lexington Symphonietta, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Berklee College of Music, and the Marlborough Symphony Orchestra. Chris recently co-curated ten days of Flash-related events at the Art Institute in conjunction with the Boston Cyberarts festival
- Hands On: Introduction to ActionScript 3.0
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Peter is a software engineer on the Flex Builder team, focusing on improving the designer-developer workflow. He helped design and build the new CSS styling features in Flex Builder 3.
- Building Stunning Flex Applications with Flex Builder and Creative Suite 3
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 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.
- Boot Camp for ColdFusion
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Ajax Applications
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Charles (Chuck) Freedman is a leading Flash Platform Engineer. Director of Flash Platform at Ribbit, Chuck’s development approach combines his education in multimedia with expertise in content management, server-side scripting and database and interactive design. A graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, Chuck explored all mediums including newspaper, web and radio before concentrating on film and television. In February 2007, Chuck’s first book Wrox Yahoo! Maps Mashups was released. He was quickly signed on by Wrox again, this time as lead author on the flagship AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) book. Wrox Professional AIR: Application Development for the Adobe Integrated Runtime is due out in the spring of 2008, coinciding with the release of Adobe’s cross-OS, desktop runtime environment platform. Chuck has also contributed as Technical Editor for Wrox’s Professional Flex 2, released in May 2007.
- Inspire Session: Ribbit on AIR
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Dave oversees the growth and development of the company's consulting/creative services, web application development, and systems integration capabilities. In his role as Vice President of Consulting Services, Dave is responsible for focusing Fig Leaf Software's programming, consulting and creative resources, as well as its innovative spirit, on developing the best web applications to meet the client's business need. As a Certified Adobe developer and Master Instructor, Dave brings to the leadership team a deep understanding of web application programming, Adobe ColdFusion and content management development, and entrepreneurial strength. He served as a course architect and author of the official advanced ColdFusion 7 courseware from Adobe, and was the lead architect for the largest ColdFusion internet sites currently in operation, The National Park Service
(www.nps.gov). In addition, Dave is a Certified Google Enterprise Professional and the first person ever, outside of Google, to be certified to train users on the Google Search Appliance platform. Prior to joining Fig Leaf Software in 1997, Dave designed and implemented custom client server software for the Washington, DC area trade education market. Dave graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
- What's New in ColdFusion 8
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Richard Galvan is the Technical Product Manager for Flash at Adobe Systems.
Formerly a Sr. Field Evangelist focusing on Flash he has been educating and consulting customers about interactive media and Flash technologies since joining Adobe, formerly Macromedia, in 1999.
He got his first taste of the World Wide Web in the late 80’s, and has never looked back. Since then he has spent most of his time helping customers find ways to display their imagination and creativity on the web.
Richard has presented to thousands of users, developers and designers around the world letting them experience what Flash has to offer, helping grow and support the Flash community.
- Hands On: Introduction to Flash CS3
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Joseph Ganci is President of Dazzle Technologies Corp., a custom training and learning company located in Sterling, Virginia. Since 1983 he has been involved in every aspect of multimedia and learning development with an emphasis in training development. Joe holds a degree in Computer Science, and is a published author, having written several books and articles about e-Learning. He is widely considered a guru for his expertise in e-Learning development, and has taught classes and seminars at leading universities, in many government facilities, commercial firms, and educational institutions, and has spoken at many industry conferences.
- Creating Flash Screencasts with Adobe Captivate
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Shlomy Gantz is the founder and president of BlueBrick Inc., a technology management consulting firm based in New York. He is a Certified Adobe Instructor as well as an Advanced Certified Developer and is a frequent presenter at conferences and user groups around the world as well as managing the New York Flex user group. He is a published author and frequently writes for industry magazines.
Mr. Gantz has over a decade of application development experience, an extensive background in interaction design and project management, and has been building web-based solutions since 1996.
Prior to founding BlueBrick, Shlomy was a senior consultant for Computer Horizons, leading large-scale projects for the airline industry. Prior to that he was co-founder and vice president of technology for CoreActive ACG., a New York–based consulting group and a premier Allaire partner.
- Securing ColdFusion
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Jeff Gapp started in the publishing software industry in 1992, when he joined the staff at Baseview Products. He served in a variety of capacities at Baseview, starting as a senior installation consultant installing and training users of editorial, advertising and production systems. He then became assistant product manager, product manager and a technical sales resource. Gapp then did technical consulting for Fallen Leaf Ventures, handling projects for a variety of publishing software companies and publishing companies. He joined the staff at Wood-Wing USA in early 2005.
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Managed Workflows
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
David Gassner is president of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Provider. He holds Adobe developer certifications in Flex, ColdFusion, Flash, and Dreamweaver. David has been a regular speaker at Allaire, Macromedia and Adobe conferences. He’s also a contributor to ColdFusion Journal and XML Journal, where he has assisted many developers with the integration of Adobe's ColdFusion with Java, XML, and other development technologies.
- Flex 3: Integration with Java
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and Java
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Joel Geraci is the Acrobat/PDF technical evangelist at Adobe Systems. He has over 25 years experience in the desktop design and publishing industry and has been working with Adobe PDF and PostScript for as long as they've been around. In his 11 years at Adobe he has had a variety of roles including Systems Engineer, Product Manager and Business Development Manager.
- Adobe's "Mars" Project: XML-friendly PDF
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Case Study: Advanced Real-World PDF Examples
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Sheri German teaches Dreamweaver, CSS, and web standards development at the Government Printing Office Federal Institute for Printing and Electronic Publishing; Web technology and technology education at various colleges in the Washington, D.C. area; and hands-on tutorials for the Washington Apple Pi MUG. In her own Web design work, she concentrates on Web sites for people in the arts, and has created many sites for dancers, musicians, and writers. Sheri is an Adobe Education Leader and Certified Dreamweaver Developer. Along with Kim Cavanaugh, she is the author of The Dreamweaver 8 Visual Encyclopedia (ISBN: 0471751766). Her other writing activities include contributing author to the Washington Apple Pi Journal, training materials for classes, and articles for CommunityMX, where she is the partner in charge of the JumpStarts (Dreamweaver standards templates) program. Sheri has an MA in Music, and when she is not developing sites or teaching, she is listening to classical music or taking a ballet class. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two children, three cats, and a dog.
- Hands On: Converting Fireworks Prototypes to CSS Sites
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
- Adobe Media Player: The New Model for Content Monetization
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Building an Application Using LiveCycle ES
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Peter Glover is the Vice President of New Products and Technology for Shockwave, A MTV Networks Company. He is responsible for the development and licensing of games and entertainment products for Shockwave’s direct-to-consumer business, which includes PC Download, PC Retail and Mobile. Peter manages the product development of Shockwave Minis, the Flash Lite games service available on Verizon Wireless. Peter joined Shockwave in 2000. His previous work experience includes Accenture (Andersen Consulting), LeapFrog Toys, Zenda Studio (formerly Apple Computer's Discovery Studio) and freelance development and design work.
- From Desktop to Mobile: New Revenue Opportunities
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Mordy Golding has been a production artist for print and the web for many years, and is an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Print Specialist. At Adobe, he was the product manager for Illustrator 10 and Illustrator CS. A popular presenter at Macworld, PhotoshopWorld and other worldwide events, Mordy is also the author of several books, including SAMS Teach Yourself Adobe Creative Suite All in One, The Web Designer's Guide to Color, and Real World Adobe Illustrator. In 2003, Mordy was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ. Currently he serves as the founder of DesignResponsibly.com, teaching designers and printers how to successfully adopt today's new technology.
- Designing for Mobile Experiences
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Kevin Goldsmith is the Engineering Manager of the Adobe Image Foundation team.
- Image and Video Processing using Adobe Image Foundation's Toolkit for Flash
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Rob Gonda is the CTO for iChameleon Group and Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer's Journal. He is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, frequent speaker at IT and developer conferences nationwide, co-author of Real-World Ajax, author of ajaxCFC. Rob also holds a BS in computer science and engineering, and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship. He specializes in Rich Internet Applications and object-oriented architecture. Rob’s mission is to develop forward-thinking expertise that will ensure clients are always on par with rapidly changing technologies and maintain it’s ethos of evolving.
- ColdFusion Powered Ajax
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Marcos González is the founder and CEO of [Q] interactiva in Oviedo (Spain), a company specialized into web, multimedia and mobile and devices development. He has a Computer Engeneer Degree from the University of Oviedo and he has started to work on flash projects for web, desktop and mobile in 2001. Raúl Jiménez and Marcos González manage the newly formed Spanish Mobile Adobe User Group, and they have been working together in projects based on Flash Lite Technology for Symbian and Windows Mobile operating systems since then.
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Michael Gough is Vice President of Product Experience at Adobe where he leads a team of some of the country's finest experience designers. Michael is formerly Macromedia's Chief Creative Officer. Prior to joining, Michael served as Vice President Brand Design for Nike. Michael was also the Chief Creative Officer and Executive Producer at Quokka Sports, Creative Director at Construct, and co-founder of Jones, Partners: Architecture.
- General Session
- Tuesday, October 2 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Inspire Session: XD: Experience Design, An Adobe Perspective
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- E2E Solutions Operations
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Inspire Session: Building SlideRocket, a New Breed of Presentation Software
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
With more than eight years of experience in working with Flash technology, John is the creator of the Xray debugger, Papervision3D's CS3 Component, FLASC compiler GUI as well as Release Manager for Papervision3D and heads up the interactivity portions of Papervision3D's engine.
John has also served as Director of Flash Platform for BLITZ and was Sr. Flash Developer with Zing.com and currently works from home as a contractor.
- Inspire Session: Use the Force: Star Wars and PaperVision 3D
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Tom Green—educator, author, raconteur, chief cook, and bottle washer—is professor of Interactive Multimedia in the School of Media Studies and Information Technology at the Humber Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 (New Riders, 2003). He also wrote Macromedia Captivate for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit Press, 2005), Macromedia Flash Professional 8: Training from the Source (Macromedia Press, 2005) Foundation Flash 8 Video (friendsofED, 2006), Foundation Flash CS3 for Designers (friendsofED, 2007) and Fireworks CS3 Essentials for Lynda.com. Tom is a partner at Community MX, columnist at Digital-Web magazine and is a regular contributor to the Adobe Developer and Design Centers. He also speaks at conferences and community gatherings on a regular basis.
- Hands On: After Effects 101 for Interactive Designers
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 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.
- Flex Roadmap
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Designer 2015
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
As a Solutions Engineer with Adobe Systems, Lynn's work centers around Adobe’s products for creative professionals. Based in the New York metro area, Lynn is an Adobe Certified Expert in numerous Adobe applications including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat, GoLive and InCopy. Lynn proudly holds Adobe Print, Web and Creative Suite Master Certifications. To date, she has co-authored and tech edited a number of books on Adobe software, and has recorded training for Total Training, Lynda.com and the Creative Suite Podcast.
- Hands On: What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended (MAC Lab)
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Hands On: What's New in Adobe Photoshop CS3 and CS3 Extended (Windows Lab)
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Adam Gross is a vice president of developer marketing at salesforce.com, where he focuses on helping businesses and ISVs create new on-demand applications for the company's AppExchange platform and directory.
Before salesforce.com, Gross led product marketing for Grand Central, where he helped create one of the first companies in the Web Services space. He also co-founded Personify, a San Francisco-based CRM software company that focused on analytics and personalization, and served as a technology analyst in Stanford Research Institute's Media Futures Program.
Gross holds a B.S. in new media systems and policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
- Adobe Flex Toolkit for Apex: Building Rich Internet Applications for Businesses
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Partner Summit: Leveraging Adobe Intregrated Runtime (AIR) and Flex to Win Against the Competition
- Wednesday, October 3 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Greg Hamer is a Flash video consultant, application architect/developer, educator, and entrepreneur. He is president and a founder of Halcyon Solutions, Inc., which provides consulting and training on Adobe technologies. He is also a founder and CTO of VroomVideo.com, a video social networking site. Greg specializes in web based applications using Flash/Flex/AIR UIs leveraging SQL backends. You can contact him at g@halcyonsolutions.net.
- Integrating Flex and Video
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Dennis L. Hamilton is President of Assurant Solutions
DealerLinx, and Vice President, Strategic Sales of ARVS (Auto & RV Services), Assurant Solutions. Dennis, a serial Entrepreneur, has constantly brought innovation and automation to the auto and recreational industries over the past 20 years. He has revolutionized the recreational lending industry with the “Recfin” platform he developed, and continues to expand and enhance. This system has gained national bank and industry acclaim and led to Recfin, the company he founded, being acquired by Assurant Solutions in 2006. Dennis continues to be instrumental in the development of the next generation DealerLinx platform to replace the Recfin system and has traveled extensively internationally to deliver this product to the market. His platform for auto dealers was recently launched in Brazil where it will provide automated finance and insurance processing for 65% of the auto dealers in that market. His ongoing projects include the roll out of a new web based Dealer Management System (DMS) for recreational and nonfranchise auto dealers, interfacing finance and DMS platforms with banks, furthering Assurant Solutions products in new foreign markets, and helping to develop a direct to consumer program for all Assurant products.
Dean Harmon worked on HomeSite before joining the ColdFusion development team in 2001. During the ColdFusion 7 timeframe he was primarily responsible for the ColdFusion Report Builder and further expanded his reach into the GUI world by writing many of the ColdFusion Extensions for Eclipse in 7.02 and ColdFusion 8.
- Hands On: Advanced ColdFusion Reporting
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
David Hassoun is the founder of RealEyes Media, LLC - a Colorado based digital media firm focused on interactive motion media and advanced Flash/Flex platform applications. David has always had a passion for motion media, the power of video, and the challenges of usability and interactivity. David is an Adobe Certified Master Instructor, teaches advanced RIA classes at the University of Denver, the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group Manager, and has taught and developed many successful advanced Flash/Flex application courses. As a consultant or while employed with other firms Hassoun has done work for a wide range of companies such as Chase Manhattan, Qwest, Boeing, Macromedia, Adobe, US Air Force, Bechtel/Bettis, and many more. David has performed many advanced code, technical, best practices reviews, and provided directional advice for international industry leaders over the past years including many technical, courseware, and application reviews for Macromedia/Adobe and their clients as an industry expert.
- Best Practices for Developing with ActionScript 3.0
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Experience Online Video Like Never Before with Adobe Flash, AIR and H.264
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Jun Heider is a Web Application Developer and Adobe Certified Flex instructor for RealEyes Media, LLC in sunny Denver, CO. RealEyes Media specializes in RIA development (Flex & Flash), advanced web application training and product resale for Adobe.
During his time at RealEyes, Jun has been critically involved in bringing Flex and AIR RIA applications to Fortune 500 financial corporations, private sector firms, as well as government research projects.
Jun is also an active member of the Flex community, attends, and presents at his local user group regularly, and loves his Xbox 360.
- Optimizing ActionScript 3.0 Performance
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
As Practice Lead of Creative Partnerships for the Experience Design (XD) group, Chris talks a lot - evangelizing XD and a 'Change the World' agenda is no small task...
Making this message and story telling a little easier is a background as a former Art Director and BFA in Design and Art History. A perpetual need to espouse the efforts of one of the top UE groups in the country also makes spreading the word helpful as well!
Sharing this knowledge with our community of designers and developers also creates a platform for which enthusiasm and passion of our mission can be easily communicated. Of which, at its’ core and very simply is: through our tools, through our curiosity we are driven to help people make better experiences.
In addition to Adobe, Chris has also worked at Apple and Macromedia, amongst other companies involved in innovative, collaborative communication.
- XD: Adobe's Approach to Application Design
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Paul is a development manager at US Bank. He has been with US Bank for 18 years, and has managed several different development groups, primarily supporting the consumer loan areas. His current teams’ mission is to provide SOA based document generation services, and they are leveraging the Adobe LiveCycle platform to create those services.
- Hands On: Case Study: Building Document Solutions with LiveCycle ES
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tony Hillerson is a Software Architect for EffectiveUI. He graduated from Ambassador University with a BA in MIS. On any given day he may be working with Flex, Java, Rails, Maven, Ant, Ruby, Rake, Capistrano, or shell scripts. Tony is one of the architects behind EffectiveUI’s Artemis project, which is a framework that allows developers to integrate Adobe AIR applications with Java. He is currently writing the forthcoming O’Reilly Shortcut for LiveCycle Data Services with EjB3.0. This year Tony has been invited to speak at 360FLex and MAX 2007, as well as local user groups. In his free time Tony enjoys playing the bass, playing World of Warcraft, making electronic music, making beer, learning Latin, and studying philosophy. Tony lives outside Denver, CO with his wife and son Titus.
- Flex on Rails
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Grant Hinkson is Director of Visual Design at Infragistics, a software company specializing in reusable interface components and application design. He is passionate about design, usability, and technology and is rewarded by working with a team of people who share similar passions. He loves both design and development, and thrives in the worlds of Flash and WPF, where he gets to exercise both sides of his brain. He is author of the Fireworks to XAML Exporter, the Fireworks Gradient Panel and is an Adobe Devnet author. Grant is a Certified Flash Developer and has been working with the Adobe tool set for as long as he can remember.
- Pixel Perfect Precision
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Shortly after retiring from rock-stardom, Joshua Hirsch became the Minister of Technology at Big Spaceship in 2002, where he leads the development team responsible for building numerous award-winning interactive campaigns for entertainment and consumer brand clients. Prior to joining Big Spaceship, Josh honed his skills as a designer and developer at Guggenheim.com and Asymptote. Josh has shared his expertise around the world by speaking at industry conferences, presenting instructional workshops, and acting as an awards juror.
- Inspire Session: Big Spaceship, Digital Creative Agency
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Tom Hobbs joined Adobe's Experience Design team in May 2006. Tom studied Interactive Design at Newport School of Art (University of Wales) in the UK specializing in editorial and environmental design, with a minor in computer science. He graduated with First Class honors and had stints in Liverpool and London before joining Fabrica, Benetton's 'Center for Research for Communication' under the direction of the infamous photographer, Oliviero Toscani. As a founding member of the award winning New Media department, Tom art directed the digital sister to COLORS magazine going on to head the department in 1998. In 2000 he joined Metadesign and moved to San Francisco to pursue an interest in digital brand and product-based interface. From there, he took a position with Samsung Electronics at the US based satellite design center responsible for developing how the brand would manifest itself across the product range. There, he managed the UI team in the multi-disciplinary office instilling an ethos of user-centered design. This took him to Pentagram's San Francisco office, where he continued his investigation into how software and hardware overlap designing a range of interfaces for next generation devices and the software on them. Tom's work has been published in a variety of international publications and books including ID, Axis Magazine and Creative Review. He has been involved in a number of award-winning projects - named in ID's 'forty designers under thirty' in 2000 - and has spoken at international design conferences including the Design Indaba (Cape Town, South Africa), Creative Show (London, UK) and ACD's Living Surface (Chicago, USA). Tom has also co-researched and designed two books on interaction design.
- XD: Adobe's Approach to Application Design
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Inspire Session: Yahoo! Presents "Examples of Integration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a professional interaction designer and usability specialist who has worked with Go Daddy Software, Macromedia, Adobe, United Airlines, Cisco Systems, and countless others to provide superior user experiences to a wide range of audiences. His newest book, "Designing the Obvious", focuses on seven guiding principles of great web-based software and how to leverage them in any real-world project.
- Inspire Session: Designing the Obvious
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Partner Summit: Meet the Team: An Enterprise Print and Scan Security Solution
- Wednesday, October 3 10:45 am - 11:45 am
- Wednesday, October 3 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.
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR): Building Desktop Applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Using Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) APIs
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Lori Hylan-Cho is a software engineer on the Dreamweaver team, specializing in JavaScript extensibility. Prior to joining the Dreamweaver team in 1997 for the first release of the product, she was a webmaster at Mecklermedia and a web producer at Macromedia, and throughout her career she's written and spoken about web development, JavaScript, the DOM, and Dreamweaver extensibility. She's an avid photographer, ice hockey winger, blogger, and mom.
- Building Widgets for the Spry Framework for Ajax
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Extensibility Options in Dreamweaver CS3
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Inspire Session: Beyond Web 2.0
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Charles Jennings is Global Head of Learning at Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia news agency and financial information service. He has been involved in developments in learning, eLearning and performance improvement for more than 25 years and has held senior posts in academic research and in business. He has led a number of successful learning initiatives across the UK and Europe.
Charles was formerly Director the UK Government Centre for Networked Learning and was a Professor at Southampton Business School UK where, in 1994, he led the launch of the world’s first MBA programme available entirely over the Internet.
- Case Study: How Reuters is Changing Step with Adobe Products
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Raul Jimenez is a Senior Flash Developer and an active member in the Latin community. His work with Flash and mobile devices started in 2004. He has co-managed the BlocketPc.com website since 2006, that finally, formed as the Spanish Mobile and Devices Adobe User Group last January.
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Eric John is responsible for marketing of Forum Nokia, the leading mobile developer support program with over 3 million members, providing education, software development tools and documentation, community and channel support.
Prior to Nokia, Eric managed Yahoo! Marketing Platforms for brand engagement-- a full suite of capabilities designed to connect consumers with brands through traditional promotions and custom branding events. In his four years at Yahoo!, Eric helped establish Yahoo! as a leader in interactive promotional marketing, developing innovative programs for major brands including Pepsi, Intel, Casio, American Express, as well as Yahoo!’s own content and services. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Eric was Product Director at DoubleClick where he managed the Dart for Advertisers platform, and helped pioneer technology for auction-based search advertising for search portal, AltaVista.
Before joining DoubleClick, Eric worked at Prodigy where as manager of Local and Personalized Content, he launched the "Real Cities" communities and advertising platform.
Eric holds degrees in Anthropology from Miami of Ohio (BA) and Indiana University (MA) and is a graduate of Columbia University's CTA program in Product Management.
- Going Mobile with Flash
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Sneak Peek of Director 11
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Tom Jordahl is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe and the architect for ColdFusion 8. Tom has been working on ColdFusion for most of his ten-year history with Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe and has implemented a wide variety of tags, functions, and features in both the original C++ and Java releases of ColdFusion. As the Architect for ColdFusion 8, he meddled in the design and implementation of almost all the new features. He has also been part of the JRun 4.0 and Apache Axis 1.x development teams and was the Adobe representative on the W3C WSDL 2.0 working group. He is really excited about the amazing features in the latest release, and can't wait to tell you about them.
- Using ColdFusion With LiveCycle Data Services
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Saikat Kanjilal is a Computer Scientist on the Emerging Solutions Team working on the next generation of Imaging Services and Infrastructure Software around those services.
- Image and Video Processing using Adobe Image Foundation's Toolkit for Flash
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Loni Kao Stark is the Senior Solutions Architect for Adobe Systems responsible for world-wide Government. Ms. Stark has 9 years experience in technology spanning engineering, product management, business development and marketing. In her previous roles, Ms. Stark has helped Adobe's Global 2000 customers improve business results by automating and streamlining document-based business processes. Ms. Stark holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and liberal arts from McMaster University in Canada, and a masters of science from Stanford University. She is a published industry expert and featured speaker at events throughout the world. Most recently she co-authored, "Value Assessment of EPC/RFID in the Specialty Chemical Manufacturing Industry" for EPCglobal US, published June 2006.
- Hands On: Case Study: Building Document Solutions with LiveCycle ES
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Chafic Kazoun is the Founder and CTO of Atellis (www.atellis.com), a Washington, D.C. based firm that specializes in developing Rich Internet Applications and Products. At Atellis, Chafic manages, architects, and develops next generation applications and components.
Chafic has been working with Flash technologies since 1998, has delivered presentations at numerous conferences, and has contributed to published works. He is also an Adobe Community Expert, the author of the book Programming Flex 2.0 by O’Reilly, and maintains a weblog at www.rewindlife.com
- Inspire Session: Building Software People Like with Flash and Flex
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Ryan Kennedy is a software engineer at Yahoo!.
- Case Study: Yahoo! "AIR Mail
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dr. King is a Principal Scientist at Adobe and now has the job of PDF Architect. He is responsible for guiding the current and future development of the Portable Document File format that is the basis for Adobe’s Acrobat product line. Dr. King has been with Adobe since 1988 when he formed the Advanced Technology Group (ATG). He is currently an individual contributor in what is now called the Advanced Technology Laboratory (ATL) within the Office of Technology. Previously he worked within IBM Research both in at the T. J. Watson Research centre in New York and at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is the inventor of many patented ideas and is well known for his ability to clearly explain the technologies on which Adobe’s products are built.
Andrew Kirkpatrick is a Senior Product Manager for Accessibility at Adobe. Andrew leads a team that works to ensure that Adobe products address accessibility standards and assist developers in their efforts to create accessible web sites and applications.
- Building Accessible Applications with Flex
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Creating Accessible Flash Experiences
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Justin Klei is the Lead Senior Adobe Architect at Cardinal Solutions, where his team of experienced architects’ service companies internationally with all of Adobe’s enterprise-strength products. In addition to being a certified Adobe LiveCycle Instructor, Justin is an active hands-on team member, working in the field shoulder-to-shoulder with Cardinal’s Fortune 500 customers. His business industry experience encompasses manufacturing, retail, banking, and government; whereas, his strategic implementation value is assisting customers to build internal delivery teams, which can continue to build successful solutions beyond Cardinal’s direct involvement. Justin also has a vast experience with Product Lifecycle Management solutions. To contact Justin or learn more about Cardinal Solution and their business solutions, please visit www.cardinalsolutions.com.
- Hands On: Building a LiveCycle Center of Excellence
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Ram has been an engineering manager with Adobe focusing on Flex for about three years. Prior to Adobe, Ram was the development manager and architect of an enterprise product in the supply chain management space. He also developed software products for the revenue management domain in very early part of his career.
- Data Visualization with Flex
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Inspire Session: Opening up the Internet - Building RIA API's with Kapow
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Ramchandra Kulkarni is a Sr. Computer Scientist working on the ColdFusion Development team. He has been with Adobe/Macromedia for the last three years. In his earlier jobs he has worked as a Software Architect and developed solutions for a number of domains such as, finance, retail and medical. He has more than 13 years of programming experience using C, C++, MFC and Java/JEE.
- Microsoft Exchange Integration with ColdFusion 8
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Rupesh Kumar is a Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems where he is a senior member of the ColdFusion engineering team. He has been with Adobe and formerly Macromedia for more than three years. He was involved in the development of many features of ColdFusion 8 including Performance Enhancements, .NET Integration, CFThread, CFpresentation, CFZip, File I/O etc. Prior to Adobe, he was with Pramati Technologies, India's no 1 J2EE application server vendor, where he was part of the core engineering team. He can be found online at http://coldfused.blogspot.com
- Leveraging ColdFusion with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Sanjeev Kumar has been working as a computer scientist on the Adobe ColdFusion Development Team for last 2 years. During this stint, he was involved in developing pdf forms related features and some language enhancements for scorpio. He has more than 8 years of experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Java/JEE/EAI technology.
- ColdFusion PDF Integration
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Michael Labriola is a Founding Partner and Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program.
Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Expert, and an author of the Flex 2 and 3 Training from the Source books. As a frequent speaker on Flex topics, and contributor to Flex Mailing Lists and Adobe’s Developer Center, Michael is known throughout the developer community.
- Creating New Flex Components
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Alec Lamon is an IT Director at Wharton Computing, the technology arm of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He co-directs the Al West Learning Lab, a development effort that produces games and simulations to help teach a broad range of business concepts in the classroom. Since its inception in 2001, the Learning Lab has produced over 30 such applications using a wide range of Adobe tools. Prior to joining the Learning Lab, Alec worked as Systems Manager for Wharton Direct, a major distributed learning effort.
- A Virtual Trading Floor: Bringing Wall Street to the Classroom
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 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
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Grayson Lang acts as both engineer and lead designer for the Acrobat 3D product. As an engineer, he works to add interactivity to 3D content through enhancements to the scripting capabilities of the platform. As a designer, his focus is on improving the user experience and usability of 3D within PDF. He has been working at Adobe for six years. Prior to Acrobat 3D he acted as the lead designer on Atmosphere, a tool for creating interactive 3D content for the web.
- Adding Dimension to Your Content with Acrobat 3D
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dan has been a Java EE architect/developer for eight years. He has been an outspoken advocate for open source frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Dan has found Flex to be an outstanding RIA solution for this type of development.
- Hands On: Building a LiveCycle Center of Excellence
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
As Director of Knowledge Worker Hosted Services, Erik Larson is responsible for building, accelerating, and operating many of Adobe's new and existing Software as a Service (SaaS) offerings. This includes Acrobat Connect web conferencing and Adobe Document Center and Create PDF Online services, along with new service offerings under development. Previously, Erik was Director of Product Management for Breeze and the Flash Media Server for Macromedia (acquired by Adobe in December 2005) where he grew both product lines from new businesses to industry leadership in the conferencing/training and video streaming markets.
Erik joined Macromedia in early 2000 focusing on bringing new products to market, including Macromedia Contribute, a collaborative website authoring product. Earlier, Erik served as Captain and civil engineer in the US Air Force.
Erik holds a bachelor's degree in astronautical engineering from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
- Collaborative Hosted Services Roadmap
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Partner Summit: Meet The Teams: Collaboration Road Map and Future Strategies
- Wednesday, October 3 10:45 am - 11:45 am
Lisa began her career in print design, and now has over eight years experience in Web and other electronic media. Whether it’s interactive, print design, or application development, Lisa has an award-winning approach to all of her work. In addition to hands-on development projects, she enjoys writing and teaching, with a knack for breaking down complex concepts and making them accessible. She has authored technical articles for the Adobe.com Developer’s Center, editorials for StreamingMedia.com, and co-authored the book Flash Video for Professionals, published by Wiley in July 2007. Lisa has also presented at several industry conferences and is an active member of FlashCodersNY user group.
A graduate of Wayne State University in Michigan with a BFA in Graphic Design, Lisa received her New Media Certification from the Rhode Island School of Design/Fraunhofer CRCG in 2003. After spending two years as a freelance designer/developer, Lisa is now Technical Director and co-founder of go:toGroup, a new media firm based in New York City, specializing in Flash Video Applications. She is also developing iFoxCam, a consumer video surveillance product using Flash Media Server. go:toGroup has worked with many video-centric start-ups as well as companies like Adobe, Microsoft and L'Oreal. www.gotogroupinc.com www.flashconnections.com
- Advanced Video Encoding
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Will Law is CTO of HostCast, a San Francisco company specializing in advanced flash video applications, including synchronized presentations, web-casting, video-blogging and conference and event capture. He has built advanced Flash players for Atom Films, Sony, Edmunds.com, Red Bull and Gamevideos.com and has worked for Adobe, VitalStream and is currently the Senior Flash developer for Akamai. Will holds a Masters degree in Aerospace Engineering, an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been involved in web video for the past 8 years.
- Securing your Video delivery with Flash Media Server
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Ben Lawson is a Business Analyst and User Interface Designer with Assurant Solutions DealerLinx. A ten year veteran of web development, he served time in both the newspaper and advertising industries where he worked with an eclectic assortment of clients. He holds a Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree and a Certificate in Computer Programming. In his time off, Ben enjoys photography, watching movies, and spending time with his family.
Jim Leask is a Senior Computer Scientist working with the LiveCycle Process Management engineering team. He has over 20 years of experience in product development, systems consulting and professional services, and has embraced object oriented technologies since the start. He is an advocate for agile development, and believes that it can significantly improve the way software is built. Jim feels lucky to have joined Adobe in time for the fun and excitement of building the Flex version of LiveCycle Workspace.
- Hands On: Building Custom Applications with LiveCycle Workspace
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Michael Lebowitz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a digital creative agency in Brooklyn, NY. Founded on the principals of collaboration, innovation and dedication to quality, Michael and Big Spaceship have garnered countless accolades including the highly coveted Cannes Lion, One Show, Clio and Webby Awards.
Michael has lectured and led seminars internationally on design, entertainment and interactive marketing, and is a juror for many international creative awards. He leads an annual seminar on digital marketing in Rome. Michael has spoken at conferences and universities on emerging trends and technology including the Futures of Entertainment Conference at MIT. He was recently named to the AIGA's Visionary Design Council and to the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences.
- Inspire Session: Big Spaceship, Digital Creative Agency
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Senior vice president of finance and business development and an initial MEI employee, Mr. Leister has worked at MEI as systems support specialist, product manager, technical support and training manager, director of product management and vice president of marketing. He currently manages the company’s financial, legal, and human resources groups, and leads the business development, sales, premium site support and partner-alliance efforts. Mr. Leister is a frequent featured speaker at industry events. Prior to joining MEI, Mr. Leister worked in the newspaper industry as managing editor, production manager, technical systems manager, copy editor, and staff writer, before specializing in production automation and desktop publishing.
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Managed Workflows
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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: Bringing the Desktop to the Web
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- XD: Customizing and Deploying Adobe Media Player
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- XD: Initial Visions for the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Experience
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 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.
- Flash CS3 Professional and Soundbooth CS3: Designing Content with Great Audio
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC Lab)
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (Windows Lab)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- The Design Shootout with Adobe Gurus
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Inspire Session: Lessons Learned on AIR
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Currently Senior Experience Design Lead of Creative Products, Andrew Lin drives the experience vision for the next generation of Adobe's Creative Suite, including applications such as Photoshop and Illustrator. Working with engineering and product management teams, he is defining the Adobe Experience Model – a content-first interface approach for Adobe's desktop applications. Prior to joining Adobe, Andrew led the design of Aperture at Apple and was one one of the founding members of the XD team at Macromedia. Andrew has dual- degrees in Engineering Sciences and Fine Arts from Dartmouth College.
- XD: Best Practices for Creating Great Web Experiences
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
James Lockman is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Print Specialist and the owner of Working Words & Graphics, a variable data marketing services company, graphic design shop and digital prepress services bureau. His practical experience with PostScript and PDF workflows dates back to 1995, making his training and strategic consulting a valued resource to printers, print buyers, graphic designers and equipment suppliers, nationwide.
James holds a degree in physics and applied physics from Yale University, and lives in Gorham, Maine with his wife and three sons.
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (MAC Lab)
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Jens Loeffler is a Senior Manager, Evangelism for Adobe Systems Incorporated, responsible for driving awareness, adoption, and loyalty of Adobe Flash streaming video products and services within the media and entertainment industry. In his role he provides consultative leadership for technical and sales activities and supports the core product management and marketing team. Having a sophisticated understanding of Flash technologies and strategy as well as broad engineering, multimedia and visual skills, Loeffler is a passionate Flash and Flash Media Server expert. He has worked with Flash and related Adobe products since 1999 and has received several industry awards for his work. Prior to joining Adobe, Loeffler worked as a senior Flash developer for R/GA and Creative Bubble. Loeffler is an accomplished presenter, having spoken at such industry events as Streaming Media East, Flash in the Can and Flashbelt.
- Introduction to Streaming with Flash Media Server
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Live Streaming with Flash Media Encoder
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Eric LoPresti inaugurated his career as a user interface designer by writing joystick games for the C64 and Atari 800. In the 20 years since, he has applied his design skills to a wide range of applications, including designing scientific visualization software at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and core interfaces for Lotus Notes at Iris Associates/IBM . As Principle User Interface Designer for Twin Technologies, Eric specializes in designing concise, usable interfaces for data-rich applications. Eric lives in Brooklyn NY and exhibits his paintings nationally.
- A Designer's Introduction to Flex
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. His most recent book is the Dreamweaver CS3 Bible. Joseph is the author of the recently published CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the co-author of Dreamweaver 8 Recipes with Eric Ott. A well-known speaker, he has presented at Adobe (formerly Macromedia) conferences in the U.S. and Europe, as well as user groups around the country. Joseph is currently the Vice President for WebAssist.
- CSS Part 3: Advanced CSS Concepts and Theories
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Partner Summit: Leveraging Adobe Intregrated Runtime (AIR) and Flex to Win Against the Competition
- Wednesday, October 3 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Eric Lynn has always had a love of sport, and an appreciation for great design. His passions have coalesced as Creative Group Director at Trek Bicycle where he organizes the efforts of the in house Print, Web and Product Graphics teams. Important recent work with the Trek Creative Group has ranged from team efforts with Partner Agency “Hanson Dodge” to launch the Tour de France winning All New Madone to the in-house authored launch of ”1 World 2 Wheels”, a widely celebrated Advocacy campaign that showcases the bicycle as a simple solution to many of the worlds most complicated problems.
- Strategic, 360-Degree Design
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
A thought leader and visionary in the field of Rich Internet Application development and strategy, Tony MacDonell is the CTO of Teknision. Tony leads interface development for the many player applications of the Finetune social music service. This service was recognized by Time Magazine as one of the top web sites of 2006. Tony led the development of the Finetune Embeddable Player for blogs, the renowned Finetune Wii Player, and the groundbreaking Apollo-based Finetune Desktop player. Tony is also the lead architect of the PermissionTV broadband video platform. PermissionTV is a best-of-breed solution that features the most complete feature set in the exploding broadband video industry. Key clients include Adobe, Fox, Toyota, and Intercontinental Hotels. Tony has discussed Rich Internet Application development at industry conferences such as Flashforward and Flash In The Can, and was most recently part of the 2007 Adobe Financial Analysts Meeting where he represented the development community for Adobe’s Apollo platform.
- Branded Experiences with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Inspire Session: AIR, Finetune Desktop, and the Circle of Engagement
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
As vice president of Hosted and Consumer solutions, Doug Mack provides leadership for Software as a Service (SaaS) and consumer offerings for Adobe’s Creative Solutions Business Unit. Key products in his group include the recently acquired Scene7 On-Demand platform, Photoshop Elements, Premier Elements and the new Express solutions.
Prior to joining Adobe, Mack co-founded and was CEO of Scene7, provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform, which was acquired by Adobe in May 2007. Previously, Mack served as executive vice president of the Broderbund Home Division of Mattel. Mack also spent years at both McKinsey & Company and General Electric.
Mack holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Boston College.
- Case Study: RIAs and E-commerce
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in Media and Publishing
- Wednesday, October 3 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Marc Madenwald manages the Worldwide Partner Program Operations Team for Adobe Systems.
As Chief Experience Officer, Jeff is responsible for establishing the user experience vision that drives the development of our service offerings, methodology and vendor relationships. Together with the Chief Technology Officer, Jeff shapes a unified vision of user experience and technology that is the essence of Roundarch. Jeff has 16 years of experience shaping interactive and multi-channel strategies for clients that include The Hershey Company, US Air Force, MCI, Centers for Disease Control, CIBC, The State of California, Pitney Bowes, Cable & Wireless, Mutual of Omaha and British Telecom. Prior to joining Roundarch, Jeff played a major role in the CRM strategy group at Deloitte Consulting where he served clients from their Chicago, London and Boston offices. Before joining Deloitte Consulting, Jeff served in Accenture’s Boston office. Jeff has an MBA from the University of Chicago. He also holds both an MA and BA in history from Tufts University.
- The Evolution of Rich Portals
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Bill Manning is the Senior Product Manager at Aptana, Inc. The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, development environment for building Web Rich applications. The Aptana IDE supports Adobe AIR, AJAX, Ruby and iPhone development platforms. Bill is responsible for gathering the requirements from the open-source community and driving the roadmap for the Aptana product line to best support their needs. Bill brings over ten years experience of developing and marketing enterprise applications. His career has encompassed CRM, CTI, Channels, Email Security, Home Automation, Energy Management and Software Tools development. Bill has combined his deep engineering background with business acumen to help shape and drive companies. He has worked at Octane Software, E.piphany, Providian Financial, PostX , 4HomeMedia and has consulted for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers.
- Building Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) Applications Using Ajax and the Aptana IDE
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- BLITZ Case Study: Creativity Conducted - Holographic Flash Projections with WiiMotes Deconstructed
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Peter Martin is a Technical Architect with Adobe Consulting. Peter has over 14 years of enterprise software development experience and joined Adobe in 2006. Prior to Adobe, Peter had worked for a number of companies developing J2EE-based web applications. During his time at Adobe, Peter has focused his J2EE skills on LiveCycle Data Services to build enterprise Flex applications and is a key contributor to Cairngorm.
- Building Rich Internet Applications with Cairngorm and LiveCycle Data Services
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Andrew Mason is a Technical Trainer focusing on developing and delivering technical training to support LiveCycle ES. He has been working with Adobe's enterprise forms and workflow technologies for the past seven years. In that time he has facilitated sessions for Adobe employees, solution partners, training partners and customers around the world.
- Hands On: Building Custom Applications with LiveCycle Workspace
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- The Future of PDF and Standards
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Trevor McCauley currently works as a Flash Player Quality Assurance Engineer at Adobe. Prior to Quality Engineering he worked in Technical Support supporting both Flash and Fireworks and wrote the MXML exporter now available in Fireworks CS3. In his free time, Trevor develops Flash and Fireworks content for his personal site, senocular.com, and moderates forums on popular Flash-related sites such as Kirupa.com, ActionScript.org, FlashKit.com, and UltraShock.com.
- Hands On: Rich Symbols in Fireworks
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Rob McDougall has been designing and developing computer software since 1983. Rob was a consultant with JetForm/Accelio/Adobe for six years before moving into R&D for eight years. During this time Rob was involved in the conception and creation of XFA. Since leaving Adobe, Rob has spent four years at Four Point Solutions architecting and developing solutions for customers using the Adobe enterprise products. He has extensive knowledge of the Adobe enterprise product line.
- Hands On: Introduction to XFA - The Heart of LiveCycle Forms
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Randah McKinnie is a Product Manager on the Adobe Connect Professional team. In this role, she defines the future direction and enhancements to the solution, with a focus on all things elearning: virtual classrooms, on-demand training and content, and implementation strategies.
Since 1997, her career has encompassed elearning, web conferencing, and technical training in a variety of roles. She has blended a deeply technical background with business and implementation strategy management experience. Randah has consulted with over 100 companies and organizations to move them toward success with their synchronous and asynchronous training and web conferencing deployments.
- Hands On: Rapid Training: Building a Curriculum in 60 Minutes or Less
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Dave Meeker currently serves as a managing partner at EffectiveUI, an international leader in strategy, design and development of next-generation user experiences. Primarily responsible for the strategic vision for clients, Dave's unique hybrid background of design, business, and technology helps to provide innovative council and focused direction to clients.
Before EffectiveUI, Dave was a principal at Machete, a Chicago firm that specializes in strategy and design of passive and interactive user experiences, broadcast TV, museum installations, and interactive (software) design and development.
Dave has been responsible for the direction of creative technology used for client solutions, business development, strategic design and executive counsel on digital design and technology issues, and is considered an expert in RIA strategy and development, interaction design and customer engagement. Dave has also served on advisory panels for Macromedia, Microsoft, Adobe and other software companies.
- Next Generation User Experiences: Real Case Studies
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Deneb Meketa designs and implements most of the security rules in Flash Player for Adobe Systems. He experiences every possible security headache, then selects a choice few of them to pass on to customers. He's kept very busy with engineering work, but loves getting a chance to communicate with the world about how security helps and hinders.
- Flash Player Cross-Domain Security
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Oliver Merk is the Principal Consultant at New Toronto Group. With over eighteen years of development experience, Oliver has been leveraging the Flex platform since its first version to deliver world-class business applications. He is also a long-time ColdFusion developer who has created dozens of web-based applications since version 1.5. Oliver is an Adobe Certified Instructor for the ColdFusion, Flex and LiveCycle product lines and continues to divide his time between application architecture, consulting, team management, sales support and education, as well as leading the Toronto Flex User Group.
- Flex 3: Developing Rich Client Applications
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Designer 2015
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Cross-media Design: Customer Perspectives on Planned and Ad Hoc Workflows
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Jenny Mok is a web developer at Adobe Systems and, prior to the acquisition, served as a consultant to the Macromedia web team. She is currently apart of the client technology group and specializes in CSS, JavaScript, and back-end technologies. Self-taught at the age of 17, Jenny has been involved in the web industry for ten years. When she's not geeking out, she's out and about riding horses, snowboarding or hiding out at some wireless coffee shop.
- Case Study: Implementing Large-Scale CSS on Adobe.com
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Michael C. Moore is Computer Scientist working on the Process Management functionality of the Adobe LiveCycle platform. Michael joined Adobe after the acquisition of Q-link Technologies in 2004. Prior to joining Adobe, Michael worked for Delta Airlines, C-Bridge Internet Solutions, and Northrop Grumman. Michael has ten years of enterprise software development experience.
- Realizing SOA Enterprise Architecture with LiveCycle ES
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Mike Morearty is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe. He is a developer on the Flex Builder team, with his primary focus being the debugger, and he has contributed to a number of other areas of the product. Mike has been with Adobe for five years; before joining Flex Builder, he was a developer on the Dreamweaver team. Prior to Adobe, Mike was a software developer at Microsoft, where he worked on Visual Studio and other products. He has a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
- Introduction to Flex Builder
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 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.
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
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 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Online Ads That Attract
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
David Nelson is a Senior Experience Designer at Adobe Systems and is responsible for developing the user experience and interface for Flash. With nearly a decade of experience in the interactive field, David has an extensive list of fortune 500 clients which include Ford, Cadillac, Scion, General Motors, Leapfrog, Microsoft, Trek Bikes, XM Radio and Wrigley. His work has earned numerous honors from professional organizations and publications including AAF, Communication Arts, and Flash Forward’s Flash Film Festival. David holds a BFA in Communication Design from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, with an emphasis in print and interactive media. He has since continued an academic presence by holding adjunct faculty positions at his alma mater as well as the California College of the Arts and has lectured at Chicago’s School of the Art Institute.
- XD: Prototyping Rich Internet Applications with Fireworks CS3
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Damien Nichols is the Sr. Interface Engineer for CIGNA HealthCare, Voluntary Limited Benefits in Phoenix, AZ. Responsible for UI and web design for the corporate web site and client portals, Damien is passionate about User Interaction, Collaboration, Web Standards, and Productivity. When he is not working he enjoys spending every second with his wife and 4 children.
- Contribute CS3: Out-of-the-Box to WCMS
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Mark Nichoson is a Senior Manager on the Content Strategy and Partnerships team and has been with Adobe for nine years. His special areas of interest include social computing, online collaboration, and community workflow.
- Incorporating Tagging Services into Your Application: Build, Borrow, or Buy
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- LiveCycle Digital Security and Certification
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Mike Nimer is a founding partner of Tapper, Nimer and Associates. A consulting company dedicated to providing expert guidance on Rich Internet Application (RIA) development and team mentoring. Mike is formerly a member of the ColdFusion engineering team, responsible for the Flex2 integration with ColdFusion and a number of other features in ColdFusion, such as Flash Forms. Before joining the engineering team he spent three years working as a senior consultant with the Macromedia consulting group, where he provided on-site assistance to customers around the world with their architecture planning, code reviews, performance tuning, emergency fire fighting, and general code issues.
- An Introduction to ColdFusion Powered Flex
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Michael grew up in the Redwoods of Arcata in Northern California. He moved to Seattle in 1989 to study for a Graphic Design BFA at the University of Washington and fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. He paid his way through design school by teaching professional designers and photographers how to use digital tools and techniques. Michael has over ten years experience in the software industry as a product manager and user interface designer of products for creative professionals at Extensis, Microsoft and Adobe. Michael is the author of several video training titles published by Lynda.com, and is a frequent speaker at industry events such as The InDesign Conference, The Creative Suite Conference, Macworld, PhotoPlus Expo, Photoshop World, PMA, Web Design World, FlashForward, Flash on the Beach, and the HOW Design Conference.
- Cross-media Design: Planned Workflows with Adobe Creative Suite 3
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Rod Nolan has been developing and maintaining ColdFusion applications since the days of the fisted lightening bolt. While his horizons have expanded over the past eight years to include the mainstream Flash Platform technologies, ColdFusion still fits like a glove. As the Senior Instructor at New Toronto Group, Adobe's premier partner in Canada, he spends most days delivering Adobe training to clients throughout Canada and the US. With Instructor and Developer certifications in Flash, Dreamweaver, Flex and ColdFusion, his non-teaching days are spent wearing the NTG consultant hat, contributing to projects that involve Flex, ColdFusion and Flash Media Server. Rod's other full time job is his three children, the oldest of whom just graduated kindergarten. When time allows he’s apt to be playing guitar for anyone who happens to be within earshot.
- Leveraging ColdFusion Components in ColdFusion
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Alessandro Pace currently works at VeriSign, as a Flash mobile software engineer responsible for Flash Lite R&D. He is an Adobe Certified Flash Lite 1.1 Instructor and Developer, and manager of the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group and an Adobe Community Expert. Alessandro works daily on his personal Flash Lite project, Kero Mobile, and is very active in the Flash Lite developer community. He is also a Forum Nokia Champion and co-founder and organizer of Mobile Monday Boston. You can visit his blog at biskero.org.
- 20 Tricks to Improve Flash Lite Development
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Eric is a Computer Engineering graduate from the University of Michigan who has been involved with microprocessor architecture and performance analysis at Intel for ten years, and has been working closely with Adobe application developers for six years.
- Quad Core and Scream'n!
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Thom is the founder and CEO of WindJack Solutions, Inc. A self-described Acrobat JavaScript geek and software adventurer, Thom has a broad engineering and programming background including over 20 years developing software in a variety of languages. WindJack Solutions’ specialty is Acrobat JavaScript and PDF development, and Thom is actively involved in the PDF community. In addition to developing innovative commercial tools for Acrobat developers and users (PDF CanOpener, AcroButtons, and AcroDialogs), Thom hosts the "JavaScript Corner" at Acrobatusers.com where he writes articles and tips on Acrobat JavaScript and maintains a blog. Thom is a regular speaker and trainer at Acrobat and PDF events/conferences.
- Case Study: Advanced Real-World PDF Examples
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Pimp My PDF
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Using Creative Suite Design and Developer Virtual Worlds: Second Life
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Combining a "serious" Computing Science education with a background in Multimedia Production, Nigel has been developing with Flash since its very earliest days. Upon landing his dream job at Macromedia, he had the luck to help start the very first Flash Component Frameworks team, which quickly kickstarted other development-centric Flash projects such as Flex. After three years on the Flash and Flex teams working on UI frameworks, he joined the Breeze team to focus on Real-Time Collaboration apps, including Breeze Meeting and Acrobat Connect. As part of the new Adobe BP Hosted Services team, he's combining interests, designing a component framework to make real-time collaboration applications more simple and accessible to developers.
- Adobe Hosted Services: Web APIs and Mashups
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Gunar Penikis is Senior Product Manager for Adobe XMP at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is responsible for defining platforms and products that empower the creative community to better manage media assets and workflow, enabling them to more efficiently express their vision. He has collaborated with international standards groups within the creative and publishing communities such as IDEAlliance, IPTC, PRISM, DISC, W3C, and Creative Commons to build awareness and drive adoption of metadata technologies. Previously, he was Product Manager for Adobe Bridge and Adobe’s Asset Management technologies. Gunar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University, Canada, and a Masters degree in International Business Administration from York University, Canada.
- Making Assets Intelligent with Metadata and Creative Suite 3
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 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 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Inspire Session: Making Things Move
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Arthur Phillips is currently Director of Enterprise Products for Lodestone Digital. Art has been delivering cutting edge training solutions since 1984. He has developed materials for George Washington University, the Federal Reserve Board, the U.S. Graduate School and many others.
Art has an extensive background in video, multimedia, electronic graphics, web development and e-Learning. He holds many Adobe certifications and is a regular speaker at national conferences including Adobe Max.
- Hands On: Building ColdFusion Powered Flex Applications
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Judah Phillips is Director of Web Analytics for Reed Business Information (Reed), the New York City-based division of Reed Elsevier Group PLC. Reed is a leading business information company in North America. Among its hundreds of publications and websites are leading franchises including Variety, Publishers Weekly, Interior Design, Furniture Today, Broadcasting & Cable, Wireless Week, Restaurants & Institutions, and EDN. Reed is also a leading provider of data and market research information through Reed Construction Data, RS Means, First Source, Instat, and Marketcast. Judah is a frequent speaker at Internet industry events and has been quoted in various publications, such as BusinessWeek and MarketingSherpa. He is an active member of the Boston Internet community and participates in several industry organizations, such as the Web Analytics Association and the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Judah is also a member of the Web 2.0 Measurement Working Group and is a Boston host for "Web Analytics Wednesdays." He earned a double-major from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA and MS from Northeastern University. He lives outside historic Boston.
- If You Build It Will They Come? Designing Your Web Application for Smooth Web Analytics
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Thomas Phinney has worked with Adobe's type group since 1997, currently as product manager for fonts and global typography. He is involved in the design, technical, historical and business aspects of type, and is on the board of directors of the international typographic society (ATypI). His typeface Hypatia Sans is a registration incentive for CS3 applications. Thomas has an MS in printing from RIT, specializing in typography and design, and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
- Font Perspective: The New New Typography
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in the RIA integration technologies. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past 5 years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems including .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.
- Hands On: Building a Rich Internet Application with Flex 3 and .NET
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 3:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Rob Pinkerton is the Director of Government Solutions for Adobe Systems where he has responsibility for Adobe’s enterprise go-to-market and solutions development strategies for global government. Rob has 18 years experience in government and technology. He has worked in County, City, State and Federal levels of government including as an emergency medical response technician in Virginia, a law clerk in the City of Baltimore and as Legislative Council in the United States Senate during the 104th-106th Congress. Prior to joining Adobe, Rob was Vice President of Product Management for LexisNexis’s Enterprise Data Fusion Product which was developed for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to perform complex data analysis. For 5 years, Rob worked for Siebel Systems (now part of Oracle Corp) as Director of the Global Public Sector product business where he was responsible for Siebel’s second fastest growing product line and over 200 global public sector customers using enterprise case management and CRM. Rob has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, a law degree from the University of Baltimore, a BA in economics, political science and history from the University of Richmond and has a patent for co-inventing a system for processing intelligence information (held by Oracle.) Rob lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife and son.
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in Government
- Wednesday, October 3 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- LiveCycle Digital Security and Certification
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Matt is the Creative Director at Outside Media Solutions Ltd, a new UK start-up company that specializes in mobile phone content and application creation. Since it's formation in 2006, Matt has worked on a number of Flash Lite specific mobile applications, as well as developing and selling Flash Lite living wallpapers and screensavers.
Matt is a certified ACP Flash designer, and will shortly become a certified Flash Lite 2.1 instructor. He also manages the newly formed UK Adobe Mobile and Devices user group.
Matt has a degree in Media Technology from the University of Lincoln.
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Andrew Powell has been architecting and developing web applications for over 10 years using ColdFusion, ASP.NET, and ASP. His background includes experience running IT Departments for firms in the executive search and aviation consulting fields. Currently, Andrew is a Senior Consultant at Universal Mind specializing in ColdFusion, Spry and Flex. He is a frequent contributor to the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and the Web Developer's and Designer's Journal. He also serves on the editorial advisory board for both the ColdFusion Developer’s Journal and the Web Developer's and Designer's Journal. You can read his blog on everything ColdFusion, Spry, & Flex at www.infoaccelerator.net.
- Introduction to the Spry Framework for Ajax
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Adam Pratt joined Adobe in 2000 and is currently a Senior Systems Engineer working with all of the Creative Suite Products, including Photoshop, Acrobat, and InDesign. He consults with Adobe's publishing and advertising customers regarding their creative workflows and has co-authored several books about using Adobe’s professional design software. Adam is also responsible for training Adobe's global network of trainers and consultants and is a frequent contributor to Adobe's ACE certification program.
- Designing for Multiple Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
With over 20 years of experience in the IT field, Raad is the Senior Software Architect of ArcWebServices at ESRI - or Environmental System Research Institute - where he has been using his command of i-Technology to design the next-generation Internet solutions. He has also been a team lead in architecting and implementing ArcIMS, the premier mapping solution on the Internet. Currently, Raad is the Flex evangelist within ESRI and is leading the Flex-based ArcWebExplorer solution. After graduating from Boston University with a Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering, he combined his IT experience and designed and implemented an airport noise and operation monitoring system (ANOMS) that is currently used in over 30 airports world wide.
- Case Study: ESRI Geospatial Application Using Adobe Flex
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Allen Rabinovich is an engineer on Yahoo!'s Flash Platform team, where he architects and develops Flash and Flex components and libraries for use both inside and outside of the company. His approach to development centers on addressing real user needs, applying concepts of usability and simplicity to interfaces, and balancing performance and functionality.
Allen holds an SB in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a Masters in Computer Science and HCI from Stanford.
- Inspire Session: Yahoo! Presents "Examples of Integration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Shashi Rai is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe and the product architect for LiveCycle Rights Management Service and its earlier version (Adobe Policy server). Shashi has extensive experience in developing and architecting scalable enterprise server solutions based on J2EE technology and is adept in different J2EE technologies. Prior to joining Adobe, Shashi worked at EFI, Valicert and other start-ups where he was responsible for architecture, design and development of server applications. Shashi is currently working on architecture and development of vertical applications based on LiveCyle platform and integration with third party applications.
- LiveCycle Rights Management ES: Its Purpose, Scope, and Integration with Various Technologies and Formats
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Dale Rankine is the founder and CEO of Moket, a world-renowned Flash Lite development and publishing company based in Australia. Dale has been a prominent member of the Flash Lite community since 2004 and is well known to both developers and business leaders. Dale is an Adobe Community Expert (Mobile), Certified Adobe Instructor (Flash Lite) and is the manager of the Australian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. Dale is a regular presenter at events and conferences, including MAX and webDU, on the topic of Flash Lite and is passionate about engaging and growing the Flash Lite ecosystem.
- 20 Tricks to Improve Flash Lite Development
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Boot Camp for Mobile and Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Bob Regan is a Group Product Manager for the Community Engine at Adobe Systems and is based in San Francisco. The Community Engine is a new initiative to develop community applications for learning, help and support. Bob has several years experience developing targeted customer solutions for Education, Government, Financial Services and Telecommunications. As an author, designer and advocate, Bob has spoken around the world on community, accessibility and Flash. Throughout his career, Bob has been dedicated to understanding unique customer challenges and incorporating them into development practices.
- Creating Accessible Flash Experiences
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
- Incorporating Tagging Services into Your Application: Build, Borrow, or Buy
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Robert Reinhardt, VP of the Multimedia Platforms Group for Schematic, is a highly respected authority on Flash and Flash Video. He has authored or co-authored numerous books on Flash, including the Flash Bible series, the Flash ActionScript Bible series, and the new Adobe Flash CS3 Professional Video Studio Techniques. Robert is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash courses at Portland State University.
- Branding and Protecting Flash Enabled Video
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 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 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Charles Rejonis is co-director of The Wharton School’s Al West Learning Lab at the University of Pennsylvania (www.wharton.upen.edu/learning). Wharton’s Learning Lab explores innovative ways of presenting business education using competitive games and simulations. Over the past seven years at Wharton, Charles has helped create over 30 different learning experiences for students, including OTIS, Wharton’s commercially available Online Trading and Investment Simulator. Prior to joining Wharton, he designed and developed software for the University of California. Charles holds degrees from Simon’s Rock College (AA-Liberal Arts), the University of Massachusetts (BSCS), and Stanford University (MSCS).
- A Virtual Trading Floor: Bringing Wall Street to the Classroom
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (MAC Lab)
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (Windows Lab)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- The Design Shootout with Adobe Gurus
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Richmond is a Founding Partner, Designer and Creative Director at The Chopping Block, Inc. , a full-service graphic design studio founded in 1996 on the principle that good design spans all mediums. His work has won notable recognition from Communication Arts, ID Magazine, HOW Magazine, Flash Forward, and The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum's Triennial Exhibition.
For the past ten years, Matthew has presented and instructed on all aspects of digital and analog design, photography and illustration. When not in the studio, Matthew can be found teaching digital illustration, Flash and advanced techniques to the graduate students at the School of Visual Arts.
- The New Creatives
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Brian Riggs is the Technical Lead for the Adobe Media Player.
- XD: Customizing and Deploying Adobe Media Player
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Daniel Rinehart is a Software Architect at Allurent, where he is helping to build a new generation of innovative online shopping experiences using Flex. He has worked in the field of software development as an engineer and architect for the past eight years. Prior to joining Allurent he worked at Ruckus Network, Towers Perrin, and BiT Group. While at BiT Group he worked for clients including Cisco and Dell Financial Services, among others.
- Continuous Integration with Flex, FlexUnit, and Ant
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Joe Rinehart is Founder of Firemoss, LLC and is author of the Model-Glue frameworks for ColdFusion and Flex. He’s an and all-around OO enthusiast and has been developing Web applications for the past decade. He's used ColdFusion, Flash, and Flex to develop traditional and Rich Internet Applications for Booz | Allen | Hamilton, Adobe, the National Wildlife Federation, the Mayo clinic, and numerous other commercial, non-profit, and government organizations.
- Building ColdFusion Applications around Design Patterns
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sam Rivello is the Director of Multimedia Development for Los Angeles based Neopets, Inc, an MTV Company. Sam has designed, developed and/or managed development of 400+ Flash and Shockwave games and applications for youth-oriented advertising campaigns for Fortune 500 companies.
- AdverGaming
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
As a member of Adobe's Worldwide Partner Programs group, Maria manages the Partner Program Marketing team which provides marketing program benefits, partner communications, and marketing support for the Adobe Solution Partner and Adobe Solutions Network partner programs.
Patrick Rodriguez is an engineer on Adobe's Hosted Services team. He is working on the web services backend for Document Center. Previous projects included the use of Flex and Ruby on Rails. Patrick graduated in 2006 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from U.C. Berkeley, and he currently lives and works in San Jose, CA.
- Adobe Hosted Services: Web APIs and Mashups
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Strategic, 360-Degree Design
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 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.
- Boot Camp for LiveCycle
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Tridib is the Director of Products at PCPCBU, and looks after Director-Shockwave. Tridib is based out of the Bangalore center, where the engineering team is also based. Tridib has had development experience for more than 20 years, though he has been introduced to the world of game development very recently.
- Sneak Peek of Director 11
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Craig Rublee has been working at Adobe for 16 years. During his tenure there he has been involved in the development of technologies to extend the reach of Adobe’s products to international markets. This work started with improving the support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean in PostScript based printers and typesetters and was followed by doing similar work for the Acrobat line of products. More recently he has been involved in adding support for Arabic, Hebrew, Thai and Vietnamese to the Acrobat product line.
In his current role as Sr. Globalization Architect, his responsibilities include promoting software internationalization across Adobe’s products.
Craig has a BS in Mathematical Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.
- Building Global Flex Applications
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Anthony Rumsey is a Computer Scientist with the Form Guide team at Adobe. Anthony joined Adobe in 1998 and over the past 9 years has spent most of his time developing server product solutions that incorporated standards such as HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP and JMX. Currently, he has been busy developing the Flex-based Guide Builder desktop application that is included with Live Cycle Designer ES. Prior to joining Adobe, Anthony attended the University of Ottawa where he obtained his BSc. in Computer Engineering.
- Everything You Want to Know about LiveCycle Form Guides
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Keldon Rush has been creating engaging software for 11 years. As a managing Media Designer in the late 90's Keldon was the driving force behind Flash in interactive training products at Microsoft. Keldon has been creating mobile software for seven years.
As the eighth employee at Action Engine in 2000, Keldon managed the engineering team for the server and the client to ship version 1.0 of Action Engine's award winning On-Device Portal. Joining the founder of Action Engine, Keldon was the first employee at SNAPin Software and as Senior Program Manager was very involved in designing and building SNAPin's SelfService system for Smartphones. Now as Director of the Platforms and Technologies Group at Smashing Ideas Keldon is working with Fortune 500 companies to make the most of Adobe's Flash Platform - particularly Flash Lite, FlashCast, and AIR.
- Creating Flash Cast Channels for Verizon Wireless
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Rob Rusher is a Solutions Architect at EffectiveUI. With an extensive background in software engineering, professional services and training, Rob has worked with many Fortune 500 organizations. Rob is a published author and has contributed to several books, website articles and magazine articles. Rob is actively involved in the Adobe instructor and developer community, and contributes to developer certification exams, as well as organizing and speaking at user groups and conferences. Rob is passionate about rich clients across devices and platforms and believes that they will change the way we create and live.
- Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR): Bringing Rich Internet Applications to the Desktop
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
VP Development, Business User Group Analytics, SAP Labs LLC., Palo Alto
Guido has 17+ years experience in the software industry, 10 years with SAP in various positions in development and professional services. His focus is on Business Intelligence, Enterprise Information Management and user Experience Innovation. Guido is currently responsible for the development of SAP's operational performance management solutions.
Educational background in Applied Physics.
- Experiences with Flex, Flash and AIR on top of the SAP NetWeaver Business Process Platform
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 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 Lab)
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Hands On: Be an Adobe Creative Suite 3 Expert! (Windows Lab)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Interactive Design Workflows with Flash
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Unlocking Cross-Media Workflows
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 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
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Robi Sen is a managing partner with Twin Technologies - a premiere Web 2.0 software development house specializing in delivering mission critical web applications. Recent firm clients include: Wal-Mart, Under Armour, Nationwide Insurance and many others. Robi has also been in executive leadership positions with Department 13 and Vobis Communications over a distinguished 20 year career in the software industry which began when he was recruited to develop software systems for Westinghouse Hanford Company the Defense Department at the age of 16.
- XML 101
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Thomas Sha was the first manager of the frontend engineering discipline at Yahoo!, where he has overseen its growth from a small department of markup and script specialists to a companywide discipline consisting of more than 500 engineers around the world. Thomas is best known as the founder and chief architect of the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI), a free JavaScript and CSS library used widely at Yahoo! and regarded as one of the top-tier frontend toolkits in the open-source arena.
- Inspire Session: Yahoo! Presents "Examples of Integration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Robby Shaver is the designer for Virtual Ubiquity, creator of Buzzword. He's had the good fortune to design interactive applications for over 20 years.
- Inspire Session: Building Buzzword, a New Breed of Word Processor
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Andrew Shebanow is a Sr. Engineering Manager at Adobe, working on the next generation of hosted services for document collaboration.
Previously, Andrew has worked for Microsoft, PlaceWare, Taligent, and Apple. He wants to be a professional baker when he grows up. Or maybe a fireman.
- Documents 2.0: The Next Generation of Document Collaboration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
John Skidgel has 15 years of experience in software and user interface design. He began his career teaching digital imaging, video, and new media courses at Eastman Kodak's The Center for Creative Imaging in 1992 and has worked for Adobe and Macromedia. His interface and information designs have won two PC Magazine's Editor's Choice awards, an AIGA award of distinction, and recognition in the book Information Architects. He recently published a book on Flash Video by Focal Press titled, Producing Flash CS3 Video, a Guide for Video Pros and Web Designers.
- Video and the Web: How to Shoot, Edit, and Publish Web Video
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 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 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Inspire Session: Fifty Reasons Why ActionScript 3 Rocks
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 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.
- Using ColdFusion Components as Objects
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Hands On: Building Custom Applications with LiveCycle Workspace
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Patti D. Sokol is President and Chief Instructor of Sokol Consulting, Inc. She has been providing dynamic and interactive software training and demonstrations for over 10 years. Patti is a Certified Technical Trainer and an Adobe Certified Instructor for Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop.
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium (MAC Lab)
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Ken Soliva works as Web Art + Technology Director for Trek Bicycle Corporation where he leads user interface design and development projects for an array of brands. He is an advocate for web standards, merging form and function to create user driven interactive experiences. When not designing for the web, Ken has been spotted moonlighting on brand identity projects within Trek's Creative Group.
- Strategic, 360-Degree Design
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about usability, you know that he’s probably the most effective, knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. What you probably don’t know is that he has guided the research agenda and built User Interface Engineering into the largest research organization of its kind in the world. He’s been working in the field of usability and design since 1978, before the term "usability" was ever associated with computers.
Jared spends his time working with the research teams at the company, helps clients understand how to solve their design problems, explains to reporters and industry analysts what the current state of design is all about, and is a top-rated speaker at more than 20 conferences every year. He is also the conference chair and keynote speaker at the annual User Interface Conference, is on the faculty of the Tufts University Gordon Institute, and manages to squeeze in a fair amount of writing time.
- Inspire Session: The Dawning of the Age of Experience
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- What Makes an Interface Feel Intuitive?
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Joe Springer is a seasoned production veteran and certified Adobe instructor in After Effects and Premiere. Cutting his teeth in New York and Austin Joe currently calls Washington DC home where he teaches for Fig Leaf Software. Joe is excited about the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium and the possibilities it brings for the "armchair producer".
- Introduction to Adobe Creative Suite 3 Production Premium
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Creating Flash Cast Channels for Verizon Wireless
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Geoff Stearns is a Flash Engineer at YouTube and the author of SWFObject, a Flash detection and embedding script that has become the de-facto standard for embedding Flash content. Before working for Google, Geoff worked on web projects for Adobe, MTV, New York’s MoMA, XM Radio, Comcast, and Sony Pictures Classics and taught front end web development at The Cooper Union in New York.
- Flash Player Detection and Embedding: An Open Source Solution
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Ryan Stewart lives, eats, and breathes rich internet applications. He holds an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a Rich Internet Application Evangelist for Adobe and blogger extraordinaire. After graduating from Penn, he spent two years developing applications for the Wharton School and pushing the idea of the web as a platform for learning. Ryan lives in Seattle with his wife, tracks the RIA world and climbs mountains when he can.
- Leveraging PDF within Adobe AIR Applications
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Neil Straghalis works on the Adobe.com web team, where he has done everything from hand-building HTML pages for the Developer Center to creating designs for the first combined Adobe.com/Macromedia.com site. He currently runs the Web Production and Client Technology group, which is responsible for all the HTML, CSS, JS, Flash and Flex code on the site. He has been through seven redesigns in five years.
- Effective Website Redesign
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Deepa Subramaniam is a Software Engineer on the Flex Framework team. She joined Adobe, then Macromedia, straight out of UC Berkeley where she got a BA in Computer Science and has been at Adobe for over 4 years. She was lucky to join the Flex team during the pre-Flex 1.0 days and is thrilled to see the adoption of Flex skyrocket. Her time on the Flex team has been focused primarily on the Flex Framework, mainly data-aware controls and layout mechanisms. Additionally, she has implemented Flex Builder Design View features as well as LCDS paging features. She is an active participant in the Flex community and enjoys helping people implement awesome UI's with Flex. Deepa lives and works in San Francisco and can be seen biking to work and dreaming up pixel perfect layouts.
- Customizing the Flex Framework
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
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: CSS Part 2: Designing CSS-Based Layouts with Dreamweaver CS3
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Mike Sundermeyer is Vice President of Product Design at Adobe. Growing up surfing in Santa Cruz has given him a love of the experience. And growing up with traffic lights that deliver two-minute reds at 3 AM has given him an indignation for bad design. Prior to joining Adobe, he worked at Macromedia where he used applied indignation as the lead UI designer for the first two versions of Dreamweaver and contributed to the conception and design of Contribute, Breeze, Flex, and other products. Prior to Macromedia, Mike led design and development projects at Gain Technology, a multimedia startup, and Sun Microsystems.
- General Session
- Tuesday, October 2 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
James Talbot has been with Adobe for over seven years, on both the sales engineering and training teams. He has traveled extensively throughout the world certifying Adobe instructors as well as speaking at conferences. James has also authored two books: "Object Oriented ActionScript 2.0" and "Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source". He has also recorded Flex Training videos for Total Training using both the Flex 2 and Flex 3 products.
As an integral team member on high profile Rich Internet Application, James has consulted on rich internet assignments for a handful of Fortune 500 companies.
- Introduction to Flash Lite 2
- Sunday, September 30 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Manny Tan started in New York City working primarily as an interactive and user experience designer. Manny now works as a Freelance Designer and Developer in San Francisco. His personal work at uncontrol.com focuses on the algorithmic aspect of art and nature.
- The New Creatives
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Before co-founding Tapper, Nimer & Associates with Mike Nimer in 2006, Jeff was the founder and chief technologist for Tapper.net Consulting, which focused on the development of RIAs and empowering clients through mentoring.
Jeff has been developing internet-based applications since 1995, for a myriad of clients including Harley Davidson, Toys R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express and Morgan Stanley. As an Instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, ColdFusion and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1. Jeff has worked as author and technical editor for several books, including "Flex 2: Training from the Source," and "Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0."
Jeff is thrilled to be speaking at MAX again; he has spoken at seven of the last eight Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe developer conferences. He also sits on the Editorial Board of Web Developers & Designers Journal.
Jeff lives in New York City, with his wife Lisa, and Children Kaliope and Kagan.
- Hands On: Deploying Flex and HTML/JavaScript Applications to Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Anatole Tartakovsky is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems. He's responsible for creation of frameworks and reusable components. Anatole authored number of books and articles on Flex, AJAX, XML, Internet and client-server technologies. He holds an MS in mathematics. You can reach him at atartakovsky@faratasystems.com
- Flex Best Practices
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Jorge is a Senior Engineering Manager for Adobe Systems, where he oversees the development of Dreamweaver and the Spry framework. With a deep interest in web technologies and web development practices, Jorge has spent the last ten years of his career building best-of-breed tools for web development. Jorge has spoken at Adobe MAX, WebVisions and TODCon conferences.
- Designer/Developer Workflow with the Spry Framework for Ajax
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
J.P. Terry is a co-founder and CEO of SmartDoc Technologies, a leading company in the field of intelligent and dynamic document solutions. SmartDoc has developed interactive PDF systems for Fidelity Investments, Merrill Lynch, PNC Bank, and MetLife. SmartDoc Technologies is a member of the Adobe Solutions network and a Google Enterprise Professional. J.P.’s session will be based on his new book, Creating Dynamic Forms with Adobe LiveCycle Designer (0-321-50987-0) from Adobe Press. Prior to SmartDoc Technologies, J.P. founded BrandWizard Technologies and was the CEO of BrandWizard from 2000 until 2005. Mr. Terry is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, the Omnicom Executive training program, and Wharton's Financial Executive program.
- Hands On: Extreme Form Makeover - with LiveCycle Designer 8, ES and Flex
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:30 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.
- Flash Player Internals
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Ivan Todorov is Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of BLITZ, a world-renowned interactive agency that develops interactive advertising campaigns, rich Internet applications, and user interfaces. As CTO, Ivan is responsible for all technology operations, service offerings and resources, and ensures the company’s award-winning Flash and Engineering teams continue to deliver cutting-edge, innovative solutions to BLITZ’s worldwide clientele. Ivan has also built up BLITZ’s strategic partnerships, assets, frameworks, code libraries, documentation, training videos, and best practices knowledge base. Ivan frequently presents at Flash Forward, Adobe MAX and FiTC conferences. His acute sense for interactive design and technology is a byproduct of a multi-disciplinary background encompassing visual design, information architecture, usability, 3D, audio, video and programming. Prior to BLITZ, Ivan co-founded Silicon Valley-based interactive branding and animation company eStudio in 1998, where he helped to raise $5M in venture capital. Ivan holds a degree in Computer Video Imaging from Cogswell College. When not thinking about innovating on-line commerce and advertising, Ivan DJs and enjoys life in sunny California with his wife, Bobbi, his new baby girl, Sophie, and an ever-growing collection of new technology books and gadgets.
- BLITZ Case Study: Creativity Conducted - Holographic Flash Projections with WiiMotes Deconstructed
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Introduction to Streaming with Flash Media Server
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Howard Treisman is the Technical Director of Avoka Technologies, and a specialized Adobe Enterprise Partner. Howard has been working with LiveCycle for over four years, both building applications for customers, and extending LiveCycle itself.
- Boot Camp for LiveCycle
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 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.
- Documents 2.0: The Next Generation of Document Collaboration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Inspire Session: Building Buzzword, a New Breed of Word Processor
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Rich Tretola is the Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones, Inc. He is an award winning Flex developer and self proclaimed Flex evangelist. Rich has been developing RIA’s with Flex since the initial Royale beta program prior to Flex 1 in 2003. He entered the field of web development in the late 90s and has been building applications ever since. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA and is an Adobe Community Expert. He is a contributor to the Indianapolis Flex user group and is the lead author of the Wiley/Wrox Publication Professional Flex 2, Beginning Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) and is the owner of EverythingFlex.com.
- Taking a Flex Application from the Web to the Desktop with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
Gever holds the deliberately ambiguous title of Computer Scientist in the Experience Design sub-group of the User Experience group at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In this capacity, he explores solutions to the problem of design fidelity through conception to deployment. Most recently he was a key member of the team which deployed the Tour of California web experience. In just six weeks from design to live coverage of an event, which boasts the largest cumulative attendance in California history, the Tour Tracker incorporated services from Adobe, Flickr, Yahoo, Akamai, and CSC in one giant fault-tolerant mashup. While not strictly a sports-event specialist, Gever has worked on live web coverage of the Sydney Olympics, Americas Cup, CART, and Moto GP. In addition, he once pioneered organic video effects at the brilliant, but ill-fated, special effects house Xaos Tools, developed early 3D web experiences at Construct, and developed enterprise software enabling low-volume, high-relevance direct marketing materials for Nimblefish. For many years he was a member of the highly-acclaimed Helium consulting group which developed custom solutions for such diverse clients as The San Francisco 49ers, AXA/Rosenberg, Quokka Sports, and Adobe. When he is not at his day job, Gever runs the Tinkering School which explores immersive curricula for teaching kids ages 7 to 17 how build the things they think of. Every spring he teaches paragliding at Advanced Paragliding, and, with whatever time remains, he cuts metal with his CNC plasma torch.
- XD: From Zero to Bike Race in Six Weeks: The Amgen Tour of California
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
In late 2004, Josh Tynjala began working with Flash and ActionScript 2. Since the beginning, he’s had a strong interest in building components and creating compelling user interfaces and visualizations. Josh discovered Flex and ActionScript 3 in 2005 when the first public alpha of Flex 2 appeared on Adobe Labs. Immediately, he knew it would revolutionize RIAs and the Flash Platform. Since then, Josh has explored many of the deepest corners of the Flex SDK's source code and has contributed several useful projects to the open source community.
- Inspire Session: Yahoo! Presents "Examples of Integration
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
Nick Velloff is the CTO at MRN : multi-vertical specialty e-commerce site introducing new technology and sales tactics to the $136.2 billion industry. Previously he was Director of Creative Development at AKQA. Nick is well known for his expertise in creating highly visible dynamic flash content and rich internet applications with leading brands such as Sony, Hewlett Packard, Ask.com and ESPN. Nick uses his knowledge of design to educate developers how to collaborate effectively with design teams to create the best possible user experience. Check out Nick’s portfolio and blog at http://www.velloff.com
- Using Flash and Flex Together
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- RIA Panel: Web or Desktop
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Rich Internet Applications and Mobility
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Gabor Vida is the President of Teknision. For clients, Gabor is the first point of contact and often leads the user experience strategy. For Teknision, Gabor develops the vision of the company and has played a key role in furthering the concept of applications as branding vehicles. Spanning the last 12 years, Gabor has an extensive background in both application development and branding.
- Branded Experiences with Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Glenda Vigoreaux is an Adobe Certified Instructor with over 15 years experience as a technical trainer. She has been teaching Adobe technologies since 1998 and currently teaches ColdFusion, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Contribute, Acrobat Connect and Presenter. Most of her career has been devoted to technical training, application development and public speaking.
She has a Master of Science degree in Information Systems and is also a certified facilitator and coach in the processes of personal and professional development. Glenda is a featured speaker at Adobe MAX Conferences, where she won the MAX 2004 speaker competition, receiving outstanding ratings from attendees of her sessions.
Glenda currently manages the training facility for roundpeg in Phoenix, Arizona. roundpeg is a premier Adobe Authorized Training Center that specializes in web development, offering Enterprise, Web, and Wireless solutions.
- Hands On: Component Development in ColdFusion 8
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 8:30 am - 10:00 am
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:45 pm - 5:15 pm
Shyam Vijay is responsible for developing and delivering Content Protection solutions and products at Adobe, focusing on media content and workflows. Shyam has a rich background in Rights Management and Security technology. Most recently, Shyam successfully wrapped-up a multi-generational initiative at Adobe to develop and deploy Rights Management solutions for Software Licensing and anti-piracy, leading this initiative from a seed-stage to a mature solution integrated into all Adobe products.
- Implementing Rights Management (DRM) for Video Delivery
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Sanga Viswanathan is the Lead Architect for Adobe's LiveCycle Platform. Sanga has extensive experience in the Enterprise Software space with key focus areas being Business Process Management ,B2B,SOA platforms and WS standards. Prior to joining Adobe, Sanga has worked on architecting, designing and building various application platforms with emphasis on security, identity management, BPM and web services. Sanga is currently immersed in building the next generation of the Enterprise business engagement platform at Adobe.
- Hands On: Building an Application Using LiveCycle ES
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Monday, October 1 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Senior Consultant with Adobe Systems, Matt Voerman has over twelve years of professional web and rich media development experience. As a long-time Flash Platform evangelist, he has worked with scores of local and international organizations, specializing mainly within the enterprise finance sector. Matt has written, or contributed to, numerous books, whitepapers, and articles on the Adobe Flash Platform and has been using the technology since its inception as Future Splash. A regular speaker at industry events within the APAC region, he has been a driving force in promoting the benefits of rich internet applications (RIAs) for a number of years. Matt is also a Master Flash and Flex Instructor, as well as Community Expert, who strongly believes in supporting, educating and growing the RIA development landscape as a whole.
- Inspire Session: Monetizing AIR with Ads and Licensing
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
Kumar Vora oversees product strategy and technical marketing for the products and technologies in the Business Productivity Business Unit. The business unit provides for the development of comprehensive, integrated technologies and solutions for businesses who want to engage their customers and constituents with information more efficiently and effectively. This includes helping businesses develop and deploy applications that combine the richness of the desktop with the reach of the Web. The technologies that support the business unit are the Adobe LiveCycle line of server software and the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat Connect product lines.
Vora came to Adobe from Oblix, an eBusiness security infrastructure company he co-founded in 1996 where he served as vice president of technology. At Oblix, Kumar was responsible for all aspects of product development from the design to delivery of scalable, multi-platform, enterprise-class server products.
- Partner Summit: Meet the Team: Future Strategies in Enterprise
- Wednesday, October 3 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Jeff Vroom is a Principal Scientist at Adobe in the Flex Enterprise Development team and is an architect of the LiveCycle Data Services product. Prior to Adobe, he was CTO of Tribal Fusion Inc, an online advertising firm and before that he was Chief Architect of ATG Inc, a Java/J2EE ecommerce software vendor. Jeff has over 20 years of software development experience with nine years of experience programming in Java for server based applications. For the past 16 years, he has focused on the design of application frameworks to improve the productivity of developers with varied skill sets in writing maintainable applications with minimal compromises in terms of ease of use, performance, and scalability.
- Advanced LiveCycle Data Services for Flex Developers
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in eLearning
- Wednesday, October 3 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Thomas Wagner is one of the founders and Creative Director of the company “The Design Assembly.” Focusing on the Flash platform for many years, he has won several international awards, such as the 2006 Adobe MAX Award in the Mobile and Devices Category as well as three Flash Film Festival Awards and several other prizes and nominations. Since 2000, Wagner has spoken at many international events and Flash related conferences. From 2003 to 2005 he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Saarbrücken, Germany. Since 2005, he has worked as a professor for Virtual Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Kaiserslautern, Germany.
- Flash Lite Success Story
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Mike Wallen is Sr. Product Manager for Adobe Creative Suite where he is responsible for business development. His focus is on working with partners to develop creative solutions that help advertising, media, and publishing customers. Mike joined Adobe in 1998 and since then has contributed to several product releases including FrameMaker 6, PageMaker 7, InDesign 2.0, CS, and CS2. Most recently he was responsible for the Version Cue CS3 SDK. He collaborated with several digital asset management partners (DAM) to deliver new solutions that integrate with the Creative Suite. Mike has expertise in layout design, editorial and production, automated publishing, digital asset management, and cross-media publishing. Mike resides in Charleston, SC. He holds a business degree from the College of Charleston and a master of business administration from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.
- Bridging the Gap Between Creative Suite and Asset Management
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in Media and Publishing
- Wednesday, October 3 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Assembling Rich Content in LiveCycle ES
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Dave founded Fig Leaf Software with Steve Drucker in 1992, and shares Steve’s vision of Fig Leaf Software as a world-class development and training company. As Chief Technology Officer, Dave Watts drives the technology vision and enhances Fig Leaf's competitive edge by developing the company's best practices, covering server configuration, performance tuning, application development, and application deployment.
Recognized as an expert in the ColdFusion community, Dave has been developing browser-based applications with ColdFusion since version 1.5. He coauthored the best-selling ColdFusion book, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, first and second editions with Steve Drucker and Ben Forta. Along with Steve Drucker, Dave co-founded the first ColdFusion Users’ Group in Washington, DC. He has been the most prolific poster on the CF-Talk mailing list for the last several years, having answered several thousand questions on ColdFusion and related topics. He regularly speaks at industry events, such as Macromedia MAX, and writes articles for various trade publications. As one of the first Macromedia-certified instructors, Dave combines exceptional teaching with course development. He received a perfect score on his ColdFusion MX Certification, and regularly pursues new certifications in other areas of interest.
When not developing or teaching for Fig Leaf Software, Dave enjoys playing with new gadgets and technologies. In addition, he has served as an expert witness on IT and internet issues in Maryland’s civil court system.
- Optimizing ColdFusion Application Performance
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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
- Monday, October 1 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 9:15 am - 10:15 am
- Flex Best Practices
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Nate Weiss has been developing applications with ColdFusion, Flash, and Flex for years and years. He is currently aligned with the good folks at Twin Technologies, working on rich Internet applications, touch-screen systems, commerce sites, and design projects. A past contributor to some of Ben Forta's popular books, he is also the author of the massive international runaway mega-hit bestseller, "Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional for Server Geeks." But most importantly, Nate got married to the most beautiful girl in the world just about a year ago!
- Image Manipulation in ColdFusion
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm
- Partner Summit: Partner Opportunities in Media and Publishing
- Wednesday, October 3 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Harry West is Product Management Director for the SAP Human Capital Management solution at SAP. A former HR professional in the banking industry, he has now been with SAP for over 12 years, holding positions at SAP AG in Walldorf, Germany and for the last 10 years at SAP Labs, LLC in Palo Alto. Harry has covered various aspects of HCM in the SAP product portfolio, and helped launch early releases of SAP HR country versions for both the United States and Canada. In the past several years, Harry has focused on expanding SAP's product capabilities in its Talent Management suite of applications. He also manages a diverse team of Product Managers with global HCM product definition responsibility in the areas of Payroll, Interaction Center, Travel, Recruiting and Enterprise Learning based out of Palo Alto. His team leverages Adobe technologies in many ways to enhance the delivery of HCM services to end users in various roles in customer organizations. Harry holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Washington Business School. He can be reached at harry.west@sap.com.
- SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe
- Tuesday, October 2 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Using Adobe Connect within SAP Enterprise Learning
- Monday, October 1 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Steve Whatley joined Adobe in 2000 as a systems engineer to support the Adobe Dynamic Media team whose products consist of Creative Suite 3 Production Premium, i.e. Premiere Pro, After Effects, Sound Booth (Audition too) Encore, Photoshop and Illustrator. Steve currently is a field technical resource which takes him all over the U.S. showing Adobe video solutions to customers at trade shows, large events, and seminars. Steve is an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator and a Video Specialist. He started as a fine artist, moved to airbrush illustration also doing photo-retouch (before Photoshop) combining that with 20 years in the graphic design industry, a bit on the web side and finally finding his home in the 2D/3D world doing After Effects work since version 3, and on the 3D side starting with StrataStudio, Infini-D, Electric Image, Power Animator and Maya.
- Introduction to After Effects CS3 Professional
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Alexei is a developer, designer, user experience advocate, and co-author of "Enterprise Ajax" by Prentice Hall. As product manager for components tools at Nitobi, he tries to find ways to make web applications faster and cheaper, so that you love to use them. He is the primary architect of RobotReplay (a pioneering web analytics tool), and SayZu (a rich conversational polling tool). Alexei lives and works in beautiful Vancouver, BC, Canada.
- Inspire Session: Building AIR with HTML/AJAX
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Boot Camp for LiveCycle
- Wednesday, October 3 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Jason Williams is a Senior Computer Scientist of Software Engineering at Adobe. He has spent more than 14 years creating client and server frameworks that provide managed data services. Jason worked on Flash MX Professional 2004, the Flash Remoting Components for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0, Flex Builder 1.0, LiveCycle Data Services and AIR. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and is also a published writer in the ACM SIGCE proceedings for compiler design and neural networks.
- Working with Persistent Data in Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
- Monday, October 1 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Michael Williams is a software engineer at Adobe. He is responsible for evangelizing and implementing technologies related to Adobe Flash Player. Prior to Adobe, Michael spent three years doing research and development at the Walt Disney Company. He was also a member of the original Macromedia Flash Advisory Board. At Disney/Go.com, Williams developed and implemented web content and applications for various corporate sites, including Disney.com, Disneyblast.com, Movies.com, ESPN.com, and ABC.com. Michael helped Disney create core systems and standardize on a single platform after the acquisition of Infoseek.
- Flash Player Detection and Embedding: An Open Source Solution
- Tuesday, October 2 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
David Womack is a writer, editor, and consultant specializing in design and technology. In addition to editing Adobe ThinkTank, an online journal about trends and developments in the field, he works with organizations to understand the opportunities afforded by new forms of media and interaction. In association with the Japan Society, New York, he is currently working on a number of projects that bring designers from Japan and the U.S. together to explore new forms of collaboration. David's articles and essays have appeared in The Guardian, Salon.com, Eye, I.D., and Print. He is co-author, with Steven Heller, of the book Becoming a Digital Designer, which is being published by Wiley and Sons this Fall. He was the director of new media at AIGA from 2000-2004.
- Designing for Multiple Devices
- Wednesday, October 3 9:30 am - 10:30 am
- Wednesday, October 3 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Erin Wyher is a Senior Programmer Analyst for the Alfred West Jr. Learning Lab at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. At the Wharton Learning Lab, she pioneered Flex development within the team with a Flex 1.0 drag-and-drop application that is still used in classes today. Since late 2003, she has built and worked on Learning Lab web simulations written in ColdFusion, Flex and Flash all with a SQL Server backend. Before working at Wharton, she worked at a mutual fund software company developing internal web applications in ASP.NET. Although she enjoys working in the city of Philadelphia, she recently bought her first home in a quaint town just outside of the city. Erin graduated with her undergraduate degree in computer science from Philadelphia University.
- A Virtual Trading Floor: Bringing Wall Street to the Classroom
- Monday, October 1 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
- Tuesday, October 2 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
