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
