Speakers
To lead a conversation about the future of any particular space, you need people with big ideas. People that are at the forefront of a space, keeping pulse of the activity and diving-in to try out new ideas.
Greg Burch
Greg has both pioneered and lead the engineering effort on many mobile initiatives, inside and out of Adobe. Most recently he has founded the Slider project which is bringing the Flex framework to mobile. Greg has over a decade of experience developing for mobile devices and consumer electronics. You can see examples of his work on devices across the world from cellphones to cameras to kiosks to point of sale systems ..and more. Greg will be giving a session outlining Slider and a session on iPhone development using Flash.
Ryan Stewart was once THE RIA blogger. Before Adobe wisely swept him up, Ryan was crisscrossing the country to find all the coolest players in the RIA Space. With his Digitalbackcountry blog, you could keep track about all things related to the budding RIA space. We've asked Ryan to put that hat on. He's going to come back as that former blogger of old, brimming with ideas and reviews of all the cool tech going down in the RIA space. When someone has the foresight to jump on a new technology space before it's cool to do so, you know the tech is flowing through their veins. There's a story of Ryan getting an email about Microsoft announcing the Silverlight name at midnight in the middle of a bar. Unphased, Ryan whips out his laptop and starts blogging the news. You can't buy passion like that. Don't be surprised to catch Ryan chatting tech in the halls as you walk around for a midnight snack or night cap.
Doug comes from the Flex world, but don't expect this to be a simple Flex talk. Doug likes to play and if you read his blog you see that. From recreating bumptop in flex to growing man-boobs with Augmented Reality, there's nothing safe from his inquisitive nature. The interesting thing about Doug is he has no qualms stating that he rips ideas off and builds upon other people's work. If there some public or open source package out there to help Doug get an idea to fruition faster, he'll use it. Giving full credit to those that deserve it, but probably using the toolset in a way unimagined by the original creators. By having Doug there, we're looking forward to hear about how to leverage the past as we step forward into the future.
Faisal is a busy guy. While finishing his software engineering degree he is also the founder of two companies, authoring a new Android book, and consulting for numerous companies on Flex, AIR, Android and ColdFusion. His session will be about how to get Android, ColdFusion and Flex/Adobe AIR to work in harmony with each other, by providing real-life examples from AndSpot. Sub-Topics include ColdFusion Event Gateways with Android, Session Sharing, ORM and much more.
Samuel is the principal of RivelloMultimediaConsulting.com (RMC), a Los Angeles area multimedia consulting company. Sam has designed, developed and/or managed development of 400+ Flash and Shockwave games and applications for Fortune 1000 companies.
Sam has a decade of experience with the Flash Platform. He is an Adobe Certified Designer and Developer for Flash, an Adobe Flex Champion, an international public speaker, and a university professor. His writing and coding have appeared in leading publications such as Adobe’s ‘EDGE’ online magazine, and Futurenet Publishing’s ‘Computer Arts Projects’ print magazine. In recent years his focus has shifted from Flash game development to Flex application development but he continues to learn as much as he can from across Multimedia landscape.