What you won’t see or get at 360Flex

I was talking to someone (i know who it was but am keeping it to myself) the other day and the person jokingly said, you could say “You won’t see Railo at 360|Flex”, and while Railo won’t be at 360|Flex, because it wouldn’t make sense, the point was, 360|Flex isn’t like other events that dilute their offering with things that aren’t the core interest of the audience.

And it occurred to me, that it might be a good idea to make it clear what does/doesn’t happen at 360|Flex for those who might not know.

• There are little to no marketing sessions. When we have sponsored sessions, we try to make that as clear as possible, so you know what you’re getting.
• There is not a speaker green room. You’ll have the same access to speakers as anyone else. They’re hanging out, attending sessions etc. No Pre modonnas here, and if there are, they still can’t hide.
• There are speakers who want to be there. Our speakers aren’t paid to be there (well, we do cover hotel room, but that’s it). We don’t invite celebrities or treat one speaker better than the rest, etc. If they’re on the schedule it’s because their topic was awesome, and they wanted to present it.
• There is not such a large group of people that you feel like a tiny fish in a big massive pond.
• There is no Silverlight, or JavaFX. I’m sure they’re great, we don’t hate those technologies, but they have no place at a conference for Flex Developers (UPDATE: We actually do have a Silverlight session, Jun Heider is talking about Silverlight from a Flex developer perspective. No diss intended, I think that sessions that examine other techs make a ton of sense! Know thy enemy, and all)
• There are no semi related technologies in their own tracks. CF and PHP are both great and we have 1 session on each, there are other events for both, and no reason to water down the crazy deep Flex content with peripheral technologies. I’d say if you want a CF conference go to CFUnited or CF.Objective(), but sadly neither of those is focused only on CF any more.
• There are 40 sessions focusing on Flex/ActionScript/AIR and Flash platform.
• There are no extra fees to attend. Sunday Hands-on Training – Free to all attendees. Parties at night – included in the price (actually sponsored by great folks like Adobe, Digital Primates and Universal Mind)

If you haven’t registered for 360|Flex and you’re a Flex developer, you really are doing yourself a disservice. Bluster aside :) you’re not going to get this level of content anywhere else, well except maybe the next 360|Flex :)

Register now, enjoy the community and the crazy amount of new things you’ll learn. No one leaves without learning something new, I swear it. Register now!