RIAdventure360

Go on a RIAdventure and get a free 360|Flex Ticket

August 28, 2009 By Tom

RIAdventure is going to be an awesome time. There’s no doubt about it. The conversations are going to be amazing. How could they not be with all that brainpower from the speakers and attendees.

It’s a cruise though. While it’s a perk for some, we realize that it’s a detriment to others, particularly those with anal bosses. (Don’t tell them we said that, okay?) Therefore we’ve been noodling on, “How can we make it more attractive for people to come? What can we give them?”

A t-shirt didn’t really seem to cut it. A Doug McCune beer koozie, probably not gonna push you over the edge. What’s the most valuable thing 360|Conferences has to offer? A ticket to what will likely be a sold out show, that’s a pretty cool item, no?

We sure hope so, because today we’re announcing that those who join us at RIAdventure will also get a ticket to 360|Flex next, included in their registration. ”A 360|Flex ticket for $300 bucks, plus I get to go to RIAdventure! Sign me up!” While we haven’t formally announced it yet, the next 360Flex will be the last weekend of February, 2010 in San Jose. We’re just awaiting confirmation from eBay on the space and we’ll be good to announce. (Unlike other shows, we just can’t bring it on ourselves to announce without a firm date and location, as tempting as it is.)

Now, all you west coasters, this deal is for you. Fly out to join us on the boat and then drive over to get into 360|Flex for free. Register now and we’ll see you aboard, matey! :)

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Filed Under: 360flex, Announcements, RIAdventure360 Tagged With: 2-for-1, 360flex, Amazing Deals, Christmas in Paradise, Convince the Family, Cruise, RIAdventure 360 Cruise, RIAdventure360, RIAdveture, Speaker Announcement

RIAdventure360 – More Speakers!

August 4, 2009 By John

Josh, Tom and I have been working over time to get the Cruise locked down. Namely, selecting and notifying speakers!

We’ve added three more names to the list of speakers for the cruise. ‘Speakers’ is a bit of a misnomer in this case though. Sure each will have a session slot to present to the group, but really these are the heavy weights that attendees of the cruise will be spending 7 days with, talking about Adobe and RIAs, and even a little non Adobe awesomeness (Android anyone? and I’m sure Tom and I can weigh in on iDevice stuff if it goes there).

Alongside Ryan and Doug, we’re happy to have Sam Rivello (360|Flex alum), Faisal Abid, and …. drum roll…. Ted Patrick!

Yeah that’s right! Not only has Ted risen from the platform evangelist ashes like the phoenix, but he’ll be joining us on the cruise to talk all things, Adobe RIA. He and Ryan will be kicking the cruise off with an awesome keynote.

Check out the speaker bios over on the RIAdventure site’s speaker page!

Make sure to register early and secure your place on the boat! Register Now!

Filed Under: 360flex, Announcements, RIAdventure360, Ryan Stewart Tagged With: 360flex, RIAdventure360, Speaker Announcement, speakers

360flex – Some stuff to help make the cruise even better(er)!!!

July 31, 2009 By John

First for those that are thinking about spending a week with us as well as some of the big name, big brain RIA crowd, we wanted to get some community involvement on what topics we should talk about.

So we created a uservoice site just for the cruise. Even if you can’t make it, throw out some topic ideas. The idea is that on the second conference day, we’re going to be semi barcamp and just openthe floor to break out discussions. Give us some ideas. Since we’re all in one room, I’ll likely video both days, so even if you can’t make it, you might get some nuggets of wisdom from the video :D

Also for those that definitely ARE going, we know that some of you might not have a Significant other or maybe they can’t make it. Since boats are all Double Occupancy rooms, we thought we’d set up a wiki for attendees to see if they could find a bunk mate. Nothing fancy, the site explains it.

The wiki is where we’ll also set up dinner plans, etc in advance.

Take a look, help shape the cruise/conference, it’s gonna be hella fun, I can’t wait!!360flex

Don’t forgot, register now!!

Filed Under: 360flex, Announcements, RIAdventure360 Tagged With: 360flex, Community, RIAdventure360, Speaker Announcement

360Flex – No west coast show, but how about a cruise?

July 1, 2009 By John

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Tom and I have partnered with Josh Cyr (organizer of the last RIAdventure cruise) to bring RIAdventure360!

We’re going to be spending 7 days in early December cruising around the Western Caribbean talking about RIAs and the future of the internet.

We’re getting a few speakers together to sort of help guide discussions. Since this is a cruise and all that, we don’t want it to be all structured and formal like a conference. What we’re going for is a more barcamp style event. The plan is we’ll get together during the 2 ‘at sea’ days, we’ve got a room with A/V and all that, there’ll be grub too of course and we’ll pick some topics and talk.

Our hope is the discussion ranges from the future of RIAs, mobile, server side technologies, whether Flash will ever be on the iPhone, etc :D

Stay tuned for more, but we’re locking some awesome folks down as our “speakers”

It’s a pretty sweet deal too, I might add, the price roughly works out to what you’d spend to attend most other conferences, and this is a cruise! Check out the ship and the cruise plan, then Register!

Filed Under: RIAdventure360 Tagged With: Cruise, RIAdventure360