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Sunday

litl Lab Hands-On with the litl
Chuck Freedman is the chief channel evangelist at litl (developer.litl.com), creating an ecosystem for Flash content as channels across litl devices throughout the digital home. Managing his 3rd Flash based platform, Chuck has also launched Flash/Flex SDKs for Yahoo! Maps and Ribbit. A graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, Chuck loves engaging developers and has spoken at several conferences on Flash platform technologies. He has also launched modules for the homepages of eBay, eBay China, and Fidelity. His work reflects precision while remaining ambitious to push the envelope whenever possible. Follow Chuck at @chuckstar or on his blog:chuckstar.com/blog.
Flex 101 Hands-On Training
Dan Florio has one goal in life: to do what he wants to do instead of what others want him to do, regardless of how much they’re willing to spend. So he spends most of his time working on his own projects in the hopes of generating enough income to avoid client work. So far he’s doing pretty good. His first project – RunPee.com – makes enough money that he is able to live – modestly – off of the income the site provides. Now he can spend his days working on other projects – just as crazy – in the hopes of repeating his success.
AIR 2.0 Hands-On
Garth Braithwaite is a Senior Flex Developer at Rain where he specializes in Interaction Design in HTML/CSS/JS and on the Flash Platform.

Additionally Garth hosts RIA Radio, a weekly podcast for O’Reilly and InsideRIA; co-authored The Flex 4 Cookbook; speaks at conferences like Flash and the City, 360|Flex, andMAX; and teaches.

Garth is an Adobe Community Professional (ACP), an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for: Flex, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and InDesign.
RobotLegs Hands-On
Paul Robertson is a Senior User Experience Developer for Dedo Interactive, Inc., designing and developing interactive touch-based experiences for clients. Previously he worked for Adobe with the AIR and ActionScript/Flash Player teams, and before that as a web applications developer. He is an Adobe certified developer and has been an author and technical editor/reviewer of ActionScript-related books for Peachpit Press and O’Reilly. Apart from his work, Paul spends his time taking pictures, collecting kitchen gadgets, and attempting to match his three children’s knowledge of Lego, Star Wars trivia, and other important subjects.
AIR For Android
Jonathan Campos is Director of Software Development at Dedo Interactive Inc., designing and developing interactive touch-based experiences for clients. He is a Flex Adobe Community Professional and User Group Manager for the Dallas Flex User Group, D-Flex. He is ACE Certified with Adobe and has been creating Enterprise Applications since 2000.

Previously Jonathan has presented at Adobe Max, TexFlex, and previous 360|Flex Conferences.
Push Button Engine 101
Ben Garney is a second-generation programmer with experience in everything from bare-metal embedded code to million-line game engines to web development. Currently, he works on the PushButton Engine, an open-source Flash game framework, for PushButton Labs. Before that, he spent five years at GarageGames, where he mostly worked on C++ game technology (TGE, TGB, TGEA, TNL) and a few games (Zap, Marble Blast Ultra). His blog on Flash and games can be found at coderhump.com.

Keynoters

Doug McCune is a passionate Flex developer, consultant, and community contributor. He has been developing Flex applications since 2004 and is currently a Principal Software Engineer at Universal Mind, where he specializes in geospatial data visualization. Doug received a B.A. degree in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University. He is active in the Flex open-source community and maintains a blog of his thoughts, code samples, and tutorials. He co-founded FlexLib, a leading resource for open-source Flex components created by community developers. He authored the book, Adobe Flex 3.0 For Dummies.

Speakers

Laura Arguello is cofounder of AsFusion, a company specialized in the development of rich Internet applications. Laura is best known for her contributions to the Adobe developer community made through her blog at asfusion.com and by developing open source software. She has also written articles about Flex and ColdFusion for the Adobe Developer Center, the WebDJ and the CFDJ. She holds a degree in Information and Computer Science with specialization in Software Systems from the University of California, Irvine and her main interests are usability, software architecture and finding or creating tools that make the developer’s life easier.
Nate Beck is a flasher/flexer from Seattle, WA. He has been working with Flash since 2001 and with Flex since version 1.5 (2004). Nate has worked for a variety of companies including Boeing and T-Mobile USA, and currently works with Universal Mind as a consultant. In his free-time, Nate develops games and contributes to the PushButton open source game engine. Nate is an avid gamer – his Xbox Live gamer tag is Knaughty, so if you play Halo or Modern Warfare 2, hit him up. Oh, and if you see that gamer tag playing Viva Pinata… that’s his wife (or so he says).
Aaron Boushley is a developer who has come to find the bliss of the Flash Platform after over 5 years in the trenches with “standards” based development. Aaron is currently employed as the Senior Developer at ZaaLabs and lives in Tempe, AZ.
Garth Braithwaite is a Senior Flex Developer at Rain where he specializes in Interaction Design in HTML/CSS/JS and on the Flash Platform.

Additionally Garth hosts RIA Radio, a weekly podcast for O’Reilly and InsideRIA; co-authored The Flex 4 Cookbook; speaks at conferences like Flash and the City, 360|Flex, andMAX; and teaches.

Garth is an Adobe Community Professional (ACP), an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for: Flex, Flash, Illustrator, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and InDesign.
Ryan Campbell has over 10 years of software development experience with many different languages. He currently works for Universal Mind as a Solutions Architect and lives in BC, Canada. Over the last few years he has focused developing full time on the Flash Platform and J2EE. He tries to stay active in the Flex community by speaking at conferences and user groups, blogging and contributing to open source projects such as OpenFlux, Swiz and Degrafa.
Adam Christian is the co-creator of Flex Pilot, which was originally developed to test Flash games on social networks.  Since joining Sauce Labs, he’s expanded Flex Pilot to be a complete testing system, allowing automated Flash/Flex tests to be run in the cloud.  Prior to Sauce Labs, Adam did web development and test automation at Rearden Commerce, Mozilla, and Slide Inc.  He also co-created the Windmill Testing Framework in 2007 at the Open Source Applications Foundation in response to the challenge of cross browser JavaScript and DOM hacks.

Hailing from the Pacific Northwest, Adam grew up hiking in the national parks and boating on the waterways there. The only thing he doesn’t miss is the weather.
Ben Clinkinbeard is a Technical Architect for Universal Mind. He is a lead developer of the Swiz framework, a lightweight IoC container and dependency injection toolkit for AS3 and Flex, and also co-created the FlexMDI library for Flex which was subsequently integrated into flexlib.

As a Digital Design major, Ben earned a B.S. from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning. He’s been a web developer since 2002, with a focus on the Adobe Flash Platform and a passion for creating end-user-friendly software. His design background and self-taught technical skills give him a unique perspective that makes RIA development a perfect fit.
William Draï is a senior software architect, co-founder of Adequate Systems. He has been involved in the open source project Granite Data Services since 2008, mainly developing the Tide client framework and the JBoss Seam and CDI integrations.
Huyen Tue Dao is a Flex developer currently working as a consultant for Universal Mind. She started working in Flex in 2006 with Flex 2 and has done work in AIR as well. Huyen started off her development career with a C++ class in high school that led to her studying Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland. Later she took a job in web development and fell in love with world of Rich Internet Application development and with the Flash/Flex community in particular. When not staying up late in caffeine-driven programming binges, Huyen is staying up late in caffeine-driven video game binges or checking Twitter for the umpteenth time today and occasionally blogs.
Elad Elrom is an Adobe Community Professional & a rising star of the Flash development world. He brings a fresh perspective, a strong background, and an inherent knack for the more subtle aspects of the Flash platform. He’s been involved very early in a number of Adobe products.

Elad is an associate development director for Sigma Group, a consultant, technical writer and technical lead. As a technical writer, Elad wrote books covering Flash technologies. He maintains an active blog and has spoken at several conferences regarding the Flash platform. He has helped companies follow the XP and Scrum methodologies to implement popular frameworks, optimize and automate built processors and code review, and follow best practices. Elad has consulted a variety of clients in different fields and sizes, from large corporations such as Viacom, NBC Universal, and Weight Watchers to startups such as MotionBox.com and KickApps.com.
Eric Fickes is a Multi tier internet programmer, all around internet enthusiast.  Eric caught the internet bug in the mid 90s while doing internet support and Remedy ARS development.  During his time as a the Remedy “web” guy, he used Coldfusion and ASP to build web applications for colleges to corporations.  In this time he worked with web technologies ranging from ASP to ZOPE.  Consulting for corporations became a drag, so he decided to drop Remedy and fully commit to the web.  Still focusing on server side technologies he worked for various startups and dotcoms before settling down at Atlanta’s premier Interactive Design and Technology Studio, Wiretree.com.

Eric has been the Lead Technologist for Wiretree.com since 2003.  At Wiretree he builds applications ranging from AIR powered sound boards like ‘Mr.T in your pocket’, to full college sites, to internal management software for companies like Pump Audio.
Dan Florio has one goal in life: to do what he wants to do instead of what others want him to do, regardless of how much they’re willing to spend. So he spends most of his time working on his own projects in the hopes of generating enough income to avoid client work. So far he’s doing pretty good. His first project – RunPee.com – makes enough money that he is able to live – modestly – off of the income the site provides. Now he can spend his days working on other projects – just as crazy – in the hopes of repeating his success.
Chuck Freedman is the chief channel evangelist at litl (developer.litl.com), creating an ecosystem for Flash content as channels across litl devices throughout the digital home. Managing his 3rd Flash based platform, Chuck has also launched Flash/Flex SDKs for Yahoo! Maps and Ribbit. A graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, Chuck loves engaging developers and has spoken at several conferences on Flash platform technologies. He has also launched modules for the homepages of eBay, eBay China, and Fidelity. His work reflects precision while remaining ambitious to push the envelope whenever possible. Follow Chuck at @chuckstar or on his blog:chuckstar.com/blog.
Ben Garney is a second-generation programmer with experience in everything from bare-metal embedded code to million-line game engines to web development. Currently, he works on the PushButton Engine, an open-source Flash game framework, for PushButton Labs. Before that, he spent five years at GarageGames, where he mostly worked on C++ game technology (TGE, TGB, TGEA, TNL) and a few games (Zap, Marble Blast Ultra). His blog on Flash and games can be found at coderhump.com.
David Hassoun is the founder of RealEyes Media, LLC, a digital media firm based in Colorado that focuses on interactive motion media and advanced applications using the Adobe Flash Platform and Flex. He has always had a passion for motion media, the power of video, and the challenges of usability and interactivity. He is an Adobe Certified Master Instructor, teaches advanced RIA classes at the University of Denver, serves as the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group Manager, and has taught and developed advanced Flash and Flex application courses. As a consultant or while employed with other firms, David has worked for a wide range of companies such as American Express, Chase Manhattan, Qwest, Boeing, Macromedia, Adobe, US Air Force, Bechtel/Bettis, and many more. David regularly performs advanced code and technical best practices reviews, and has provided directional advice for international industry leaders over the past years—including many technical, courseware, and application reviews as an industry expert.
Jun Heider is an Adobe Flex 3/AIR ACE and has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 2005. Jun works as Interactive Media Evangelist / Architect with RealEyes Media, an Adobe partner company based in Denver, Colorado. Jun also co-teaches Adobe Flex development at the University of Denver, University College. Jun loves to write and speak at conferences: Adobe MAX, 360|Flex, CFUnited, Adobe Devnet, O’Reilly Inside RIA, and co-author of Professional Adobe Flex 3 by Wrox. In his spare time, Jun is also the lead guitarist, vocalist, and one of the programmer/technologists for the geek rock band the Compilers.
Antonio Holguin is a Designer in the Mobile and Devices Group at Smashing Ideas with 6 years of design experience. Originally a fine arts major, Antonio fell in love with Flash while in college. He quickly made a home in the digital world where he enjoys Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash and Flex (among many other technologies). As a designer and developer, Antonio focuses on how both sides can utilize the Flash platform together, and get along.
Jeffry Houser is a technical entrepreneur that likes to share cool stuff with other people.

Jeffry is the Brains behind Flextras, a set of user interface Flex Components that save you time and help you create better Flex applications. He has a Computer Science degree from the days before business met the Internet and has solved a problem or two in his programming career. In 1999, Jeffry started DotComIt, an Adobe Solutions Partner specializing in Rich Internet Applications with Flex and ColdFusion.

Jeffry is an Adobe Community Professional and produces The Flex Show, a podcast that includes expert interviews and screencast tutorials. He also hosts the Flextras Friday Lunch Podcast, a weekly live Q&A session where you can get your questions answered, and also runs a site www.AskTheFlexpert.com where you can get your questions answered privately. Jeffry has spoken at user groups and conferences all over the US, is the co-manager of the Hartford CT Adobe User Group, author of three technical books, and over 30 articles.

In his spare time Jeffry is a musician, old school adventure game aficionado, recording engineer, and he owns a Wii. Find more about Flextras at http://www.flextras.com, ask Jeffry Questions at www.asktheflexpert.com, or check out his podcast at http://www.theflexshow.com, or you can read his personal blog at jeffryhouser.com
Kevin Hoyt is a Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he’s been actively involved in furthering web technologies for more than a decade. As a Platform Evangelist, Kevin is responsible for covering a broad array of Adobe technologies, and spends upwards of seventy percent of the year presenting keynotes, session and hands-on labs at conferences and user group events across the globe. Prior to joining Adobe, Kevin held various information technology roles ranging from web design to enterprise infrastructure. Kevin lives in Denver, CO and enjoys photography and general aviation in his free time.
Michael Jovel is a interactive developer developer in the Baltimore/Washington area with over 10 years experience working with the flash platform. Michael has had the privilege to work with clients ranging from small start-ups to fortune 500 companies as well as several government institutions.
Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates and the Lead Developer for FlexUnit 4. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and working with Flex since its 1.0 beta. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Professional, and co-author of the Flex 2, 3 and 4 Training from the Source books and Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR.

As an international speaker and team mentor on Flex and AIR projects, he has consulted for many of the world’s most recognized brands. His free time is spent escaping from technology through wine and food.
Richard Lord is Technical Architect and Lead Developer at BrightTALK, a web communications company based in London, UK. Richard’s 18 year career spans a range of development roles including lead developer, consultant, trainer and troubleshooter across a variety of genres including xbox and playstation games, desktop applications, educational software and web applications.

Richard is particularly interested in the art of software development, studying new architectures and languages whenever possible. He also likes to encourage and help other developers to improve their skills. As a consultant he taught bespoke training courses for many clients and he continues to speak at conferences and user groups.
Richard is the developer of Flint, the open-source Actionscript3 particle system.
David Ortinau is a freelance web developer relying on the kindness of many friends to deliver his projects on time with minimal blood-loss. He has been developing web applications for 15 yrs with internet startups, advertising agencies, and enterprise healthcare vendors. While list of technologies he admits to knowing is rapidly shrinking, he does continue to work with Flash, .NET, Rails, and mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, Windows).
Andrew Powell has been architecting and developing web applications for over 10 years using ColdFusion, Flex, AJAX, and Java. His background includes experience running IT Departments for firms in the executive search and aviation consulting fields. Currently, Andrew is a Principal Architect at Universal Mind specializing in ColdFusion, Java, & Flex. Currently, his focus is on integrating enterprise Java technologies such as Spring and Hibernate with Flex and AIR applications. You can read his blog on everything ColdFusion, Java, & Flex at www.infoaccelerator.net.
Jeff Roberts is currently a Flex Architect at Universal Mind. He’s been writing code for more than 25 years and got his start way back in the 1980′s when the music was good, memory and computing horsepower were scarce and most importantly, he had hair. He has written professionally in RPG, VB, Smalltalk, Java, Javascript/HTML/CSS/XML (aka AJAX) and now Flex/AIR and has been doing so since Flex 2.01. He once even taught a college class in DOS and is often affectionately referred to on his project engagements as “Grandpa”.
Paul Robertson is a Senior User Experience Developer for Dedo Interactive, Inc., designing and developing interactive touch-based experiences for clients. Previously he worked for Adobe with the AIR and ActionScript/Flash Player teams, and before that as a web applications developer. He is an Adobe certified developer and has been an author and technical editor/reviewer of ActionScript-related books for Peachpit Press and O’Reilly. Apart from his work, Paul spends his time taking pictures, collecting kitchen gadgets, and attempting to match his three children’s knowledge of Lego, Star Wars trivia, and other important subjects.
Samer Sadek is a certified ColdFusion developer who has over 12 years of ColdFusion experience. As a software architect at AboutWeb in Rockville MD, he has been focusing on object oriented design, design patterns and architecture. He has worked on a variety of projects, including projects for HUD, US Army (JAG), NIH, Maryland State Archives, USDA and NIST. During the past three years, Samer has been developing mainly in Flex, and has recently been more and more involved with AIR, and loving every second of it.
The Flex Gangsta (aka Jeremy Saenz) is a flex developer at Asfusion, where he enjoys designing and building kickass UI’s with Mate (of course). Jeremy is an active contributor to the Pushbutton Engine and loves building games. When he is not slinging code, Jeremy is composing music and being thug.
Kevin Schmidt is a LiveCycle Solutions Engineer for Adobe working on the Public Sector team in Washington DC
Ryan “Freakin” Stewart is an Adobe Platform Evangelist…
Ben Stucki is the Founder and Chief Architect at Digital Analog LLC, where he creates some of the world’s most advanced Rich Internet Applications. His ability to fuse powerful server-side technologies with advanced client-side rendering have made him a critical asset to projects such as Universal Mind’s SpatialKey and B-Line Medical’s SimCapture, and his contributions to open-source projects such as Degrafa, FlexLib and Reflex have earned him recognition as one of the industry’s best minds. Today, Ben continues to explore the boundaries of what’s possible online at benstucki.net.
Leonard Souza has been actively engaged in the arts and technology for over 12 years. He began his collegiate life studying Computer Science but quickly found it to be lacking serious consideration for the user experience. After flirting with several other areas of study (such as Economics and Anthropology) he finally committed to Fine Art, learning that everything is about context and perception. Today he happily works for EffectiveUI as a Lead Experience Architect, where is he given many opportunities to combine art and technology into one seamless and exciting package. Over the years he has been fortunate enough to work with several outstanding companies such as Panasonic, DirectTV, Intel and MGM, as well as many startups. Leonard lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and two young boys.
Jeff Tapper is a senior consultant at Digital Primates, where he tries to stop clients from hurting themselves with code. Jeff has authored far too many books, and is a frequent speaker at conferences, including many of the 360Flex events
Paul Taylor is an ActionScript developer from Dallas, Texas. He is a contributor to Reflex, the author of tinyTLF, and has various other side libraries of lesser importance. He writes a blog on ActionScript at guyinthechair.com.
Andrew Trice is a Software Architect for Universal Mind, bringing to the table over a decade of experience designing and implementing rich applications for the web. Andrew is an experienced software architect, team leader, accomplished speaker, and published author. He specializes in rich application development, object oriented principles, multi-touch & multi-device development, realtime data systems, GIS, and data visualization.
Jesse Warden is a Flex & Flash Consultant & Partner at Web App Solution, a growing RIA solutions company. He’s been architecting RIA’s for over 10 years, speaks at conferences around the world, and has been helping his clients (HBO, Intuit, Disney, and others) either create magic, or fix their troubled projects.
Franck Wolff is a senior software architect, co-founder and CEO of Adequate Systems, a company specialized in online applications for public and press relation agencies. He has founded the Granite Data Services late 2006 and has been its main developer in 2007, while many other people have joined and contributed to GDS in 2008. GDS is intented from the beginning to be the RIA technological foundation of the company’s next Flex-based software services.
Tyler Wright is a senior ActionScript developer who has been coding and designing components and applications for the last 6 years. Tyler has experience teaching at the university and occasionally presents at Flash & Flex conferences as well as uFlash, the user group he co-manages. Tyler is currently a freelance developer under the name Revolv Studios, he loves innovation and he spends his time outside of work contributing to community open source projects, including the Flight Framework and Reflex. Tyler will, on occasion, update his twitter status (@xtyler) or blog at xtyler.com.