Speakers
Every year, MAX has featured renowned speakers from around the world. 2011 is no exception.
From celebrated designers to brilliant developers and outstanding business leaders, these individuals are at the forefront when it comes to using Adobe products to maximize their potential and showcase their products and talents in the best and brightest light. They come to MAX to share their expertise and vision and to impart their wisdom to attendees who want to expand their horizons and learn from the best.
In addition, we have brought back the MAX Masters program to give recognition to some of our highest rated speakers from the past five MAX conferences. If you see a blue star (
) next to a speaker's name, this means he or she was a MAX community favorite with more than 50 community members, earning a 4.8 or higher speaking score (out of a possible 5) on his or her session survey, or that more than 30 community members gave that speaker a 4.8 or higher speaking score (out of a possible 5) on his or her lab survey. These speakers' contributions have helped make MAX the outstanding conference that it continues to be.
Featured speakers
Fuzzy Orange
Andy Allan
Andy Allan is the CEO of Fuzzy Orange, a U.K.-based software development consultancy specializing in Adobe AIR, ColdFusion, and Flex. An old-schooler in the ColdFusion world, Andy has been on the scene since 1998. He's also the brains behind Europe's longest-running ColdFusion conference, Scotch on the Rocks. As well as writing for U.K.-based magazines Web Designer and .net, Andy has spoken at Adobe MAX, CFUnited, and ColdFusion Camp, as well as to user groups worldwide. When not working, he can usually be found rocking away on Guitar Hero with his wife and daughter.
aescripts.com
Lloyd Alvarez
Based in New York City, Lloyd Alvarez is an award-winning art director, designer and After Effects artist who has worked with top tier advertising agencies and TV networks. As the founder of aescripts.com, Lloyd has created a platform for a new wave of developers to share problem solving and workflow enhancing tools. In addition, Lloyd is a professor on fxphd.com where he teaches advanced courses on After Effects and After Effects scripting.
Digitas
Itai Asseo
As VP Creative Architect at Digitas, Itai leads Digitas Labs, a group initiative focused on innovation by exploring new opportunities, advising clients on evolving technologies and producing prototypes. Itai has gone from touring musician, to art director, to Flash programmer, to creative tech visionary. During his time at Digitas, Itai has helped shape many award-winning sites and RIAs for clients such as American Express and Samsung.
Silhouette Media, LLC
Lou Barber
Lou Barber has been a Flash developer since Flash 3. Lou is an Adobe Certified Developer, Instructor, User Group Manager, Community Professional and Author. As an active ActionScript developer and instructor on many projects, Lou loves to share his trials and errors with anyone willing to listen. Lou has also choreographed performances and videos for many mainstream artists, including Beyonce. Lou was a recipient of an "Top 40 under 40" award for his unique career paths in technology and entertainment. All in all, Lou loves that the heart of Flash and dance is motion.
Read biography >Corey Barker
Corey Barker is a content developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and an award-winning designer and illustrator. Corey is the Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and has regular columns in Photoshop User Magazine. Corey is also a featured instructor at Photoshop World Conference & Expo and has toured around the country teaching the Photoshop Down & Dirty Tricks seminar. Corey has produced numerous DVD training titles on Photoshop and design for Kelby Online Training and recently co-authored "Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks" with Scott Kelby. Corey was a contributing author for "3D in Photoshop: The Ultimate Guide for Creative Professionals".
Photoshop CS5 Extended Hands-on 3D with Zorana Gee and Corey
Tips and Techniques for Jaw-Dropping Effects with Photoshop CS5
Adobe
Dani Beaumont
Dani Beaumont has been managing innovative applications in the web and design space for over 20 years. She is currently working as the Group Product Manager on a new application under development at Adobe that allows visual designers to build rich HTML- and CSS-based web sites without writing any code. Before this project, Dani was integral in the acquisition and integration of Business Catalyst into the Adobe web solutions portfolio. She\'s also served as the Senior Product Manager for Adobe Fireworks and Macromedia Director.
Almer/Blank
R Blank
R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank, http://almerblank.com, an Adobe Solution Partner based in Venice, California, that specializes in Flash Platform development, and training director at Rich Media Institute, an Adobe Authorized Training Center. He also serves on the faculty at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering and has written several tutorials and articles for Adobe. Blank founded the LAFlash Adobe User Group, which became the largest Flash user group in the world with over 3,000 members, and he co-created Flix, the first video encoder for Flash (now owned by Google). His personal blog is RBlank.com.
Adobe
Matt Boles
Matt Boles is a Technical Training Specialist for Adobe and has been developing and teaching courses on Flex since the 1.0 release. Matt has a diverse background in web development, computer networking, and teaching in both professional computer classes and the public schools. He coauthored the "Flex Training from the Source" books for Flex 2, 3, and 4 and was also a coauthor on the "Certified ColdFusion Developer Study Guide." Matt has developed official Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe curriculums in the Flex, ColdFusion, and Flash development content areas. He regularly speaks at conferences, including every MAX event that has been held.
Adding Social Features to Your Apps with Collaboration
Adobe UX - Building Rich Interface into Process
Advanced Features and Implementations of Collaboration
Building CEM solutions: A hands-on technical
Flash® Builder® 4.5: Building mobile, web, and desktop
Adobe
Lee Brimelow
Lee Brimelow is a developer evangelist at Adobe who is currently focusing on Flash gaming. He has worked in the past for companies like AOL, Netscape, frog design, and eBay. Lee runs the highly popular video tutorial site at gotoandlearn.com and writes a blog dedicated to Flash at theflashblog.com.
Developing High-Performance 2D Mobile Games with Adobe
Veronique Brossier
Véronique just left MTVNetworks as Senior Software Engineer Flash to focus on exploring new technology. She has worked on many art and entertainment projects. A few award winners are: New York Visitor Center and 9/11 Memorial site - Local Projects, NickLab - R/GA, Lifetime Open House game - ThisisPop, 360degrees - Picture Projects, Hall of Biodiversity - American Museum of National History. She is adjunct professor at ITP/NYU.
She wrote "Developing Android apps with AIR" for O'Reilly and articles for InsideRIA (Flash Text Engine and Flash to iPhone). Brossier holds a Master's from ITP/NYU and a C-PAC certificate from CS/NYU.
Developing an Android Application with AIR and Flash
Adobe
Russell Brown
Russell Brown is the Senior Creative Director at Adobe Systems as well as an Emmy Award-winning instructor. His ability to bring together the world of design and software development is a perfect match for Adobe products. In Russell’s twenty-six years of creative experience at Adobe, he has contributed to the evolution of Adobe Photoshop with feature enhancements, advanced scripts, and most recently Flash panel development. With complete mastery and breath taking style, Russell has shown users how to work – and play – with Adobe software. He has helped the world's leading photographers, publishers, art directors, and artists to master the software tools that have made Adobe's applications the standard by which all others are measured. He shares his delight in testing the creative limits of his tools as a prolific creator of an entertaining collection of Photoshop tips and tricks. Many of these tips have been published in Design Graphics Magazine, and the Photoshop User Magazine. You can also find many of these tutorials on the web at tv.adobe.com and www.russellbrown.com.
An Introduction to Creative Photographic Imaging on Tablet
Creative Tablet Publishing - Project Wonderland Part
Adobe
Ray Camden
Raymond Camden is a developer evangelist for Adobe focusing on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, jQuery, and mobile development. He is a contributing author to numerous technical books including the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit. He's spoken at conferences around the world and maintains many popular ColdFusion community web sites. He's the manager of RIAForge.org, CFLib.org, and writes at his blog: http://coldfusionjedi.com. Raymond is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.
Nitobi Inc.
Andre Charland
Andre Charland is the co-founder and CEO at Nitobi Software Inc, creators of PhoneGap. He's been at the forefront of web application development for almost a decade and has spent the last few years focused on mobile apps, websites and businesses. Andre is an advocate for usability and user experience and speaks regularly about how to keep users engaged and active on web and mobile apps and on the topic of open standards for mobile development. Andre is the co-author of "Enterprise Ajax", published by Prentice Hall and is a mentor for 500 Startups. Andre blogs at http://blogs.nitobi.com/andre and is on on Twitter @andrecharland.
Adobe
Christophe Coenraets
Christophe Coenraets is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on Rich Internet Applications, mobile, and Java Integration. In this role, Christophe has helped some of the largest financial services companies design, architect, and implement some of their most mission critical applications. He was one of the initial members of the Flex Product Team in 2003. In his previous role, Christophe worked on JRun, the company’s J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe managed Java and Internet Applications Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years, including The ServerSide Sympsium, Devoxx, JAOO, QCon, and AjaxWorld. He blogs at http://coenraets.org.
Building an Enterprise App for Android Tablets in 90
How to Develop Amazing Enterprise AIR Apps for Tablets and
Codify Design Studio
Chris Converse
Chris Converse is a graphic designer and multimedia developer specializing in web design and development, interactive media, print, motion graphics, and CD-ROMs. Converse is co-founder of Codify Design Studio (codifydesign.com), which specializes in both graphic design and the technologies that make the design happen across media. Codify standardizes on many Adobe technologies, from developing rich-media PDF files that leverage dynamic Flash applications, to Ajax-based web solutions built on either Adobe Spry or jQuery framework.
Create engaging websites and applications with Adobe CS5.5 Web
PixelPainter.com
Jeff Foster
Jeff Foster has been producing and providing training in animation, motion graphics, and special effects for over 20 years. His clients include Tribune Broadcasting, Motorola, DOW Chemical, Nestle, Spike TV, Discovery/TLC, Deluxe Digital, Universal Studios, Disney, and Lion's Gate. Jeff is a 2010 Telly Awards recipient for his "Documercial" video productions. He has authored several books including "After Effects and Photoshop - Animation and Production Effects for DV and Film," and most recently, "The Green Screen Handbook" (Sybex/Wiley, pub). Visit Jeff's web site at www.PixelPainter.com
Rotoscoping and Compositing Workflows in After Effects CS5.5 - Part
Rotoscoping and Compositing Workflows in After Effects CS5.5 - Part
Adobe
Richard Galvan
Richard Galvan is a product manager for Flash Professional at Adobe Systems. Formerly a Senior Field Evangelist focusing on Flash, Richard has been educating and consulting with customers about interactive media and Flash technologies since joining Macromedia (now Adobe) in 1999. He got his first taste of the web technologies in the late 1980s while working as intern at NASA's Johnson Space Center and has never looked back. Since then he has spent most of his time helping customers find ways to use technology to express their imagination and creativity. Richard has presented to thousands of users, developers, and designers around the world, helping them to experience what Flash has to offer.
PushButton Labs, LLC
Ben Garney
Enrique is a second generation programmer with experience in everything from bare-metal embedded code to million-line game engines to web development. During his five years at GarageGames, he worked on C++ game technology (TGE, TGB, TGEA, TNL) and a few games (Zap, Marble Blast Ultra). More recently, Enrique has been writing games and game engines in ActionScript 3, which is his focus at PushButton Labs. His last big project was Social City, which won Social Game of the Year 2011 at GDC Online and peaked at over 3M daily players.
Starwood Hotels
Stephen Gates
Stephen is a designer and second-generation creative director who is currently the Senior Creative Director for Starwood Hotels & Resorts where he leads global digital and broadcast design and branding for their 9 brands including W Hotels, Westin, Sheraton, and St. Regis. Before leaving the agency world for Starwood he created integrated advertising and design for clients like Acura, American Airlines, Disney, ExxonMobil, Nationwide Insurance, Serta, Subaru, Verizon and many other global brands. His work has been recognized with over 100 major awards including Canne Cyber Lions, Local, Regional and National ADDY awards, Webby Awards. He is a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, a Webby Awards judge and was chosen by the editors of Media Post magazines as one of their three 2009 Online Marketing All-Stars. Stephen lives in New York City where he uses his free time to publish his blog that is a collection of rants, opinions and advice about digital creative, design and the advertising industry.
For Creative Professionals: Envision the Future of Creating
Mudbubble LLC, Game Show Network Digital
Chris Georgenes
Chris Georgenes started life like most humans, covered in placenta and with minimal motor skills. It was not long before he learned how to use both hands and feet as a groove-oriented drummer in a variety of rock bands. Upon standing fully erect, he attended a fine art school and received his BFA. Years later someone invented the Internet, and then another person invented Flash. Riding on the coattails of these two individuals, Georgenes was able to carve a unique niche for himself using both tools. In recent years Chris has been the art director for Say Design Games, Acclaim Games, Playdom Games, Disney Interactive Media Group and is now enjoying being part of the team at Game Show Network Digital as the Director of Creative Development.
Animating in Flash Professional CS5.5 with Chris
Design Responsibly
Mordy Golding
Mordy Golding, founder of Design Responsibly, is a renowned presenter, industry consultant, and author of over twenty video training titles at Lynda.com including Illustrator Essential Training, Illustrator for Web and Interactive Design, and the Illustrator Insider Training series. Mordy is also the author of Real World Illustrator. Possessing a strong background in art production and design in both the print and web space, Mordy was named a Champion of Graphic Design by Graphics IQ. He previously worked at Adobe as the product manager for Illustrator.
Fluid
David Hogue
Dave Hogue is the Vice President of Experience Design at Fluid and an adjunct faculty member at San Francisco State University. He and his team craft cutting-edge digital customer experiences for ecommerce for the web, mobile, tablets, and kiosks. Dave is also an Adobe Community Professional, Fireworks fan, and the co-manager of the Adobe User Group Fire On The Bay.
Design Better Experiences with Fireworks by Understanding How People
Buck
Ryan Honey
With over thirteen years of experience, Ryan Honey¹s industry awareness and ability to collaborate with clients has quickly made the design-driven production company Buck a top contender in the global commercial production market. Founded in 2003, Buck has offices in New York and Los Angeles and boasts over fifty employees. Since Buck¹s inception, Ryan has directed commercials for numerous major brands from all over the world. Be it live action, CG animation, special effects, cel, stop motion, or a combination of techniques, Ryan¹s work continues to push the boundaries of innovation and quality in the commercial realm.
Adobe
Bryan O'Neil Hughes
Bryan O'Neil Hughes is the Senior Product Manager for both Photoshop and Bridge and a pinch-hitter for the Lightroom team. Since 1999 he has helped to test, drive, demonstrate, and lead development of Adobe's professional digital imaging applications. Hughes is the Photoshop team's primary worldwide spokesman and can often be found leading events and workshops. Before joining Adobe, he was a professional photographer and retoucher. Beyond Adobe, Hughes is a published photographer and author. He is also a driving instructor for the BMW Car Club of America -- when he isn't driving very quickly, he enjoys running marathons very slowly.
Hidden Gems and Technologies in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5
Rochester Institute of Technology
Chris Jackson
Chris Jackson is a Professor and Graduate Director for the Computer Graphics Design and Graphic Design MFA programs at RIT. He teaches courses in interaction design and motion graphics. As an Adobe Higher Education Leader, Chris’ scholarly work has been published and featured at Adobe MAX, SIGGRAPH, TypeCon, and the UCDA Design Education Summit. He is the author of "Flash + After Effects" and "Flash Cinematic Techniques" which have been translated into several languages. Chris continues to be an animator, designer, and consultant for worldwide corporations and nonprofit organizations. His professional work has received over 25 distinguished national and international awards for online communication.
Adobe
Julieanne Kost
Julieanne Kost's role as digital imaging evangelist for Lightroom and Photoshop includes customer education, product development, and market research for photography, digital imaging, and illustration. Kost is the founder of www.jkost.com , publisher of the Daily Photoshop Tip (blogs.adobe.com/jkost), author of "Window Seat -- The Art of Digital Photography," and host of "The Complete Picture" on Adobe TV. She is a frequent contributor to several publications and a guest lecturer at distinguished photography workshops. In her work, Kost combines a passion for photography, a mastery of digital imaging techniques, and a degree in psychology to construct a world similar enough to appear familiar, yet obviously an interpretation of the physical reality that surrounds us.
Adobe
Chris Kitchener
Chris Kitchener is the Senior Product Manager for Adobe InDesign. His experience at Adobe spans product management, marketing, and business development. Today Chris spends his time focusing on the evolving world of publishing across all forms of media – from print to web, mobile, and beyond. Before moving to the US, Chris worked at Adobe UK with many influential publishing companies and helped them in their transition to InDesign. Chris speaks regularly at industry events on topics such as Adobe InDesign, InDesign Server, workflow productivity, and the future of print and digital publishing.
Digital Primates
Michael Labriola
Michael Labriola is Senior Consultant at Digital Primates and the architect of the FlexUnit 4 and Spoon projects. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and working with Flex since its 1.0 beta. Labriola is an Adobe Community Professional and co-author of the Flex 2, 3, 4 and 4.5 "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.
Sesame Workshop
Diana Leto
As an artist at Sesame Workshop, Diana Leto aids, guides and participates in the creation of visuals in all formats of media using Adobe software. From print to web, she is involved with creating style guides, apparel designs, photography, large-scale banners, web elements and more relating to character artwork and designs. Diana’s experience encompasses animations and video for The Jim Henson Legacy. Troubleshooting for colleagues, learning how to get the best from Adobe software and helping refresh beloved characters for a cultural institution, Diana’s work on Sesame Street stands at the intersection of Adobe’s innovation and artists’ inspiration.
Adobe
Jens Loeffler
Jens Loeffler is Senior Technical Evangelist in the Strategic Alliances team at Adobe, responsible for driving the adoption of Adobe’s rich media, multiscreen, and service solutions with strategic media and entertainment and agency partners. In his role, he leverages over a decade of interactive and online media experience to ensure the success of strategic partner initiatives, and to drive the adoption of Adobe solutions. He also provides consultative leadership for technical and sales activities and supports the core product management and marketing team. He has been working with interactive technologies since 1999 and has received several industry awards for his work. Prior to Adobe, he worked at R/GA and other interactive agencies, creating interactive solutions for numerous high profile clients. He holds a degree in media and computer science from the University of Applied Sciences in Osnabrueck, Germany. He is the founder of an established online video weblog, published numerous articles, and has spoken at industry events such as Streaming Media East/West, FitC, Adobe MAX, Sports Video Group.
How to Architect Large-Scale Video Apps for Mobile Devices Using Adobe
MIGHTYminnow
Kristin Long
Kristin Long is the owner and primary front-end developer of Bay Area-based MIGHTYminnow web studio. She is a long time Dreamweaver developer and Adobe Certified instructor. Long specializes in CSS and web standards-based development, focusing on building sites that are search-engine friendly and easy for clients to maintain, generally using WordPress. She divides her time between client projects and classrooms, building innumerable websites and teaching regularly throughout the Bay Area. Long loves Dreamweaver, CSS, WordPress, and partner dancing, and she teaches each with enthusiasm. This is her fourth year at MAX.
PayPal
Sidney Maestre
Sidney Maestre is a Developer Evangelist with PayPal. His work at PayPal involves exploring innovative ways to use PayPal APIs. Sidney led the Bring Your Own Device session "Building mobile applications with jQuery" at Adobe MAX 2010 and presented "Intro to jQTouch" at the Sencha Conference in 2010. He also organizes BAM!, Bay Area Mobile, a meetup focused on jQuery Mobile, AIR, and other multi-platform mobile technologies.
Sesame Workshop
Mark Magner
Mark Magner is a Design Director at Sesame Workshop. Mark has been working with Muppet characters since 1986 and is one of the key "behind the scenes" people at Sesame Workshop, editing character illustration, creating style guides, art directing, and retouching photography. Mark has been using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign to create artwork that is used across all-media including print, web, video, and interactive games.
Practicalia, LLC
Claudia McCue
Claudia McCue spent more than 20 years in print production, from paste-up through early electronic prepress to current desktop systems. She now specializes in teaching both creative and production professionals how to use Adobe products without hurting themselves or others. She is the author of “Real World Print Production with Adobe Creative Suite Applications” (Peachpit Press, 2009), and "Fearless Flash: Use Adobe® InDesign® CS5 and the Tools You Already Know to Create Engaging Web Documents" (Adobe Press, 2010). She is a Certified Technical Trainer, and an Adobe Certified Expert for Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and InDesign. Blog: www.claudiamccue.com. Training: www.practicalia.net
motion
Elaine Montoya
Elaine Montoya is ceo/creative director of the award winning design firm, Zocoloco Studios. She is also ceo/founder of the motion group - a company dedicated to the enrichment of the motion graphics, visual effects, and animation community through motion.tv (video-on-demand); motion (annual industry event); cgnews (industry news) and motion+connect (live, online events). Elaine has been described as a ‘creative technologist'. She started her college career at the University of NM with a NASA scholarship in Computer Science. She received a second degree in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Colorado. Elaine enjoys sharing her knowledge through speaking at industry events.
Adobe Systems
Duane Nickull
Duane Nickull is both an accomplished rock musician and a Sr. Technical Evangelist for Adobe. In the past, Duane worked as the chief enterprise architect for the United Nation CEFACT group, architecting a global trade ecosystem unencumbered by intellectual property claims. He was also Chair of the OASIS SOA Reference Model Technical Committee, contributed to the W3C Web Services Architecture working group, developed many BPM standards, was the lead architect of the ebXML SOA standards, was a participant in several Web Services standards such as UDDI and WS-Security, and also coauthored the popular O’Reilly Media book "Web 2.0 Architectures”. Duane has taught hands-on code camps for over a decade and tours with several rock bands.
Developing cross-OS mobile apps with Adobe Flash Builder, Flex, AIR &
Lynda.com
Michael Ninness
Michael Ninness is Vice President of Content at lynda.com. He has had a multidimensional career with more than 15 years of experience as a product manager and user experience designer for software used by creative professionals. Past positions include Group Product Manager for the design segment and InDesign Senior Product Manager at Adobe, as well as Senior Product Manager for Microsoft Expression Blend. He is a frequent and top-rated presenter at numerous industry events and has published numerous training videos on InDesign and Photoshop with lynda.com.
Beautiful Typography: A Crash
School of Interactive Games & MediaPlace: Rochester Institute of Technology, RIT
Andy Phelps
Andrew Phelps is the founding Director of the School of Interactive Games & Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York. He is the lead co-founder of the undergraduate and graduate Game Design & Development programs, both of which are national top-ten programs as ranked by the Princeton Review. His work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, USA Today, National Public Radio, and several other articles and periodicals, and he regularly publishes both technical work and research on games education. He holds the rank of Professor at the Institute, and actively teaches in several areas.
W3 Conversions
Stephanie Sullivan Rewis
Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis is a front-end developer and custom corporate trainer. Author of books, magazine articles, tutorials and videos, she's a driving force in the Web Standards Project (WaSP), as their Industry Evangelist to Adobe. As an expert consultant and front-end developer who is brought in by clients and agencies to handle tough projects, she's worked with a dazzling spectrum of organizations from Newsweek, MLB, New York Magazine, Adobe, CSU Fresno, SalesForce.com, and Quiznos to Disney's "TRON" and a lively bunch of startups. A vibrant speaker at conferences worldwide, she focuses on the practical problem-solving that audiences are eager to hear.
MTV Networks
Rob Roskin
A 10+ year industry veteran, Rob Roskin is Sr. Manager of Video Operations and Emerging Technologies at MTV Networks (a multiplatform property of Viacom). Prior to helping to launch the operations group that he now manages at MTV, Rob worked in the advanced products group and web hosting group. Today Rob and his operations team are responsible for delivering video for over 150 web sites across 30+ unique MTV brands. His areas of expertise include streaming technologies and production, delivering high availability websites, caching techniques, vendor management, outsourcing, and evaluating emerging technologies. Rob holds a degree in Computer Science and Economics from Lafayette College.
MTV Networks: Behind the Scenes on World-Class Broadcast
Yahoo
Arjun Saksena
Arjun Saksena is the Lead Product Manager for the Yahoo Video Platform that powers all video experiences across Yahoo properties globally. He is responsible for driving the execution of the video platform strategy and for several components of the video pipeline - Ingest, Transcoding, CDN, Enrichments & Live Streaming. He has been involved in the Internet video space for 12 years. His first job, after graduate school, was at FastForward Networks, (acquired by Inktomi), which pioneered Internet Content Delivery. Later, he was Director of Product Management at Streamlogics (acquired by Thomson Reuters), where he drove product and engineering to build a webcasting platform that delivered 1800 webcasts a year. He has a M.S. in Computer Science from University of Southern California and a B.E. in Computers from the University of Pune, India.
Yahoo!: Scalable and Consistent Video Delivery to All
Adobe
Leo Schuman
Leo is a writer, teacher, coder, and frustrated lounge act, who has been developing and delivering technical training on Adobe Flex, AIR, Mosaic, Data Services, LiveCycle, and related technologies to beautiful people worldwide since 1997. He's served as co-author or editor of more than a dozen multi-day technical training courses, in various media, and is rapidly approaching 10,000 cumulative hours of live classroom delivery. Portland, Oregon, calls him home with hiking, cooking, book-hounding, tai chi, and similar Cascadian pursuits.
Developing multiscreen enterprise applications with Flash
gskinner.com
Grant Skinner
Grant Skinner is an internationally recognized leader in the field of rich interactive experiences. His body of work spans experimental interaction, applications, games, websites, installations, embedded devices, and mobile, with a recent focus on projects that span multiple environments. Skinner fuses his experience with design, user experience, development, and business with a driving creativity to produce projects that push the boundaries of interactive technologies. While building gskinner.com into a leading interactive production shop, he has worked with a wide range of high-caliber clients including AOL, the BBC, Salesforce, Nissan, Adobe, GE, Atlantic Records, Comcast, Electronic Arts, CNN, and DIRECTV.
Adobe
Patti Sokol
Patti D. Sokol brings over 15 years of enthusiasm and experience in teaching Adobe products to her role as an Adobe Solutions Consultant. Her in-depth knowledge and facility for clear and concise explanations enable her to show clients how to solve problems using Adobe tools and products. A dynamic and interactive instructor and presenter, Patti is a Certified Technical Trainer and an Adobe Certified Instructor for Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and Photoshop.
Deliver ideas in print, online, and to tablets with CS5.5 Design
Adobe
Deepa Subramaniam
Deepa Subramaniam is the Senior Product Manager for the Flex SDK. Prior to being the product manager, she was a Lead Computer Scientist on the Flex SDK team at Adobe Systems, working primarily on FXG, data-aware controls, and general Spark and MX architecture design. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a degree in Computer Science and is the author of "Adobe Flex 3.0 for Dummies," which is available on Amazon.com and other book retail sites. Having worked on Flex since nearly its inception, she is considered an expert on Flex application design, development and deployment. Aside from working on Flex, Deepa is a professionally trained South Indian classical dancer. She lives in San Francisco and can be seen biking around and giggling to herself. Feel free to follow her on twitter: @iamdeepa
Digital Primates
Jeff Tapper
Jeff Tapper has over a decade of experience developing Internet applications for myriad clients, including ESPN, Major League Baseball, Morgan Stanley, Harley-Davidson, Toys 'R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, and many others. As an instructor, he is certified to teach Adobe courses on Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1.0. Tapper has been an author on 12 books, including the "Adobe Flex: Training from the Source" series. He is thrilled to be speaking at MAX again this year.
Digital Primates: Honing In on Multiple Targets with a Single
Streaming Video to HTML5, Apple, and Flash Enabled
Adobe
Jorge Taylor
Jorge Taylor is a Principal Scientist at Adobe, where he focuses on the creation of tools and frameworks for web professionals. With a deep interest in standards-based web technologies and web production practices, Taylor has spent the last 15 years of his career building best-of-breed web development tools. He was Engineering Manager for several releases of Dreamweaver and also led the teams responsible for Adobe Widget Browser and Adobe’s Spry framework for Ajax. Most recently, he has been helping to direct Adobe’s contributions to jQuery. When not immersed in all things web, Taylor pursues his musical muse as guitarist and front man for the indie rock band Cronkite.
Building Adaptive, Multiscreen Websites with Business Catalyst v3
MIT Education Arcade
Dana Tenneson
Dana Tenneson is a Senior Programmer in The Education Arcade at MIT. Dana’s career has been a mixture of educational and entertainment projects including the Tablet PC Organic Chemistry tool, ChemPad and THQ’s online collectible card games, Star Trek ConQuest Online, and WWF With Authority! Since joining MIT’s Education Arcade, Dana has been at the forefront of software development and game design for the finances education game Farm Blitz, the data literacy project Kid’s Survey Network, and the science mystery ARG Vanished. Dana is a graduate of Vassar College and has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University.
Universal Mind
Andrew Trice
Andrew Trice is a principal software architect for Universal Mind. Andrew possesses more than a decade of experience designing and implementing rich applications for the web. He is an experienced architect, team leader, accomplished speaker, and published author, specializing in object-oriented principles, multidevice development strategies, real-time data systems, GIS, and data visualization.
Create beautiful, immersive content and applications with HTML5 and
Multi-Device Best Practices Using Flex 4.5 and Adobe AIR for
On The Wave Visual
John Ulliman
John Ulliman has been working in interactive digital media since 1985. He began his career using cutting edge applications for computer modeling and animation in the aerospace industry with a number of companies, including Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. He started his studio On The Wave Visual Communications in 1991, providing 2D and 3D graphics and animations for print, video and the web. On The Wave has created digital media content for companies like Adobe, Gap, Razorfish, VeriSign, Google, and Yahoo. John is an Adobe-certified Expert and Instructor, and provides live and recorded instruction using Adobe tools for web and rich media design.
Building Business Websites Faster with Dreamweaver and Business
Adobe Systems
Michelle Yaiser
Michelle Yaiser is a Senior Content & Community Lead for Adobe. She writes ActionScript, Flash Player, and AIR documentation and includes real world examples from the developer community in those docs. She also works with the community to develop new help and learning resources.
Prior to joining Adobe, Michelle was a professor of Web Design & Interactive Media. She taught object oriented programming using ActionScript 3, internet application development with Flex, and Agile/SCRUM software development. She was also a user group manager and an Adobe Community Professional.
Away from a computer, Michelle is a clarinetist, dancer, and race car driver.
Lynda.com
James Williamson
James Williamson is a senior author for lynda.com, an Adobe Certified Instructor, and has over 14 years of web, print, and digital video experience. He has been a featured speaker at Flashforward and a regular speaker at Adobe MAX. Williamson also blogs (infrequently) about all things web at his site Simple Primate.
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