MXDU Speakers
We've scoured the globe for an absolutely stellar line up of speaking talent for MXDU 2004. If you thought last year was good - steady yourself before you run through this list.
Drum roll please...
Andrew Muller (Sydney, Australia)
Trainer, developer and presenter, Andrew Muller is one of the best known proponents of Rich Internet Application development in Australia. The most certified Macromedia instructor in the southern hemisphere, Andrew is also a content adviser to Macromedia on their certified Flash, Flex and Rich Internet Applications training courses. More...
Ari Jacobs (Sydney, Australia)
Ari Jacobs is co-founder of award-winning digital innovation centre SPALAB (www.spalab.net). SPALAB was founded in the late 90 More...
Bek Farr (Melbourne, Australia)
Rebekah is Art/Animation director at Nectarine. She has spent the past nine years designing and directing a range of award-winning flash sites, web animations, flash games, CD-ROMs and touchscreen kiosks. More...
Benjamin Elmore (New York, USA)
Benjamin Elmore has been an active member in both the Allaire and Macromedia community for over 6 years. During that time Benjamin has worked very closely with Macromedia in both product development and promoting their products to Fortune 500 companies around the world. More...
Branden Hall (Washington DC, USA)
Branden Hall is co-prinicipal of Joshua Davis Studios (www.joshuadavis.com). The studio is an interactive media company that combines creative prowess and technical skill to create award winning web, video, and print solutions. More...
Brendan Sisson (Maitland, Australia)
A Daemon senior ColdFusion developer, Brendan has for the last couple of years been playing evangelist for the FarCry CMS open source project where he is the lead developer and trainer. More...
Brenton Cannizzaro (Adelaide, Australia)
After having an extensive career in design education, which included teaching at secondary and tertiary institutions, Brenton chose to pursue his interest in interactive design. 6 years later, he now runs the Enpresiv Group. More...
Chafic Kazoun (Washington D.C)
Kazoun is a senior Flash developer at B-Line Express in Washington, D.C. who specializes in creating Rich Internet Applications and developing Flash components. He has over four years of experience in managing the collaboration of front-end web designers and back-end web developers for online projects, including CVSA (Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance), George Washington University Hospital, GSA (General Services Administration) and Avis Car Rental. More...
Darron Schall (Philadelphia, USA)
Darron is an active member of the Flash community, the creator of SharpFlash, an Open-Source 3rd party Flash extender written in C# and ActionScript, and regularly found on various Flash mailing lists answering questions and lending a helping hand. More...
Geoff Bowers (Sydney, Australia)
Geoff's the CEO and application architect for Daemon Internet Consultants. As an Adobe Master Instructor, father of FarCry, and keeper of the Goog, Geoff keeps his hand in doing a bit of ColdFusion here and there. More...
Grant Straker (Auckland, New Zealand)
Grant is an experienced ColdFusion Developer and runs Straker, a successful ColdFusion software development house. He has been involved in over 50 CF5 to CFMX migration projects ranging from small sites to enterprise level migrations. More...
Guy Watson (London, England)
Guy Watson or FlashGuru as he is also known, has been an active, well recognized figure in the Flash Community, supporting the community with tutorials, source files, moderating the large Flash Community Forums (Flashkit and Actionscripts.org) and running his own Flash Resource website - FlashGuru's Knowledge Base. Guy has won numerous awards for his work. More...
James Talbot (Boston, USA)
James has been with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) for over seven years, on both the sales engineering and training teams, and has most recently been working with Flex and Flash Lite. He has traveled extensively throughout the world promoting Adobe products and certifying Adobe instructors as well as speaking at conferences. More...
John Treloar (Sydney, Australia)
John heads up the Macromedia ANZ team. A regular Macromedia evenagelist at venues across Australia and New Zealand, John comes to MXDU to give his insight into the future of web technology in our region. More...
Kai Koenig (Wellington, New Zealand)
Kai is a German Software Solutions Architect living in New Zealand by choice but working internationally. He has just started a new venture as a self-employed consultant for Adobe's and other web technologies under the brand Ventego Creative. Before that he spent a few years working as a Software Solutions Architect for Marcomedia and Adobe partner companies in Europe and New Zealand. More...
Kirk Mower (Hobart, Australia)
Kirk is working with the Australian Antarctic Division Data Centre creating web-based applications for the dynamic discovery of scientific data. He is a founding member of the International ColdFusion and ArcIMS users group and is the creator of the official ArcIMS and ColdFusion web site and Blog. More...
Mike Chambers (San Francisco, USA)
Mike Chambers has been creating applications integrating Macromedia Flash with server side technologies (ColdFusion, Java, ASP, and PHP) for a number of years. He is currently the Product Manager for Developer Relations for the Flash Platform. More...
Mike Pearce (Melbourne, Australia)
Mike Pearce followed the usual path to multimedia: he trained as a classical ballet dancer for 12 years before deciding he preferred doing fun stuff with computers. More...
Minty Hunter (Melbourne, Australia)
Minty Hunter has founded Nectarine with Bek Farr in 1995. Since then, the company has built a reputation for innovative and highly creative work. Nectarine focuses in the education and environment fields, and have garnered a swathe of accolades and possibly an overabundance of verbose adjectives. More...
Patti Lee (Washington DC, USA)
Patti is a ColdFusion developer in the Health Sciences division of Constella Group in Washington, DC (www.constellagroup.com). She has been working with Web technology since the "heady" days of the mid-nineties, which seemed like a logical place to turn after finishing Bachelors degrees in English and French. More...
Peter Hall (London, England)
Peter has been a Flex consultant for over 3 years, and has been using Flash for 8 years. Nowadays he, along with Johannes Nel, runs Memorphic, based in London and Capetown, creating applications and user interfaces for large enterprise clients. Over the last 2 years, he has worked with some impressive clients including Fidelity Investments, Airbus and LMG (Nectar Loyalty program), and many others around the globe. More...
Philipp Cielen (Frankfurt, Germany)
Philipp Cielen is the founder of cielen.com, an agency specializing in consulting, training and solutions using cutting-edge Macromedia technology since 1998. More...
Richard Turner-Jones (Brisbane, Australia)
Richard has been at the leading edge of technology implementation, working on projects for Australian Army, AirServices Australia, the Queensland Department of Emergency Services to name just a few. Plus he's the Queensland MUG Manager. More...
Robin Hilliard (Sydney, Australia)
Robin Hilliard is founder and CEO of RocketBoots, a company providing consulting, training and software licensing services to teams working with RIA technologies. He is an experienced software architect, with a particular focus on Adobe’s Flex, ColdFusion, Flash and Flash Media Server products. Formerly with Allaire and Macromedia, Robin is a certified Flash and ColdFusion developer, an Adobe certified Master Flex and ColdFusion Instructor and has a BSc in computer science and pure mathematics from Sydney University. Robin is based in Sydney, Australia. More...
Scott Barnes (Brisbane, Australia)
Scott is the code monkey pulling the levers at Mossy Interactive. More...
Scott Mebberson (Adelaide, Australia)
Scott has extensive experience in web application development. After working in several leading Adelaide based web design and development studios; Scott formed his own successful consultancy and development business before forming the Enpresiv Group. More...
Sean Corfield (San Francisco, USA)
Sean Corfield, Macromedia's very own Director of Architecture, brings 20 years of technical and managerial experience in architecture, web technologies, and programming languages. More...
Steve Piscopo (Melbourne, Australia)
Steve graduated from the RMIT Animation and Interactive media course in 2000, then brought his swag of animation and design skills to Nectarine. More...
Tim Buntel (Boston, USA)
Tim Buntel is Sr. Product Manager for FlexBuilder at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has a long history with internet software technology in his career with Adobe, Macromedia, and Allaire, previously as the long time Sr. Product Manager for ColdFusion. More...
