2005 Speaker Lineup
We've had an overwhelming response from speakers around the world from the Europe, India, the Americas and the Antipodes. We're adding speakers as we confirm them!
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...
Aral Balkan (London, England)
Aral Balkan is celebrating his 20th year as a programmer (he is only 27!). He has graced the Macromedia world community with his expertise and knowledge and is a much sought after man! More...
Brajeshwar Oinam (Mumbai, India)
Brajeshwar is a self-taught Macromedia Flash developer with full dedication towards his workmanship. He is a stern beliver in KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) and a true professional developer. He is currently leading his very successful start up Oinam Software Pvt. Ltd with clients spread around the globe. 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...
Brian Chau (Melbourne, Australia)
Brian Chau is the Web Market Development Manager for Adobe Asia Pacific. He has been working for Adobe/Macromedia for over 10 years and is an Adobe Certified Expert in Dreamweaver and Flash. 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...
Charles Sterling (GoldCoast, Australia)
Charles Sterling aka "Chuck" has over 11 years of Developer tools experience at Microsoft. He came to Microsoft from being a marine biologist working for the United States National Marine Fisheries doing marine mammal research on the Bering Sea. More...
Dale Rankine (Brisbane, Australia)
Dale Rankine is the CEO of Moket, Australia's first Flash Lite focused company which started in late 2004. He's been working with Flash and interactive media for the past 10 years, holding many creative, development and management positions with interactive studios and companies in his hometown of Brisbane. Dale also started the successful Brisbane web-studio DRD Interactive, and continues to currently operate as Managing Director. Dale is a Certified Adobe Instructor (Flash Lite) and is the manager of the Australian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. 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...
Graeme Bull (Vancouver, Canada)
Graeme Bull is currently lead RIA developer/project manager and a cofounder of Solid Thinking Interactive (www.solid-thinking.com), a Vancouver based web and multimedia studio specializing in Flash based solutions. More...
Grant Skinner (Edmonton, Canada)
Grant is an internationally renowned Flash Guru and loves to push the boundaries. The "g" in gModeler, gProject, gLic and other ground breaking projects, Grant continues his impact the Flash community. 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...
Jesse Warden (Atlanta, USA)
Jesse Warden specializes in Flex & Flash Development. He does Flash Lite when feeling philanthropic. He has spoken in Sydney, Australia at MXDU 2003, 2005, multiple Atlanta Macromedia User Groups, Georgia Tech, Flex Seminar, Adobe MAX 2006, and other venues about various Macromedia/Adobe products and technologies. Jesse runs a blog at jessewarden.com where he contributes coding techniques, plug-ins, and sample projects to the community. He enjoys coding, hanging out with designers, watching the History Channel, raving at da clubz, D&D, and playing games (all consoles, all PC genres). 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...
Mark Blair (Adelaide, Australia)
Technical Director for Adobe Pacific, Mark has seen the web involve over the last 13 years through working for Allaire, Macromedia and now Adobe. He spends his time today convincing key Australian technology leaders and influencers that Adobe has the best technology platform for their requirements. More...
Matt Voerman (Perth, Australia)
Adobe Community Expert, Master Flash Instructor, and long time Flash Platform evangelist, Matt Voerman has been using Adobe Flash since its inception as Future Splash in 1997. He has over ten years of professional web and new media development experience. Having worked with a multitude of organizations around the world including Macromedia, GE Finance, BT Financial, Westpac Banking Corporation, and the West Australian Government. 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 Downey (San Francisco, USA)
Mike Downey is Principal Product Manager at Adobe Systems leading a team focused on promoting Adobe's platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) (formerly codenamed "Apollo"). Mike joined the AIR team as Senior Product Manager in December of 2006 before moving to his current role. 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...
Owen van Dijk (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
A distinguished member of the international Flash community, Owen van Dijk is a Software Engineer in Amsterdam. He impacts the world with his software, websites and Rich Internet Applications creations. 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...
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...
Sas Jacobs (WA, Australia)
Sas is a web developer by day and by night occasionally becomes a musician. Sas Jacobs is well respected internationally for her knowledge and experience in Flash web applications development including XML and scripting components. Her clients represent the big players in their respective industries. Sas achieves all this from the city she loves most, Perth Australia. 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...
