Speakers
The speaker list this year pretty much speaks volumes about the conference. webDu has become the annual web technology moot for some of the worlds best flashers, coders and designers.
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...
Andrew Spaulding (Sydney, Australia)
Andrew is a Systems Engineer for Adobe in Australia. Andrew started in IT as a User Interface developer for Achilles Foundation in 2003. After migrating the UI from various Java mixes to Flex, Andrew left Achilles Foundation to become a contract Flex developer, working on multiple Flex projects throughout Australia. This then led to a career with Macromedia in October 2005, now Adobe Systems, where he provided support for customers around Asia Pacific; and more recently progressing to a technical sales role as a Systems Engineer. More...
Brandy Fortune (Georgia, USA)
Brandy Fortune currently works for Cingular Wireless, the United States largest wireless carrier. In April 2003 Brandy was a part of the team that made Cingular Wireless was one of the first commercial websites to embrace CSS layout and XHTML. As Brandy moved back and forth between creating clean and simple user interfaces and coding them, she mastered the translation of design into code. More...
Caleb Adam Haye (Berkeley, USA)
Caleb Adam Haye has been developing web applications since 1997. He now works full time as a Flash Architect for Metaliq, an agency in San Francisco. Recently, Caleb became the founder of Fire, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in rich internet application (RIA) development. Lastly, Caleb also teaches at the Academy of Art University’s MFA program. More...
Cameron Adams (Melbourne, Australia)
Cameron Adams has a degree in law and one in science; naturally he chose a career in Web development. When pressed, he labels himself a "Web Technologist" because he likes to have a hand in graphic design, JavaScript, CSS, Perl (yes, Perl), and anything else that takes his fancy that morning. More...
Charlie Arehart (Atlanta, USA)
A veteran ColdFusion developer since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Expert. He served as tech editor of the ColdFusion Developers Journal until 2003 and was co-author of the CFMX Bible. Charlie started in IT in 1982 working in mainframe databases, and he capped that 15 year segment of his career with a 2-year contract in 1995 with the Australian Dept of Social Security (now CentreLink) in Canberra. A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for CF 4/5/MX, he's frequently invited to speak to developer conferences and user groups worldwide. Charlie is now an independent contractor providing high-level troubleshooting and tuning assistance as well as training and mentoring for CF teams. He lives in Alpharetta GA, where he has also served as president of the Atlanta CFUG. More...
Collis Ta'eed (Sydney, Australia)
Collis is co-founder of successful startup FlashDen.net where he is in charge of marketing, strategy and community. Collis is also art director of Good Creative, and with a background in web design he has been working online in one capacity or another since Yahoo was nothing more than a yell! 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...
Dmitry Baranovskiy (Sydney, Australia)
Dmitry started in the IT industry as back-end web developer in 2000. He then moved into graphic design and finally onto front-end web development soon after. This background helps him understand a broad range of front-end goodness: from pixel pushing to complex JavaScript and XSLT development. 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...
Greg Rewis (San Francisco, USA)
Greg Rewis is the Worldwide Senior Evangelist for Web Tools for Adobe Systems Incorporated with nearly 20 years of computer industry experience. In this role, Rewis spends up to 200 days of the year on the road talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, speaking at industry conferences, and leading specialized advanced training sessions featuring Adobe’s Web Tools product line. 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...
Jeff Coughlin (Connecticut, USA)
Jeff Coughlin is the owner of Versatile Internet Solutions (http://versatileinternet.com), a web application solutions provider. At Versatile Internet Jeff manages and develops applications primarily in the healthcare industry to meet clients' needs using Adobe-based products such as ColdFusion and Flex. 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...
Jon Henshaw (Nashville, USA)
Jon has over 12 years of experience developing websites. He's managed small to enterprise-level projects, and understands what it takes to make a website successful. Before coming to Sitening, He worked as an Interaction Designer for Visa, where he helped develop web applications for their consumer and corporate clients. 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...
Lachlan Hardy (Sydney, Australia)
Lachlan Hardy is a standards-compliant front-end developer by day, working in Sydney for News Digital Media. He's presented at OZeWAI, and co-organised the Melbourne chapter of the Web Standards Group, and generally agitated for best-practice development everywhere he's been. More...
Lucas Sherwood (Sydney, Australia)
Lucas has spent the last few years working for Allaire and then Macromedia doing everything from consulting through to evangelising for Macromedia. Lucas joined Allaire's consulting services division several years ago where he was responsible for ensuring the success of many ColdFusion based projects around the world. More...
Mark Mandel (Melbourne, Australia)
Mark Mandel is the author of several open source projects, most notably Transfer ORM and JavaLoader and has been has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com bomb back in the late 90's. More...
Michael Labriola (USA)
Michael Labriola is a Founding Partner and Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Expert, Flex Developer Champion, co-author of the Flex 2 & 3 Training from the Source books, and international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for three of the world's ten most recognized brands. More...
Michael Wise (Brisbane, Australia)
Michael Wise is the Director and Founder of omniEffect, an information company which offers products, services and solutions for delivering Enterprise content and next generation Applications focusing on the ‘End User Experience’. Simply, we architect and build information systems that enable business innovation. 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...
Phil Douglas (Sydney, Australia)
Born and raised in Wales, where he was part of the team behind the BAFTA winning BBC educational TV series Bobinogs, Phil was lured to the sunnier shores of Australia in 2004, working in creative web development before joining the team at MassMedia Studios in Sydney as their Lead Flash Developer. 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...
Russ Weakley (Sydney, Australia)
Russ Weakley has worked in the design field for over 20 years. During the last nine years Russ has focused on web design through his own business, Max Design. He is also the web designer for the Australian Museum. Russ co-chairs the Web Standards Group which was set up to assist web developers learn about new technologies and accessibility issues. More...
Ted Patrick (USA)
Ted Patrick is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe Systems. He worked with Flash since FutureSplash Animator and watched its evolution from animation to application. Ted also helped Adobe with the development of ActionScript 3, AVM2, ASC compiler, and Flash Player 9 for some 16 months prior to Flex 2's release. 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...
Weyert de Boer (Veghel, The Netherlands)
Weyert de Boer is interested in creating attractive solutions using mobile devices in combination with Flash Lite. He is currently studying interaction design, and cultural anthropology in Utrecht (The Netherlands). In the first quarter of 2006 he was asked by Richard Leggett to contribute to a book about Flash development for mobile devices, which will be published by friends of ED later this year. More...
