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Mike Downey (Seattle, USA)

Mike Downey is Director of Platform Evangelism at Microsoft where he focuses on platform adoption of Microsoft Silverlight and related technologies. With a long history in developing software for web and mobile application development and rich media delivery, Mike has amassed a great deal of experience with gathering and prioritizing feature requirements, tailoring product messaging for target audiences, building and delivering exceptional product presentations that engage audiences and drive sales, creating innovative new ways to maximize revenue – particularly with mature product lines, and working with engineering teams to better understand their customers. 

Speaker Details

Mike was formerly the Principal Evangelist for the Platform Business Development team at Adobe Systems focusing on promoting Adobe’s platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and AIR. Mike joined the AIR team as Senior Product Manager in December of 2006 before moving to his role in business development. Prior to joining the AIR product team Mike spent four years as Senior Product Manager for Flash.

Has previously done talks on...

AIR: Visualizing the Possibilities of a New Platform

Count down the top Adobe AIR applications with this survey of the coolest apps launched to date. What is the most famous? The best-designed? The wackiest? Come to this session to find out. More...

BOF: Apollo Funtime

Join Andrew Muller for an informal discussion on the virtues of Apollo. That would be the Apollo cross-OS runtime, not the archer-god of medicine, light, truth, and bearer of death-dealing plague. More...

Casual Gaming: What Developers Need to Know

Casual gaming is experiencing explosive growth and developers want to get in on the gold rush. In this session Mike Downey, WebDU veteran and Microsoft Principal Evangelist, will help you understand the business and the technology of the casual games marketplace. More...

Keynote: Flash Bang, Apollo

Blast off with Mike Downey and Mike Chambers from the Adobe Apollo Team. Get the latest on the ubiquitous Flash Platform. And find out why the cutting edge Apollo runtime has people excited about next generation web *and* desktop applications. More...

Keynote: Flash the Future

Dynamic duo Mike Chambers and Mike Downey make sense of the maelstrom of Flash development. Get yourself out from behind that eight-ball and see the future of Flash. More...

Keynote: Hacking the Gibson Yahoo! and Microsoft Styles

Yahooligans and Microsoftians combine their powers like an RIA Voltron. More...

Keynote: The Long Arm of the Web

Join Mike Downey, Principal Evangelist at Adobe, for a look at web outside the browser -- covering a range of platform technologies including Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash. Downey will walk the audience through overviews of these technologies as well as examples of their use in real-world applications. You'll also see sneaks of unreleased new technologies currently in development including the "Thermo" project and the next release of Flash Professional. More...

Lighting Up a Billion Mobile Devices

Jump start your mobile knowledge today. This past year has seen incredibly exciting progress and growth in Macromedia's mobile and devices strategy. Come hear major announcements from the Mobile and Devices team on technology, deployments and the opportunities for you. More...