Adobe is doing an international Flex User Group Tour and swinging by our city.  Some key Adobe employees (names will be confirmed later) will discuss and take question about Flex and the future of the technology.  

Please come join us.  The announcement follows:

As we promised at the end of last year, we are kicking off an international Flex User Group Tour to discuss recent announcements regarding Flex and the Flash Platform. These meetings will clarify any changes to Flex and Flash including updates on the runtimes and tooling. Additionally, the sessions will educate folks about the Apache process and what it takes for Flex SDK, as a project within the Apache Software Foundation, to continue to thrive. These meetings will be the best place to get accurate and up-to-date information about anything related to Flex.

We hope to meet and talk with as many developers as possible – so mark the dates and we’ll see you there!

Announcement

The location is TBD for now, will update soon.

Guests

Christophe Coenraets

Christophe Coenraets is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise Integration. He has been working on Flex since the early days of the product in 2003.

In his previous role at Macromedia, Christophe worked on JRun, the company's J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Internet applications Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years.

Jeff Tapper

Jeff Tapper is a founding partner and senior consultant at Digital Primates. He has been developing Internet-based applications since 1995 for a myriad of clients, including Major League Baseball, ESPN, Morgan Stanley, Condé Nast, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, Verizon, and many others.

Based in New York, he has been developing Flex applications since the earliest days of Flex 1. As an instructor, Jeff is certified to teach all of Adobe’s courses on Flex, AIR, Flash, and ColdFusion development. He is also a frequent speaker at Adobe Development Conferences and user groups.

Jeff has worked as author and technical editor for a dozen books, including the Adobe Flex: Training from the Source series.  Jeff is an initial committer to the Apache Flex project, and is part of that projects Project Management Committee

Stream

The even will also be streamed for your convenience: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/mike-s-flex-channel

More to come...