Mike Chambers

Mike Chambers has spent the last eight years building applications that target the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, .NET, Central, Flex, and Ajax. He is currently the principal product manager for developer relations on the platform team at Adobe. He has written and spoken extensively on Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is co-author of the Adobe Integrated Runtime Pocketguide for JavaScript, Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified.

Andre Charland

Andre Charland is the co-founder and CEO at Nitobi Inc. He's been involved in Internet software development for almost a decade. As an advocate for usability and user experience, he speaks regularly on Ajax and web usability. Most recently Andre presented at MAX, AjaxWorld, and the Ajax Experience. Andre is the co-author of Enterprise Ajax, published by Prentice Hall this summer.

Benjamin Dobler

Benjamin Dobler is a 27 year old Flash-Platform Expert living in Berlin (Germany). He first picked up Flash in 1999 and since then tries to convince his environment that Flash is more than a toy. In his daily job he used to build advertising sites and in his free time he maintains a blog were he showcases some of his private projects like RichFLV. Taking the beauty of advertising sites and the functionality from real applications is a real passion for him. In 2007 Benjamin quit his job to go freelance, making his hobby his job and coding Flex/AIR apps all night long. Currently he is working on a Flex and AIR client for parleys.com.

Daniel Dura

Currently based in San Francisco, California, Daniel Dura is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on Apollo and Flash. Before joining Macromedia (which merged with Adobe in 2005) Daniel and his brother Josh founded Dura Media LLC, a Rich Internet Application development company based in Dallas, Texas. While at Adobe, he was a member of the Central and Flex teams, as well as a Product Manager for Developer Relations.

Enrique Duvos

As Senior Platform Evangelist in Europe Enrique's role is to help customers, partners and developers across Europe understand and adopt the benefits and characteristics of some of the Adobe core platform technologies, such as Adobe® Flash, PDF, AIR, Flex and LiveCycle ES. Prior to the Adobe merger Enrique was part of the Macromedia technical sales team specialized in the company’s enterprise portfolio of technologies. With a major in Computer Science and a Master's in distributed applications, Enrique's background includes more than ten years in the Software industry, five of them in R&D as Senior Software Architect designing and developing J2EE enterprise solutions for Macromedia US.

Peter Elst

Peter Elst is a freelance Flash Platform Consultant, an Adobe Community Expert and certified instructor. As an active contributor to the online community since 1998, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and published his work in leading journals. Most recently Peter was the lead author of Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 (Friends of ED, July 2007) and is currently working on an Adobe AIR publication.

Oliver Goldman

Oliver Goldman is a senior engineer at Adobe Systems. He has worked on Adobe AIR since its inception and developed its application installation and runtime versioning technology. Prior to AIR, he worked on the early versions of LiveCycle and, before Adobe, in areas as varied as financial software, digital signal processing, and video games. He is an occasional contributor to Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Kevin Hoyt

Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. Passionate about engaging user experiences, you'll most often find him meeting with customers, speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography and general aviation.

Sergey Ilinsky

Sergey is a Technical Lead and AJAX Platform Evangelist at Backbase. Sergey joined Backbase in 2005 and focused its efforts on making the Enterprise AJAX engine extensible and fully based on Open Standards. He is also a JavaScript guru and has worked on several proof of concepts based on the Backbase platform. Sergey has been working with client-side technologies since 2002 and has extensive AJAX knowledge and experience

Serge Jespers

Serge has been working with Flash for over 10 years, 5 of which he worked for the largest media company in Belgium doing online projects for TV-shows like Idols, Big Brother, Miss Belgium, and more. Since early 2004 he's been an Adobe certified freelance Flash designer/developer. He's one of those guys who thinks you do anything with Flash. From displaying SMS-messages on TV to motion tracking museum installations to mobile live traffic updates to personalized Flash video projects. Last March, Serge joined the Adobe Benelux team as their business development manager for Creative Pro and moved to the Platform Evangelist team in November 2007.

Marco Kaiser

Marco Kaiser is a freelance IT consultant based in northern Germany, focusing on internet technologies and web development. He has been working on projects with numerous clients and agencies for over 10 years. twhirl, a twitter desktop client based on Flex, is his first public AIR project.

Nicolas Lierman

Nicolas Lierman is a senior application developer and chief architect of the Flex team at Boulevart where he leads the development of non service based products and manages corporate client projects. Prior to joining Boulevart Nicolas has worked at a top Agency as a Flash platform developer, was a Flash video consultant for the movie industry in LA and created one of the first cross media experiences on national TV with an interactive dating show. He is also the author of he Analytics Reporting Suite for Google Analytics, one of the most popular AIR apps at the moment.

Kevin Lynch

As chief technology officer and senior vice president, Experience & Technology Group, Kevin Lynch oversees Adobe’s experience design and core technology across business units. This role includes driving Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers, including Adobe® Flash® Player, Portable Document Format (PDF), Adobe Flex® and Adobe AIR™, as well as alignment of Adobe’s servers and tools with the company’s technology platform. Lynch also oversees Adobe’s developer relations program, including the integration of customers and partners in the development process through Adobe Labs and customer advisory councils.

Ethan Malasky

Ethan Malasky is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe with a longstanding interest in building rich tools for developers. He has worked on AIR 1.0 since the early days, with an emphasis on the security model and windowing APIs. Prior to his work on AIR, Ethan worked on Flash Player and on Macromedia Central.

Ted Patrick

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 helped Macromedia/Adobe with the development of ActionScript 3, AVM2, ASC compiler, and Flash Player 9 for some 18 months prior to Flex 2’s release. Prior to joining Adobe in May 2006, he provided consulting services at PowerSDK Software and Cynergy Systems. Ted is a serial entrepreneur having successfully started-up 4 times and raised over 7 Million in VC funding for companies he founded. 3 companies have been successfully sold to other businesses and one was sold to a publicly traded company in 2001. Ted is actively involved in the Flex development community and works at Adobe to define the future of rich media.

Andrew Shorten

Andrew Shorten is Platform Evangelist for Adobe and is passionate about delivering rich, engaging and immersive user experiences. His role enables him to engage with designers, developers, partners and customers across Europe on the opportunities that Flex, Flash and AIR present to enrich web and desktop experiences. Andrew has been working with web technologies for over ten years and began his career as a consultant for Fujitsu, where he advised government and enterprise customers on web, desktop, mobile and kiosk UI technologies. Following that he has worked at Macromedia, Microsoft and Adobe in a range of technical and business development roles.

Ryan Stewart

Ryan Stewart is an RIA Evangelist at Adobe and an avid Rich Internet Application blogger on both his personal blog and a blog on ZDNet. He has been doing Flex development for about 3 years and tracking Rich Internet Applications for 2 years. When not blogging or working you can usually find him hiking or backpacking with is wife around Seattle where they live.