speakers

Peter Bell
Company: SystemForge
Twitter: peterbell
Website: http://pbell.com
Peter Bell is a passionate advocate of Application Generation and meta-programming in ColdFusion and writes the popular Application Generation blog. He has lectured internationally on using ColdFusion for application generation and to create software product lines and runs a company (http://www.systemsforge.com) that generates custom applications quickly and cost effectively. He also heads up Railo US.

Raymond Camden
Company: ColdFusion Jedi Master
Twitter: cfjedimaster
Website: http://coldfusionjedi.com
Raymond Camden is a software consultant. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books including the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and has contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC blogging application. Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at ray (at) camdenfamily.com. He is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.

Christophe Coenraets
Company: Adobe
Website: http://coenraets.org/
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. He blogs at http://coenraets.org.

Jason Delmore
Company: Risk Exchange
Website: http://www.cfinsider.com/
Jason Delmore is the Director of Technology at Risk Exchange, a Software as a Service provider to the insurance industry, and is an active member of the ColdFusion Community.  Jason was the Product Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe Systems during the development of versions 8 and 9.  For more than a decade, Jason has worked in most areas of application development including product management, systems administration, application development, database design, and software architecture.  Jason is also President of the For ColdFusion Foundation, a non-profit that supports the ColdFusion Open Source Community. 

Elad Elrom
Company: Apress technical author
Twitter: EladElrom
Website: http://elromdesign.com/blog
Elad Elrom is a technical writer, technical lead, and senior Flash engineer. As a technical writer, Elad has written books covering Flash technologies. He maintains an active blog and has spoken at several conferences regarding the Flash platform. He has helped companies follow the XP and Scrum methodologies to implement popular frameworks, optimize and automate built processors and code review, and follow best practices. Elad has consulted with a variety of clients in different fields and sizes, from large corporations such as Viacom, NBC Universal, and Weight Watchers to startups such as MotionBox.com and KickApps.com.

Steven Erat
Company: Webapper
Twitter: stevenerat
Website: http://www.talkingtree.com/blog/
Steven's experience with database-driven Web applications began at Allaire in 2000 where he provided Gold Support for premiere enterprise customers of Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe. Later, Steven was a member of the ColdFusion Product Team and eventually joined the ColdFusion Engineering Team at Adobe as Lead Software Quality Developer where he rigorously tested the ColdFusion 8 server. He then joined the Flex Engineering Team as Flex SDK Quality Software Developer, where he worked on Flex 3 and Flex 4 SDK product development.

Adam Flater
Company: RoundArch
Twitter: adamflater
Website: http://adamflater.blogspot.com/
Adam Flater is a Technical Architect and Evangelist at Roundarch. His career has been centered on building innovative graphical user interfaces and research of emerging technology. Adam has designed and implemented solutions using Microsoft, Java and Adobe technologies. Since the beta release of Adobe's Flex 2.0 platform in October of 2005, he has been an active member of the Flex community. Adam has been a featured speaker at at several developers conferences including: The eBay Developer Conference, Fig Leaf's Web Maniacs, 360 Flex, The Adobe OnAir Bus Tour, The Adobe MAX Conference, and several industry groups. He served as a Software Architect for Universal Mind and EffectiveUI where he was involved with projects like eBay Desktop and NASDAQ's Market Replay (both Adobe MAX award winners). Adam is also the project founder and principle contributor to the Merapi Project, a bridge for Java and Flex.

Simon Free
Company: E-bim
Twitter: simonfree
Website: http://simonfree.com/
Simon is an Adobe Community Expert and an Adobe Certified Instructor. Working on several high profile projects ranging from a start-up athlete skin care shopping cart application to a full blown CMS requiring multiple workflows for publishing and editing several types of content, Simon has been able to utilize a number of different technologies including ColdFusion, Flex, InDesign, Air, and Blaze DS / LiveCycle DS. Constantly learning, Simon is always looking for new challenges and reports his findings both to user groups and on his website http://www.simonfree.com.

Shannon Hicks
Company: Webapper
Twitter: iotashan
Website: http://www.iotashan.com/
Shannon Hicks is a Senior Developer at Webapper, and concentrates on ColdFusion, Flex and AIR development projects. After over a decade as a ColdFusion developer, Shannon made the jump to Flex 2 during the public beta, and now splits his time between the two. You can currently find his CF and Flex examples and other ramblings on the Webapper Blog and on his personal site http://www.iotashan.com/.

Kevin Hoyt
Company: Adobe
Twitter: parkerkrhoyt
Website: http://blog.kevinhoyt.org/
Kevin Hoyt is a Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he’s been actively involved in furthering web technologies for almost ten years.  As a Platform Evangelist, Kevin is responsible for covering a broad array of Adobe technologies, and spends upwards of seventy percent of the year presenting keynotes, session and hands-on labs at conferences and user group events across the globe.  Prior to joining Adobe, Kevin held various information technology roles ranging from web design to enterprise infrastructure.  Kevin lives in Denver, CO and enjoys photography and general aviation in his free time.

Adam Lehman
Company: Adobe
Twitter: adrocknaphobia
Website: http://www.adrocknaphobia.com/
Bio coming soon.

Rachel Lehman
Company: Interfolio
Twitter: raelehman
Website: http://rmaxim.blogspot.com/
Rachel is a multi-disciplined designer-developer with a background in marketing, graphic design, and web development. She specializes in usability design and development with ColdFusion, Flex, AJAX and the Adobe suite of products. She is currently the User Experience Designer at Interfolio, Inc., a Washington, DC-based software company that builds SaaS solutions for higher education applicants and institutions.

Andrew Powell
Company: Universal Mind
Twitter: umAndy
Website: http://www.infoaccelerator.net
Andrew Powell has been architecting and developing web applications for over 10 years using ColdFusion, Flex, AJAX, and Java. His background includes experience running IT Departments for firms in the executive search and aviation consulting fields. Currently, Andrew is a Principal Architect at Universal Mind specializing in ColdFusion, Java, & Flex. Currently, his focus is on integrating enterprise Java technologies such as Spring and Hibernate with Flex and AIR applications. You can read his blog on everything ColdFusion, Java, & Flex at www.infoaccelerator.net.

Chris Scott
Company: Universal Mind
Twitter: asstrochris
Website: http://cdscott.blogspot.com/
Chris Scott is an Enterprise Software Consultant in the Philadelphia area with over ten years of Java, ColdFusion, ActionScript and Flex experience as well as a strong interest in the implementation of open source solutions. Chris is the lead developer of the Swiz Framework and the ColdSpring Framework, including the first Aspect Oriented Programming framework for ColdFusion.

Ryan Stewart
Company: Adobe
Twitter: ryanstewart
Website: http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/
Bio coming soon.

Jeff Tapper
Company: Digital Primates
Twitter: jefftapper
Website: http://blogs.digitalprimates.net/jefftapper/
Jeff Tapper is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group, which focuses on the development of RIAs and empowering clients through mentoring. Jeff has been developing internet-based applications since 1995, for a myriad of clients including Major League Baseball, Conde Nast, Harley Davidson, Toys R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express and Morgan Stanley. As an Instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, AIR, ColdFusion and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1, and started his ColdFusion development on CF 1.5. Jeff has written 9 books, and is currently working on his 10th. Among the more recent releases are "Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source," and "Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR,"

David Tucker
Company: Universal Mind
Twitter: mindmillmedia
Website: http://www.davidtucker.net/
David is an Adobe Community Expert focusing on Rich Internet Applications. In addition, David servers as a Software Engineer with Universal Mind focusing primarily on Flex and AIR development. David also is an expert blogger at one of the leading Rich Internet Application blogs, InsideRIA.com (sponsored by O’Reilly Media and Adobe Systems). You can read David’s recent posts here. In addition, David writes a regular column for Adobe’s News Flash Newsletter (formerly the RIA Buzz Newsletter).  In his spare time David continues to develop his skills in audio recording and has been known to play Taylor Guitars.

Jesse Warden
Company: Flex and Flash Consultant
Twitter: jesterxl
Website: http://www.jessewarden.com/
Jesse Warden is a Flex & Flash consultant.  He has been using Flex since version 1, Flash before that since 2001, and Director in '99.  He came from the design and agency world before getting into software development, and later consulting.  He's worked with Fortune 100 companies as well as startups.  He runs a blog at jessewarden.com, is JesterXL on Twitter, and is currently working for Roundarch, Universal Mind, and various other contracts.

Todd Yard
Company: Brightcove
Website: http://27bobs.com/
Todd is Software Architect at Brightcove in Cambridge, MA, leading the development of their players and templating system for media delivery and user experiences. Previously, he was a partner with Ego7 in New York and has worked with clients like GE, IBM and Mars creating anything from applications to animations to ads. He has contributed to over a dozen friends of ED books on Flash, Flex and ActionScript, his most recent being Foundation ActionScript 3.0 Image Effects.