Upcoming events: Meet the PlayBook, CS5.5 Evolution Tour, Multi Mania, Webinale
Traditionally May and June seem to be the busiest months of the year and it’s no different this year.
Later today I’m taking the Eurostar to London and will join the CS5.5 Evolution Tour crew for the CS5.5 event in London. There’s still some room left if you want to join us but you may want to register right now as I’m sure we will be closing registration soon. I’ll also be joining the CS5.5 Evolution Tour in Amsterdam next week. If you’re an Adobe UserGroup member you can even sign up for a special device update and may even go home with a brand new device. The day after the CS5.5 Evolution Tour stops in Amsterdam you can find us in Kortrijk for Multi Mania. This will be my 7th consecutive year at Multi Mania… Time flies… Registration for Multi Mania is still open so get your free tickets now!
If you happen to be in Amsterdam next Thursday you may want to check out the Meet The PlayBook event. It’s a great opportunity to get to know the power of the BlackBerry PlayBook and learn how you can build apps for it using Flash Builder 4.5. Sadly I won’t be able to make it to this event myself (I’m doing a guest lecture at the University of Ghent) but my colleague Piotr will show you all the good stuff.
Later this month I’ll also be speaking at Webinale in Berlin. I’ve never been to Webinale but I only heard good things about it so I’m really looking forward to it.
Hope to see you at one of these events!
Upcoming events: DroidCon, Beyond Tellerrand, FITC Amsterdam
Can you believe that we’re already 11 days in to 2011? My god… time flies! At this rate it’ll be Christmas again next week! My calendar for the first couple of months of 2011 is already filling up rapidly and I’m sure it’ll be the same for you. That’s exactly why I wanted to point out these events that are scheduled for the next coming weeks.
January 21st is the second edition of DroidCon Belgium. As you may have guessed, DroidCon is all about Android. The quick to-the-point 15 minute presentation format will ensure a complete information overload! Tickets are €75 (€25 for students) and are still available.
Beyond Tellerrand is a completely new conference in Cologne Germany organized by the wonderful people behind FFK. This event will be their first conference dedicated to mobile application development. They have a special deal for those who would like to go to both Beyond Tellerrand and FFK. Tomorrow is also the last chance to get an early bird ticket ($50 off) for Beyond Tellerrand! Get it now! (I wonder what Tellerrand actually means ;-))
FITC is always a lot of fun and is coming back to Amsterdam! This year it’s in a different but much bigger venue! Early bird ticket sales end this week so if you didn’t get your ticket yet you better get it today!
UPDATE: You may also be interested in Scotch on the Rocks in Edinburgh on March 3rd and 4th. I’m not speaking there this year but the Fuzzy Oranges are a great bunch and I’m sure they’ll put on another fantastic event.
Upcoming events: WIF, MWC, FITC, FFK10
While the next coming months are going to be a little bit hectic, I am really looking forward to it. I’m especially looking forward to seeing you guys at these events.
WIF – February 5th & 6th – Namur, Belgium – http://www.wif-dogstudio.be/
WIF (Webdesign International Festival) is a worldwide event and this will be the first one in Belgium. It may sound strange to some of you, but I don’t speak at events in my backyard that much. Even though I live in Belgium, the majority of my speaking engagements are abroad. So it’s obvious that I am looking forward to this one. Maybe this one even more as it is the first event (to my knowledge) in the French speaking part of Belgium. I’ll be doing a keynote session at the end of the first day… right before the bar opens up ;-)
Mobile World Congress – February 15th-18th, Barcelona, Spain – http://www.mobileworldcongress.com
I already talked about MWC last week but let me repeat that I am very excited about MWC this year. If you’re a developer interested in mobile application development and interested in checking out MWC, then visit http://www.adobe.com/go/mwc2010. We’re offering Flash Platform developers a limited number of complimentary exhibition visitor passes (a value of € 599 per person) on a first-come, first-served basis.
FITC – February 22nd-23rd – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – http://www.fitc.ca
FITC starts just a few days after MWC so it’s obvious you can expect some cool mobile demos in the FITC keynote (along with other cool stuff of course ;-)). I’m also doing a session on AIR 2 and all the new features it has to offer. I will show a bunch of code snippets and how to use them in real applications.
FFK10 – April 13th-16th – Cologne, Germany – http://ffk10.flashforum.de
This event is three months from now, but tickets are going fast! This will be my third year at FFK10 and it’s always great fun. Sascha and Marc always do a great job putting this event together. This year will be their 10th anniversary and I promise to bring something cool to the keynote ;-)
If you’re going to be at one of these events, feel free to ping me and to come and say “Hi”. Hope to see you there!
Next stop: Bangalore, India
I’m extremely excited about my next trip: Bangalore, India. It’s one of those places I really only know from hearing about it. India has rapidly become a key player in the world’s IT industry and I’m really looking forward to meeting the local developer community. I’ve been told by our local team in Bangalore that many developers in the area read my blog. I was really surprised when I confirmed that in my stats. My blog actually gets more visitors from India than from France or The Netherlands! And I live in Belgium! I just couldn’t believe it but I’m really happy with that.
So… Since there are so many of you reading this, this invitation is very appropriate. If you are in the Bangalore area on August 4th, I would love to meet you at Adobe’s Devsummit. We have an exciting day scheduled for you and we’ll cover everything from Flash Builder 4 to Flash Catalyst to ColdFusion to mobile and more.
Since I’m in India all week, I’ll also visit some customers, visit the Flex user group in Pune, speak at the Bangalore University and meet our developers and engineers working on Flex and ColdFusion.
Hope to see you there!
Upcoming events & speaking engagements
My calendar for the next coming weeks is pretty full. I thought it was a good idea to combine some of the events I’ll be speaking at in one blog post.
FFK09 – April 27th, 28th, 29th, 2009 – Cologne, Germany
Germany’s biggest Flash conference is starting today in Cologne. Tomorrow morning (Tuesday) I’ll be doing the keynote and will be available to chat throughout the day. My colleagues Tom Krcha and Duane Nickull are also presenting. FFK09 is sold out so if you didn’t get a ticket, you’re out of luck. If you are at FFK09, come and say “Hi”!
Twiist – May 15th, 2009 – Leuven, Belgium
There aren’t that many conferences in Belgium. So when a new one pops up, I am more than happy to support it. Tickets are available on the Twiist website. but I also have one (1) ticket to give away to one of my blog readers. The first one to mail me (serge at adobe dot com) with 3 names of Twiist speakers (not including mine) will win the ticket. (While this ‘contest’ is open to anybody, please only participate if you’re also in Belgium on the 15th and plan on attending this conference). Martin Heidegger from Hobnox won the ticket.
Multi-Mania – May 18th & 19th, 2009 – Kortrijk, Belgium
Multi-Mania is probably one of the fastest growing conferences in Europe. In one year, they doubled the number of attendees to 800 last year and I hear the venue is even bigger this year. With yet another impressive speaker list, Multi-Mania is not to be missed. I’ll be doing the keynote session as well as a couple of other sessions. Doing a keynote on my birthday? What better way to celebrate my birthday could there be? ;-)
From A To Web – May 26th, 2009 Milan, Italy – May 28th, 2009 Rome, Italy
I’m going to be in great company during this event. With speakers like Marco Casario and Andrea Trento, this event is also not to be missed. I’ll be doing a keynote session as well as a session on Flash Catalyst, Flex 4 and ColdFusion.
These are just the events for the next couple of weeks. I’ll post another blog post for the June events as soon as everything has been confirmed. If you’re at one of these events, come and say “hi”.
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