Michigan Flash Fest

Featuring:

Pre-Conference Mixer – Friday Sept. 12^th 7:30-11pm
@ the Woodward, 1040 Woodward Ave, Detroit MI 48226

Conference – Saturday Sept 13th 9am – 6pm
@ Next Energy, 461 Burroughs St., Detroit MI 48202

Keynote Speaker
Josh Margulis, Adobe
“Current and Future of the Flash Platform”

Hands on Flash Training “Working With Flash”
Provided by Pixel IT Productions

45 minute Training session. Beginner Level. Session will cover:

project setup, Animate a movie clip, Work with nested symbols, using masks, Transforming objects, Adding sound, adding a stop action, Animate Titles, Morph objects, Animating transparency, Animate using motion paths. for more

information email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   or call 248.930.3911

Ticket Pricing:

General - $75
Student/Faculty - $50
Hands on Training - $39
Mixer Only -$10

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Visit www.miflashfest.org to register today 

Sessions (subject to change)

Getting into Adobe Air
This session will provide a quick overview of the tools needed to build an Adobe AIR application. It will then move on to a walk-through of how to build a Flex based AIR application. As you build this application, you will learn how to take advantage of some of the additional capabilities of AIR that are not available within web-based Flex applications.

Presented by Joe Johnson, Universal Mind

Career advice: Getting a job in Flash and RIA
Get answers to your questions like “What kind of jobs are available in the industry?”, and “ What kind of skills do you need?”,. 

Presented by Aquent, Otterbase .

Panel Discussion: Advancing Education curriculum to meet the needs of Industry
A open discussion on the needs of industry, the current methods

educational institutions are using to prepare students to enter the realities of the interactive multimedia industry, and how the institutions need to adapt their programs to keep pace to the evolving industry. 

Moderated by Jake Pollak with panelists: Kim Callery, Josh Freeny

Flash Tips & Tricks
Learn tricks to speed your workflow and create more efficient running flash files, and techniques to amaze and wow your clients .

Presented by Josh Freeny

Flash 3D: A Different Kind of 3D

The single, biggest problem for 3D usage in Flash is that a true 3D engine does not behave in ways an average Flash programmer  would expect or want.  Introducing Elemental 4D, an engine that allows for ease of 3D programming in Flash. While not the first flash-specific 3D engine,

Elemental 4D does operate on principals that make it unique.  While other 3D engines based off of video game and 3D graphics programming,

Elemental 4D is completely oriented  towards usable and practical

application in new media, manipulating standard Flash objects in ways predictable to a normal 2D designer or developer, and keeping all

standard properties, methods, and events. Elemental 4D even allows 3D scenes to be set up on Flash's visual stage.

Presented by Bryan Grezeszak, Elemental

Creating Rich Internet Applications scale to your customer's

platform delivery needs:

whether they be Mobile, Web, or Platform Applications

Presentation By Josh Holmes

Create Exciting Silverlight and WPF Applications: from Flash to Expression Studio Release 2

A complete web creative suite for designers and developers.  What a

difference a year can make! Don will introduce you to Expression Studio (Design, Blend, Media, Encoder, and DeepZoom Composer) and present an end-to-end workflow example, from the perspective of a Flash

Designer.

Presented by Don Burnett and Ken Arbogast-Wilson.

Digital Advertising Opportunities with  Silverlight Video

Did you know that even before Silverlight 1.0 was officially released that the Interactive Advertising Bureau had made it part of the official release of “Digital Video In-Stream Ad Format & Best Practices Guidelines" for Digital Video Advertising? The formats include: Linear Video,

Non-Linear Video, and Companion formats. The recommendations now include best practices for use with Silverlight and their new (.XAP) streaming formats. This among other reasons have launched Silverlight into the mainstream for Digital Advertising, and keeps popping up in Silverlight coverage of events such as the Olympics and the DNC.

We will take a look at some of these advertising formats and your

opportunities to partner and provide advertising to these new exciting digital markets. Everyone is getting into the game and even companies like Google have recently been involved in advertising placement in these

markets. We will look into how companies like Move Networks,

DoubleClick, and Microsoft Digital Advertising are forging ahead to make these opportunities economically advantageous to you.

Speakers: Don Burnett and Josh Holmes

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Sponsored by :

Microsoft

International

Academy of Design and Technology

Aquent

Detroit Creative Group

Synergistic Solutions 

In association with:

Pixel it Productions

Southeast Michigan ACM SIGGRAPH (SEMAFX)

Ann Arbor Adobe User Group - FlashFocused

Michigan Flex User Group

Creative Energy

Alliance

Detroit Adobe User Group

Detroit Joomla User Group

Deep Canvas

Western Michigan Creatives  

Great Lakes Area .NET User Group