Mark Anders' Blog: Heading down to San Jose for Flex 360

March 04, 2007

Heading down to San Jose for Flex 360

I'm heading off to San Jose today for the Flex 360 conference and I'm really excited about it! This is my first Flex specific conference and the fact that it's sold out means that it should have a lot of energy. That it has been organized by EBay kind of blows me away!

In the past, when I've been involved in technology specific conferences, such as for ASP.NET, the conferences were always organized either by conference, training or consulting companies or by the company producing the technology. Having a company that uses the technology put on the conference is a new one for for me but I think reflects the type of excitement you see around Flex. That the company is one of the top internet companies around makes it pretty incredible.

There's a great line up of speakers, both from Adobe and from the community. At the office on Friday I saw Chafic Kazoun and Grant Skinner, both of whom are well known in the community and will do a great job presenting.

There is also a lot of excitement from Flex team members. David Zuckerman is practically bouncing off the walls and will give a kind of unique session on how to extend Flex Builder to do cool new things. He's also threatened to spill the beans on what goes on inside the Flex team, and though I'm no longer officially on the team and so probably won't be included, if he does say anything about me, please don't believe it!

Now, you might wonder why I'm heading down to San Jose today, since the conference starts tomorrow and I live in San Francisco, which is just a short drive away, and since I'm not listed as a speaker. Well, I'll be giving tomorrow's keynote presentation, with assistance from Mike Downey, and it starts at 8:30, so I need to be there bright and early. I'll actually be showing some cool stuff in the keynote including some things that I've never shown in public before, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Hope to see you there!

Posted by Mark Anders at March 4, 2007 10:15 AM