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Adobe Flex Moves To Center Stage in New York City at "Real-World Flex"

Speakers and Attendees Converge in The Roosevelt Hotel to Discuss Next-Generation Web Applications
By Jeremy Geelan
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August 14, 2006 08:45 AM EDT
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The developers, architects, and IT managers who are gathered in New York City this morning to attend the "Real-World Flex" One-Day Seminar being produced by SYS-CON Events today in The Roosevelt Hotel, share one thing in common: a strong awareness that - from Internet businesses like Google and Yahoo! to brick and mortar companies like Jaguar and Sherwin Williams - companies need to bring dynamic, richer content to their Web applications (think Google Finance, think Yahoo! Maps). Because ultimately, RIAs open the door for new possibilities in application development.

What "Real-World Flex" aims to do, in 12 intense hours of laser-focused presentations, discussion, and demos, is to give everyone the full picture of how Adobe Flex 2 is a complete, powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform RIAs, within the enterprise and across the Web.

The historic Grand Ballroom of Roosevelt here in midtown Manhattan again looks fantastic and Adobe's Dave Mendels (pictured) is keynoting which is certain to be a huge hit with the audience because he'll incorporate live demos etc. Adobe has a really strong presence here and yet the mix is that classic SYS-CON mix of the "software principal," so to speak, surrounded by representatives of the ecosystem around that principal.



SYS-CON Events Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan and
Adobe's Group Manager for Product Marketing Steve Rotter


Real World Flex Seminar Conference Registration Opens at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City



Real-World Flex Seminar Attendees Enjoying Breakfast Before the Opening Keynote


Seminar Attendees Crowd Around to Learn About the Latest in Flex-related technologies such as ZoomFLEX



Event Partner Adobe Shows Off the Latest on Flex


Omniture shows users how to optimize the Web 2.0 Experience


Midnight Coders presents the WebORB Presentation Server


Universal Mind - high impact consulting - now hiring!


Cynergy Systems demonstrates the LookFirst Approach


The Real-World Flex Seminar Open Keynote Begins!


Adobe's David Mendels tells the sold-out audience why it's a great time to be a Flex Developer


A Standing-Room Only Crowd Packs the Opening Keynote


David Mendels Gives an Exclusive Sneak Peak at Adobe Apollo



Two Flex Masters - Adobe's Christophe Coenraets and David Mendels


Yakov Fain and Dr. Victor Rasputnis Speak on Flex and Java


Yakov Fain and Dr. Victor Rasputnis


Christophe Coenraets speaks on the Flex User Experience



Adobe's Eric Anderson - speaking on Flex Data Services


Cynergy System's Dave Wolf Speaking on "Front-to-Back" Development"


Jesse Randall Warden sounds off on the winning combo of Flash & Flex


Jesse Randall Warden and SYS-CON Event's Jeremy Geelan


Fumi Matsumoto speaks on Building RIA Consumer Shopping Experiences


Jeremy Geelan introduces ESRI's Mansour Raad who showed off the power of Flex
mashing up with real world mapping appliactions.



Luis Polanco gives the audience a sneak peak at Adobe's upcoming Apollo technology...


Closing out the day, the Real-World Flex Power Panel featuring
Cynergy System's Dave Wolf, Adobe's David Mendels, Host Jeremy Geelan,
the NY Flex User Group's Shlomy Gantz and Midnight Coder's Mark Piller

So we have a developer-type guru (for the Flash part of the equation), a distributed computing expert (MidnightCoders), a high-end geospatial user (ESRI), a pioneer of etailing apps (Allurent), a UI specialist (Cynergy), all in addition to Adobe's own FlexBuilder global evangelist...

We have Flex + Java demos, Flex + .NET demos, and Flex + Ruby demos...we have the main advance man at Adobe for "Apollo," we have the whole megillah - all packed into one of those 12-hour days that we do best, and all simulcast on SYS-CON.TV through all 150,000 pages of the site.

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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jay 08/14/06 10:17:18 PM EDT

Great conference. Dave Wolf seemed to shine. David Mendels positions Flex perfectly. I left thinking that it is only a matter of time before people understand what is happening here. I wonder if people understand the power of Apollo. A cross platform application player\media\browser. Name me one other solution that can come close.
AJAXWorld News Desk 08/14/06 09:14:06 AM EDT

The historic Grand Ballroom of The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan again looks fantastic and Adobe's Dave Mendels (pictured) is keynoting which is certain to be a huge hit with the audience because he'll incorporate live demos etc.
newbieJim 08/14/06 06:01:18 AM EDT

If you're a Coldfusion developer and you want to start using Flex 2, Web Developer's & Designer's Journal just published a tutorial about that: Getting Started with Adobe Flex 2 by Marco Casario
FlexMaps 08/14/06 05:59:03 AM EDT

Check out Flex in action - in China! The link is here: http://www.chisa-to.com/mapsample/Main.html
queZZtion 08/14/06 05:56:29 AM EDT

Is there going to be anything at Real-World Flex on the integration between LiveCycle and Flex? How's Adobe tackling that?
Rival Technology? 08/14/06 05:49:51 AM EDT

Adobe needs to watch competing products, such as Laszlo Systems' OpenLaszlo, which deliver a comparable Flash-based experience.

The open source platform lacks some component refinement and data integration found in Flex 2...Laszlo, however, recently announced plans for dual compilation, which will add a DHTML and AJAX runtime that bypasses the need for the proprietary Flash engine.