2009 Sponsors
PLATINUM SPONSOR
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies. www.adobe.com
SILVER SPONSOR
BRONZE SPONSORS
The Art Institutes International Minnesota is a regional leader in design, media arts, and creative management education. Degrees offered include design management, graphic design, media arts & animation, interactive media design, and visual effects & motion graphics. www.artinstitutes.edu/minneapolis
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Influxis is a Flash Media Interactive Server 3 hosting and application development company and an Adobe authorized hosting partner. Visionaries of the Flash Media Server software since its advent, the Influxis team was founded in 2002 in Los Angeles with the belief that Flash Media Server software could change the way designers think. Created by developers, Influxis provides solutions for businesses, educators, and web developers worldwide. www.influxis.com
Clockwork is a digital agency specializing in web strategy, design, application development, mobile development and social media. The Clockwork team consists of strategists, engineers and creatives. Our collective experience spans traditional and electronic media, advertising and marketing creative, internet and networking technologies, and software development. www.clockwork.net
GestureWorks provides the most comprehensive development environment for creating multitouch enabled applications with Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex. GestureWorks comes complete with its own drivers for Windows 7, supporting dozens of all-in-one PCs, tablets, smart phones, and multitouch tables. Our company, Ideum, originally developed GestureWorks to speed development of our own multitouch projects and installations. www.gestureworks.com
SCHOLARSHIP SPONSOR
Nancy Lyons and Meghan Wilker launched the Geek Girls Guide as a place to publish their perspective on the Interactive industry and demystify technology for non-technical audiences. Their mission is to make web technology accessible and exciting and cultivate a movement of empowered women and men online. www.geekgirlsguide.com
ADDITIONAL SPONSORS
Powerflasher was founded in 1997 and has grown into one of Europe's leading digital interactive agencies, an Adobe partner, specializing in creating astonishing Online, Mobile and Desktop solutions. A team of enthusiastic professionals use their exceptional experience, high quality aspirations, and creativity to accomplish innovative and unique results. www.fdt.powerflasher.com/
RIA Radio is a weekly podcast presented by InsideRIA as an open discussion with guests from the community covering upcoming news and current best practices. It is hosted by Garth Braithwaite and a panel of experts comprised of Stacey Mulcahy, Zach Stepek, and Leif Wells. www.insideria.com
Electrotank is the #1 developer of Virtual Worlds, based on its powerful Electrotank Universe Platform (EUP). The company has seven years of experience developing multiplayer online games and is recognized as a technical Innovator in the Industry. Leading brands like Meez, Action All Stars, Webkinz, Shining Stars, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, Hallmark and Barbie rely on Electrotank's technology and services to deliver high performance user experiences at scale. www.electrotank.com
AFTER PARTY SPONSORS
Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For 25 years, the company's award-winning software and technologies have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people virtually anywhere at anytime. From rich images in print, video, and film to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, the impact of Adobe solutions is evident across industries and felt by anyone who creates, views, and interacts with information. Adobe is one of the world's largest and most diversified software companies. www.adobe.com
REGISTRATION SPONSOR
ArcStone creates custom software and interactive web sites. We plan, design, code and support software and web sites developed for Fortune 500 clients to small start-ups. ArcStone is pragmatic - oriented toward open source and creative solutions crafted to exactly fit the needs (and budgets) of our clients. Our core values are craftsmanship, service, evolution, and happiness, visit us online to view our portfolio and case studies. www.arcstone.com
WIRELESS SPONSOR
Implex is a converging-technology services company based in Minneapolis with a focus on serving clients in achieving their goals in the digital economy, no matter the technological objective or stage. With three unifying technology groups. Digital Marketing, Integrated Solutions, and Network Infrastructure. Implex is in the unique position to ensure our clients have a single, professional partner to assist and support their entry into the digital economy. from Flash-centric website design to streaming media webcasts to wireless internet connectivity for business. www.implex.net
Prize Partner
Creative Edge is an online collection of videos and books filled with the most current and thorough information available about Flash, Flex, web design, graphic design, photography, and more. Designers, photographers and other creative professionals use Creative Edge as their primary resource for research, problem solving, learning and certification training. Browse our collection of over 2,500 videos and books at creativeedge.com. www.creativeedge.com
TRAINING SPONSORS
Easel Solutions is an Adobe Authorized Training Partner and leader in providing consulting and training based on Adobe's creative and document technologies as well as the eLearning and web markets. Easel Solutions, as an Adobe and Microsoft Gold partner, also focuses on delivering solutions to its customers including the reselling of Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional web conferencing and training solution. www.easelsolutions.com
Friends of ED is your source for training books deluxe. Designer to Designer. www.friendsofed.com
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter. www.oreilly.com
PARTNERS
Ad Fed isn't your typical professional organization. We don't issue membership pins (we have pins, but they're given as awards, not worn on lapels). We don't condone hazing (the paddles in our office are for the Media Auction, we swear!). We do offer networking opportunities, seminars, speaker presentations and other events. http://adfed.org
Peachpit has been publishing top-notch books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video, and general computing since 1986. Over the past few years Peachpit has grown to encompass several digital product offerings, such as eBooks, online video products, and Safari Books Online; as well as our first conference series. www.peachpit.com
CreativeUSB provides branded and customized USB flash drives! This exciting new format is effective for organizations who BRAND themselves externally and/or internally. CreativeUSB drives are resourceful tools for marketing, keeping your identity top-of-mind. They are very popular at trade shows and as promotion items. The process is EASY and the results are STUNNING. www.creativeusb.com
MEDIA PARTNERS
Flash & Flex Developer's Magazine www.ffdmag.com
DotComIt is a company all about helping Flex Developers solve their problems; and we provide multiple services. Flextras provides supported UI Flex components that Flex Developers cannot find in the Flex Framework. Developer editions are available at no cost, so go over to www.flextras.com , register, and download today.
The Flex Show is your way to learn Flex, through the use of screencast tutorials and audio interviews. We are the beat of the Flex Community. www.flextras.com
Flashzine is a bi-monthly newsletter that will keep you up to date on what's happening in the Flash/Flex world. Each issue contains links to our latest news, articles, tutorials, event listings, cool clicks, promotional offers that we think will be of interest and more. www.flashmagazine.com
ActionScriptHero.org is one of the most successful, professional, original and amusing Flash Platform communities! We are a worldwide online community based group specialized in Flash Platform video events coverage. www.actionscripthero.org
Ultrashock: The ultimate resource for creative professionals. We offer professional quality images, vector art, audio, and Flash files to spice up your work. We welcome all graphic designers, web developers, and other creative professionals. www.ultrashock.com
FRIENDS
The hottest Flash conference across the pond! www.flashonthebeach.com
FITC puts on great events around the globe. www.fitc.ca
FlashPitt - Flash goodness in Pittsburg! www.flashpitt.com
CONFERENCE PRODUCER
Pilotvibe specializes in music and sound design for interactive media. Flashbelt was started in 2004 by Pilotvibe owner/operator Dave Schroeder. Listen to our work and read about our services at www.pilotvibe.com
WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT
Pitch Interactive makes the new Flashbelt site tick. www.pitchinteractive.com
FLASHBELT IDENTITY DESIGN
Eighthourday is a boutique design company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Started in 2004, Eighthourday brings together the efforts of Nathan Strandberg and Katie Kirk. Eighthourday offers a wide range of capabilities for clients of all shapes and sizes, from illustration to print to interactive. http://www.eighthourday.com/