Christophe Coenraets is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise Integration. He has been working on Flex since the early days of the product in 2003. In his previous role at Macromedia, Christophe worked on JRun, the company’s J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Internet applications Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years. He blogs at http://coenraets.org.

Elad Elrom is an Adobe Community Professional & a rising star of the Flash development world. He brings a fresh perspective, a strong background, and an inherent knack for the more subtle aspects of the Flash platform. He’s been involved very early in a number of Adobe products.

Elad Elrom is a consultant, technical writer and technical lead. As a technical writer, Elad wrote books covering Flash technologies. He maintains an active blog and has spoken at several conferences regarding the Flash platform. He has helped companies follow the XP and Scrum methodologies to implement popular frameworks, optimize and automate built processors and code review, and follow best practices. Elad has consulted a variety of clients in different fields and sizes, from large corporations such as Viacom, NBC Universal, and Weight Watchers to startups such as MotionBox.com and KickApps.com.

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Jeffry Houser is a technical entrepreneur that likes to share cool stuff with other people. Jeffry is the Brains behind Flextras, a set of user interface Flex Components that save Flex Developer’s time and help them create better Flex applications. He has a Computer Science degree from the days before business met the Internet and has solved a problem or two in his programming career. In 1999, Jeffry started DotComIt, an Adobe Solutions Partner specializing in Rich Internet Applications with Flex and ColdFusion.

Jeffry is an Adobe Community Professional and produces The Flex Show, a podcast that includes expert interviews and screencast tutorials. He also hosts the Flextras Friday Lunch Podcast, a weekly live Q&A session where you can get your questions answered, and also runs a site www.AskTheFlexpert.com where you can get your questions answered privately. Jeffry has spoken at user groups and conferences all over the US, is the co-manager of the Hartford CT Adobe User Group, author of three technical books, and over 30 articles.

In his spare time Jeffry is a musician, old school adventure game aficionado, recording engineer, and he owns a Wii. Find more about Flextras at http://www.flextras.com, ask Jeffry Questions at www.asktheflexpert.com, or check out his podcast at http://www.theflexshow.com, or you can read his personal blog at http://www.jeffryhouser.com

Jesse Warden is a Flex & Flash Consultant & Partner at Web App Solution, a growing RIA solutions company. He’s been architecting RIA’s for over 10 years, speaks at conferences around the world, and has been helping his clients either create magic, or fix their troubled projects.

Jesse's unique background makes him extremely valuable on RIA teams. He started working the Design Agency world in Director & Flash, and self-taught his way into the Enterprise Flex realm. By having an appreciation for good design with a pragmatic bent, he can effectively leverage the Flash Platform to do what it was meant to do while getting things done, and done right.

Some of his higher profile work not behind the corporate firewalls include hbogo.com, hbo.com, fordvehicles.com, hyundaiusa.com, viaas.com (their Viaas Flex product), disney.com, and video players for thenest.com. Enterprise work includes various Flex desktop & web initiatives with Intuit, video player API & video player architecture with Multicast Media, Furniture & asset management for an unnamed vendor in New York, skunk works with Flash Lite & device for Adobe, engineering parts taxonomy creator for MFGQuote, patient operation scheduling for Surgeons at Surgical Information systems, and various other "rescue" work for failing projects.

Jesse's spoken at various conferences such as Flash and the City in New York, 360Flex in San Jose, RIA Unleashed in Boston, Adobe MAX in Las Vegas, and Web DU in Sydney Australia. He's written many articles for Adobe publications and private ones, been a technical editor for Flash Hacks & ActionScript 3 Cookbook, and contributed 4 chapters to the Flash Communication Server MX Bible. Finally, he's blogged his experiences as well as contributed open source code for the past 9 years on jessewarden.com, as well as contributed to help with the community on various mailing lists.

Rich Shupe is the founder of FMA -- a full-service multimedia development company and training facility in New York City. Rich teaches ActionScript and other digital technologies worldwide. He is a proud first-time presenter at Flash/Flex Wall Street, and a veteran of such conferences as Flashbelt, Flash on the Beach, Flash on Tap, and FlashForward, among others. He is an adjunct professor in the MFA department of New York's School of Visual Arts, as well as the the author or co-author of several Flash books including "Learning ActionScript 3.0", "The ActionScript 3 Quick Reference Guide", and "Learning Flash CS4 Professional" (all O'Reilly).

Shashank Tiwari is Founder & CEO at Treasury of Ideas (www.treasuryofideas.com), a technology driven innovation and value optimization company. As an experienced software developer and architect, he is adept in a multitude of technologies. He is an internationally recognized speaker, author and mentor. As an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications he has been actively participating in shaping the future of Java. He is also an Adobe Flex Champion and a common voice in the RIA community. Currently, he passionately builds rich high performance scalable applications and advises many on RIA and SOA adoption. His clients range from large financial service corporations to brilliant startups, whom he helps translate cutting edge ideas into reality. He is also actively engaged in training and mentoring developers and architects in leading edge technology. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including Advanced Flex 4(Apress, 2010), Advanced Flex 3 (Apress, 2008) and Professional BlazeDS (Wiley, 2009). More information about him can be accessed at his website (www.shanky.org).

Stu Stern is the FlexMonkey Project Founder and President and CEO of Gorilla Logic, a software development firm specializing in creating complex applications on the Flex, iOS, Android, and Java platforms.

Yakov Fain is Managing Director at Farata Systems, a company that provides consulting services in the field of development of enterprise Rich Internet applications. He authored several technical books, and dozens of articles on software development. Recently he co-authored the books "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters" and "Enterprise Development with Flex". Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Mr. Fain with the title of Java Champion, which was presented to only 150 people in the world. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group and New Jersey Flex UG. Yakov is Certified Adobe Flex Instructor.

Victor Rasputnis is a Managing Director of Farata Systems. He’s spends most of his time providing architectural design, implementation management and mentoring to companies migrating to Flex and JEE technologies. Victor authored several books and technical articles. Recently, he has co-authored an advanced book, "Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters". Victor holds a PhD in computer science from the Moscow Institute of Robotics.You can reach him at vrasputnis@faratasystems.com.