Marco Casario is one of the most dynamic developers and consultants in the Adobe world. He has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child, and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director (as far back as versions 3 and 5). In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italia. Since that year, he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog, RIAvolutionize the Web (Casario.blogs.com), which is receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day. In 2005, Marco founded Comtaste (Comtaste.com), a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in rich Internet applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices; MobyMobile (MobyMobile.com) and YouThru (YouThru.com) are representative of their work. Marco is the is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite User Group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite) and of AugItaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, for which he carries out the role of channel manager for the section dedicated to Flex (AugItaly.com/FlexGala.) Marco is busy working on the development (in Flex) of a very ambitious project concerning bank counters at European level, and in various consulting and Flex and Flash Media Server training activities for the realisation of rich Internet applications on behalf of buyers of the calibre of Capgemini, IBM partners, and Adobe Systems Software Ireland, Ltd.
Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance IT consultant and founding partner of Project Cocoon based in Pondicherry, south India. As a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and has had his work published in leading journals.
Koen De Weggheleireis a faculty member of the Technical University of West-Flanders (HOWEST), department PIH-Multimedia and Communication Technology (MCT) in Belgium, where he teaches Flash Platform Solutions (Flash, Flex, AIR) with a smile. As the Adobe User Group Manager for Belgium (www.adobeusergroup.be), Koen is heavily addicted to the community and inspires the community by his blog (www.newmovieclip.com) and by speaking at national and international industry events. Koen also coordinates the yearly Belgian multimedia conference, Multi-Mania (www.multi-mania.be), where 800 people come together to learn from industry experts and to share knowledge.
When he has time, you can find Koen doing freelance Flash platform consultancy on advanced award-winning Rich Internet Applications.
Sometimes it happens that Koen is not talking ActionScript. Then you can find him producing music, collecting Adobe gadgets, eating pizza, or renovating his 100-year-old house.
Weyert de Boer is a new media designer and developer, currently working as a freelancer in the Netherlands. He has a wide range of skills, including over six years of experience with Flash and several years of .NET and Delphi programming under his belt. He has been working in the field of mobile application development for two years and enjoys it particularly because of his interest in the limitations of mobile devices and how to solve the problems associated with mobile content delivery. He has been a Borland Technology Partner for five years. Aside from his freelance work, he is also currently studying for his bachelor's degree in interaction design and cultural anthropology. He spoke at WebDU in 2007 and likes to share his passion for development with other people around the world on his blog, found at www.innerfuse.biz/blog.
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