Get a preview of the new 3D capabilities (Molehill) in Adobe Flash Player. Thibault Imbert, product manager for the Adobe Flash runtimes, and Luc Beaulieu, CTO at Frima Studio, will showcase what can be done with Molehill using many examples. They'll also share their thoughts about how it will change online gaming in the years to come. This session demonstrates the full potential of Molehill, both technical and artistic.

Learn more about how to build the next generation of action games with new the Flash Stage 3D API. This session will cover the key steps required to create an advanced first-person shooter gameplay, such as creating a scene and adding a person, movement, shooting, camera following, animations, and more, all in the context of 3D.

Kevin Lynch, Adobe CTO, introduces the major transformations taking place at Adobe, including Adobe's Creative Cloud strategy, and how they will enable the next generation of creativity.

Get an overview of how Full Sail University is training the next generation of designers to communicate in every medium possible, using Adobe Master Collection software. Designing for 3D, motion graphics and video are taught alongside of traditional design topics such as color theory and branding, making understanding and evaluating workflow a critical part of the curriculum.

You thought the Super Bowl was the place to view the best commercials of the year. Wait until you see the Adobe MAX keynote commercials. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be amazed.

Ben Forta hosts, "Technology Street" and talks to puppets HTML and Flash about how they are getting along.

Ben Forta, Adobe's Director of Evangelism interviews Paul Gubbay, VP Design and Web Engineering at Adobe and John Resig, father and lead developer of the JQuery JavaScript library as they discuss Adobe and its relationship to HTML5, and Adobe's work supporting JQuery.

User expectations and experiences are evolving rapidly, and Adobe has long taken the lead in creating the tools and services to design for the future. Join us to be inspired (and, yes, entertained) as we show you the future of building interactive and engaging experiences in ways you've yet to imagine.

A crack team including an experience researcher (Duane Nickull), a designer (Paul Trani), and a developer (Ming-En Cho) work to improve both desktop and mobile applications for Adobe’s Customer Service representatives. Lee Brimelow is the host.

Brett Error, VP of Omniture's Business Unit, presents a lightning round about optimizing mobile applications.

Four contestants compete to create the best shopping application, using the mystery ingredient: Flex. One team (Deepa Subramaniam & Narciso Jaramillo) builds a mobile application and the other team (Doug Winnie & Adam Cath) builds a browser-based application. Serge Jespers is the host.

Join Sebastian Marketsmueller, Adobe Flash Player engineer, for a deep dive into the next-generation 3D API coming in a future version of Flash Player. Marketsmueller will unveil exciting new APIs and demos never shown before, including some exclusive content you cannot miss as a Flash Platform developer.

See how te next-generation 3D APIs coming in Adobe Flash Player will make it easy to display 3D objects in Flash. Pixel Bender 3D takes Adobe's existing Pixel Bender 2D technology and brings it into the third dimension to make it easy to create great-looking 3D objects. Learn about boning and skinning, vertex shaders, and material shaders.

Special guests Kevin Lynch, CTO, Adobe, and Rishi Chandra, Google TV Sr. Product Manager, discuss Google TV and support for Flash.

Two shopping network hosts (Desiree Motamedi & Heidi Williams) invite Danielle Deibler to promote a new applications store for developers called Adobe InMarket.

Explore the innovation in PDF and Adobe Flash and how these two technologies converge to enable the next generation of correspondence. Learn how to speed up the development of a correspondence application, leveraging the new Interactive Statement Solution Accelerator within Adobe LiveCycle ES2, and hear about the new features that can help minimize your development efforts.

Join Dreamweaver Product Manager Scott Fegette for a detailed dive into the new features in Dreamweaver CS5, undocumented tips and tricks, and how they all combine to streamline next-generation web design and development workflows. From multiscreen interfaces to dynamic, content-managed sites and applications, this session will show you how Dreamweaver CS5 can simplify the most complex challenges facing today's web designers and developers.

Flex is already in use in two VMware applications in the VMware management suite: VMware View (which delivers personalized virtual desktops as a managed service) and VMware vCloud Director (which enables provisioning, deploying, and managing virtualized workloads in internal and external clouds). Moving forward, the Flex footprint expands into VMware's broad customer base with its next-generation management console for vSphere. VMware's 25,000-plus strong partner and customer ecosystems will soon be able to leverage Flex to integrate their solutions into the VMware management UIs. Join the VMWare team to hear about how they use Flex to improve VMware product experiences.

An overview of how to leverage the powerful Adobe AIR platform in order to deliver engaging Web 2.0 Online Help.

Learn how to generate powerful Web 2.0 Online Help Experiences in Adobe AIR, without typing a single line of code using Adobe RoboHelp

Learn how easy it is to incorporate user-generated content into your Online Help by adding Links and RSS Feeds to an AIRHelp project in Adobe RoboHelp.

Adobe Education Exchange is a new online community where educators can meet, share, discuss, and collaborate on topics of interest to the Adobe education community.

Neil Trevett of NVIDIA shows how Flash Player 10.1 enables smooth HD web video across devices, including inexpensive netbooks powered by NVIDIA's next-generation ION GPU.

With Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can use new HDR Pro technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-Bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Exposure Merge offers automatic ghost removal and greater control with tone mapping and adjustments so you can retain complete clarity and see the full tonal range.

Learn why you should use the Flash Platform and LiveCycle ES to develop next-generation enterprise applications that work the way people work. This session will address market trends such as consumerization of IT, productivity, and collaboration.

With ColdFusion 9, you don't need to be a JavaScript expert to build the next generation of rich Internet applications. New tags like CFMAP, CFMEDIAPLAYER, and CFMESSAGEBOX make it easy to embed complex controls...

Explore innovative projects such as external devices communication, PDF generation on-the-fly, arcade game emulation, and augmented reality. We will unveil the technical details behind these projects and focus on business needs solved.

Learn how i3, a business unit of Ingenix (a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group), leveraged Adobe Flex and LiveCycle to deliver i3Cube, a revolutionary new web-based, fully integrated clinical trial and data management system.

Learn about new trends in enterprise application development, with a focus on user-centric computing, and how the next generation of Adobe technology will allow you to build leading-edge applications that meet those trends.

Explore the power of the List component in Flex 4, and dig deep into the layout mechanism that allows you to create new and interesting components displaying data. It is recommended that you have an understanding of the Spark architecture before attending

Learn how to incorporate accessibility support into video for Flash and interactive SWF movies. Compliance with accessibility standards such as the W3C's WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 is readily accomplished by using best practices...

XD Senior Experience Design Manager, Jeremy Clark, and Senior Experience Developer, Daniel Wabyick, discuss their collaboration with the New York Times on the AIR-based Times Reader.

Join Matthew A. Russell for this Framework Summit session.

Join John resig for this Framework Summit session.

Join Tom Trenka for this Framework Summit session.

Join Andrew Dupont, Chris Heilmann and John Resig for this Framework Summit session.

Join James Burke for this Framework Summit session.

Join Karl Swedberg for this Framework Summit session.

Join Ben and Dion as they 'host' this amazing session of lightening rounds.

In this session we examine everything from features, to coding style, to file size, to community and growth; helping you to make an informed decision about your framework choice.

Join Dietrich Kappe, in this session he will discuss the pressures of keeping pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace.

In this session, learn how to help with the documentation of the framework, be it reference API documentation or more tutorial-oriented material, either by fixing issues with existing docs, updating docs to reflect the latest version, and more!

In this session, we reveal: * Security challenges particular to a Web 2.0 world; * Details of CSRF, Anti-DNS Pinning, JavaScript hijacking, fooling an XSS filter and more;

Return to the office with a solid understanding of: * How to get across the discipline and language barriers of your peers; * How to use Experience Design and Rapid Prototyping to develop creative and useable ideas; and more!

Join Omar Khan and Jeff King and learn how Microsoft is embracing open source Ajax technologies such as JQuery, Dojo and YUI.

This tutorial provides a proper introduction to Ajax and Ajax fundamentals - perfect for those who are new to Ajax or would like to brush up on their skills.

The release of the Processing.js library has taken the JavaScript world by storm — offering users an intuitive way of creating complex, interactive, pieces of visualization with JavaScript.

This session teaches you how to: * Resolve design conflicts with a myriad of types (designers, developers, bosses); * Increase task completion, user satisfaction and loyalty; * Create a competitive advantage purely through UX design;

See live demos and hear release plans for a Firefox-ready upgraded JavaScript engine, codenamed "TraceMonkey," based on the SpiderMonkey interpreter and the Tamarin-Tracing VM.

This session analyzes the various browser components that contribute to Ajax performance, the methodology to measure the performance of end-user scenarios & finally the changes we have made across the IE sub-systems to improve performance in IE8.

JoinStoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan from Yahoo! as they discuss how improvements in Web site performance are similar to improvements in energy or fuel efficiency: We make great progress, yet we end up consuming more.

Based on the results of his extensive test suites at QuirksMode.org, Peter-Paul Koch discusses the current state of the four major browsers' DOM support and give tips and tricks for working around the most serious problems.

Ajax Comet is being used as the communication technique at the core of many new and upgraded Web applications. Ajax Comet applications are moderately easy to get working in proof of concept form.

In this introduction, we look at what makes jQuery unique and why it helps you to write smaller code, faster. We also go hands-on (bring your laptops!) and write an animated Accordion Widget and an Ajax To-Do List from scratch.

JSON has proven to be a very easy to use, yet immensely powerful data interchange protocol. However, by itself JSON lacks a number of important expressibility capabilities and efficient client/server data interaction must usually be customized.

Google Chrome aims to enable the next generation of Web applications. This keynote gives a high-level overview of Google Chrome's current architecture with a focus on Web development.

Dion & Ben set the stage for the Ajax Experience by discussing the latest developments, including multithreaded JavaScript technology-powered UIs, robust offline storage, choosing the right Ajax/JavaScript technology framework, and more!

This session demonstrates how to manipulate the look and feel of Ext to integrate seamlessly with your application or company's style guide.

Join Dylan Schiemann and Peter Higgins as they provide an introduction to the Dojo Developer Day.

Join Stoyan Stefanov and hear about the times when JavaScript was just a toy language for making image rollovers and other, more irritating effects, are fortunately long gone.

Join Paul Bakaus and in this session you learn how to: * Create a walking animated character; * Replicate new standards using existing technologies; * Combine new standards to create a new experience.

This session looks at how a large Class 1 transportation company leveraged jQuery to develop a client-side framework for building 80+ internal and customer-facing applications.

Learn how to apply the fundamental concepts of Test Driven Development (TDD) to JavaScript using YUI's unit testing framework.

This session picks up where the Intro to jQuery session leaves off. Join us and look at some complex situations that are made easy with the jQuery framework.

In this tutorial, we start with a broader definition of design and discuss its importance. Using a framework to structure the conversation, we survey the various aspects of design and how they play out, for better or worse, in your product.

Struts is Java's most popular Web framework. Ajax is the Web's hottest user interface. What happens when we put Struts on Ajax?

Making Friends with the Browser 3 minute demo

Is it possible to build a cross-platform desktop application in 15 minutes using only Web technologies and free software?

In this session you learn: The differences between JSF/RichFaces, Flash/Flex and JavaFX; The pros and cons for each technology and delivery platform.

This session explores the story behind the development of the Objective-J language and Cappuccino frameworks.

In this session we uncover the fundamentals of designing great forms, we examine research in usability and eye-tracking that can greatly improve your form design and much more.

In this session you learn how to: Create a walking animated character; Replicate new standards using existing technologies; Combine new standards to create a new experience.

This session covers how to use functional programming with JavaScript in real-life applications to implement client-side asynchronous processing, scheduling, and concurrency.

In this session you learn: How to master built-in browser controls in Ajax applications; The differences between various browser history managers; The reasons why browser history managers tend to be a little brittle.

In this session you learn: Details of Gears and the Dojo toolkit; How to combine Gears with Dojo to create a client-side search engine; How to add this functionality to your own Web site.

In this session you learn: How to make your Web sites 25-50% faster; The impact of iframes on your Web site, including blank iframes;

In this session you learn: Your options for creating highly interactive Web sites; What Comet is and how it updates Web pages as they are being viewed; How to add Comet functionality to your Web site with minimum pain.

In this session you see: The new features of DWR version 3; How to use DWR in any Web site.

Many advanced Web applications which rely heavily on Ajax have difficulty in the development phase with squaring the mantra of progressive enhancement with the reality that CSS just isn't powerful enough.

Been wondering what the W3C has been up to in relation to Ajax? Whether HTML5 can be used before 2022? How we make Ajax accessible?

Not long ago, testing Ajax components meant play-testing a page by hand. Today, there are a growing number of tools we can use to simplify and automate Ajax testing.

JSON has proven to be a very easy to use, yet immensely powerful data interchange protocol. However, by itself JSON lacks a number of important expressibility capabilities and efficient client/server data interaction must usually be customized.

In this session you learn why: Custom events are a great idea; Animation goes hand-in-hand with moderation; The user owns the interface; Components-on-demand is a good plan.

Tired of writing code that breaks in IE? This session explores strategies that Prototype users can employ to write code that works in the real world.

In this session you discover: What makes MooTools different than other frameworks; How to use MooTools as it's intended;

Join Adam Cath and Mark Shepherd to find out how to build next-generation user experiences quickly and without coding using Flash Catalyst (formerly code named "Thermo").

Join Jeremy Clark, Daniel Wabyick and Justin Van Slembrouck for a close examination of the design and development of a next-generation desktop news reader application for an Adobe AIR Lighthouse partner.

Join Ryan Stewart, Steven Heintz and Tim Buntel as they show us how Flash Catalyst "Thermo", is poised to change the collaboration between design and development on rich Internet applications (RIAs).