Join us to learn how Adobe uses open initiatives to deliver new technologies, jump-start new applications, gather feedback, and engage with a vibrant development community. Open@Adobe is one of Adobe's latest programs to make the web more open.

See how BlackBerry WebWorks opens the doors of BlackBerry development to web developers, enabling them to create standalone applications on BlackBerry devices. Join Prosanta Bhattacherjee, RIM Application Development Consultant, in discovering what the BlackBerry WebWorks framework is, what a BlackBerry WebWorks application is capable of, and how you can leverage the framework to create a deployable web app to distribute to your users.

See how NVIDIA Tegra uses the GPU to accelerate both video and graphics within Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for unmatched performance and battery life. In this session, we'll explore how to optimize for the new generation of GPU-accelerated Android phones and tablets and explore the capabilities of these new classes of device.

Discover the innovations behind the new book on 3D techniques for Photoshop CS5 Extended and the associated iPad app (an interactive version of the book's first chapter). The app explains 3D concepts in a fun, interactive way. Join Photoshop Product Manager Zorana Gee as she walks through the process of creating the app and its contents and explains how to use Photoshop CS5 Extended to create rich interactive content, including 360-degree spherical panoramas, 3D camera/object rotations, 3D objects and effects, and more, plus offers firsthand tips on building an iPad digital publication app.

Discover new techniques for adding motion to content. Since the early days of the web, we've relied on Flash technology, and more recently, JavaScript. But now, with WebKit and Mozilla leading the way, transformations and transitions can be achieved with pure CSS. And for those in need of even more movement, CSS3 provides keyframe-based animations. In this session, we'll take a look at all of the possibilities and explore what works and where — from the simplest hover effects to creative usability enhancements and the sure-to-be-popular spinning corporate logo. It's all about the movement, baby!

Get an inside look at the process of designing and developing a global enterprise-class video portal. This session includes both business and tech discussions, including a high-level overview of the framework and content management system, Adobe SiteCatalyst integration, ad server integration, extending Open Source Media Framework, rapid deployment with Adobe ColdFusion, when and why to use jQuery, and the platform as a marketing and business tool.

Learn how to blend the digital and the physical from natural/accurate color definitions to "presses" as a service. Nathan Moroney, color scientist for Hewlett Packard Labs, will present ways to take your beautiful digital work to tangible, physical creations. Moroney will explore emerging color print technologies ranging from pixels with color names to novel finishing techniques and print substrates.

Learn how to track video and interactive content using Adobe SiteCatalyst, Adobe Flash Professional, and Open Source Media Framework in order to effectively measure your video's business impact.

Come see the best rich media campaigns of 2010. Learn how they made that game ad tilt your HTML page or drive a car from an animated banner into a video ad. This session will feature companies that pioneer innovative uses of Adobe Flash and its interface with the HTML page to deliver outstanding campaign performance for their clients. Speakers from Doubleclick, EyeWonder, Greystripe, MediaMind, Medialets, PointRoll, and Sprout are scheduled to present.

Speed up cross-browser testing to make sure your web designs look as you intended for the widest possible audience. Learn how to preview dynamic web pages and local content with multiple viewing, diagnostic, and comparison tools in BrowserLab, an Adobe CS Live online service.

Learn how to implement more successful marketing campaigns by taking full advantage of online visitor behavior using Adobe Test&Target in combination with Adobe Flash Professional and Dreamweaver. By understanding how to quickly create targeted dynamic ads and site content, you'll be able to reap massive ROI rewards. But don't take our word for it — come see how it's done and hear one Adobe customer share a success story.

Learn about the HTML accessibility features in Adobe Dreamweaver. Dreamweaver is one of the most comprehensive tools for building HTML content and improving the accessibility of your HTML content. During this session, you'll learn even more ways to make your content accessible.

Join Adobe experience designers Bruce Bell and Justin Van Slembrouck as they describe the process of working with WIRED magazine to design a new user experience for digital magazines. Learn how content informed the interface decisions, how WIRED is making use of the new possibilities for interactivity, and how Adobe's Digital Publishing Platform makes it all possible.

Learn practical yet progressive examples of the most beneficial CSS3 techniques to put to use in your web pages. With browsers now beginning to support many pieces of CSS3, websites are now popping up with rounded corners, drop shadows, and unique embedded fonts. But CSS3 can do more than just add visual richness to your sites. Powerful new selectors and image-free visual effects can streamline sites and improve speed, and media queries can make sites more adaptable and usable on today's variety of browsers and user agents. See all the features of CSS3 in this session.

Go beyond the basics with Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 in this fast-paced session. You'll learn how to create complex interactive content such as image galleries, media players, accordion panels, 3D effects, and more. Find out how to optimize your project's size and loading speed to improve the user experience, and boost your productivity with Flash Catalyst tips and tricks. As a bonus, you’ll also get an inside take on the vision for the future of Flash Catalyst.

Join Remon Tjissen and Tim Kukulski, lead designer and lead computer scientist in Adobe XD, as they share their experiences designing and building multitouch creative applications for desktop and mobile devices. Through innovative demonstrations of new drawing methods and UI controls specifically designed for multitouch control, they will show why designers and developers should move past predefined ""gestures"" to deliver immersive experiences. The natural mapping provided by multitouch direct manipulation draws the user in with a high level of engagement and low cognitive load.

Join Scott Richards for a guided tour of the latest features in Dreamweaver that enable you to harness the power of HTML5 and CSS3 in your site. See how you can use the Widget Browser to easily add Javascript based Widgets to your pages. As your web sites rely more and more on CSS and Javascript make sure you are taking advantage of the tools in Dreamweaver to help you quickly navigate to the css controlling your web pages and help you troubleshoot problems.

Learn how to turn Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator artwork into high-quality interactive content without writing code with new Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5. Find out how you can add attention-grabbing interactivity, animation, video, and sound to your digital documents and presentations, all in Adobe InDesign CS5. And see how you can export InDesign documents for Adobe Digital Editions, a desktop reading application for devices such as the Amazon Kindle, the Sony Reader, and the Barnes & Noble nook.

Discover how you can finally use real fonts on the web. Broad browser support for CSS with @font-face brings a new era of web typography, but that's only the beginning. New technical hurdles, new font formats, and new licensing restrictions need to be considered. Come learn about the latest tools and techniques for navigating this landscape and for using web fonts to their fullest potential in your design and development projects.

Get helpful guidelines, tips, and tricks for making your content accessible using Adobe Flash Professional authoring tools. Learn how designers and developers deliver interactive experiences and accessible video using Adobe tools and techniques.

Learn how to get PDF files to behave the way you and your readers want on the web. We'll share best practices for helping to ensure that PDF files are easy to read, navigate, and access, as well as for making PDF files as streamlined as possible without losing quality.

Learn how to draw shapes and scenes in accurate 1-, 2-, or 3-point linear perspective to create the look of realistic depth and distance with the new Perspective drawing tools in Adobe Illustrator CS5. See how the new Perspective Grid tool supports drawing directly on planes of true perspective and the Perspective Selection tool allows objects to be moved, scaled, duplicated, and transformed dynamically in perspective.

Learn essential Photoshop CS5 skills to produce images that look great, load fast on the web, and work well in Flash Professional. We'll reveal optimization tools and techniques for making images look their best, while debunking web resolution myths. Discover easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail. Learn how to enhance JPEG files using Camera Raw and how to control optimization settings for embedded bitmaps in Flash Professional. And, get tips for optimizing your workstation for fast performance. This session is a must for anyone who works with images for web and interactive design.

Hear from Chuck Freedman (@chuckstar | www.chuckstar.com/blog), Adobe Flash Platform expert and chief channel evangelist at litl, as he discusses how Flash Player compatible content plays on many cool, in-home devices from Sony, Nintendo, litl, and more. He'll explore why creators should take special note of different form factors, simplified user experiences, and the new distribution channels that make this an exciting opportunity. We'll consider the full range of experiences, from open, multiplayer games and HD video in the living room to interactive cooking in the kitchen to DIY guides in the garage, and even story time.

Learn how to use the print design skills you already have along with exciting new features in Adobe Creative Suite 5 to jump-start your transition to web design. In this session, you'll gain an understanding of how print concepts like paragraph styles and InDesign frames translate to the web. You'll also learn the easiest ways to bring print content from Photoshop and InDesign to the web and how to make your life easier using Dreamweaver CS5 starter pages. You'll even gain a basic understanding of CSS.

Learn key design, distribution, and business decisions that impact whether you should deliver your content as interactive PDF or SWF (using Adobe InDesign CS5). You'll also be armed with greater knowledge on which interactive features in InDesign are supported on export to PDF or SWF and learn how to optimize your interactivity for both PDF and SWF export or focus your efforts on the more advanced animation and interactivity capabilities of the SWF format. Don’t miss this informative session that compares delivery of interactive documents in PDF and SWF file formats.

Learn the tools of the trade for creating great games for the Adobe Flash Platform, including enhancing the fun factor, optimizing performance, and deploying across devices. John Say and his team at Say Design have enjoyed the excitement and rewards of building a wide variety of games over the last ten years using the Flash Platform. From the web to mobile to kiosks, they have delivered games on almost every device enabled for the Flash Platform. Catch up on their latest tips and tricks for Flash Player on mobile.

Get the scoop on a sampling of the 100-plus new features in Adobe InDesign CS5 for creating and delivering documents in print, online, and on devices. Don't miss this rapid-fire session that will quickly show you some of the most compelling and useful features for enabling greater design and production productivity.

See how InDesign CS5, in combination with new publishing technologies, lets you create and deliver documents on tablet devices. Leave this session with a good understanding of the workflow and technology required to build interactive documents that combine the beauty of print with the engagement of rich media to create an all-new reading experience on dual-axis devices.

Learn best practices and step-by-step instructions on how to take your content from creation to publication to distribution on the Sony Reader, Kindle, and iPad. This session is organized into three sections: optimal layout of eBooks using Adobe InDesign CS5, export from InDesign CS5 to Adobe Digital Editions, and conversion of a book to the appropriate file format for use on a particular reading device. We'll include a discussion of EPUB enhancements included in InDesign CS5.

Discover how to make your vector art stand out. In this session, you'll learn about the variety of output options within Adobe Illustrator that can be used to create dynamic designs and illustrations. Artist Greg Geisler, one of the creators of the Illustrator how-to guides on Adobe.com (http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/howto/), will walk you through his process for creating visually rich artwork. He'll show techniques using various tools in Illustrator, discuss integration between Illustrator and Flash Professional, and explore going beyond Illustrator with additional techniques such as laser cutting. Join this session and get more out of Illustrator.

Learn what's important in web design, and see how your experience in print design can not only translate into web design but also serve as an advantage. Getting started in web design can be overwhelming without some good direction. That's why AIGA Portland presents Jason Duerr of Sandstrom Partners, who will help you better understand the constraints and possibilities when designing for the web.

Join Juan Sanchez, RJ Owen and Leonard Souza from EffectiveUI as they walk through methods used to design and architect multiscreen experiences with Spark and Flex 4. They will demonstrate an application built for the desktop, the web, and handheld devices and show off the techniques used to build them. They'll focus on Spark skinning, effects and layout, interaction with the file system using Adobe AIR, and coordinating data using LiveCycle Data Services. Never has there been a more exciting time for building user experiences — or a more powerful toolset to build them with.

Learn insider techniques for Illustrator CS5 from the source — David Macy, the Illustrator product manager. Learn how to take advantage of the new features in Illustrator CS5, and get the skinny on techniques you should be using right now but never had the time to learn on your own. Whether you design for print, web, interactive, or video, you'll leave this session with practical and effective techniques you can use every day.

Get tips and tricks for working within and among the various tools in Creative Suite 5 Master Collection. Join Tom Green, professor and author, as he gives his recommendations for choosing the right tool for the job and simplifying your processes. We'll also explore the FXG and XFL formats and how they fit into the design workflow.

Join Richard Weinberg of the USC School of Cinematic Arts to explore high-resolution motion picture optical microscopy. Weinberg developed a system for shooting movies with a RED One camera through a microscope and created a ten-minute movie, "MicrOrganisms," in 4K resolution that premiered in December 2009 at the CineGrid conference. This session reviews the image capture, editing, and visual effects process and how Weinberg used this system to stream live HD microscopy from Los Angeles to Yokohama, Japan, for an interactive presentation at SIGGRAPH Asia.

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.

Explore the role of prototyping in designing and developing compelling mobile applications. We'll examine the forms that prototypes can take (from paper prototypes to rich, interactive simulations), their advantages and costs, and how Adobe tools can be used to create them. Then we'll walk through creating a user interface for a mobile application using Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash Professional, Flash Catalyst, and Flash Builder. This presentation also covers best practices for UX, as well as developer-focused tips and tricks.

In this expert panel session, we will compare common workflows and discuss the latest Adobe tool releases, including CS5 products (specifically Flash Catalyst, Flash Professional, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks) and Flash Builder 4 Professional. The panel includes Garth Braithwaite (interaction designer), Leif Wells (ActionScript developer), Zach Stepek (server-side developer), and Stacey Mulcahy (information architect). The session will be opened up for discussion points from the audience, so feel free to bring along questions.

Learn how to add SWF-based Rich Media Annotations (RMAs) developed in Adobe Flash Professional or Flash Builder to your PDF documents. Flash Player in Acrobat provides greater security and consistency for SWF playback inside any PDF document. Acrobat 9 provides tight integration between the PDF document and the RMAs as well as other content types that run in Flash Player, such as FLV and H.264-encoded video. This session will show you how to use your ActionScript skills in a whole new way.

Discover WorkflowLab, an Adobe tool that lets you easily build and adjust iterative project workflows to get an understanding of your project and then track and record your project when it is finished. In this session, you will learn how to get started with WorkflowLab to create a project workflow, identify project resources, link assets, track progress, and share the workflow with others on the team.

Learn how Adobe OnLocation, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Soundbooth – all included in Creative Suite 5 Production Premium – can help you shoot and produce a successful interview. Interviews are a very efficient way of creating content — cheap to produce, effective for gathering and presenting information, and easy to edit.

Watch Jack Davis, award-winning author and Photoshop Hall-of-Famer, as he demonstrates essential techniques for using Photoshop CS5 to create great-looking images for the web and print. Learn techniques for making images look their best, fast, including everything from instant optimizing and enhancing of images to making Smart Filter recipes, custom actions, and tool presets. Davis's motto: If you do it once, figure out how to never have to do it again! Come learn powerful one-click solutions for on-time, on-budget design and photography.

Learn how to leverage After Effects to create engaging and rich online advertising campaigns. See how PointRoll combines the power of After Effects and the back end of Adobe Flash Professional to create compelling and highly interactive rich media, all within being "in spec" to allow flight across publisher standards. Learn how to optimize your video for web deployment, use best practices, embed metadata/cue points markers for integration with Flash, and even use tracking data from Mocha for After Effects v2 (included with After Effects CS5) to enable dynamic video. To follow along with John, download the assets by clicking on the "Download sample files" button.

Learn the best techniques to edit, restore, and master audio for importing into Adobe products such as Adobe Flash Professional and Adobe Premiere Pro. Whether you're a web pro, a video pro, or just want to expand your skills, you'll learn how to get professional-quality audio while minimizing the time spent engineering audio files.

Join Julieanne Kost, Adobe digital imaging evangelist and one of Fast Company's Top 100 Most Creative People in Business of 2009, in this exciting session as she demonstrates Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Lightroom 3. Take a tour through Lightroom to see how it can help you manage volumes of images and enhance and stylize them to communicate your message. Also learn how to move seamlessly between Photoshop and Lightroom. She'll provide critical tips and techniques used by leading photographers for perfecting images. Both designers and photographers, from novices to experts in digital imaging, have something to gain from this session.

Learn from the experts at SimpleFlame about building fully customized, beautiful websites hosted on the new Adobe Business Catalyst platform. Business Catalyst is a hosted application that works tightly with Adobe Dreamweaver and replaces five-plus tools with one central platform for web designers. Using this unified platform with no back-end coding, you can build everything from amazing websites to powerful online stores. Representatives from SimpleFlame will share their experience in building more than 200 custom websites with Business Catalyst, revealing tips and tricks they've learned along the way.

See what's new with 3D in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. Learn techniques for using features such as new Adobe Repoussé technology, enhanced 3D realism, rich library of materials, painting in 3D, and so much more. You'll leave this session with a great understanding of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS5 Extended. After this session, newcomers to 3D in Photoshop will be well on their way to being able to quickly and easily add 3D to their repertoire, and experts will pick up must-have techniques for speeding up their workflow and making amazing designs.

Learn about all the new features and workflows in Flash Professional CS5, including a new text engine, the code snippets panel, XML-based FLA's, Adobe Flash Builder integration, Spring for Bones, video improvements, deco drawing tools, and the ability to publish mobile devices.

Learn the best creation and encoding techniques for HD video and audio distribution for the web using the tools found in Adobe Creative Suite 5 Production Premium.

Watch the process of designing and developing a rich Internet application based on the Adobe Flash Platform — as it happens. Learn how to keep the process on track (on time and on budget) using WorkflowLab in conjunction with Adobe Creative Suite tools. Michelle Yaiser and Leif Wells will walk you through best practices for this process, including the preparation of a design in Illustrator, adding interactivity in Flash Catalyst, and connecting an application to live data in Flash Builder.

Discover the many design possibilities with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended by exploring the latest design trends from movies, TV, and magazines. This session will cover masks, selections, and creating stunning effects, including working with 3D and video, plus so much more. You'll walk away with killer tips and techniques that take advantage of the magic of Photoshop.

Meet Adobe's Lee Brimelow for a session that will aim to clear up the confusion around Flash, Flex, and HTML5. Learn which project types are best suited to creating with Adobe Flash technology, which are best for Flex, and where HTML5 falls into the mix.

Discover the many design, motion, and digital imaging possibilities in Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended with Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O’Neil Hughes. Explore the latest hot features in this hands-on session that will cover Content-Aware Fill, improved selection tools, Puppet Warp, painting tools, 3D capabilities, and so much more. You'll learn how to create mind-blowing effects — the same ones used by leading professionals today — and get your work done fast.

Join Photoshop Product Manager Bryan O'Neil Hughes for a deep dive into the hidden gems of Adobe Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, including tips, tricks, and technologies that are sure to help you speed up your productivity. Discover how to go places creatively that were impossible in Photoshop before CS5. He'll reveal many new techniques and enhancements so your skills can be as sharp as possible.

Learn essential techniques from one of the original pioneers in digital painting and a master at painting in Photoshop CS5. Watch as John Derry shows how to quickly and easily enhance your images with the new realistic painting tools in Photoshop CS5. See how you can transform your images and designs subtly or to the extreme to get amazing results. You'll walk away knowing killer tips and tricks along with new painting ideas that are sure to add to your Photoshop skills.

Learn how to design for an effective user experience, which should be the underlying goal for any application. See how to use Adobe Flash Catalyst CS5 along with Adobe Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5, Fireworks CS5, and InDesign CS5 as user experience design tools. This session covers creating personas, site maps, storyboards, and wireframes and how these elements are combined to create a finished application. To extend your knowledge from this session, attend the "Hands-on: Using Flash Catalyst CS5 to Design Rich User Experiences" lab.

Meet two designers with different studios, from different parts of the U.S, whose lives and work have changed forever after serving the poor in Africa. Experience a visual journey exploring their creative adventure: See how Adobe Creative Suite enabled easy and effective collaboration in the production of print and web collateral and a documentary film, and come away a lot better because of it.

Learn how to use BrowserLab, an Adobe CS Live online service, for an easier, faster way to check your web content for cross-browser consistency. Check out the powerful integration with Dreamweaver CS5, which allows you to test content served by a CMS, local files, and content served behind a corporate firewall.

See how the designers and developers at Rain, a company that delivers comprehensive solutions for advanced web application development and interactive media, incorporate Adobe Flash Catalyst into their prototyping process for building large applications and websites. Learn how they use Flash Catalyst as the bridge between their designers and developers, letting each group focus on what they do best, and to help visually sell their applications to their clients' senior management.

Learn how to take your skills in visual design for print and the web into the exciting and rapidly growing field of designing for user experiences. Get an understanding of this multidisciplinary field and see how interaction designers provide solutions to complex design challenges and define new and evolving interactive products and services.

Join the excitement as Richard Galvan, Flash senior product manager, showcases possible future features and exploratory technologies for Flash Professional. You'll see what the future could be with new designer and developer authoring tools and workflows in Flash Professional. Don't miss this fun, inspiring session!

The cooks are still in the kitchen, but the enticing smells of HTML5 are filling the room. Learn about the tasty semantic progression from XHTML to HTML5 that's sure to have markup connoisseurs salivating. In this session, we'll serve up a filling buffet of savory structural elements, flavorful form markup, and succulent ways of presenting audio and video with a focus on satisfying your cravings for tomorrow's technologies through practical implementations today. Bon appétit!

Join the team at JibJab Media for a fast-paced session highlighting their workflows using Adobe tools. A web-based content company, JibJab Media has broken new creative ground with hilarious satirical animations. The team has also pioneered "Starring You" productions, which combine free and paid content models in novel — and successful — ways. Hear how they combine tools from Adobe Creative Suite — including Flash Professional, After Effects, and Photoshop — with the Flex framework and Flash Builder to build robust applications that are available on a wide variety of devices.

Join us to hear a panel of four super-talented Threadless artists explain their creative process and how they learned to love the bomb (dropping their work on the world and waiting for the reaction, aka the explosion). Threadless founder Jake Nickell leads the discussion, which delves into the nerve-racking trials and awesome thrills of being a young graphic designer in today's market. Visual examples of each artist's work will be shown. Panelists include Ross Zietz, Julia Sonmi Heglund, Aled Lewis, and Enkel Dika.

Join artist and interactive designer, Erik Natzke, for a showcase of his creative work. He'll share insights on how he fuses creativity and technology while working with Adobe Flash Professional and other tools.

Join us for a preview of where we're taking the Adobe Acrobat franchise: the realm of Acrobat Dynamic PDF. Acrobat Dynamic PDF enables you to connect, interact, and engage in powerful new ways. Learn how to streamline your workflow, collaborate more easily, and create high-impact communications. Do it all with the reliability, visual fidelity, and control you expect from Acrobat today.