Yes, that’s Spark, not sparkle. Glad we got that out of the way… right… moving on…
Europe will have it’s own Flash conference with some heavy hitters coming to Amsterdam for a 3-day conference. Evisdently, this is not a scam like the previous conferences you may have heard of.
To top it off, it’s going to be held in one of my favourite music venues, Paradiso in Amsterdam, hell, even Kevin Lynch is coming to party, woo-hoo! I think I might have to go to this one…
From the official site:
[size=1]SPARK, Europe’s premier Flash event, showcases everything on the powerful Macromedia® Flash® platform for developing content and applications. The jam-packed, three-day, event features educational and inspirational seminars on motion graphics, video, mobile, interactivity, and open source. SPARK is produced by United Digital Artists and sponsored by Macromedia, and will be held November 16-18 in Amsterdam’s celebrated Paradiso, the historic music venue whose stage has hosted everyone from the Rolling Stones to Phish.[/size]
[size=1]The three-day SPARK event includes:
Workshop Day (Nov 16) and
Conference (Nov 17-18).[/size]
[size=1]**PARTIAL LIST OF CONFIRMED SPEAKERS: **
**[color=#0000ff]MATHIEU ANTHOINE[/color],Yamago (France)
[color=#0000ff]ARAL BALKAN[/color], Ariaware (UK)
[color=#0000ff]CARLO BLATZ[/color], Powerflasher (Germany)
[color=#0000ff]FRANCIS BOURRE[/color], Tweenpix (France)
[color=#0000ff]VERONIQUE BROSSIER[/color], Developer (France)
[color=#0000ff]NICOLAS CANNASSE[/color], MTASC (France)
[color=#0000ff]MIKE CHAMBERS[/color], Macromedia (US)
[color=#0000ff]BOB DONLON[/color], Adobe Systems (US)
[color=#0000ff]DANNY DURA[/color], Macromedia (US)
[color=#0000ff]JONATHAN DURAN[/color], Macromedia (US)
[color=#0000ff]HOSS GIFFORD[/color], Flammmable Jam (UK)
[color=#0000ff]FOLKERT GORTER[/color], Superfamous (Netherlands)
[color=#0000ff]JOHN GRDEN[/color], BLITZ (US)
[color=#0000ff]TOM GREEN[/color], Humber College (Canada)
[color=#0000ff]LUKE HUBBARD[/color], Codegent (UK)
[color=#0000ff]CHAFIC KAZOUN[/color], Atellis (US)
[color=#0000ff]STEPHEN KILISKY[/color], Adobe Systems (US)
[color=#0000ff]MAX KISMAN[/color], Animator (Netherlands)
[color=#0000ff]MARIO KLINGEMANN[/color], Quasimondo (Germany)
[color=#0000ff]JOOST KORNGOLD[/color], Renascent (Netherlands)
[color=#0000ff]RICHARD LEGGETT[/color], Developer (UK)
[color=#0000ff]KEVIN LYNCH[/color], Macromedia (US)
[color=#0000ff]ANDRE MICHELLE[/color], Game Developer (Germany)
[color=#0000ff]ERIK NATZKE[/color], Natzke Design (US)
[color=#0000ff]TED PATRICK[/color], IFBIN (Turkey)
[color=#0000ff]STEFAN SAGMEISTER[/color], Sagmeister Inc. (Austria)
[color=#0000ff]GRANT SKINNER[/color], gskinner.com (Canada)
[color=#0000ff]CRAIG SWANN[/color], CRASH!Media (Spain)
[color=#0000ff]ANGIE TAYLOR[/color], Filmmaker (UK)
[color=#0000ff]THIJS TRIEMSTRA[/color], Collab (Netherlands)
[color=#0000ff]OWEN VAN DIJK[/color], Mutoid (Netherlands)
[color=#0000ff]EDWIN VAN RIJKOM[/color], Screenweaver (Netherlands)
[color=#0000ff]GUY WATSON[/color], Flashguru (UK)
[color=#0000ff]SASCHA WOLTER[/color], Flashforum (Germany)
And more to come…
PLUS MACROMEDIA’S FLASH 8 TEAM:
[color=#0000ff]MIKE DOWNEY[/color], Product Manager (US)
[color=#0000ff]DOUG BENSON[/color], Senior Director Product Development (US)
[color=#0000ff]GILLES DRIEU[/color], Senior Engineering Manager (France)
[color=#0000ff]SEAN KRANZBERG[/color], QA Manager (US)
**[/size]