Tariq Ahmed, Dan Orlando, John C. Bland Ii, Joel Hooks

Dan Orlando is CEO at Creative RIA and a recognized leader in the Flash Platform community. As a long time consultant and Adobe Community Professional, Dan's expertise on Adobe technology platforms is often called upon by industry leaders as well as for publications such as IBM developerWorks, Adobe Developer Connection, and Amazon Web Services. Dan can also be found blogging regularly at DanOrlando.com.

John C. Bland II is founder of Katapult Media Inc. KM focuses on software and web development with ColdFusion, the Flash Platform, PHP, Java, the .NET Platform, and Objective-C (iPhone & Mac OSX). At Katapult he works diligently on FastKast, which continues to power numerous high profile media players. John is also the CTO of NGame.tv, where gamers go to broadcast. He is a co-author of the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit for CF 8 and 9 (Peachpit) as well as for Flex 4 in Action (Manning). As an Adobe Community Professional, John continues put back into the community, which helped mold him into the developer he is today. 

Joel Hooks is a Flash Platform developer with experience in Actionscript 3, Flex, and Python. Joel spent the first 13 years of his professional career as a 3d animator and graphic designer working on computer based training applications from that perspective. His interest in programming goes as far back as "TELL TURTLE" and he has always been interested in the technological challenges related to developing software making work a little bit easier. With the introduction of Actionscript 3, Joel finally found a platform that allows him to architect useful tools while fully leveraging his experience as a visual artist. Joel is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring the landscape of frameworks, libraries, and tools that make his work constantly fun and challenging.