Hooken Mobile

In less than 2 weeks time, this year’s Adobe MAX 2008 conference (November 16-19) descends upon San Francisco, and Adobe MAX 2008 conference (November 16-19) descends upon San Franciswe’ll be there!

For those unfamiliar with MAX, here’s what it’s all about in a nutshell:

“MAX is an experience unlike any other — an opportunity to connect with thousands of designers, developers, partners, executives, and Adobe staff for education, inspiration, and community.

MAX 2008/2009 will be held in San Francisco, Milan, and Tokyo.

Be sure to mark your calendar for this important global event.”

What’s more, we are very excited to announce that Scott Janousek (CEO and Technical Director of Hooken Mobile) will be at MAX as a speaker and co-presenter/assistant for two (Flash) Mobile and Device sessions at this years Adobe MAX.

Here are more info on these specific sessions going on during the conference:

Session:
20 Tips and Tricks for Top Performance Mobile Applications

Description:
Join leading Flash Lite developers for hands-on instruction on best practices for mobile design, development, performance optimization, and testing in Adobe Device Central and directly on handsets. Attendees of this session will get a chance to win a new mobile phone and other exciting prizes.

Speakers: Peter Kacandes, Scott Janousek, Dale Rankine, Alessandro Pace, Darren Osadchuk

Audience: Web Developer, Web Designer, Creative Designer, Architect, Application Developer

Skill: Intermediate

Products: FlashCast, Flash Lite, Flash, Design Premium, Creative Suite

When:
Monday, November 17, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Tuesday, November 18, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Wednesday, November 19, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Session: Deep Dive: Adobe Device Central CS4
Description:
Learn about the features and capabilities of Adobe Device Central CS4. Developers will learn how to create and test mobile content using various Creative Suite 4 tools such as Flash CS4 Professional, Photoshop CS4, Illustrator CS4, and more. Attendees of this session will get the chance to win a new mobile phone and other cool prizes.

Speakers: Dale Rankine, James Talbot, Scott Janousek

Audience: Web Designer, Creative Designer, Application Developer

Skill: Beginner

Products: Master Collection, Flash Lite, Flash, Design Premium, Creative Suite, Adobe Device Central
When:
Monday, November 17, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Tuesday, November 18, 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Wednesday, November 19, 9:00 am - 10:30 am

In addition to speaking, Hooken Mobile will be a number of the mobile events being sponsored at the conference, including:

• Mobile Events at MAX - general invites to the community
• Mobile Summit (Nov 16th, 1pm-6pm, San Francisco Marriott, RSVP)
• Mobile Networking Party - Fast Pitch Presentations (Nov 19)

For more sessions, you can check out this page.

We hope to see many of our friends, partners, clients, as well as new, potential prospectives at is what will no doubt be another very exciting conference put on by Adobe!

We hope to see you some of you there, and rest assured, we’ll try to cover as much as the conference via blogs, youtube, flickr, and all of other mobile media outlets available!

Photo: Pictured (L to R): Scott Janousek, Max Antinori, Chris MacDonald, Steve Albanese. Missing from photo: Alessandro Pace, James Talbot. Picture captured from a Nokia N95.

Last week on Thursday, the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group (BAMaDUG) held a relatively small get together at the Newton office of Adobe.

In attendance was our very own Technical Director, Scott Janousek as a representative for Hooken Mobile.

Also present were: Alessandro Pace (Biskero/Verisign), James Talbot (Adobe), Max Antinori (Max Media Corp), Chris MacDonald (EMC), Steve Albanese (Tutorials Depot), and Rob Toole (Fidelity Investments).

In addition to numerous conversations about the mobile space and Flash Lite, there was always the customary swag giveaway which Adobe graciously offered up last minute … including a full copy of Adobe Creative Suite 3 (congrats to Chris for winning).

Also, several copies of the Friends of Ed: Foundation Flash Application for Mobile Devices book were distributed (Coauthor: Scott Janousek (Hooken Mobile)).

It was great catching up on local community activity, and Hooken Mobile will not doubt be at the next physical meeting.

Group Photo: Pictured (L to R): Scott Janousek, Chris MacDonald, Steve Albanese, Max Antinori, James Talbot. Photographer: Alessandro Pace on his Nokia N95.

Just thought we’d send out a reminder that Scott Janousek (Technical Director here at Hooken Mobile) will be leading a Flash Lite Training class from June 5th to 8th at the Adobe office in Boston (Newton, to be exact).

Here is the official description of this particular course:

As of this post, there are 15 or so attendees. We have room for a few more. Since training does not start until Tuesday, there is still time to register! Also bare in mind this FREE training!

For those of you already attending, see you there!