We have received many excellent proposals already, but we’re greedy: send us more!

Speaker Proposal Form

If you have technical or philosophical issues with the form, you can also just send a quick email to speaker@flashforwardconference.com with a rundown of your idea and we’ll take it from there.

The deadline is this Friday, September 23, after which we’ll decide which pieces fit together into the event we’re envisioning. So if you already submitted a proposal and haven’t heard back yet, don’t worry, we’re just waiting until all ideas are in. But if you have any followup thoughts or just want to confirm we received it, feel free to email us again.

Have too many ideas? Need help narrowing them down? Here are some tips…

• We’re always glad to see topic proposals that have more of a how-to approach than how-cool-am-I.
• Very technical topics are very welcome; we want to be sure even cutting-edge coders can learn something.
• Likewise, interesting designer-oriented topics are wanted to fill out the experience for the pixel-pushers among us.
• We’ve had frequent requests for more sessions on the subject of Flash in education, so tell us how you’ve integrated Flash in your curriculum.
• Flash being but one tool in the toolbox, tell us about the other tools, and about the workflow/integration issues you’ve devised/overcome.
• You’ve had Flash 8 for a week (or months, if you’re lucky) — and discovered that it has enabled an utterly new approach to the way you work. Share those insights.
• Flash is Everywhere, right? So talk about your expertise in those Elsewhere environments, like phones, PDAs, toys, set-top boxes, kiosks, or fine art installations.
• Surprise us. If you’ve attended any recent Flashforward, you know that not every session has Flash in it. We’ve talked about web standards, creative commons, open source, Processing, AJAX, typography, physical computing, alternative input devices, and much more.

If you have no interest in speaking yourself but would buy a ticket tomorrow if a certain someone were on the roster, tell us who it is and we’ll try to talk them into coming.

Our goal is to ensure that no matter what your skill level or field of particular expertise, you will have something compelling to attend during every hour of the Seattle conference. So if you ever felt their was a gap in your Flashforward experience, this is your chance to help us fill it.

So don’t forget to tell us your ideas this week!

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