Flashforward2008 San Francisco is proud to publicly announce this year’s speaker list. This year’s dynamic, invigorating, and accomplished speakers include:

Miha Pogacnik- Passion, Creativity, and Business
An original asset to the Flashforward Conference, Miha Pogacnik, a concert violinist, brings to the stage his world-renowned inspirational, organizational and transformational strategies. The Cultural Ambassador to the Republic of Slovenia, Miha has an incredibly unique response to today’s quest of the business world for innovation and leadership.

David Carson - The Rules of Graphic Design
Acclaimed as the “most famous graphic designer on the face of the planet”, Carson is penned the top selling graphic design book of all times, selling over 200,000 copies, printed in 5 different languages. David’s work continues to be subjective and largely driven by intuition and passion.

Scott McCloud - Comics: A Medium in Transition
Interested in a successful career in Graphic Design since the ripe age of 15, McCloud has inarguably fulfilled his dream. An inventor, an author, a comic and a consultant, McCloud was also the principal author of the ‘Creator’s Bill of Rights.’ His involvement in the digital and graphic world is both longstanding and successful.

Jared Ficklin - Seeing Sound, Sound Visualization with Physics & Code
A Principal Technology for Frog Design, Ficklin brings to the conference his deep running passion for digital technologies, particularly Rapid Digital Prototyping of Device User Interfaces; and his combined love for musical performance and Sound Visualization.

Lynda Weinman - Education in the Internet Age
Co-founder of both Lynda.com and the Flashforward Conference & Film Festival, Lynda has been an adopter of the software and computer technologies since the early 1980’s. She wrote the first of her numerous successful books in 1995. Now taking a step back from Conference Producer, Lynda will attend her 17th Flashforward Conference as a Speaker, for the first time.

Ivan Todorov – Using Interactive Mediums to Express Brand Personality
Founding partner and Director for BLITZ, Todorov builds the agency’s strategic assets, frameworks, code libraries, documentation, as well as its best practices and development process.

Seb Lee-Delisle - Papervision3D, simplified
Combining his eye for design and animation with his understanding of maths and physics, Lee-Deslisle has been able to give his 15 year career as both a Multimedia Programmer and Technical Director an extra edge.

Chuck Freedman
A leading Flash Platform Engineer, and Director of Developer Platform at Ribbit, Chuck has certainly made a name for himself amongst the Flash community. His development approach combines his education and multimedia with a fresh expertise in content management server-side scripting and database and interactive design.

Hoss Gifford
“Make nice things for nice people” is Gifford’s mantra, and he sticks to his guns. A creative technologist for the last 18 years, Gifford’s trophy cabinet is beginning to get a big snug. Gifford is a veteran speaker at international design and technology conferences, who is always asked back for the same reasons.

Robert Hodgin
Founding partner of the Barbarian Group, Hodgin loves to talk about his love for Processing and audio-visual experimentation.

Luke Bayes
With a career history too long to list (think the wing span of a 7 ft man), Bayes has been speaking at industry events equally as long. Focusing intently on design patterns, code reuse, and agile processes in the context of ActionScript development.

Erik Natzke Natzke Design
Consistently blurring the lines between design and technology, Natzke is an Interactive Designer with a keen awareness for hwo and where to push the limits of the medium without idsolating the audience.

Paul Ortchanian
Committed to the research of creative coding and deconstruction of complex, sometimes over-engineered scripts into simple and understandable execution. Creativity and the research of interaction design find a fabulous balance in Paul’s work.

Todd Rosenberg - Educational Doodling
Creator of the oddtodd animations, Todd provides ‘humorous’ flash animated segments for the ABC World News, America’s Test Kitchen and National Geographic.

Grant Skinner - Why I (Still) Love Flash
Skinner is CEO and Chief Architect of gskinner.com, a Flash development and consulting company. He works with leading new media agencies and progressive corporate clients to create cutting-edge applications, games and media pieces.

Stacey Mulcahy - Project Management from a Developer’s Perspective
Stacey is a Flex and Flash developer who once had a torrid love affair with Macromedia Director. When she’s not building rich Internet applications that even designers like, she can be found showing others how to do the same thing as a Flash instructor. She rants more than raves on her Flash-centric blog www.bitchwhocodes.com.

From Adobe, we’ll have Tinic Uro, Mike Downey, and Ricahrd Galvan and we’re excited to have speakers from Disney.com and IDEO as well. In addition to these speakers, a few more spots remain so stay tuned for another announcement in the near future.

To read more and see photos/images visit http://www.flashforwardconference.com/speakers.

See you in SF!
Maya and the Flashforward Team

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