Adobe MAX for the Enterprise

Adobe MAX 2008 is gearing up to be a great event this year with hundreds of great sessions on everything Adobe.  As you would expect, there are a lot of sessions on media design, creative products, video, etc., but did you know that there are many sessions specifically for enterprise business application developers?   Adobe has many products, including LiveCycle ES, LiveCycle Data Services, AIR, and Flex, that are very relevant to the enterprise and becoming more relevant every day.

I thought I would take a few minutes and highlight some of the sessions specifically targeted for Enterprise developers:

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Steven Webster (technical director of Adobe Consulting), and his team have put together some great sessions that will be presented by members of Adobe consulting from North America and Europe:

• Lazy Innovation: Strategy for the Design of Innovative User Experiences
• RIA Development with Cairngorm – Tips from the Experts
• Delivery of a Mission Critical RIA for NATO
• Agile Testing of Enterprise RIA with Flex and LiveCycle ES
• Rapid Enterprise RIA Development with Solution Accelerators
• Architectural Best Practices for Flex and LiveCycle ES Applications
• Delivering Collaborative Applications with AIR and LiveCycle Data Services
• Flex for Java Architects – Delivering Rich Internet Applications with Java, Maven, Spring and Hibernate

The Technical Marketing team has put together some great introductory sessions:

• Marcel Boucher – Building Enterprise Applications Using Flex, Adobe AIR, and LiveCycle ES and What’s New in LiveCycle ES Update 1
• Valerie Snider-Lynch – Buiding Your First Application Using LiveCycle ES and LiveCycle ES and Adobe Solution Accelerators
  
• Steve Forrest – Information Assurance: Rights Management and Digital Security
• Paul Guerette – Building RIAs Using Form Guides and Using LiveCycle Content Services ES

Several members of the Platform Evangelist Team are also presenting some enterprise-focused sessions:

• Duane Nickull and Christophe Coenraets – Adobe Adoption of Web Services, SOA, and REST
• James Ward and Duane Nickull – Building Service Clients with Flex and Adobe AIR
• James Ward – Working with Data in Flex
• My own Introduction to LiveCycle ES

Other Enterprise-related sessions:

• Joel Heinke (Director of Product Management) – Adobe Roadmap: Enterprise
• Shone Sadler (Architect) – LiveCycle ES Architecture Deep Dive
• Matt Butler (Architect) – Service-Oriented Architecture for the Enterprise
• Mike Edwards – Service Component Architecture (SCA)

For a complete list of Adobe MAX sessions, please visit the MAX Session Locator.

If you spot sessions that you feel are enterprise-related that I have not mentioned above, please leave me a comment or send me an email.

I’ll see you in San Francisco!