Refresh 2011 is aimed at developers and designers who are wanting to increase their knowledge and extend their reach to the growing range of connected devices. This year Refresh will be in Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne and has a great lineup of content & speakers.

Subjects Covered

• Multi-device Multi-screen
• Flash Professional Future
• HTML5 and Open Web
• Adobe Town Hall
• Adobe Digital Publishing Solution
• Flash Builder (Burrito and Hero) Future
• Sneak Peeks and Prizes

Keynote Speakers

Experience the best of Adobe MAX (recently held in LA) and hear from these leading industry experts in multi-screen delivery:

• Richard Galvan – Product Manager, Flash Professional
• Serge Jespers – Platform Evangelist, EMEA
• Paul Burnett – APAC Evangelist
• Michael Stoddart – APAC Evangelist

Who Should Attend

Developers and designers or anyone else with an interest in multi-screen delivery

More details here: http://www.adobe.com/au/special/adoberefresh2011/

For the 4th year in a row the Adobe Australia tech team are heading out around the country for the Adobe Refresh roadshow, and this year we’re even making it across to Perth!

You’ll have a chance to join Andrew Spaulding, Mike McHugh, Paul Burnett and me as we show you live demos of our favourite tools, discuss how you can use the technology to solve today’s problems, and have a chance to ask questions and network with people just like you.

I’ve look at the list of attendees who has registered so far and we have a really good mix of designers & developers, corporate types & freelancers working on small projects up to big enterprise apps.

So block out the date in your diary and join us to see the latest & greatest from Adobe, including updates on the Flash Platform, enterprise tools like LiveCycle ES2 as well as creative tips & tricks and sneaks shown at the recent Adobe MAX conference. In Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne we’ll be breaking out into two rooms to let you choose the content that makes sense for your needs. The full agenda is at the registration link below.

We’ll also kick off with a keynote which will cover some of the industry themes that effect us all and how Adobe is developing its products to meet today’s challenges. Well worth it alone if you are pressed for time!

Dates & locations are as follows;

11th February Perth
16th February Brisbane
18th February Auckland
23rd February Sydney
25th February Melbourne

Register on the Adobe site so we can make room.. its filling up fast and last year we had to turn people away!

For the last week two weeks, Brian Chau, Andrew Spaulding and I have been traveling around Australia giving the web designer & developer community a “Refresh” on what’s happening with Adobe technology that is relevant in the web space.

For the keynote we covered a wide range of topics, starting with an overview of all the major releases that the Adobe Engineers have come up with in the last 12 months, including Flex 3, AIR, Acrobat 9, Acrobat.com, LiveCycle ES Update 1 as well as Creative Suite 4.

Demos shown include;
David Gilmour PDF – Flash Video recording inside a PDF.
Acrobat.com – Many things including free web conferencing!
FIAT ecoDrive – AIR application that talks with your car and tells you how you drive.
Telstra Business – Flex application used to choose a mobile phone.

After some quick demos showcasing the latest shipping technologies, we went on to discuss & demo the latest advances in Flash and how the complete Flash Platform is coming together as a collection of devices (desktops, laptops, mobile devices, set top boxes etc). Those in Melbourne & Brisbane were able to see the Sony PlayStation 3 display flash video content thanks to the built in Flash Player (Sydney had internet troubles!).

Andrew showcased some of the latest Flash examples;

Hobnox – A great audio tool.
“The Cloth Demo” – showing the performance of Flash 10
Flash Player 10 feature demos – Several more demos

We then covered the latest from the Open Screen Project before moving on to a very important topic, the Designer / Developer workflow. The most exciting part of this was Andrew’s demonstration of Flash Catalyst (previously known as Thermo). Andrew will be posting a recording of his demo soon.

Below are the slides from the keynote, which include plenty of information and links where you can find out more information.

Adobe Refresh 2009 was a great event for us, and I especially enjoyed the conversations with so many of you during the breaks. We still have the Auckland Refresh event coming up on March 5th, so if you can make it please register at http://events.adobe.co.uk/cgi-bin/event.cgi?country=pa&eventid=7651

This wont be the last web designer / developer activity from the Adobe Australia / New Zealand team this year. We’re in planning mode right now for some rather fun and informative activities that will be announced rather soon…