MAX 2011 Sponsors

Grab the excitement of HP technology combined with Adobe software, and explore the possibilities! Partnered with companies such as Dreamworks and Disney, graphic artists are able to create amazing animation and 3D films using HP workstations. Workstations zip through programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash and others. HP mobile workstations with DreamColor monitors provide breathtaking color for creating, editing and viewing content – with no extra step for color correction. HP TouchSmart PCs are designed to work and play the way you do - connecting, creating, playing, surfing, and enjoying music and videos – all while providing the best PC touch experience. With HP Photosmart printers, you can print in amazing color and clarity – even wirelessly and from any mobile device. And those are just a few examples. Where others see challenges, we see opportunities. So we never stop exploring. We never stop at impossible. That's just the beginning. And we can't wait to show you what we think of next.

Motorola Mobility, Inc. (NYSE:MMI) fuses innovative technology with human insights to create experiences that simplify, connect and enrich people's lives. Our portfolio includes converged mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets; wireless accessories; end-to-end video and data delivery; and management solutions, including set-tops and data-access devices. For more information, visit motorola.com/mobility.

Dedicated to opening up the potential of Android to every developer, MOTODEV - MMI's global developer network - is simply the best way to get started, stay inspired, and invent the future with a whole new generation of phenomenal user experiences. More info on MOTODEV, developing Android applications, downloading MOTODEV Studio for Android and resources to bring apps to market can be found at http://developer.motorola.com.

Research In Motion Limited is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. Through the development of integrated hardware, software, and services that support multiple wireless network standards, RIM provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information including email, phone, SMS messaging, Internet and intranet-based applications. RIM technology also enables a broad array of third-party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services with wireless connectivity to data. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services, and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world and include the BlackBerry^® wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld^™ product line, software development tools, radio-modems, and software/hardware licensing agreements. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. For more information, visit www.rim.com.

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2010 consolidated sales of US$135.8 billion. Employing approximately 190,500 people in 206 offices across 68 countries, the company consists of eight independently operated business units: Visual Display, Mobile Communications, Telecommunication Systems, Digital Appliances, IT Solutions, Digital Imaging, Semiconductor and LCD. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, semiconductor chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

Sony Corporation is a leading manufacturer of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets. With its music, pictures, computer entertainment and online businesses, Sony is uniquely positioned to be the leading electronics and entertainment company in the world. Sony recorded consolidated annual sales of approximately $87 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2011. Sony Global Web Site: http://www.sony.net/

AlternativaPlatform company develops and supports technical solutions for multiplayer browser-based games. Our proprietary Flash-3D-engine, physics engine, GUI and high-performance server technology allows developers to create unique browser-based games, applications for social networks, promo-projects and showcases. Development of browser applications based on Adobe Flash is our technical forte. We have been working with this platform more than 10 years and our solutions are always on the forefront of technology. One of key AlternativaPlatform projects is browser based multiplayer online real-time action game known as Tanki Online. Our company also provides development and technology support for the online game developers.

Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller and a Fortune 500 company, operates 705 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 636 college bookstores serving nearly 4 million students and faculty members at colleges and universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble conducts its online business through Barnes & Noble.com, one of the Web's largest e-commerce sites, which also features more than two million titles in its NOOK Bookstore™. With the best-selling NOOK Color Reader’s Tablet, built on Android, customers enjoy a wide array of high-quality apps along with books, magazines and more. The NOOK Developer program enables content providers and the developer community to market and sell their content and applications to millions of Barnes & Noble customers. Barnes & Noble invites developers to sign up, learn more and submit their content and apps at www.bn.com/NOOKdeveloper

Lenovo is one of the world's largest makers of personal computers and makes the world's most innovative PCs, including the renowned ThinkPad® notebook as well as products carrying the ThinkCentre®, ThinkStation®, ThinkServer®, IdeaCentre® and IdeaPad® sub-brands. Today, Lenovo is a global corporation with significant operations on six continents and operating in more than 60 countries and selling products in 160. Everyone at Lenovo takes great pride in our ability to attract top talent from diverse backgrounds and from around the world. We view our differences and diversity as a source of strength in building a collaborative culture that helps us achieve our goals.

Take what you create with Adobe software and make it shine on LG’s new line-up of Cinema 3D and Smart TV devices! Smart TV innovator and long-time leader in developing cutting-edge home theater displays and components, LG Electronics, Inc., is a global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. LG's innovations are designed to ensure Life’s Good for their customers and partners around the world. For more information about LG, please visit www.lg.com.

AbelsonTaylor, founded in 1981, has grown to become the largest independently owned full-service healthcare advertising agency in the world. Its peers recognize the agency consistently with accolades such as Med Ad News Most Creative Agency for 11 of the last 13 years. With a staff of over 400, AbelsonTaylor creates unique desktop and Web applications that stand out from the crowd.

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Adobe Press is a world leader in high-quality books for visual communicators and the official source of training materials for Adobe software. Best known for the best-selling Classroom in a Book series, Adobe Press publishes instructional and inspirational books at all learning levels. Whether you're a Creative Suite user, or into Adobe Production Studio, or you design Web sites using Dreamweaver and Flash, we have you covered. Adobe Press books are published by Peachpit.

Akamai® provides market-leading, cloud-based services for optimizing Web and mobile content and applications, online HD video, and secure e-commerce. Combining highly-distributed, energy-efficient computing with intelligent software, Akamai's global platform is transforming the cloud into a more viable place to inform, entertain, advertise, transact and collaborate. To learn how the world's leading enterprises are optimizing their business in the cloud, please visit: www.akamai.com.

The impact of the proliferation of tablets and smart phones is that people simply expect to engage online - yet most business transactions still start with paper forms and meetings. Avoka’s Digital Self Service Enablement Solution gives users an interactive and intelligent user experience that allows them to complete complex transactions online. With Avoka, organizations can make new digital services available in days, not months - so the benefits of Digital Self-Service are realized sooner.

digital primates is an industry-leading Rich Internet Application consultancy focused on empowering clients through mentoring, training, and development. Our methodologies enable clients to successfully complete projects, either through our guidance of the client's team, or by leveraging our own developers and architects in the process. Our senior consultants are uniquely positioned as trainers, authors, and speakers, providing clear communication and leadership to any team. You can learn more at www.digitalprimates.net.

Founded in 2005, EffectiveUI simplifies complex experiences that provide value for people's lives. By researching and uncovering user needs to guide the design and development of custom applications, we improve digital interactions and enhance emotional engagement with your brand. EffectiveUI has worked with some of today's top companies -- including AAA, Boeing, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, eBay, Qwest Communications and TIAA-CREF -- to increase revenue, brand awareness and customer loyalty.

Ensemble is an acknowledged leader in cross-platform integrations, enterprise solutions and software consulting services. Since our inception in 1995, we’ve come to be known as specialists in providing robust solutions for organizations in the financial, government, manufacturing, life sciences, and media and entertainment industries. An Adobe Business Solution Partner, Ensemble has proven expertise in LiveCycle, Flex, AIR and Acrobat. Ensemble is based in Vancouver, Canada and London, UK and fields experts all over the world.

Think and plan geographically. As the market leader in geographic information systems (GIS), ESRI technology is used in over 350,000 organizations worldwide. Use GIS to collect, manage, and analyze geographic information, helping you solve problems and make better decisions

When it comes to buying, learning or implementing web solutions, "We've Got You Covered". We are experts in Adobe, Google, Brightcove, Sencha, Jackbe, CommonSpot, Sitecore, and Clickability products. We've trained 30,000+ students in Google GSA/Apps, CS5, LiveCycle, Flex, ColdFusion, FMS, Websense, and more! Our design/usability and consulting team provides enablement and consulting services to create best-of-breed custom experiences for our clients. Visit www.figleaf.com or call us (877-FIG-LEAF) to discuss your product, project or training needs.

3D for Flash Professionals. Flare3D is a tool for creating games and 3D content designed for Flash professionals. Our intuitive IDE is friendly for developers and artists needing an efficient workflow. Author once and publish for Web, Desktop, Android, iOS, Playbook and TV.

Freescale Semiconductor is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. The company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing and sales operations around the world.

Intergral is the leader in professional products for server monitoring, application analysis and quality assurance tools for Adobe server solutions. If you're developing RIA's with ColdFusion, Flex or Java, our products improve code quality, application availability and performance as well as measure exactly how your applications are performing on a day to day basis. Over 10,000 licenses sold in 88 countries around the world - learn more about our products at www.fusion-reactor.com

JamPot Technologies Ltd is an Irish company. Our first product is TheAppBuilder – a tool that allows anyone to create an app for the iPhone, Android and BlackBerry Playbook and post to all leading App Stores without any development experience. The focus of TheAppBuilder is to deliver an easy to use tool that allows anyone to create mobile app experiences. App building, made easy.

JetBrains is a software development company that's crazy-passionate about developer productivity. Our intelligent development tools automate your routine tasks and help you effectively solve the challenging ones.
Basing on the famous IntelliJ platform, we build professional IDEs for different modern languages and technologies including Flex & AIR. Smart code editor, powerful Flex-aware refactorings and code analysis, integrated debugger, test runner and out-of-the-box version control support - all aim to improve your coding productivity and code quality.

Midnight Coders is a leading provider of enterprise integration products enabling client-server connectivity between desktop, browser and mobile applications and a variety of server-side technologies, including Java, .NET and PHP. Developers from around the world use our flagship product, WebORB, to gain tremendous development productivity and run-time performance boost. We pride ourselves in offering the most feature rich, scalable and cost effective way for integrating data services and rich media with the next generation of mobile and desktop applications.

Mura CMS is an open-source Content Management System tailored to the needs of both creative professionals and enterprise organizations. Powerful and incredibly easy to use, Mura CMS offers a tremendous range of built-in features and functionalities. Mura CMS is free, with professional support and training available. Come by our booth and learn why leading organizations like Apple, Intel, VTech Phones, the US Marine Corps, and the FDA rely on Mura CMS to power their mission-critical websites.

Neotys is the leader in easy-to-use, cost effective stress and load testing tools for RIAs. Since 2005, Neotys has helped over 1,000 customers in more than 60 countries enhance the reliability, performance and quality of their applications. The NeoLoad load testing solution for RIAs, offers best-in-class capabilities, flexibility and efficiency with infinite scalability from the cloud, while providing pertinent analyses and full support for all new technologies including Flex, LCDS and RTMP. All this is backed by a dedicated team of Neotys professional services and support to ensure your success. Please visit www.neotys.com.

Rain is an internationally recognized developer of interactive media specializing in custom creative software design. In 2009, Rain was recruited to join the prestigious ranks of SoDA - the Society of Digital Agencies, encompassing the leading best-in-class digital agencies worldwide. Rain's dedication to providing its clients with profit-driven solutions is manifested through a triple threat of ingenious creativity, conceptual technology and strong business ethics. To find out more about Rain, visit www.mediarain.com.

Roundarch designs and implements digital experiences for the world’s largest organizations. Roundarch delivers websites, rich web applications, mobile applications, social media applications, digital marketing campaigns and more for clients such as Avis, HBO, Bloomberg Sports, Hershey’s and the US Air Force. Roundarch’s unique blend of breakthrough user experience design and technology implementation is perfectly suited for the most complex problems in the digital space. Offices: Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York. www.roundarch.com and http://blog.roundarch.com.

Sencha equips developers with frameworks, tools and services to help them build highly functional and engaging Web application experiences using HTML5 and JavaScript. The company's flagship products, Sencha Ext JS and Sencha Touch, are cross-browser JavaScript frameworks for building rich internet applications for the desktop and mobile devices. They include high-performance, customizable UI building blocks, a well-architected, extensible component model, and an intuitive, easy-to-use API. More than one million developers worldwide - representing more than 150,000 companies - use the Sencha family of open-source software to build amazing application experiences. Visit Sencha on the Web at http://www.sencha.com, read the Sencha blog, and follow us on Twitter @sencha.

As a leading global marketplace of visual content, Shutterstock helps designers achieve new heights by providing building blocks for outstanding creative work. With Shutterstock's convenient image subscriptions, customers enjoy the creative freedom to download any image from a comprehensive library of photographs, illustrations and vector files. Designers choose Shutterstock for quality, diversity, powerful search tools, and value. Shutterstock is also proud to serve as the Official AIGA Sponsor for Creative Inspiration.

SmartBear Software provides tools for over 100,000 software professionals to build, test, and monitor some of the best software applications and websites anywhere – on the desktop, mobile and in the cloud. Our users can be found across 90 countries, in small businesses, Fortune 100 companies, and government agencies. Learn more about the SmartBear Quality Anywhere Platform, our award-winning tools, or join our active user community at www.smartbear.com, on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter @smartbear.

Universal Mind is a digital solutions agency--a new breed that fuses the capabilities of an interactive agency with the technical expertise of a systems integrator. We specialize in designing and developing custom software solutions for Fortune 500 companies and forward-thinking brands to create an exceptional customer experience. Our industries have included software, telecommunications, media, entertainment, retail, healthcare, finance, and education. Our clients include Verizon, American Greetings, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, RIM BlackBerry, Kodak, and FedEx.

Zend Technologies (www.zend.com) is the leading provider of solutions for developing, deploying, and managing business-critical PHP applications. PHP runs a third of the world’s Websites, making it the most popular language for dynamic Web applications. Zend delivers a comprehensive solution set for supporting the PHP application lifecycle. Zend and Adobe have partnered to release Flash Builder for PHP, which integrates Flash Builder and Zend Studio, to accelerate development of rich internet and native mobile apps.

Each day, over 72,000 organizations worldwide manage and support in excess of nine million machines with NetSupport's remote control technology. Today's dispersed corporate networks present many challenges to IT support teams who are expected to maximize the availability of business critical systems. With comprehensive multi-platform support for Windows, Linux, Mac(R) and mobile systems across LAN, WAN or internet, combined with advanced desktop management functionality, NetSupport Manager offers complete compatibility for the modern business environment. With a 22 year pedigree in corporate remote control, NetSupport Manager really does take the gamble out of providing secure and efficient remote PC management. www.netsupportmanager.com