Let me be very clear. I love FlashForward conferences. They are tons of fun and the speakers are always inspirational. The freebies are usually pretty good. The networking is pretty easy with that many like minded individuals. The parties are great.

I attended the first one in San Francisco. Adobe gave out demo/betas of their Flash Killer LiveMotion and free copies of GoLive. The next day Macromedia gave copies of Dreamweaver and Fireworks. It was just too much! Ozmatli played and there was free sushi and booze for everyone… after all this was during the DotCom Boom.
Last year’s event in Seattle was great too. The Brothers Chap were hilarious and there were a lot of jaw dropping talks on the early stages of Apollo and Flex that energized me for 2007.

What I don’t like about them is that there is never one in the Midwest. No Chicago, no Minneapolis,?Ǭ† Milwaukee, Indy, etc, anywhere in about 6-8 hour drive for me. Everytime I want to go to one, I have to hop in a plane. While traveling is fun, it would be great to see the Midwest get some love!

I have created a demand for FlashForward at Eventful.com. If you are a member, and interested in getting a FF event in Chicago, go demand it!

Posted on February 14, 2007

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