Marco Casario - HTML5 Solutions: Essential Techniques for HTML5 Developers

Marco Casario has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in BASIC for the Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the Web using HTML, JavaScript, Flash, and Director.
In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia. Since that year, he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences, and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog (casario.blogs.com).
In 2005, Marco has founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com), a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet and Mobile Applications and the convergence between the Web and the world of mobile devices. Now his focus is on User Experience (UX) aspects in order to provide users with a valuable experience. He also is a proponent of cloud computing with Google Apps APIs and the Google App Engine.

Marco is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite UG and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users in which he serves in the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.). Recently, he became Community Manager for the Google Technology User Group (www.gtug.it) in Milan.

Marco is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex 4, LCDS 3, and AIR (ACI), and an Adobe Certified Expert for the Livecycle Platform, Flash, and Dreamweaver. He is also a SCRUM Master.

Marco is author of several books including HTML5 Solutions (Apress); Flex 4 Cookbook (O''Reilly); Professional Flash Catalyst (Wrox); AIR Cookbook (O'Reilly); and Flex 4 Solutions (FriendsOfED), Advanced AIR Applications (FriendsOfED), The Essential Guide to AIR with Flash CS4 (FriendsOfED), and Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 3 developers (FriendsOfED).

Some of his speaking engagements include international conferences such as FlashOnTheBeach, AJAXWorld Conference, O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit, FITC, Adobe MAX, FATC New York, FlexCamp, 360Flex, TAC Singapore, MultiMania Belgium, Adobe CEM, and many others.

Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance IT consultant and Founding Partner of Project Cocoon based in Pondicherry, South India. As a respected member of the online community, Peter has spoken at various international industry events and has had his work published in leading journals.

Charles Brown is one of the most noted authors, consultants, and trainers in the IT industry today. His books on Flex have received strong critical acclaim and are used worldwide as a teaching tool.

In addition to his work in the IT industry, Charles is also a noted concert pianist, organist, and guitarist appearing in major concert centers worldwide. He began his musical studies at age 4, and he went on to study with famed pianist Vladimir Horowitz. At age 14, he made his debut with Leonard Bernstein and went on to study at the famed Juilliard School. Eventually he went to Paris to study with the 20th century legend, Igor Stravinsky. While working with Stravinsky, Charles developed a close friendship with one of the most powerful artistic forces of the 20th century: Pablo Picasso. What he learned about creativity from Picasso he uses today in his writings and training work.

Charles is a certified Adobe trainer who is in heavy demand worldwide. He frequently speaks at major conferences such as MAX and NAB. His website can be found at www.charlesebrown.net. You can find Charles on Facebook.