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    • MAX Update: Speaker Selection, Unconferences,...
      Entry posted Jun 04 by Ted Patrick
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      MAX Update: Speaker Selection, Unconferences, BOFs, Registration
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      We are well underway with MAX planning now and I wanted to give an update on our progress.

      Speaker Selection

      We had over 800 proposed sessions and labs and we selected 100 for presentation at Adobe MAX 2009. It was a very tough year for sessions selection given the high quality of the proposals. It is my hope that many of the sessions will be presented at the MAX Unconferences being organized now.

      Unconferences

      We have 5 unconferences this year and have been working with the event leaders on shaping these sessions. The unconference sessions will be presented in an enclosed area of the exposition hall where each venue will be easily accessible to the expo but private. The unconference leadership includes 360Flex, FiTC, Ray Camden (ColdFusion), SoDA - Society of Design Agencies. Special thanks for all the support in building out these great sessions from the community.

      Birds of a Feather & Meet the Teams

      We will be organizing the BOF/MTT sessions soon. We will have a call for BOF sessions in the next week in partnership with this years organizer Greg Wilson. Greg is a evangelist at Adobe and is working closely with the product teams to make BOF/MTT evening the best yet. More to follow.

      Registration

      MAX Registration launched last week and we have over 100 registration booked to date in the first week. The early pricing puts MAX at $1099 but with community user group discounts you can get the price down to $899 for a limited time.

      Cheers,

      Ted :) 

    Comments

    • Ted, can you please clarify this?

      "The early pricing puts MAX at $1099 but with community user group discounts you can get the price down to $899 for a limited time."

      Does this mean that Community Experts, UG Managers etc. can get tickets at $899 now? Or are we looking at a separate price scale for these?

      Also - can User Group Members get the $899 price right now?

      If there's some place where this is already explained, please laugh at me derisively and point me in the right direction  :-)

       

      Steve

      • Steve, we'll follow up with the user group managers and Community Experts in our own forum. :)

    • Ted, you said in the C5X update that the UGM discount would be better that past years and in 2007 at Chicago the UGM discounted price was $795. So I was expecting it to be less than $795.