Scott Gillam BFA, MGDC

Instructor for New Media at both the School of Art, University of Manitoba, & Advanced Graphic Design program, Red River College located in Winnipeg, MB Canada. Operating under the business name Push Design, Scott provides design & technological consultancy for design studios, corporations, and private business.

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Devin Reimer is a 25 year old Flash/Flex Developer with a Computer Science degree from the University of Manitoba. He is originally from Crystal City, Manitoba and now lives in Winnipeg. He is currently working at DMT as Lead Developer - Interactive Specialist. Outside of work he tries to do as much freelance work as possible, and in his free time he works on code examples and experiments for his blog at http://blog.almostlogical.com.

Darren Osadchuk

Miguel Carrasco – Anvil Digital
Miguel Carrasco is a Microsoft MVP in Expression Studio.  Miguel has spoken at various technology events including recently TechDays 2008.  He was also recently a judge on the Microsoft Ignite IT 2009 panel and recently selected as Web Development Track co-lead for Microsoft TechDays 2009.  Miguel works with an impressive team of developers and designers at Anvil Digital that create impressive applications using ASP.net AJAX, Silverlight, WPF, Flash, and FLEX.  An enthusiastic speaker, Miguel loves getting the crowd involved and creating excitement about the tools, technology, and best practices to building amazing applications.

Darren Osadchuk – Ludicrous Software
Darren Osadchuk owns and operates Ludicrous Software. In business since 2005, Ludicrous Software develops games and interactive content for the web and mobile platforms. Until recently, Darren was a civil servant for the Manitoba government, but is much, much happier now. Darren is an Adobe Certified Expert in Flash Lite, and was a speaker at Adobe MAX 2008. Darren also manages Flash in the Peg, Winnipeg, Manitoba’s Adobe User Group.

Our presenter is Rasheed Akhtar. After university, Rasheed worked for IC Group, first as a web developer, responsible for the creation of online promotions. He then moved into business intelligence as their senior business intelligence developer. His responsibilities included the creation and execution of business intelligence strategy, as well as the management of enterprise reporting solutions for clients comprised of 30% of the world's top brands and leading agencies. Primary technologies included .NET, SQL Server, and Flex. He also provides contracting/consulting services specializing in business intelligence, web analytics and RIA development. He has worked with numerous organizations varying from providing web analytics seminars at RRC to developing multi-language flash-based kiosk software for hardware manufacturers. He is currently working with AIS developing eLearning products for the health care industry. Rasheed's responsibilities include product development (Flash/Flex, PHP, and mySQL) for both eLearning and business intelligence.