Finally in the evening it was time for the Welcome Reception, along with the O’reilly Ignite events. Checkout the snaps here:

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0]: The MAX Store

Sumi Lim, Craig Goodman and me - we were meeting after 5 months! The last time we were at a spa in Korea.

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 1]: Welcome reception - Pals from Korea meet again!

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 1]: Welcome reception party

Me, James Ward, Christoph Rooms, person I don’t remember about and someone from Salesforce.com

Here is the old gang: Tim Buntel, me, Mike Nimer, Ken Azuma (Tokyo usergroup) and Dean Harmon (check out his CF t-shirt)

Checkout Dean’s CF Team t-shirt

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0]: O’reilly Ignite!

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0]: O’reilly Ignite!

I caught Simon Horwith folding T-shirts at the Adobe Developer Support Lab, hmm… helping out in something for which Adobe staff gets paid he was doing it for fun. He says “This is what I do to support the community!” (Note: You can get an Adobe t-shirt if you fill the survey at the booth)

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0]: Adobe Developer Support Lab

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0]: Simon Horwith and Adobe t-shirts

I also caught up with Dean Harmon and Jason Delmore from the ColdFusion team nearby, they had just registered - late comers! … i guess waking up on a Sunday morning takes some effort even if it is MAX!

Adobe MAX 2007 [Day 0]: With Jason and Dean

This is how Day 0 is coming out to be… I’m sitting right now in the “Building Livecycle Applications” - Pre-Event session taken by Bob Bailey from Adobe. These “Pre-Event Sessions” are essentially full-day hands-on tutorial classes, which are very cool to learn the new technologies/products from Adobe. Here is the pic:

[Adobe MAX 2007: Day 0] Bob Bailey’s Livecycle Pre-event session

I wanted to check out what the place for MAX looked the day before the conference, and took a lot of snaps. Lot of teams were hard at work!

[Adobe MAX 2007: -1 day] This is gonna be the lunch hall!

[Adobe MAX 2007: -1 day] Checking out the AIR Bus - How did they get it on the third floor?

[Adobe MAX 2007: -1 day] People working late in night before it all starts

[Adobe MAX 2007: -1 day] The kiosks are being setup

[Adobe MAX 2007: -1 day] The main stage is being setup

[Adobe MAX 2007: -1 day] Hanging out at Navy Pier, Chicago

Continuing with the Flex APAC seminar series we are going to have our 3rd Flex Online Seminar (webinar), here are the details:

Topic: “Getting on the Flex Highway – How to get up to speed with Flex”
Speaker: Raghunath Rao(http://raghuonflex.wordpress.com)
Level: Beginners
Time: 4:00 pm (IST) on Wednesday 19th June, 2007
(to check the time for your timezone see here: TimeAndDate World Clock)

Meeting URL: http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/flexapacseminar/
(Just click here to enter the meeting room when the seminar starts)

Raghu will talk about the various resources that are available on the net to get upto speed on Flex.