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List Of The Best Media Design Conferences

Posted on the August 15th, 2007 under Cool Websites, Industry News, Web Development by Timothy Allard

Here is a Top 10 list of great conferences, seminars, resources and award’s for all types of Media Design and Technology. Winning an award for your piece of work looks so great on a resume. I attended FlashForward NY in 05 and it was awesome. The best flash technology along with keynote speakers from around the world. It was great.

Some of these conferences might have a deadline so if you are interested, get on it. I know some end within days and I do know one or 2 half already passed, but dont worry, 99% of these are annual or bi-annual events! Some events cost money, some dont. Hope you like them.

	The Flashforward Conference and Film Festival bring together the best minds in the Flash design and development community, with an optional intensive workshop day, a three-day conference, and the largest International Flash-related film festival on the planet. With the focus on Flash as a platform, Flashforward offers diverse knowledge and inspiration for everyone in the Flash community, whatever role Flash plays in their life and work. Flashforward is dedicated to providing education, inspiration, information, and community resources via our conference, website, blog, and podcasts.
	Flash On The Beach Flash on the Beach in December? bbrrrrr! Who cares - the fabulous line up of speakers, stunning venue and being part of the most exciting Flash conference for years really hots it up! If you are a designer, developer, coder, student or manager, don’t miss this opportunity to see over 40 of the best minds in the industry delivering 3 full days of awe-inspiring sessions.
	Flash In The Can Now entering its sixth year, FITC is the only Canadian Festival of its kind; combining cutting edge technical speakers with inspirational creative speakers from around the world. Even on the global stage, FITC stands as an original event. Each year, FITC has broadened its programming range to grow with its widening audience and appeal to a larger audience. FITC attracts attendees and award entrees from around the world.
	MITX Join us for what is sure to be the greatest MITX Awards Ceremony to date as we celebrate our 11th year of honoring the best interactive work created by and for some of the most recognizable brands and companies in the world. This is the one evening a year when some 800 professionals from the interactive agencies, technology consulting firms and leading companies in New England come together and you don’t want to miss out.
	Siggraph Digital innovators, creative researchers, award-winning producers, provocative artists, energetic executives, and adventurous engineers. The worldwide SIGGRAPH community gathers in San Diego to explore the products, systems, techniques, ideas, and inspiration that are creating the next three generations of computer graphics and interactive techniques.
	Web 2.0 Expo Web 2.0 Expo is the first event specifically designed to help teach Web 2.0 techniques and best practices to people in the trenches directly involved in the design, development, engineering, marketing, and business of second-generation internet technology. Web 2.0 Expo will feature the most innovative and experienced people, products, and companies, with in-depth profiles of the business models, development frameworks, web operations infrastructure, design strategies, and internet marketing that are changing the world as we know it.
	Interactive Media Awards Nominations are accepted from around the world from web design firms, advertising agencies and corporate marketing departments, as well as individual web designers and graphic artists, among others. We aim to increase the standards of excellence on the Internet and welcome all who will join us in this effort. However, in order to achieve our goal and promote the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional conduct, certain types of websites are not eligible to enter.
	Favourite Website Awards. Web Awards recognising the very best in cutting edge website design.
	CSS Mania CSS Mania is arguably the largest gallery of world-wide web sites built using Web Standards. It was originally founded by Gabriel Segura and now has over 3,800 web sites in it’s archives. Judges for the CSS World Awards 2006 included renown author, speaker and Web Standards advocate Molly Holzschlag as well as star designers Andy Budd, Cameron Moll and Roger Johansson.
	International PHP Conference We have the privilege of being able to look back on a five-year International PHP Conference tradition and we are happy to present again a high-quality program. The Power Workshops and sessions will pass on concentrated knowledge on the current PHP topics such as security, databases, business processes, web service strategies and general topics. This year the conference focuses on PHP security and features an exclusive choice of sessions giving you tips and tricks on how to develop PHP applications more safely.