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MAX 2009 offers more than 200 sessions and 100 labs, including BYOL labs, divided among the following three tracks.

Envision track

Learn about Adobe's vision for digital experiences and discover how your organization can develop and deploy more effective experiences. Hear success stories and tested strategies from organizations that are using Adobe technology for productivity and profit.

Who should attend

This track is for decision-makers managing digital experience design or development projects. If your responsibility is to set the direction for a team of designers or developers, then this business-oriented track is for you.

What you will learn

Discover the Adobe technology roadmap and learn best practices and strategies for building more engaging experiences across multiple screens and devices. From web to rich Internet applications (RIAs) to enterprise video and mobile, learn how other organizations are benefiting in terms of business impact, improved usability, and metrics.

Featured products

This track provides insight into the entire Adobe product line and roadmap.

Design track

Dive into the art and science of designing across media, including web, interactive, video, mobile, and print. Join us to expand your skills and be inspired.

Who should attend

This track is for cross-media designers, as well as designers who currently specialize in web, print, or video and want to expand their skills. If your goal is to create interactive video, content, or applications for the browser, the desktop, or devices using Adobe® Creative Suite® and the Adobe Flash® Platform, or to do so more effectively and efficiently with standards-based HTML and Ajax technologies, then this is the track for you.

What you will learn

These sessions cover cross-media workflows, prototyping, standards-based web design, user interface design, online advertising, interactive games, accessibility, motion graphics, video encoding, video creation with the Adobe Flash Platform, and much more.

Featured products

  • Adobe Acrobat® Pro
  • Adobe After Effects®
  • Adobe AIR®
  • Adobe Bridge
  • Adobe Captivate®
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • Adobe Device Central
  • Adobe Dreamweaver®
  • Adobe Encore®
  • Adobe Fireworks®
  • Adobe Flash Catalyst™
  • Adobe Flash Professional
  • Adobe Flex® Builder™
  • Adobe Illustrator®
  • Adobe InDesign®
  • Adobe InDesign Server
  • Adobe OnLocation™
  • Adobe Photoshop® Extended
  • Adobe Photoshop® Lightroom®
  • Adobe Premiere® Pro
  • Professional Web Services
  • Adobe Soundbooth®

Develop track

Learn best practices for architecting, building, and deploying next-generation web, mobile, and enterprise applications. Get an update on the latest technologies, including SOA, EDA, CEP, and BPM, and discover what's coming in the near future.

Who should attend

This track is for web application, RIA, and mobile developers, as well as enterprise architects. If you want to expand your skills in a broad spectrum of development subjects — from powering public-facing sites to driving intranets to creating engines for the next generation of RIAs — then this is the track for you. Architects interested in creating multi-tiered enterprise systems that scale beyond basic RIAs will also benefit from this track.

What you will learn

These sessions cover the technical challenges faced in architecting solutions, building applications, integrating with enterprise back-end systems and services, and collaborating in real time, as well as basic and advanced development techniques.

Featured products

  • Adobe Acrobat Pro
  • Adobe AIR
  • BlazeDS
  • Adobe ColdFusion®
  • Adobe Dreamweaver
  • Adobe Flash Catalyst
  • Adobe Flash Lite®
  • Flash Media Live Encoder
  • Flash Media Rights Management Server
  • Adobe Flash Media Server
  • Adobe Flash Player
  • Adobe Flex
  • Adobe Flex Builder
  • Adobe LiveCycle® Data Services
  • Adobe LiveCycle ES
  • Adobe Stratus
  • Strobe Media Framework