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This evening we have two very special presentations. Acrobat 9! As you may have heard, on June 2nd, Adobe announced the Acrobat 9 family of products, which now includes Acrobat Pro Extended, Acrobat Pro, and Acrobat Standard. This revolutionary upgrade introduces new features such as PDF Portfolios, native support for embedded Flash, improved forms creation and distribution, and enhanced capabilities for collaboration using Acrobat.com. This release represents a major update to this essential application, and will be presented by our own Noha Edell. For more about Acrobat 9 please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/. Flow Among the eleven stand-out products to receive Best of Show at Macworld last January was one that created a buzz heard 'round the software world. Flow, from Gridiron Software, is a revolutionary new product that automatically tracks your work and displays a map of your entire project from idea to end result. And, it does all this without changing the way you work today. Flow allows creative professionals unprecedented insight into projects, instant organization and easy access to files, so you can spend more time creating and less time managing. Our presenter will be Gridiron president and Flow creator Steve Forde. For more about Flow please visit http://www.gridironsoftware.com/Flow/. ========================= Agenda ========================= 6:00 Sign in and schmooze 6:30 Welcome and opening remarks 6:40 Adobe Acrobat 9 presented by Noha Edell 7:30 Break to buy raffle tickets 7:45 Steve Forde and Flow from Gridiron Software 8:30 General Q & A 8:45 Raffle-mania 9:00 Nighty-night ================= About the presenter ================= Steve Forde is a recognized leader in high-performance technical computing and has actively participated in organizations such as the Open Grid Forum and iCore and helped to develop Geant4 for high-energy physics research. Steve became fascinated with grid computing in 1996 and is enthusiastic about the opportunities for parallel computing for creative professional and consumer applications. He is driving GridIron Software to deliver solutions that help creative professionals take advantage of increasingly powerful multi-core personal computers to meet the explosive demand for digital media.