At Suffolk I'm the Secretary of the Information Systems club, and this year we got to attend the Adobe MAX conference in L.A. Suffolk paid for the whole thing, so sweet. So the four e-board members and one professor flew to L.A. this past October, along with thousands of others from all over the world. MAX is a conference for Adobe users, employees, developers, and designers to come together and take sessions on various topics (3D photoshop, E-magazines, creating Apps for android). There's lots of technology, networking, and food.
This conference exceeded my expections by a lot. I thought it was going to be a bunch of geeks talking about boring programming stuff the whole time, when really it was interesting sessions, awesome keynote speakers (Adobe CIO, Martha Sewert, William Shatner, CTO of Google), tons of free food and booze, free stuff (all attendees got a FREE DROID 2, and free Google TV device!), and a huge party called the Max bash.
In the lobby there was a huge chalk board for attendees to draw and write on. Some of the drawings were really creative. Can you find Suffolk University? My handwriting is ugly but my group made me write it.
There were tons of sessions to choose from, and Adobe planned the conference so well that you were never bored from 8am-10pm. There were always things to do. I mean, c'mon look at this "At a Glance" schedule...really?
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| 3D Photoshop session (CS5) |
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| Free Google TV devices |
The second night of the conference there was a huge party for all the attendees, MAX Bash. It was on the top of a parking garage, outside and under tents. There was so much food: Chinese, Italian and Mexican. There was a 360 degree photobooth (we got some prety rediculous ones). Arcade games, celebrity look alikes, music, a band (The Bravery), a stripper-type lady with a snake, street drummers, and a tarot card reader. Not to mention open bar of Beer and Wine all night. It was wild. I met these guys from Belgium and we kept doing accents...their American accent was so funny.
Adobe MAX conference was SO awesome. I want to go again next year, I mean, free food, booze, and technology for three days? Who wouldn't?
