Mike Chambers

Change Agent, Idea generator, Marketer, Parent, Photographer, Policy maker, World traveler

Mike Chambers has spent the last decade supporting, fostering, and advocating for communities in the Flash, web and creative worlds. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, .NET / C#, Flex, Objective-C, Cocoa, JavaScript and HTML5. He is currently the Senior Director for Creative Cloud strategic communications at Adobe, where he focuses on defining the strategic vision and messaging for Adobe's creative business, as well as building relationships with the larger creative community. Mike has written and spoken extensively on Web, Flash and Rich Internet Application development and is coauthor of the Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers Pocket Guide, Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, Flash Enabled: Flash Design and Development for Devices as well as Generator and Flash Demystified. Mike received his Masters in International Economics and European Studies from the John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1998. When he is not thinking about communities, Mike can be found playing video games, writing code, taking photographs or hanging out with his two daughters.

building and fostering online communities, and helping those communities understand some of the larger trends that are having an impact on their world.

Video games (Starcraft 2, Halo 2 and 3), photographic composition, building things.