Marco has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director.In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italy. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog (casario.blogs.com), which is currently receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day.In 2005, Marco has founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com,) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices. Now his focus is on the cloud computing with the Google Apps platform and APIs and Google App Engine.Marco has dedicated most of his time in sharing his knowledge and project experiences, in fact he is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite user group (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/) and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, in which he carries out the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.). Recently he also runs the Google Technology User Group in Milan, the Google technologies community (www.gtug.it).Marco is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex 3 an AIR (ACI) and an Adobe CertifiedExpert for: Livecycle Platform, Flash, and Dreamweaver.He is author of the following book project:Flex 4 Cookbook (O'Reilly)Professional Flash Catalyst: Building User Experiences for RIA (Wrox)AIR Cookbook (O'Reilly)Flex 4 Cookbook (O'Reilly)Professional Flash Catalyst (Wrox)Flex 4 Solutions (FriendsOfED)Advanced AIR Applications (FriendsOfED)The Essential Guide to Flash CS4 AIR developmetFlex Solutions: Essential Tecniques for Flex 3 developers (FOED)Other co-author and technical editor's jobs are:Professional Flex 2Essential Flash 8Flash Application for mobile devicesSpeaking Engagements:FATC New YorkTAC SingaporeMAX Europe MAX San Francisco FlashOnTheBeach FlexCamp LondonMultiMania BelgiumFITC 360Flex Europe AJAXWorld Conference New YorkO'Reilly Web 2.0 SummitAdobe MAX 2007: Extending Flex ComponentsAdobeLive 2007Specialties:Marketing, Sales, Entrepreneurism, Cloud Computing, HTML5, Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, AIR, JEE, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flash Lite, Google Apps, Google App Engine, GWTContact Marco Casario on LinkedIN: http://it.linkedin.com/in/marcocasarioFollow Marco Casario on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/marcocasario