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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071024
SUMMARY:FTIC Hollywood
LOCATION:Los Angeles, California, USA
DESCRIPTION:Imagination meets innovation at FITC Hollywood, a festival for 
 new media designers and developers. Two days of panels and presentations fe
 aturing top creative and business talent working in animation, motion graph
 ics, online video, rich media and the Web.
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\nHighlights of FITC Hollywoo
 d include:
\n* Over 50 presentations and panels
\n* Presentations from Adob
 e, Big Spaceship (Joshua Hirsch), Tailer Park, and others
\n* Pre-festival 
 animation workshop
\n* Free ‘Get A Job’ evening event
\n* Parties and other
  networking opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080227
SUMMARY:FITC Amsterdam
LOCATION:Amstersam, Netherlands
DESCRIPTION:FITC comes to Amsterdam February 25 - February 26, 2008!
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\nW
 hether your weapon of choice is Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After-Effect
 s, or a combination of all the above, you're in for a wild ride of presenta
 tions, panel discussions, and parties as FITC debuts in Amsterdam. This two
 -day event brings together the world's hottest designers -- and the coolest
  technology.
\n
\nConfirmed speakers include; Erik Natzke, Niko Stumpo, GMU
 NK, Nikolai Cornell, Peter Elst, Ralph Hauwert, Joost Korngold and Colin Mo
 ock, Aral Balkan, James Paterson, Jared Tarbell and more!
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080423
SUMMARY:FITC Toronto
LOCATION:Toronto, Canada
DESCRIPTION:Break your tools. Break your patterns. Break the norm. Break th
 e standards at FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival. 
\n
\nFITC T
 oronto is where the world’s top designers and developers come together to s
 hare their insights and expertise across three subject areas: creative, tec
 hnical and business. Sessions cover all aspects of the creative process, ex
 plore the latest developments in rich media technology, and provide insight
  into the ups and downs of running an Interactive business.
\n
\nThis is th
 e 7th year for the four-day festival, which also includes a kick-ass Awards
  show, a speakers’ series devoted to experimental art and programming, a la
 rge scale interactive art exhibit, and some very cool parties.
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080624
SUMMARY:FITC Chicago
LOCATION:Chicago, Illinois, USA
DESCRIPTION:FITC returns to Chicago with two full days of presentations, wo
 rkshops and networking opportunities at Chicago City Center Hotel & Sports 
 Club. This is the second year for the event, which includes a strong local 
 contingent represented by Samuel Agesilas Pastel (http://www.levelofindustr
 y.com/) and Zack Stepek (http://www.cravemg.com/). 
\n
\nRichard Galvin, te
 chnical product manager for Flash at Adobe Systems (http://www.adobe.com/),
  kicks off FITC Chicago with a sneak peek at some of the new technologies c
 urrently in development at Adobe Systems. Avi Muchnick follows with a first
  look at the tools currently in the Aviary (http://a.viary.com/) product pi
 peline.This new suite of sophisticated web applications for designers, 3D m
 odelers, and artist of all genres, is one of the most talked-about projects
  of the year.
\n
\nConfirmed presenters include: Eric Natzke, Sean Koriakin
  (Imaginary Forces), James Paterson (Presstube.com),  Jon Ruppel (schematic
 ), Jason Theodor (Critical Mass) and R. Blank (AlmerBlank).
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081015
SUMMARY:FITC Seoul
LOCATION:Seoul, Korea (South)
DESCRIPTION:FITC makes its Far East debut with FITC Seoul, a one-day flash 
 design event featuring seven of the world’s top designers and developers.
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 n
\nAmong those scheduled to appear are perennial favorites Joshua Davis an
 d Erik Natkze, creative guru Kyle Cooper (Imaginary Forces), Papervision 3D
  team member Ralph Hauwert, digital storyteller and creative director Euna 
 Seol (PostVisual.com), and from Adobe Richard Galvan and Marcos Weskamp. Si
 multaneous translations from English to Korean and Korean to English (for E
 una Seol’s presentation) will be provided throughout the event.  
\n
\n“Sou
 th Korea is one of the most wired places on the planet and a dynamo in the 
 Interactive industry, one of the fastest growing economic sectors in Asia,”
  says Shawn Pucknell, Founder of FITC. “We are looking forward to tapping i
 nto this creative dynamic by bringing the world’s best designers and develo
 pers to Seoul for this unique event.”
\n
\nFITC Seoul is open to anyone who
  works with creative technologies -- whether Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator,
  After-Effects, or a combination of these and other bold new programs. 
\n
 \nDelegate passes range in price from $59 to $149 US. Early bird discount r
 ates apply now through August 15, 2008
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