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  <event>
    <city>Los Angeles</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-10-24</end-on>
    <full-description>Imagination meets innovation at FITC Hollywood, a festival for new media designers and developers. Two days of panels and presentations featuring top creative and business talent working in animation, motion graphics, online video, rich media and the Web.

Highlights of FITC Hollywood include:
* Over 50 presentations and panels
* Presentations from Adobe, Big Spaceship (Joshua Hirsch), Tailer Park, and others
* Pre-festival animation workshop
* Free &#8216;Get A Job&#8217; evening event
* Parties and other networking opportunities

</full-description>
    <id type="integer">337</id>
    <region>CA</region>
    <short-description>FITC Hollywood is the 'Do It Yourself' festival for new media designers and developers. Two days of panels and presentations featuring top creative and business talent.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-10-22</start-on>
    <title>FTIC Hollywood</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://http://www.fitc.ca/hollywood</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/337</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/337/FITCHolly200x200.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>animation, conference, design, entertainment, fitc, motion graphics, online video, rich media, technology, workshop</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Amstersam</city>
    <country>Netherlands</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-02-27</end-on>
    <full-description>FITC comes to Amsterdam February 25 - February 26, 2008!

Whether your weapon of choice is Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, After-Effects, or a combination of all the above, you're in for a wild ride of presentations, panel discussions, and parties as FITC debuts in Amsterdam. This two-day event brings together the world's hottest designers -- and the coolest technology.

Confirmed speakers include; Erik Natzke, Niko Stumpo, GMUNK, Nikolai Cornell, Peter Elst, Ralph Hauwert, Joost Korngold and Colin Moock, Aral Balkan, James Paterson, Jared Tarbell and more!</full-description>
    <id type="integer">363</id>
    <region>Netherlands</region>
    <short-description>FITC Amsterdam 2008
Design. Technology. Cool Shit.
Felix Meritis, European Centre for Arts and Sciences


</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-02-25</start-on>
    <title>FITC Amsterdam</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.fitc.ca/amsterdam</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/363</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/363/fitc_amsterdam.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>adobe, conference, design, fitc, flash, technology</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Toronto</city>
    <country>Canada</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-04-23</end-on>
    <full-description>Break your tools. Break your patterns. Break the norm. Break the standards at FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival. 

FITC Toronto is where the world&#8217;s top designers and developers come together to share their insights and expertise across three subject areas: creative, technical and business. Sessions cover all aspects of the creative process, explore the latest developments in rich media technology, and provide insight into the ups and downs of running an Interactive business.

This is the 7th year for the four-day festival, which also includes a kick-ass Awards show, a speakers&#8217; series devoted to experimental art and programming, a large scale interactive art exhibit, and some very cool parties.
</full-description>
    <id type="integer">448</id>
    <region>Canada</region>
    <short-description>Break IT! at FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival, a four-day design and technology conference, which attracts over 1,000 attendees from around the world.

</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-04-19</start-on>
    <title>FITC Toronto</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.fitc.ca/toronto.</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/448</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/448/300x250_ST.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>design, development, fitc, fitc toronto, flash, interactive design</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Chicago</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-06-24</end-on>
    <full-description>FITC returns to Chicago with two full days of presentations, workshops and networking opportunities at Chicago City Center Hotel &amp; Sports Club. This is the second year for the event, which includes a strong local contingent represented by Samuel Agesilas Pastel (http://www.levelofindustry.com/) and Zack Stepek (http://www.cravemg.com/). 

Richard Galvin, technical 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 currently in development at Adobe Systems. Avi Muchnick follows with a first look at the tools currently in the Aviary (http://a.viary.com/) product pipeline.This new suite of sophisticated web applications for designers, 3D modelers, and artist of all genres, is one of the most talked-about projects of the year.

Confirmed presenters include: Eric Natzke, Sean Koriakin (Imaginary Forces), James Paterson (Presstube.com),  Jon Ruppel (schematic), Jason Theodor (Critical Mass) and R. Blank (AlmerBlank).</full-description>
    <id type="integer">480</id>
    <region>IL</region>
    <short-description>FITC Chicago is a two-day event for the design and technology community, featuring instructive and illuminating presentations, and invaluable networking opportunities.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-06-22</start-on>
    <title>FITC Chicago</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://fitc.ca/chicago</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/480</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/480/FITC_CO08_400x150.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>actionscript, adobe, aviary, conference, design, fitc, flash, flex, technology, workshop</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Seoul</city>
    <country>Korea (South)</country>
    <end-on type="date">2008-10-15</end-on>
    <full-description>FITC makes its Far East debut with FITC Seoul, a one-day flash design event featuring seven of the world&#8217;s top designers and developers.

Among those scheduled to appear are perennial favorites Joshua Davis and 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. Simultaneous translations from English to Korean and Korean to English (for Euna Seol&#8217;s presentation) will be provided throughout the event.  

&#8220;South 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,&#8221; says Shawn Pucknell, Founder of FITC. &#8220;We are looking forward to tapping into this creative dynamic by bringing the world&#8217;s best designers and developers to Seoul for this unique event.&#8221;

FITC 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. 

Delegate passes range in price from $59 to $149 US. Early bird discount rates apply now through August 15, 2008</full-description>
    <id type="integer">501</id>
    <region>Korea (South)</region>
    <short-description>FITC makes its Far East debut with FITC Seoul, a one-day flash design event featuring seven of the world&#8217;s top designers and developers.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2008-10-14</start-on>
    <title>FITC Seoul</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.fitcseoul.com</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/501</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/501/fitcseoulx450.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>adobe, fitc, fitc seoul, flash, joshua davis, papervision 3d</tag-string>
  </event>
  <event>
    <city>Amsterdam</city>
    <country>Netherlands</country>
    <end-on type="date">2009-02-25</end-on>
    <full-description>If you were lucky enough to attend our 2008 event, you know what it's all about.

If you missed it, you'll want to grab a ticket before they're all gone.

There is no other Interactive event quite like FITC Amsterdam. Unbelievable presenters from around the globe, incredible networking opportunities, and our infamous FITC parties set the stage for the unexpected.

We've brought back some of your favorite speakers, added a number of new ones, and kept a few surprises up our sleeve this year.

Who's speaking this year at FITC Amsterdam? Only some of the best known creative people and companies in the world!

Joshua Davis &#8226; Lost Boys Interactive &#8226; David Carson &#8226; Mario Klingemann &#8226; Andr&#233; Michelle &#8226; Joa Ebert &#8226; Ralph Hauwert &#8226; Papervision3D &#8226; Carlo Blatz &#8226; Powerflasher &#8226; Bit-101 &#8226; Grant Skinner &#8226; Aral Balkan &#8226; Infrared5 &#8226; Lee Brimelow &#8226; GMUNK &#8226; Branden Hall &#8226; Firstborn &#8226; Andreas M&#252;ller &#8226; Florian Schmitt/Hi-res &#8226; Niko Stumpo &#8226; Seb Lee-Delisle &#8226; Koen De Weggheleire &#8226; Mike Chambers &#8226; and more.</full-description>
    <id type="integer">599</id>
    <region>Netherlands</region>
    <short-description>FITC returns to Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with two days of presentations and one day of workshops focused on all aspects of Interactive design and development.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2009-02-22</start-on>
    <title>FITC Amsterdam 2009</title>
    <virtual type="boolean">false</virtual>
    <website>http://www.fitc.ca/amsterdam</website>
    <url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/events/599</url>
    <logo-url>http://events.boxesandarrows.com/event/logo/599/FITC_AM09_268x160_banner.jpg</logo-url>
    <tag-string>actionscript, adobe, design conference, design events, fitc, fitc amsterdam, flash, flash conference, flash events, flex, interactive design, papervision3d</tag-string>
  </event>
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