Marc Canter, Founder Of Macromedia, Creator Of FLASH Media Player Will Speak At The Technology Event Kingston Beta In June 24, 2010

Marc Canter, Founder of Macromedia, the company that created FLASH Media Player, Dreamweaver, Shockwave; the video game developer; Social Networking consultant and designer; 25 year veteran and serial entrepreneur in the software business; now CEO of Broadband Mechanics – will be the International Guest Speaker at the Kingston Beta, the technology event to be held on Thursday June 24th, 2010 6:30 p.m. at the Spanish Court Hotel.

“We’re excited to have Marc Canter as our first international guest speaker. He’s a globally renowned tech entrepreneur and a keynote speaker with great influence and insight. So we believe the idea and information exchange that will happened between him and our community of technology entrepreneurs and business professionals will be invaluable,” said Ingrid Riley, Ceo of ConnectiMass and founder of the event.

Kingston Beta is three years old and has seen hundreds of attendees and over 30 startup companies pitch. “It’s become the event to attend if you want to know what Jamaican/Caribbean people and companies are doing online and with technology,” Riley added. It is the bimonthly networking event and startup pitch platform where Jamaican and Caribbean technology and business professionals, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts come To Learn,To Be Inspired, To Network.

At the event, “we’ll be broadcasting Mr Canter live online from Ohio using Ustream and other technologies,” Riley added. We are expecting our community to be in full attendance as usual. We’ve also invited the UWI, Utech IT and Programming and Business students to attend. Additionally for those in the Caribbean tech community in the region and Diaspora, they can be online and follow the event as it will be streamed live on the Kingston Beta Facebook Fan Page as well as live tweeted by Jamaican tweeters using the hash tag #kgnbeta.