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 happen 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.

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.

Kingston BETA is a bi-monthly networking event and Startup Pitch platform for the Jamaican/Caribbean startups, entrepreneurs, bloggers and professionals in the Internet/ Technology/ Mobile industries.

The Kingston Beta Community powers over 80% of the Internet activity in Jamaica and the Caribbean in addition to activity focused on Caribbean people at home and in the Diaspora. They own the social networks, blogs, media sites, online magazines, you tube channels, online dating sites, product review and rating sites and message boards where Jamaicans and Caribbean people are spending most of their time online.

For further information regarding this event please contact:

Kim-Marie Spence

Co-CEO

Endz of the Earth

www.twitter.com/endzoftheearth

876.475.6753 (text preferred)