Aral Balkan is a creative technologist, author, professional speaker and a Flash Platform veteran. He is the founder and coordinator of OSFlash.org , author of the pattern-based ActionScript framework called Arp, and the creator of the SWX data format (the native data format for the Flash platform.) Aral is a published author and has contributed to several books and magazine articles. He is the author of the Adobe Flex 2 QuickStart Guides and has written six courses of his own that cover topics ranging from introductory Flash and ActionScript 2 to Flex 2, ActionScript 3, best practices and open source development. Aral is a regular speaker at international conferences. In 2007 he spoke at (among others) Macworld, FlashForward (Boston), FITC (Toronto), Multimania (Belgium), Flash on the Beach (Brighton), MAX Chicago, and MAX Europe. This year, Aral is organizing the world's first large-scale online web conference called Singularity and launching an ad network for influencers called Pistach.io.