Macromedia User Conference 1997

The 8th annual Macromedia International User Conference (UCON '97) was held October 8 to 10, 1997 by Macromedia at the in San Francisco, California. The theme was "Ignite the Web". It continued to be one of the industry's fastest-growing trade shows with year-to-year growth of over 40%.

Events
Keynote speakers on October 8 included Bud Colligan, chairman of Macromedia, and, president of. On October 9, Steve Jobs, interim CEO of Apple Computer received a standing ovation when he presented QuickTime 3.0 and VR Authoring Studio.

Macromedia Dreamweaver 1.0 was introduced at the conference.

"Made With Macromedia People's Choice Awards" in 16 categories were awarded at the event for projects developed with Macromedia applications.