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Sarah Allen, Director of Application Development at Laszlo Systems, leads the development of Laszlo Webtop, an extensible on-line desktop for multiple rich Internet applications. She has also been instrumental in contributing to OpenLaszlo, the leading open source platform for building and deploying Web 2.0 applications. Her first work in the area of Internet software was on Macromedia's Shockwave team in 1995.

She led the development of the Shockwave Multiuser Server, and later the Flash Media Server, introducing streaming video and multi-party communication in Flash Player 6. She has developed software tools for multimedia, digital video, and graphic arts at Adobe, Aldus, and The Company of Science and Art (After Effects). Sarah graduated from Brown University with degrees in Computer Science and Visual Art. She was named one of the top 25 women of the web by SF Wow (San Francisco Women of the Web) in 1998.