AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo

In the current economic climate IT managers are under continuous pressure to justify spending time and money on user experience research and design. What does that mean to developers, architects, business users, and value?

At the 7th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in New York City this June, the Conference Theme is "Driving Profitability Through the User Experience" - there will be keynotes, General Sessions, breakout sessions, and industry panels that explore and explain how simple, rich interfaces that don’t get in the way of the user's experience but enhance it are increasingly becoming tied to value creation, profitability and staying-power in the marketplace.

IT professionals of every stripe will come away with an enhanced understanding of what it takes to effectively evaluate, design and build on-line experiences that are compelling, usable, and profitable. Our organizing principle is that attending delegates should leave the Conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the technologies they see on display and hear under discussion.


Jeremy Geelan
Conference Chair, AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series
www.AJAXWorld.com

Business-Critical Topics That Will Be Addressed June 22-23 in NYC Include:

• Enterprise-Level RIAs: How do Rich Internet Applications and approaches such as AJAX help an enterprise make money? What’s the business downside of not AJAXifying my Website or business application?
• Architectural Issues: Open source or closed source? Cloud-assisted or cloud-independent? What back-end suits what front-end?
• Business Collaboration Tools: What’s the relevance of Facebook to the enterprise? How are simple, rich interfaces more usually associated with the consumer space making their way into businesses and internal applications and why?
• Rich-Web Case Studies: Who already uses rich-web technologies in what verticals and how? We bring you sessions from Health, Manufacturing, Finance, Travel, Government, Retail, Insurance, Transportation, and Education.
• AJAX Security: How can an enterprise ensure the security of its AJAX-based applications? What are the best practices to mitigate security problems in AJAX?
• Special iPhone Track: What impact has the iPhone had on the delivery of rich content to mobile users? Technical sessions will explore a world of development opportunities on the iPhone.

San Jose Keynote – October 20, 2008

Scott Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 20, 2008, was a founding member of the .NET Framework team and today runs the development teams that deliver the CLR, ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, IIS7, and the Visual Studio tools for Web, WPF and Silverlight development. Previously the General Manager of Microsoft's Developer Division, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February '08.

San Jose Keynote – October 21, 2008

Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices. Previously Adobe's Chief Software Architect, he was promoted to CTO in February '08.

Back by popular demand, the world's first-ever full, one-day immersive "AJAX Security Bootcamp" - led by one of the world's foremost AJAX security expert and teacher! AJAX Security Bootcamp is led by world-renowned Web security expert Billy Hoffman. To be held on October 20, 2008 at the Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA, AJAXWorld Security Bootcamp is a compelling, intensive, one-day, hands-on training program that will teach Web developers, Web designers, and other Web professionals how to build secure AJAX applications and demonstrate what the best practices are to mitigate security problems in AJAX applications.

Master Native iPhone Application Development at AJAXWorld 2008 East After the resounding success of the first-ever iPhone technical sessions at AJAXWorld on the West coast in September '07, SYS-CON Events has great pride in announcing that the world's first-ever 100% dedicated 2-day iPhone Developer Summit will be an integral part of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West in San Jose, CA (October 21-22, 2008). The groundbreaking track is chaired by iPhone Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Kevin Hoffman. The release of the Apple iPhone and the iPod Touch has renewed interest in computing devices controlled with direct hand input (either by touch and/or pen), putting "gesture-based" interfaces squarely onto the menu of what developers want to learn more about. For more information, click here

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2008 Tracks Include:
   •  Enterprise AJAX
   •  Rich-Web Tools & Case Studies
   •  Web 2.0 & Social Applications
   •  Enterprise Web 2.0 Mashups
   •  iPhone Developer Summit
   •  Diamond Sponsor Track