From Danny Allan, Jean-Francois Arcand, Roland Barcia, Robb Beal, David Boloker, Jeff Brown, Shane Bryzak, Bob Buffone, Robert Boedigheimer, Kurt Cagle, Kord Campbell, Marco Casario, Lauren Cooney, Douglas Crockford...to Scott Regan, David Schlesinger, Ric Smith, Joe Stagner, Shashank Tiwari, Ian Tomlin, Geoff Tudor, Coach Wei, Matthias Wessendorf, Chris Williams, Dev Worah.
In less than 3 weeks' time, RIA practitioners, architects, and front-end engineers will mingle in New York City with IT managers, analysts, VCs, and press at the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East.
No other RIA-focused conference slices and dices the Web development and application space as boldly or as comprehensively as AJAXWorld 2008 East. For 3 action-packed days across 6 content-rich tracks, from March 18-20, there will be an absolute focus at The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan on 14 core topics in 80+ sessions and demo presentations by 90+ speakers.
To help you plan your 3 days, we bring here an alphabetical list of those speakers.
AJAXWorld 2008 East speakers include...
Danny Allan, Watchfire - Director of Security Research
Jean-Francois Arcand, Sun - GlassFish Technical Lead
Roland Barcia, IBM - Lead Web 2.0 Architect for IBM Software Services
Robb Beal, Laszlo Systems - Principal Systems Engineer
Sumeer Bhola, IBM - Research Staff member, T.J. Watson Research Center
Robert Boedigheimer, Schwans Shared Services - Web Designer & Developer
David Boloker, IBM - CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies
Jeff Brown, G2One - Director of North American Operations
Shane Bryzak, JBoss/Red Hat - Senior Software Engineer
Bob Buffone, Nexaweb - Chief Architect, Apache XAP Project committer
Kurt Cagle, XForms.org - Author & Webmaster
Marco Casario, Comtaste - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Next October's Conference is already receiving higher-caliber submissions from all over the Rich Internet Applications ecosphere.
The theme of this October's AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is 'Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era' and the Call for Papers, which is now open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.
Submissions featuring such use cases as well as on dozens of other RIA topics have already begun streaming in to AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West, being held in San Jose, CA, on October 20-22, 2008.
About Jeremy Geelan Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the AJAXWorld Conference & Expo series, of the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo and founder of Web 2.0 Journal, AJAXWorld Magazine and other major SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.
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According to Sean Walsh,
President and CEO of
Skyway Software, 'Our
Skyway Community is
thriving and our members
are very talented. We
truly look forward to
their RIAs submittals and
Skyway Builder extensions
and are excited that all
of the contributions will
benefit the entire Skyway 
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Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown 
Weitzner brings 30 years
of publishing experience
to ZDE, starting in
editorial at Hearst
Business Communications
and moving over to the
business side at CMP
Media. As CMP Media COO
and CEO, he transformed
the company from a
print-centric publisher
focused on multiple
markets to a tech
You remember back in the
early days of video games
when there wasn't enough
capacity on the carts
themselves to support 30
hours of gameplay? What
was the solution to keep
you playing? They made
the games unbelievably
freaking difficult. Try
playing Kid Icarus now
after having played a
Silverlight 2.0 kicks ass
and I can't wait to start
dropping more hardcore
blog posts regarding it.
Scott Guthrie's tutorials
are a fantastic place to
start. The issue I have,
however, is that all of
the tutorials assume you
have installed
Silverlight 2.0 tools for
VS 2008. There is a 
