AJAXWorld News Desk
Front-End Engineers & RIA Experts Are Coming To AJAXWorld
One Great City, Two Great Keynotes, Three Intense Days, Eighty-Five Sessions, Ninety-Eight Speakers...
Mar. 18, 2008 02:00 PM
One Great City, Two Great Keynotes, Three Intense Days, Eighteen Core Topics, Eighty-Five Content-Rich Sessions, Ninety-Eight Expert Speakers - what better way to summarize the 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo than through this numerical whirlwind tour? Enjoy!

The Roosevelt Hotel, NYC
One Great City
The 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo is being held in New York City, at The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Two Great Keynotes
- Douglas Crockford, Architect at Yahoo! and Creator of the JSON data interchange format
DOUGLAS CROCKFORD
Can We Fix The Web?
The Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define it were last revised in 1999, since when it has grown from a document retrieval system into an application delivery system. The current Web is overly complex, visually underpowered, and hopelessly insecure. It is now under competitive assault by new proprietary platforms that hope to capture the next generation of applications. Can a system as large and as open as the Web heal and adapt itself to the challenges of the 21st Century.
- Anthony Franco, UX & UI Expert, President of Effective User Interface (EffectiveUI)
ANTHONY FRANCO
RIA Adoption in 2008 – Risks, Rewards, Challenges and Opportunities
Last year, the overall demand for RIAs outpaced the qualified supply chain. Industry analysts expect the explosive growth to continue in 2008. This unprecedented increase in RIA adoption – especially by the Fortune 500 – will enable companies to hone their competitive edge and improve core business practices with fast, reliable, productivity-enhancing tools. RIAs can provide your customers with user experiences that leave your competition in the dust. While the flip side of the coin is that the world of RIAs can be fraught with costly risk, if you keep the risks and rewards front of mind, you can turn the 2008 RIA challenge into successful opportunities.
Three Intense Days
Tuesday, March 18 | Wednesday, March 19 | Thursday, March 20
Click on the day to see the full Conference program for that individual day.
Eighteen Core Topics
- Rich Internet Applications
- Enterprise Mashups
- Security
- Toolkits & Frameworks
- Web 2.0 | Enterprise Web 2.0
- Enterprise AJAX
- Social Applications
- iPhone
- Reverse AJAX | AJAX Push | Comet
- ASP.NET AJAX
- Silverlight
- Adobe AIR | Flash | Flex
- Yahoo! User Interface Library
- SOA
- Enterprise 2.0
- PHP
- Ruby on Rails | Grails
- JSF | JavaFX | jMaki
Eighty-Five Content-Rich Sessions - see Next Page
Ninety-Eight Expert Speakers - see Page 3
About RIA News DeskEver since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.