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An A to Z of Speakers at AJAXWorld 2008 East in New York City

Rich Internet Applications Are Coming This Month To New York City (March 18-20, 2008)

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
  • Kord Campbell, Splunk - Chief Evangelist
  • Andre Charland, Nitobi - Co-Founder & CEO
  • Douglas Crockford, Yahoo! - Creator of the JSON data interchange format
  • Andreas Ecker, 1&1 Internet AG - Project Lead and Co-Creator of qooxdoo
  • Jon Ferraiolo, OpenAjax Alliance - Operations Manager
  • Giuseppe Ferrigno, IASA - Director of the International Association of Software Architects
  • Lou Fox, Bluewolf- CTO
  • Anthony Franco, EffectiveUI - President
  • Andrea Gazzaniga, Funambol - Software Development Manager
  • Becky Gibson, IBM - Web Accessibility Architect, Emerging Technologies Group
  • Dan Gisolfi, IBM - Mashup Enabler
  • Paul Giurata, Catalyst Resources - Managing Partner
  • Ted Goddard, ICEsoft - Senior Architect, ICEfaces AJAX framework
  • Sue Googe, Northrup Grumman - UI Architect
  • Mike Grushin, SharpStyle Labs - Chief Technology Officer
  • Arun Gupta, Sun - Technology Evangelist for Web Services & Web 2.0
  • Andi Gutmans, Zend - CTO
  • Kevin Hakman, Aptana - Director of Product Marketing
  • Bert Halstead, Curl - Chief Architect
  • James Harmon, Object Training Group - President & Senior Trainer
  • Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator - Co-founder & CEO
  • Mark Heid, IBM - Program Director for WebSphere Application Server Marketing
  • Christian Heilmann, Yahoo! UK - Front-End Architect
  • Kevin Hoffman, iPhone Developer's Journal - Editor-in-Chief
  • Jonas Jacobi, Kaazing - Co-Founder & CEO
  • Renat Khasanshyn, Apatar - CEO & Main Evangelist
  • Scott Kirkwood, MomentumSI - VP of Software Development Services
  • Peter Kirwan, Webmetrics - Chief Strategy Officer
  • Senthil Krishnapillai, Sybase iAnywhere - Director of Product Management
  • Julien Lecomte, Yahoo! - Author of the YUI Browser History Manager and YUI Compressor
  • Mark McIlvane, Velocent - President & COO
  • Steve Maryka, ICEsoft - Chief Technology Officer
  • Ravi Mehrotra, SAP - Vice President of Product Management, CRM
  • Eric Miraglia, Yahoo! - Engineering Manager of the YUI Team
  • Laurence Moroney, Microsoft - Senior Technology Evangelist
  • Stewart Nickolas, IBM - Lead architect of QEDwiki
  • Peter Nickolov, 3Tera - CTO & COO
  • Emil Ong, Caucho Technology - Chief Evangelist
  • Mike Padilla, Vanguard - UX (User eXperience) Manager
  • Sriram Padmanabhan, IBM - Leader, Information Management Advanced Technologies
  • Guy Peled, Visual WebGui - Chief Technology Officer
  • Adam Peller, IBM - Dojo Committer, Advisory Software Engineer
  • Greg Pollack, Orlando Ruby Users Group - Organizer
  • Olivier Poupeney, DreamFace Interactive - Co-Founder & CEO
  • Andrew Powell, Universal Mind - Senior Consultant
  • Hooman Radfar, Clearspring Technologies - Founder
  • David Rapperport, Quest Diagnostics - Lead Application Architect, MedPlus
  • Scott Regan, Sonoa - Director of Product Management
  • Asaf Saar, SAP Labs Israel - Quality Manager and Development Project Lead
  • Chris Schalk, Google - Google Developer Advocate
  • David Schlesinger, ACCESS - Director of Open Source Technologies
  • Ric Smith, Kaazing - Director of Business & Product Strategy
  • Joe Stagner, Microsoft - Senior Program Manager, Developer Tools and Platform Group
  • Shashank Tiwari, Saven Technologies - Chief Technologist
  • Ian Tomlin, NDMC Ltd - Co-Founder
  • Lars Trieloff, Day Software - Product Manager
  • Geoff Tudor, Nirvanix - Senior VP of Strategy & Business Development
  • Rob Tweed, M/Gateway Developments - Director & Co-Founder
  • Coach Wei, Nexaweb - Founder, Chairman, and CTO
  • Matthias Wessendorf, Oracle - Software developer, ADF Faces team
  • Chris Williams, Aptana - Senior Software Engineer
  • Dev Worah, Virtusa - Director of Technology for Financial Services


Last Chance to Register for AJAXWorld 2008 East and Save $100 !

AJAXWorld 2008 West Call for Papers Is Open!

Submissions deadline: May 31, 2008

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.

Click here to submit your speaking proposal today !

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Jeremy Geelan is President & COO of Cloud Expo, Inc. and Conference Chair of the worldwide Cloud Expo series. He appears regularly at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of Cloud Expo's "Power Panels" on SYS-CON.TV.

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