Two of the biggest launches in Rich Internet Application history took place in 2007/2008 when Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in February '08 and Microsoft launched Silverlight (September '07). At the 6th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo in October SYS-CON Events is delighted to be presenting major industry keynotes from the two industry executives with overall responsibility for both of those massive richer-web initiatives: Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch and Scott Guthrie, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft's .NET Developer Platform.

Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, is one of the original coiners of the term "Rich Internet Application" back in 2002 and has intimate knowledge of Flash and AIR, the two platforms that - together with Acrobat and PDF - now make up the four platforms which together make Adobe the software powerhouse it is. Previously Adobe's Chief Software Architect, he was promoted to CTO in February '08.


View Kevin Lynch's exclusive interview live from MAX 2006 with SYS-CON.TV's Jeremy Geelan






Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 22, 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 Divsion, he was promoted to Corporate Vice President in February '08.

Join Guthrie as he discusses Microsoft’s commitment to web standards development, Rich Internet Applications and how Microsoft is contributing to help move the web forward. Watch as Scott showcases the absolutely free version of Visual Studio that supports standard semantic markup, CSS, JavaScript ,and 3rd party AJAX framework support. Follow along as he introduces ASP.NET MVC and its focus in building light-weight standard web solutions. Learn about Microsoft how Silverlight, AJAX and media enable a whole new generation of Rich Internet Applications

View Scott Guthrie's exclusive interview live from Redmond with SYS-CON.TV's Jeremy Geelan



The Adobe and Microsoft executives head a Speaker Faculty of top industry front-end engineers, UX experts, Web 2.0 pioneers and industry luminaries, including:

70+ BREAKOUT SESSIONS, DEMOS, AND INDUSTRY PANELS: FEATURED SPEAKERS INCLUDE...

• The CTO of Adobe - Kevin Lynch (keynote)
• Microsoft's Silverlight boss - Scott Guthrie (keynote)
• The discoverer of JSON - Douglas Crockford
• The creator of jQuery - John Resig
• Engineering manager of the YUI Team at Yahoo! - Eric Miraglia
• Senior Evangelist, Amazon - Jeff Barr
• Principal Information Architect at Travelocity - Adam Polansky
• Developer Advocate, Google - Chris Schalk
• CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM - David Boloker
• Group PM for the UI Framework and Services, Microsoft
• Architect at eBay - Michael Galpin
• Director, User Interface Engineering at Netflix - Bill Scott
• VP of Engineering at TripIt.com - Andy Denmark
• Principal Software Developer, Red Hat - Thomas Heute
• Operations Manager of the OpenAjaxAlliance - John Ferraiolo
• Chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo - Shane Caraveo
• UI Engineer & Architect at Orbitz Worldwide - Mike Meeker
• Chairman & CEO of WaveMaker - Chris Keene
• Chief Strategy Officer of Curl - Jnan Dash
• CTO of Pathfinder Development - Dietrich Kappe
• Founder & Chairman of Nexaweb - Coach Wei
• Aptana's AJAX Architect - Greg Murray
• VP of WebEx Connect - David Knight
• Co-founder and CEO of Kaazing - Jonas Jacobi
• Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun - Arun Gupta
• Senior Engineer and Designer, Yahoo! - Nate Koechley
• President and senior trainer at Object Training Group - James Harmon
• Lead Developer of the Qcodo Framework for PHP - Michael Ho
• Lead Software Architect for ILOG - Christophe Jolif
• Front-end architect at Nethouse AB - Peter Svensson
• VP of Business Development at CommuniGate Systems - Jon Doyle
• Sr. Developer at Magnani Caruso Dutton - Mike Girouard
• UI Architect at Edream Solutions - Sue Googe
• System Operations Manager at EngineYard - Yehuda Katz
• Co-Founder & COO of Concept Solutions - John Krahulec
• Principal Engineer, VeriSign - Karthik Shyamsunder
• Co-Founder & COO of Finicity - Nicholas Thomas
• Principal Consultant, Experience Design at Molecular - Evan Gerber
• Web Theorist, IBM - Andrew Donoho
• President of IDC Consulting - John Fronckowiak
• Tech Lead of the Spring Faces project - Jeremy Grelle
• Senior Consultant at SpringSource - Rossen Stoyanchev
• Editor-in-chief of iPhone Developer's Journal - Kevin Hoffman
• Development Team Lead for the EGL Rich UI - Chris Laffra
• Development Manager, UI Framework and Services, Microsoft - Matt Gibbs
• Managing Partner of Catalyst Resources - Paul Giurata
• Host of iPhoneWebDev.com - Christopher Allen
• Co-founder of M/Gateway - Rob Tweed
• Consultant, OneStopAppSecurity.com - Neil Smithline
• Senior Research Analyst at Info-Tech - Howard Kiewe
• Founder & CEO of OpenLink Software - Kingsley Idehen
• Senior User Experience Designer at OneSpring - Laurie Gray