"Real-World AJAX" One-Day Seminar Speaker Line-Up Announced, New Dates Added

The Best AJAX Education Opportunity of the Year Presents a Faculty of
the World's Top AJAX Rock Stars March 13; Event Moves to the Grand
Ballroom of Marriott Marquis Times Square


MONTVALE, NJ -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 02/15/06 -- SYS-CON Events
(www.events.sys-con.com) announced today the speaker line-up for the
upcoming "Real-World AJAX" (www.ajaxseminar.com) one-day seminars,
added new venues; April 24, 2006 San Jose, CA; June 5-6, 2006, New
York City; and October 2-3, 2006, Santa Clara, CA. SYS-CON will
announce four more dates in March for Toronto, Chicago, Washington,
D.C., and Austin, Texas.


The March 13, New York, and April 24, San Jose events are exclusively
sponsored by the world's leading AJAX technology providers: Adobe,
telerik, Backbase, Tibco/Perficient, and Microsoft. The sponsorship
opportunities for the upcoming seminars will be made available on
March 13, 2006 during the New York City event.


Distinguished faculty of the "Real-World AJAX" East and West Coast
seminars includes the following technology leaders and well-known
presenters:


Jesse James Garrett (New York / San Jose)


Father of "AJAX" Who Coined the Term in 2005


Jesse James Garrett is the Director of User Experience Strategy and a
founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience
consulting company. He is author of "The Elements of User Experience"
(New Riders), and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of
information architecture. Jesse's clients include AT&T, Intel,
Crayola, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and National Public Radio. Since
starting in the Internet industry in 1995, Jesse has had a hands-on
role in almost every aspect of Web development, from interface design
and programming to content development and high-level strategy. Today,
information architects around the world depend on the tools and
concepts he has developed, including the widely acclaimed "Elements of
User Experience" model. He is co-founder of the Information
Architecture Institute, the only professional organization dedicated
to information architecture. He is also a frequent speaker and writer
whose work has appeared in numerous publications, including New
Architect, Digital Web, and Boxes and Arrows.


Scott Dietzen (New York)


One of the Fathers of WebLogic and J2EE


Ph.D., President and CTO, Zimbra


Scott is widely credited with helping put together the J2EE standard,
launching the Web application server category, launching the Java
Community Process, and driving the Web services collaboration with
Microsoft and IBM. Prior to Zimbra, Scott was CTO of BEA Systems where
he was the principal architect of the technology strategy for the
WebLogic product family.


Bill Scott (New York)


AJAX Evangelist of Yahoo!


Bill Scott, one of the top AJAX experts in the country, is an
Interaction Designer and AJAX Evangelist at Yahoo! He is part of the
newly formed Design and Practices Team working with teams throughout
Yahoo! to create a rich experience on the web. Before joining Yahoo!
Bill founded the User Experience Team at Sabre Airline Solutions, part
of Sabre Holdings. During that stint he also co-founded Rico, an open
source JavaScript framework for creating AJAX & DHTML web
applications. Over the past 20 years Bill has been involved in
designing and creating user interfaces for video games, military war
games, 3d graphics, oil and gas research, software development
environments, supply chain planning, and various other scientific and
business domains. He posts his musings about user experience on his
blog.


David Heinemeier Hansson (New York)


Creator of Ruby on Rails


US-based since November, David Heinemeier Hansson is the development
lead of Rails, also known as Ruby on Rails, which the official Ruby on
Rails website irreverently describes as "a full-stack, open-source web
framework in Ruby for writing real-world applications with joy and
less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups." He has had
help from a lot of contributors. David is the creator of applications
like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and has now joined the
Chicago-based team of 37signals.com, a privately-held company founded
in 1999 and committed to building the best web-based software products
possible with the least number of features necessary. David will give
his first presentation on "AJAX in Rails" at the "Real-World AJAX"
one-day seminar.


Adam Bosworth (San Jose)


Vice President of Engineering, Google


One of the Fathers of XML and the Creator of MS Access


Adam Bosworth is Vice President of Engineering, Google. He joined
Google in 2005 from BEA Systems, where he was Chief Architect & Senior
VP of Advanced Development. Prior to joining BEA, Bosworth co-founded
Crossgain, a software development firm acquired by BEA. Known as one
of the pioneers of XML, he previously held various senior management
positions at Microsoft, including General Manager of the WebData
group, a team focused on defining and driving XML strategy. While at
Microsoft he was also responsible for designing and delivering the
Microsoft Access PC Database product and assembling and driving the
team that developed the HTML engine of Internet Explorer 4.0.


Rob Gonda (New York / San Jose)


Bestselling AJAX Author, CTO, iChameleon Group


Editor-in-Chief, AJAX Developer's Journal


Rob Gonda, newly appointed at the helm of SYS-CON Media's AJAX
Developer's Journal, is the CTO for iChameleon Group. He is an
Advanced Certified ColdFusion Developer, holds a BS in computer
science and engineering and an MBA with a specialization in
entrepreneurship. He recently wrote a two-part feature article on AJAX
for ColdFusion Developer's Journal that in one month became the
most-read article in the magazine's history.


Dion Hinchcliffe (New York / San Jose)


Co-founder & CTO, Sphere of Influence Inc.


Editor-in-Chief, Web 2.0 Journal


Dion Hinchcliffe, newly appointed Editor-in-Chief of SYS-CON's
pioneering Web 2.0 Journal, is co-founder and chief technology officer
for the enterprise architecture firm Sphere of Influence Inc., in
McLean, Virginia. A veteran of software development, Dion works with
leading-edge technologies to accelerate project schedules and raise
the bar for software quality. He is highly experienced with enterprise
technologies and he designs, consults, and writes prolifically. Dion
actively consults with enterprise IT clients in the federal government
and Fortune 1000. He is a frequent speaker on AJAX, Web 2.0 and SOA
and is currently the top-read SYS-CON.com blogger.


Jeremy Geelan (New York / San Jose)


Group Publisher & Editorial Director, SYS-CON Media


Jeremy Geelan is group publisher and editorial director of SYS-CON
Media, and is responsible for all print titles and online i-technology
portals for the firm. He regularly hosts SYS-CON.TV, is executive
producer of the "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" iTV series, and
represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to
technology audiences both in North America and overseas. His
i-Technology Blog is at jeremy.linuxworld.com and he is Conference
Chair of the upcoming iTVcon -- "Internet TV Conference & Expo 2006."


Ross Dargahi (New York)


Well-known AJAX Evangelist


Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Zimbra


Ross Dargahi, a co-founder of Zimbra, is presently the company's VP of
Engineering. Prior to Zimbra, he was Director of Engineering and
Director of Product Management with the Messaging Products Group at
Openwave Systems -- where he built and led the engineering team that
designed and architected large-scale messaging subsystems and was
responsible for unified messaging, multimedia messaging (MMS), and
voicemail. Ross joined Openwave as part of the 1999 acquisition of
Onebox where he was a founding engineer and senior architect. Prior to
Onebox, Ross was at Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft division where he was a
lead engineer with the Java Server Group responsible for network
computer and embedded server products.


Dave Crane (New York / San Jose)


Co-author of Bestselling AJAX Book 'Ajax in Action'


Dave will autograph his bestselling book for all delegates!


Dave Crane is senior developer and architect for Historic Futures
Ltd., a UK firm specialising in web-based supply chain management
solutions. He is also lead author of the bestselling 'Ajax in Action',
and has been using the technologies that we now know as AJAX in
production for several years. He has worked extensively in the IT
industry over the last ten years, in areas as diverse as home
automation, finance and national policy planning, for companies
ranging from start-ups to FTSE 100 market leaders, using technologies
as diverse as J2EE, Python, Ruby, PHP, Linux and .NET. He holds
degrees in Environmental Science, Parallel Computing, and a Ph.D. in
simulation modeling and philosophy. He is active as a writer, trainer
and mentor in the AJAX community.


Christian Cantrell (New York / San Jose)


Coauthor of JavaScript/Flash Integration Kit


AJAX/Flash Integration Guru


Christian Cantrell is a Product Manager for Developer Relations with
Adobe and a big fan of AJAX. He has been developing large-scale,
web-based applications in ColdFusion, Java, JSP, and Flash for more
than six years. He is the author of numerous tutorials and white
papers, and is coauthor of Flash Enabled: Flash Design & Development
for Devices as well as the JavaScript/Flash Integration Kit. Christian
is a leading expert on AJAX to Flash integration.


Paul Rademacher (San Jose)


Google, Creator of HousingMaps.com


Paul Rademacher is the creator of HousingMaps.com, which combined
Craigslist and Google Maps for the first web mashup. Paul holds a
Ph.D. in Computer Science from UNC-Chapel Hill, and worked as an R&D
Engineer at Dreamworks Animation on such movies as "Shrek 2" and
"Madagascar." Since creating HousingMaps, Paul is now at Google.


Sahil Malik (New York)


telerik Tech Evangelist, Microsoft MVP


Author of Bestselling ADO.NET 2.0 book


Sahil Malik is an Independent Consultant, Trainer and Mentor in
various Microsoft Technologies and has been closely involved with
telerik as a technology strategist. He has worked for many large
clients across the globe including a good deal of Fortune 100
companies and US government organizations. He is currently leading the
office of Emerging Technologies at a prominent government office where
he is in charge of reviewing, assessing and recommending various
technologies to support the organization. Malik frequently speaks on a
variety of .NET related topics at local user group meetings and
industry events. For his community involvement and contribution, he
has been awarded the Microsoft MVP award.


Jouk Pleiter (New York / San Jose)


Co-Founder & CEO of Backbase


Jouk Pleiter is the CEO of Backbase, a leader in the field of Rich
Internet Applications and AJAX development software. Backbase's
clients include ING, ABN AMRO, TNT, KPN, Comsys and Heineken. Backbase
operates globally with offices in San Mateo (North America) and
Amsterdam (Europe). Since 1995, Jouk has been an entrepreneur: he
founded three successful Software companies. Prior to Backbase, Jouk
was part of the founding team at the web content management company
Tridion, where he led the product management operations, and was
driving the company s efforts to become a leader in the European WCM
software market. Jouk previously was part of the founding team at the
Interactive Agency Twinspark where he grew the company to a leading
market position in Europe and was instrumental in the sale of
Twinspark to Agency.com. He has an MBA from the University of
Groningen.


Kevin Hakman (New York / San Jose)


Director of Product Marketing for TIBCO General Interface


TIBCO Software


Kevin Hakman is the director of product marketing for TIBCO General
Interface, the award winning AJAX and Rich Internet Application
framework and toolkit. Kevin Hakman pioneered AJAX in the enterprise
co-founding General Interface in 2001. Since that time General
Interface (aka GI) has been powering Web applications that look, feel
and perform like desktop applications, but run in the browser at
Fortune 500 and US Government organizations. General Interface was
also the first to use its own toolkit to provide full visual tooling
for AJAX when it released its 2.0 Version in 2003. TIBCO acquired
General Interface in 2004 to extend its vision for service oriented
applications to the end user. Kevin is a contributor to the SOA Web
Services Journal and the AJAX Developers Journal.


Shanku Niyogi (San Jose)


Product Unit Manager of the UI Framework and Services Team


Microsoft Corporation


Shanku is Product Unit Manager of the UI Framework and Services (UiFX)
team, which is responsible for delivering high-productivity UI
framework technologies for the .NET platform, including ASP.NET,
Atlas, Windows Forms, and frameworks for smart clients. Prior to his
current role, Shanku was Group Program Manager of the Web Platform and
Tools team on the Whidbey release of ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer.
Shanku joined Microsoft in 1998 as a developer, having spent several
years shipping products in the Windows ISV industry. Shanku holds a
Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Computer Science from the University
of Waterloo.


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