SYS-CON Events opened "keynote & expo registrations" for next week's 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo.

Click here to register to attend keynotes and visit the expo floor on October 20-22, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose, California. Advanced registration is free and it costs $200 as walk in registartion.

Please use coupon code "keynoteplusexpo" to reserve your free guest pass.

At the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo - October 20-22, 2008 in San Jose, CA - 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.

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).

Scott Guthrie Keynote - October 20, 2008
Guthrie, who will be keynoting October 20, 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.

Kevin Lynch Keynote - October 21, 2008
Kevin Lynch, who will be keynoting on October 21, 2008, helped originally coin the term "Rich Internet Application" in 2002. He has been at the center of innovation in Flash and Adobe AIR since their inception, and currently drives Adobe’s technology platform for designers and developers across desktops and devices. Previously Adobe's Chief Software Architect, he was promoted to CTO in February '08.

Both keynotes will be streaming live on SYS-CON.TV and will be available at the AJAX World Conference site.

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