Learn how Microsoft is simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together ASP.NET and Silverlight. Learn about patterns for working with data, implementing reusable and independently testable application logic, and application services that readily scale with growing requirements.

Nikhil Kothari

Nikhil Kothari is a software architect in the .NET Developer Platform group within Developer Division at Microsoft. During his 10 years at Microsoft, Nikhil has focused on the Web platform, and has contributed to the design and development of .NET and ASP.NET since their inception, as well as various features in IIS7 and Visual Studio products. He is responsible for the server control framework in ASP.NET, initiated and led the development of ASP.NET AJAX, and now plays a key role in the programming model aspects of the Silverlight platform. He is the author of "Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components", and is also responsible for starting and working on a number of innovative projects such as Web Matrix, Script#, Web Development Helper, and most recently Facebook.NET. He has presented at various Microsoft and industry conferences. Beyond a deep passion for developer tools and frameworks, Nikhil is enthusiastic and interested in digital photography. His blog is athttp://www.nikhilk.net.

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See how "design prototyping" differs from other techniques, and learn how to determine when a prototype is needed. Understand how to tailor your prototype to a particular audience, gather techniques for bringing paper sketches to life, and how interactive sketching can fit in an Agile process.

Dan Harrelson

Dan Harrelson is a senior technologist at Adaptive Path. He has an extensive background in web application development, IT administration, systems analysis, and design. He has over 10 years of technical and business experience, with expertise in all aspects of architecting and coding online media. Dan's unique understanding of both design and back-end systems allows him to help clients realize their product's full potential.

Prior to joining Adaptive Path, Dan was the Director of Technology at Extractable where he directed the technical aspects of all projects as well as developing front-end applications and back-end management tools. He was also a senior web developer for Cable & Wireless, designing and overseeing much of the development of the international telecom's corporate web site as well as a web developer for Nortel Networks.

Past clients include Charles Schwab, EA, Vivendi, FedEx, Sun, Visa, and SanDisk.

Dan graduated with a bachelor's in Graphic Communication from Cal Poly University in San Luis Obispo.

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Come hear about some of the new challenges with measuring social media marketing including word-of-mouth, comments on blogs, connections in social networks, questions in support forums, and tags on online media. Learn about where to focus online marketing efforts as the social Web grows in importance over the coming years.

Jason Burby

Jason Burby is the Chief Analytics & Optimization Officer for ZAAZ, a Web business design consultancy specializing in thoughtful, data-driven solutions across a wide industry spectrum for long-term, multi-national clients across the U.S. Jason is also co-author of “’Actionable Web Analytics: Using Data to Make Smart Business Decisions,” the leading text in the field of Web analytics. His primary role at ZAAZ is guiding clients through the process of implementing a variety of Web analytics tools, such as site performance monetization, scorecards, and A/B & Multivariate testing, to improve site business results, leverage new-found efficiencies and realize long-term business goals. His client roster includes Microsoft, Nike, eTrade, Ford, Sony, PayPal/eBay, Palm, Williams Sonoma, Expedia, Reuters, T-Mobile, Converse, Intel and Motorola, among others. He is a frequent lecturer at conferences and seminars around the world as the Web industry’s leading advocate in Web analytics and the effective use of visitor data toward improved site performance. In addition to the book, he has written extensively about Web analytics and its implications in the future Internet as a contributor to a number of texts over the years. In addition he has written a regular column on ClickZ.com on Web Strategy & Web Analytics for the past 5 years.

Ryan Turner

Ryan Turner leads social media efforts for ZAAZ, an interactive marketing agency implementing web channel strategies for clients around the US. Combining business analysis with customer research and leading-edge creative, Ryan develops marketing strategies and web architectures for companies leading the way in responding to the shifting media landscape. He’s worked with Boeing, Microsoft, Helio, Tom’s of Maine, REI, Converse, Sony, and others to find innovative ways to engage customers in co-creating value. Ryan blogs at www.websocialarchitecture.com.

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Hear how Silverlight and the Microsoft Web Platform make it easier to create compelling and engaging media experiences including optimizing and delivering content in a flexible and cost-effective way. Learn about the tools and out-of-box templates that make it easier than ever to get started in the Media space, to get the most out of your existing media deployments, and to enable designers, developers, and media experts to work together. Also see how Silverlight, Microsoft Expression Studio, and Internet Information Services (IIS) Media Services work individually or as an integrated best-of-breed Media platform.

Alex Zambelli

Alex Zambelli is a Media Technology Evangelist for Microsoft. Most recently his focus has been on Web media strategies and consulting on key Silverlight partner deployments such as NBC Olympics 2008 and Akamai SmoothHD. Alex has been closely involved with digital media technology development at Microsoft for over 6 years. He tested and developed software on product teams that delivered Windows Media Player 9, Windows Media Player 10 Mobile and VC-1 codecs before finally putting his hands-on experience to use as a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft VC-1 Encoder. Alex was instrumental in ensuring VC-1 codec's continued adoption and success in the streaming media industry.

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Learn how you can leverage Microsoft Expression and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to improve your overall application lifecycle, decrease your time to market, and ultimately raise the quality of your applications.

Christian Thilmany

Christian Thilmany is a User Experience Architect for the Developer and Platform Evangelism Division at Microsoft Corporation. He has been with Microsoft for over 10 years and has more than 19 years experience working as an architect, developer, and designer.

Christian has worked with a variety of ISVs and Fortune 500 firms in fields such as user experience, design patterns, rich internet applications, composite applications, distributed application architectures, collaboration, and integration. When he is not working he enjoys scuba diving, snow skiing, and spending time with his family along with his two fat English Bulldogs.

Christian is a published author for Addison Wesley and has been a frequent contributor to Java Developer's Journal and MSDN Magazine. You can follow him at blogs.flyover18.com, blogs.flyover18.com/christhi, and www.twitter.com/uxarchitect.

Chris Bernard

Chris Bernard is a User Experience Evangelist for Microsoft. A champion of making design a first class citizen in the world of software and Web development Chris works closely with designers, Web agencies, entrepreneurs, and start-ups to discover new business value at the intersection of business, technology and design.

Chris spent the last 16 years working in the realms of broadcast, motion graphics, interactive, application and Web development holding previous roles as a Creative Director and Practice Leader in the Centers for e-business Innovation at IBM and in numerous design director and strategy roles in interactive and broadcast focused entities.

A passionate advocate for advancing the practice and discipline of design Chris has been published in International Design Magazine and an upcoming article about innovation in the enterprise that will appear in the Journal of Business Strategy. You can follow him at www.deisgnthinkingdigest, and www.twitter.com/chrisbernard.

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Come hear Lou Carbone cite evidence and outline next practices based on sensing and responding to customers' needs versus a world of making and selling in which product manufacturing is rooted. Come learn why you need to view business differently-to evolve from best practices to next practices-if you are to survive and prosper in the years to come.

Lou Carbone

Recognized as the thought leader who launched the Experience Management movement with the seminal article he co-authored with Stephan Haeckel in 1994, Lou has worked with firms like Avis, Penske Truck Rental and Leasing, IBM. Capitol One, Allstate Insurance, Caribou Coffee, Taco Bell, Brinker International, HR Block, CarMax, Mayo Clinic, Best Buy, RBC, Oskar Mobil (Vodaphone) and many others.

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Learn how to build Silverlight applications that can be consumed online or on the go. Hear about the new features in Silverlight 3 that facilitate out of browser RIAs.

Mike Harsh

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Hear a discussion about key challenges with Web security today and how the Microsoft Web Sandbox is addressing these challenges by virtualizing both script execution and the DOM. Learn about the Web Sandbox open source framework that runs on all modern browsers and builds on the ongoing ECMA TC-39 security working group efforts.

Scott Isaacs

Scott Isaacs is an Architect on the Cloud and Browser Tools team responsible for the web-client architecture and frameworks. Scott is an internet veteran and during the mid to late 90s authored the original DHTML specification and represented Microsoft in the W3C helping define and drive many Internet standards.

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Come learn how to use Windows Azure to build a scalable Web application and deploy it to the cloud.

Steve Marx

Steve Marx is a Technical Strategist on Windows Azure. He has worked at Microsoft for the past seven years, focusing on developers platforms and web technologies. He blogs at http://smarx.com.

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Learn about the Live Framework including new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your Web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more.

Ori Amiga

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Learn about the cool new Windows Mobile 6.5 mobile platform! Hear about the new UI, the 6.5 emulator and other SDK tools, and Web enhancements in Internet Explorer Mobile including support for the W3C Mobile Widget Packaging and Configuration standard. Also see a demo of the new Windows Mobile 6.5 User Interface and productivity enhancements.

Loke Uei Tan

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Come and learn the fundamentals of Silverlight animation. Start at the beginning with a review of storyboards and keyframes, and then break free from storyboards and explore procedural animations. This is where the rubber meets the road and your objects come to life-vectors, frame-based animations, collisions, particle systems, and VR objects.

Jeff Paries

As a Sr. Digital Experience Developer, Jeff Paries is the lead Silverlight developer with Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, a leading integrated communications company. Jeff has a strong background in 3D graphics and animation. Jeff is also an accomplished author and instructor in the area of 3D graphics and animation — he has authored several books and numerous magazine articles related to 3D.

An early adopter of Silverlight, Jeff’s interests lie in developing animation concepts and methodologies within Silverlight. As a developer with design experience, Jeff’s mission is to help bridge the gap between design and development. His latest book, “Foundation Silverlight Animation” works to further this goal through a scenario-based approach.

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Come learn all about ASP.NET 4.0 and the new Microsoft Visual Studio improvements that will make you more productive. Hear how to build a simple video gallery Web site that takes advantage of new features to control the rendering of client ids and view state, and see how ASP.NET AJAX client-side templates and jQuery animations can be used to create a richly interactive Web application.

Stephen Walther

Stephen Walther is the author of the best-selling ASP.NET book of all time, ASP.NET Unleashed. He also is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed. Stephen has lived a year in Borneo, taught classes on metaphysics at Harvard and MIT, help found two very successful startups, and ran a training and consulting company. He is currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where his official title is ASP.NET MVC Ninja.

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Come learn how to extend your existing Web applications and get them to live and breathe within Live Mesh. See how Mesh-enabled Web applications can be accessed from anywhere through a Web browser as well as run locally (and offline) on a user's desktop. Also see how Web applications can take full advantage of value-add Mesh services such as a dedicated sandbox, online and offline synchronized storage, automatic application updates, identity, application catalogue, social computing, and more.

Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie

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Come hear how and why to create rich experiences for Silverlight using Expression Encoder using both VC-1 and H.264 CODECs. Learn about video encoding settings, how to encode for Smooth Streaming scenarios and working with player templates for effortless Silverlight experiences.

James Clarke

James Clarke has been a Program Manager on the Expression Encoder team since before V1 shipped. He has an extensive background in digital video and internet media with over 18 years spent in the industry. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2006, he worked first as a Program Manager at Avid Technology, one of the pioneers of non-linear video editing, and later co-founded Soho, London based ROOT6 Ltd where he was architect and principal developer on the successful ContentAgent encoding product. He is currently co-authoring a book on Expression Encoder for Sams Publishing.

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Come hear how simple it is to build end-to-end data-intensive Silverlight applications with the new set of features in Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services. Explore Silverlight improvements that help to enable rapid development for business applications and to make your development process more productive.

Brad Abrams

Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Product Unit Manager of the Application Framework team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that powers breadth Rich Internet Applications and core innovations in the .NET Framework.  Specific technologies owned by this team include parts of Silverlight, the Managed Extensibility Framework and Windows Forms. 

Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library).  Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard.  

Brad co-authored Programming in the .NET Environment, and was editor on .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol1 and Vol2 and the Framework Design Guidelines. 

Brad graduated from North Carolina State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Science.  Find recent musings from Brad on his blog at:http://blogs.msdn.com/BradA/

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Come hear how Microsoft is building a new platform for applications, and learn about the key services that compose the platform as well as how to get started. Also hear Microsoft's roadmap for the Azure Services Platform and learn about new features that will be added.

James Conard

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Curious about cloud computing? Come learn how to use Windows Azure to better address key challenges of running Internet-scale applications in the cloud. Also hear about the essential concepts of Windows Azure, including what's new.

Manuvir Das

Manuvir Das is a Director in the Windows Azure product group at Microsoft, where he leads the Developer Experience team. The role of this team is to translate the functionality provided by the service components of Windows Azure into a familiar, intuitive, and cohesive platform for service developers. Manuvir has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, specializing in Programming Languages. He is also an affiliate faculty member at the University of Washington.

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Learn how to take advantage of browser security improvements to help protect your Web applications and visitors.

Eric Lawrence

Eric Lawrence is a Security Program Manager on the Internet Explorer 8 team. He recently spoke at Hack in the Box 2008 and O’Reilly’s Velocity conference. Prior to his current role, Eric was responsible for networking and HTTPS improvements in IE7. Outside of Microsoft, Eric is best known as the developer of the Fiddler web debugging platform, used by security and web professionals worldwide.

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Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 3 including a dive into some of the new experience oriented features like pixel shaders, perspective 3D, animation enhancements, bitmap APIs and improvements to the media stack. Also hear about new Silverlight base framework additions including updates to the style model, data binding improvements, improved resource handling and improvements to the web services stack. This session will also introduce the Silverlight 3 out of browser model.

Joe Stegman

Joe Stegman is a Group Program Manager of the Silverlight runtime team and is responsible for delivering technology enabling richer experiences on the web. Prior to working on Silverlight, Joe spent several years as a Lead Program Manager on the Windows Forms team where he focused on the visual designers and the Windows Forms data APIs. Joe has worked at Microsoft since 1998 and spent his first several years as a Microsoft consultant consulting working with large corporations in the development and delivery of e-commerce web sites.

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See how to add IM to a site with the Windows Live Messenger Library and UI Controls, and how to build new relationships around content with Messenger social capabilities. Also hear how top sites and marketers are using the social connections of Windows Live users to grow and build brand loyalty.

Steve Gordon

Keiji Kanazawa

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Hear about the new Windows 7 user experience and how Window 7 helps Web developers extend their branded experiences to the client desktop using federated search, shell extensibility, activities, and more.

Yochay Kiriaty

Yochay Kiriaty is a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, focusing on Windows 7. He has more than a decade of experience in Software development, and as written and taught academic Computer Science courses in various Colleges.

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Services are needed to light up the Web, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) makes it possible to build RESTful services more quickly and easily than ever before by using the new WCF REST Starter Kit. In this session, we demonstrate using WCF to build a simple REST Service through to advanced REST concepts of Addressability, Scalability, and Security.

Ron Jacobs

Ron Jacobs is a Sr. Technical Evangelist in the Microsoft Platform Evangelism group based at the company headquarters in Redmond Washington. Ron's evangelism is focused on Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) Since 1999 Ron has been a product and program manager on various Microsoft products including the .Net Framework, Windows Communication Foundation and COM+. A top-rated conference speaker, author and podcaster, Ron brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role of helping Microsoft customers and partners to build architecturally sound and secure applications

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Hear about SharePoint sites first hand from Razorfish, the agency behind SharePoint sites at Kroger, Dell Financial, and many more. Also learn how Web agencies use SharePoint to light up the brand for their customers.

Tony Jones

Tony Jones is a Technology Director for Razorfish (Atlanta) and the team lead for the Razorfish Content Management Center of Excellence. With over 10 years of experience in the Interactive space, Tony has worked with small and enterprise customers building large scale web applications on the .NET platform and family of servers.

Prior to joining Razorfish in 2005, Tony was an Application Development consultant for Microsoft Consulting Services. Tony holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Purdue University.

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Come see behind the scenes and learn about the customer data that motivated the Internet Explorer 8 user experience design team. We discuss what people are doing in the browser and how that influenced the detailed design of new features. We also talk about the methodology for choosing the subtle refinements to existing features that have a big impact on ease of use and discoverability.

Paul Cutsinger

Paul Cutsinger is the Lead Program Manager for the Internet Explorer user experience. Prior to this, he worked on the Vista shell and it’s search & organize features.

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Learn the background of Xbox "Lips" and "Fable II" campaigns from brainstorm to delivery. This session highlights interactive video and gaming experiences using Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft .NET, and Windows Mobile technologies under tight production timelines.

Charles Duncan

Charles Duncan is the Technical Management Director at AKQA. An accomplished interactive technology professional, Charles has  over 10 years experience in technical development management and creative concepting. Charles is focused on technical and creative innovation for brands such as Xbox, Nike, and Gap, earning numerous honors including: Cannes Cyber Lions, Clios, One Show and FlashForward.

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Learn how to use the Service Bus in .NET Services to more easily connect applications together over the Internet. See how to address difficult connectivity, security, and discoverability issues with the Service Bus, and hear about solutions for traversing network topology and overcoming integration issues that are caused by network, security and organizational boundaries.

Clemens Vasters

Clemens Vasters works as a Senior Technical Lead in the .NET Services team and is responsible for the 'Service Bus' feature area of Microsoft's Azure Services Platform. Before joining Microsoft some 2 1/2 years ago, Clemens spoke at many conferences, taught technology, and helped companies with software architecture in over 35 countries. Since joining Microsoft, Clemens has mostly been in 'stealth mode' and worked on the WCF, Oslo, and the Cloud Services Platform teams.

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See how developers use IIS extensions to simplify the deployment and management of Web applications. Also, hear about other new extensions for IIS that extend the Web Platform for dynamic scaling of Web applications and other new features.

Crystal Hoyer

Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec

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Hear how ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 makes building pure client-side AJAX Web applications even easier, and watch us build an entire data-driven ASP.NET AJAX application from start to finish by taking advantage of only JavaScript, HTML pages, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. Also learn about new ASP.NET AJAX features including the DataView control, declarative templates, live client-side data binding, WCF, and REST integration.

Stephen Walther

Stephen Walther is the author of the best-selling ASP.NET book of all time, ASP.NET Unleashed. He also is the author of the forthcoming book ASP.NET MVC Framework Unleashed. Stephen has lived a year in Borneo, taught classes on metaphysics at Harvard and MIT, help found two very successful startups, and ran a training and consulting company. He is currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft where his official title is ASP.NET MVC Ninja.

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Come hear about the highly available and massively scalable cloud storage service that is provided by Windows Azure. Learn how to create and access the different types of Windows Azure storage available, including blobs, tables, and queues.

Brad Calder

Brad Calder is Director/Architect of Windows Azure storage, which provides massively scalable, highly available and durable storage for the cloud. Before Microsoft he was a Professor at University of California, San Diego in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and a co-founder of three startup companies: Entropia Inc., TracePoint Inc., and Bit-Raker Inc. He received his undergraduate degrees from University of Washington and his graduate degree from University of Boulder, Colorado.

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Come learn about "A Website Named Desire", an infographic that celebrates the chaotic Web design process as it exists today as well as an honest exploration of the "real" Web design process through the lens of a recently launched MIX Online site. Hear about the practical lessons and notable experiences during the design and development of MIX Online from sketch to full-featured site.

Nishant Kothary

Nishant is a Senior Evangelist at Microsoft where, depending on the time of day, he plays developer, designer, marketer or some convoluted combination of the three. He is very passionate about the Web and UX and has a better part of his career innovating on all things related to those two topics. Before joining Microsoft, Nishant worked as a Program Manager at Amazon.com where he was instrumental in the launch of Amazon’s 35th product category, Amazon Unbox Video Downloads. He then spent some time working on the Amazon Kindle team. Prior to that, Nishant developed and taught courses at Purdue University on subjects ranging from web design fundamentals to object oriented programming in Flash, and also coauthored a couple of books on Flash. Nishant has an educational background that marries design and computer science; he holds B.S. degrees in Computer Science & Interactive Media Design from Purdue University. He helps organize and presents at national and international conferences on computer graphics, web technologies and design, such as, the annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, Conference on Designing for User Experience, Webmaster Jam Session, MIX, Web Design World and others. Nishant lives in Kirkland, WA with his wife Pita, their extremely vocal tabbies, Izzy and Mango, and Yoshi, their Weimaraner puppy. You can also find him at www.rainypixels.com.

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Learn how to use Expression Blend to design great user experiences, from concept to production, with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. See how Expression Blend makes design workflow faster, easier and richer, and explore how designers can lead the interactive experience throughout the design process.

Celso Gomes

Christian Schormann

Christian Schormann is the Group Program Manager for Expression Blend, responsible for product planning and definition of Expression Blend and Design, and for long term product strategy of the Expression suite as a whole. Christian brings to Microsoft his background in high-end video editing and compositing systems (including Jaleo, Softimage|DS, and Avid Liquid). He has also been involved with 3D animation and music software. He has been involved with many aspects of software development hands-on, including product design, development, various levels of management, CTO-style work, and business and strategy planning.

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Learn how to build mobile Web sites using the ASP.NET MVC framework. See how to create customized mobile experiences by extending the Views in the MVC framework and using the latest device detection techniques.

Jared Eischen

Jared is a developer with Ascentium, specializing in ASP.NET and Silverlight. His latest work with Microsoft and Crispin stretches across Microsoft.com. He has a large interest in developing strong user experiences through Rich Internet Applications and holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington.

John Stockton

John is currently a RIA Developer at Ascentium where he builds Silverlight applications for major companies such as Microsoft and T-Mobile. His career has included building web applications for Fortune 500 companies such as GE, NEC, National City Bank and Sherwin Williams as well as government agencies like the Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. John has recently been spreading the virtues of Silverlight by presenting at user groups, code camps and most recently the CodeMash conference. Last fall he also co-authored Silverlight 2 in Action with Chad Campbell.

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Come hear about the overall user experiences that link up physical spaces with a user's interaction on the Web, and see how businesses and buildings are using experience design to transcend the Web and kiosk and to integrate interactive experiences directly into the fabric of the buildings we live, work, shop, and play in.

Daren May

Paul Dawson

Paul joined EMC Conchango in 1999, having been in the Internet and multimedia industry since 1995. His vision was to create a single team capable of user experience, design and build, as his belief was that only by understanding all of these areas can you create experiences that truly delight and actually do something useful. This is his second appearance at MIX, since his session “Virgins, Spaceships and Hobnailed boots”, which looked at the philosophy and process of Total Experience Design and was so well received that he couldn’t stay away. He now works at a strategic level with companies like Virgin Atlantic, Tesco, Nectar, Virgin Mobile, News International and Associated Newspapers to deliver user-focused innovation on new technology.

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Learn how Cynergy Systems uses "Look First Development" to create great RIA and Desktop applications. See how Cynergy uses rapid iterative prototyping to capture, refine, and elaborate requirements and then build beautiful, desirable software.

Aaron Adams

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Prototyping can be challenging. Especially prototyping in DHTML. But over the last few years a number of tools, techniques, libraries and frameworks have emerged making the task easier. Drawing from years of experience at companies such as Yahoo! and Netflix, come hear Bill Scott discuss these solutions and best practices for laying out pages rapidly, injecting interactive behavior and simulating data for prototyping your Web applications in DHTML.

Bill Scott

Bill Scott has always enjoyed technology (25 years). And he has always enjoyed people (even longer). It was a natural to blend the two loves together. For a long time he couldn't decide if he was a designer or an engineer. He finally gave up trying to classify himself and just decided to live in both worlds as much as possible. This passion has led him to found user experience teams (Sabre), build Ajax frameworks (OpenRico) lead engineering organizations (Netflix), found design pattern libraries (Yahoo!), talk a lot about it (Ajax Evangelist) and even write a book about Designing Web Interfaces (O'Reilly).

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Come see how to build a continuum of client applications including HTML, AJAX, ASP.NET, Microsoft Silverlight, and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) that all consume the same Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. Learn how to reuse as much code as possible, how to optimize the development process, and how to address key logistical issues like external servers and cross domain communication.

Laurent Bugnion

Laurent works as a senior user experience developer for IdentityMine, one of the leading companies for Microsoft technologies such as Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, Surface, Windows 7 and generally User Experience.

In October 2008, Laurent wrote the book "Silverlight 2 Unleashed", published at Sams. This book is a complete tutorial about Silverlight. Privately, he codes in ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF; and writes on http://www.galasoft.ch where he publishes articles, prototypes and demos related to the mentioned technologies. In 2008, Laurent earned a MCTS for WPF. 2009 is his 3rd year as a Microsoft MVP (Client App Dev).

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See how to build a simple application that highlights some of the key capabilities of ASP.NET MVC. Also, learn how to improve productivity using some of the cool new tooling features.

Phil Haack

Phil Haack is a Senior Program Manager with the ASP.NET team currently focused on the ASP.NET MVC Framework. ASP.NET MVC is being developed in a transparent manner with community involvement and has the goal of embodying and encouraging solid principles of good software design. Phil is a code junkie and loves to both write software and write about software on his blog. In his spare time, he leads the open source Subtext blog engine project.

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Come hear about the key concepts and features behind the two primary user interface technologies available for ASP.NET: MVC and Web Forms. Learn the pros and cons of both MVC and Web Forms, how to determine the best choice for a specific project, various techniques and patterns used to build MVC applications vs. Web Forms applications, and the implications for using each approach.

Rachel Appel

Rachel has been working as a mentor, instructor, software developer, architect and DBA for nearly 20 years. During her career, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies and systems and has contributed to projects of all sizes including large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies.

Rachel is the Vice President of the .Net Valley user group, as well as a leader and regular speaker in the Philly.NET and Central Penn.NET user groups of Pennsylvania. She can also be found speaking at code camps, user groups, community events and conferences.

Rachel’s expertise lies within developing solutions that align business and technology using the Microsoft .NET family of products, particularly ASP.NET & SQL Server. She is also an ASP.NET MVP, ASPInsider and holds the Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCAD & MCSD certifications.

She is also a member of the INETA speakers bureau.

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Come learn how to use Expression Web to build resilient standards-based sites for use across a wide range of browsers and platforms. Hear about the current version of Expression Web and take some sneak peeks at future work that will make creating great sites even easier for designers. With a focus on workflow, you'll also see how well Expression Web integrates with ASP.NET and PHP.

Tyler Simpson

Steve Guttman

Steve Guttman is the Product Unit Manager for Expression Web at Microsoft where he oversees the product’s Development, Test and Program Management groups. Steve has been kicking around the graphics, multimedia and Internet industries for some years. He was the original product manager for Adobe Photoshop, and eventually managed Product Marketing for all of Adobe’s Macintosh graphics applications, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Dimensions and Streamline.

Steve joined Fractal Design Corporation in 1994 as its VP of Marketing, where he launched the first version of Expression, and later did a stint as VP of Product Marketing for Macromedia’s Multimedia and Internet products group, where he helped develop the product strategy for Dreamweaver. He also helped launch one of the first photo communities at Zing.com in 1998.

In 1999 Steve started Halfbrain.com, the first company to build and launch a browser-based spreadsheet and presentation program—over 6 years before Google’s initiative. Most recently, he worked at Autodesk, overseeing Product Management for its GIS and Civil Engineering products.

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Come hear about the new Live Search 2.0 APIs that allow a Web site or client application to easily incorporate fully customizable Live Search capabilities and results. Also learn how to make money by including ads that together with search results can be configured and styled any way that best matches the content for a site or application.

Alessandro Catorcini

Alessandro Catorcini is a Senior Lead Program Manager on the API team in Live Search. He is responsible for exposing the capabilities of the Live Search engine to developers and facilitating the success of the technology’s adopters.

Catorcini joined Microsoft in 2000 as a Technical Program Manager working on the XML features for NetDocs and Office InfoPath design-time. In 2004, he moved to the Common Language Runtime team of .NET, where he was responsible for the managed code reliability features and for the support of major partners adopting .NET technology.

Prior to working at Microsoft, Catorcini worked as a Software Architect at Rina Spa in the shipbuilding industry. At this company, he designed the application for ship classification and built a cutting-edge editorial system. His background in this industry stemmed from his duty as a Technical Officer in the Weapon Engineering Corps of the Italian Navy. Catorcini was in charge of the validation and testing of the deliveries from the private sector to the Navy, including the fitting of new constructions and the refitting of existing vessels.

Catorcini graduated from the University of Genoa in Italy with a degree in Electronic Engineering. In his spare time, he is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with his son.

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Come hear how Terralever was able to use the powerful new features of Internet Explorer 8 to change how users interact with the Digg Web site. Learn how using Accelerators and Web Slices changed the way users are able to discover, as well as simplify submitting stories. We look at how taking advantage of these exciting features can improve a users experience, while increasing the number of users visiting your site.

Joel K. Neubeck

Joel Neubeck currently serves as Terralever’s Director of Technology, leading a talented, multi-disciplined team of software engineers and interactive developers. His diverse background includes experience in ASP.NET, Silverlight, WPF, digital print and image processing as well as service-oriented web development. Joel was recently named one of Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) for Client Application Development, specifically his work for Microsoft Silverlight.

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Having some programming knowledge as an interactive professional can set you apart from the rest. Come learn the essentials of C# for creating interactivity in Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation in this session, and add another weapon to your design arsenal.

Jennifer Smith

Jennifer Smith is vice president of Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI), the training division of Aquent. Jennifer is the author of more than ten books on electronic publishing, including Dummies books on Web, interactive, and digital imaging software. She has more than two decades of design experience and delivers training for interactive, web, and creative organizations around the world. Prior to founding AGI she worked in advertising as an art director. Jennifer bridges the gap between technical and creative, working easily with both developers and designers. She has a unique ability to translate technical skills to address business issues, allowing organizations to use creative technology to achieve their business objectives. She developed the first ever Silverlight for Designers training program, which has been presented at interactive agencies around the world and also for designers at Microsoft’s headquarters. Jennifer’s has also created many Silverlight training tutorials that prepare users for the PhizzPop Design Challenge.

Fred Gerantabee

Fred Gerantabee is an Emmy award winning interactive designer, web developer and author based in New York City, and serves as training manager for Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI). Prior to joining Aquent, Fred was an interactive producer with ABC/Disney Interactive, working on ITV applications for hit shows such as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the Academy Awards and Toon Disney’s JETIX Cards Live. Fred is the author of several books web and interactive technologies, and works extensively in helping bridge the gap between designers and developers. You can find his tutorials on the PhizzPop Design Challenge site as he dissects some of his Silverlight video game projects, helping users understand how to customize and skin games. While he geeks-out with the best developers creating Silverlight and other interactive projects, he gets his creative juices cranking with his guitar and band as he plays weekend gigs around New York City.

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Come hear how SQL Data Services is evolving to provide rich relational database capabilities and how easy it is to take existing database applications and extend them to the cloud. Learn how SQL Data Services provides highly available and scalable relational database storage and capabilities while allowing you to leverage existing SQL Server knowledge, protocols, client libraries and tools. Hear about our plans to accelerate delivery of the key relational data capabilities you've asked for through a service endpoint that directly supports the T-SQL language and the Tabular Data Stream (TDS) communications protocol as well as our rich support for breadth and open source development languages, frameworks and client libraries.

Nigel Ellis

Nigel Ellis is responsible for the design, development, and release of SQL Data Services. His passion extends to all things data and ensuring the delivery of trustworthy, highly reliable data storage systems. Nigel joined Microsoft in 1993 where he initially focused on delivery of desktop database software and later as a founding member of the SQL Server 7.0 team where he’s been working since. Nigel likes to “roll up the sleeves” and jump into the trenches to get the job done. He’s particularly passionate about problems that most people would shy away from and has found his match in the Services space.

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Come hear about what's new in WPF 4, including MultiTouch, new controls, new themes, Windows 7 ribbon and taskbar integration.

Mark Wilson-Thomas

Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the WPF and Silverlight Designers in Visual Studio. He is responsible for the layout and visual designer features of the designer. Prior to joining developer division Mark worked in Microsoft Services as a Development Lead, building large scale web-based UIs for the UK Government, the BBC and others.

Kevin Gjerstad

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Learn how to build ASP.NET Web applications that take advantage of the "Velocity" distributed caching platform. Walk through a realistic ASP.NET application, describing installation, application development, and best practices for achieving high performance, scale, and availability.

Murali Krishnaprasad

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Come learn how to use .NET Services as building blocks for Web-based and hosted applications. Hear about the next generation of messaging, data, access control, and workflow services, and how developers can compose these .NET Services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises systems.

Todd Holmquist-Sutherland

John Shewchuk

John Shewchuk, a Microsoft Technical Fellow, leads the architecture and strategy teams focused on extending Microsoft’s .NET application development technologies to the Internet “cloud.”

Shewchuk works in Microsoft’s Connected Systems Division (CSD) where he leads the technical strategy team. Over the last several years Shewchuk and his team have developed a wide range of Internet-based application messaging and identity federation technologies. Additionally, he was a co-founder of the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) team and has been a key contributor to cross-industry interoperability initiatives. Working in conjunction with others on his team, Shewchuk developed Web services specifications and managed technical collaborations with IBM, Sun, SAP, and many others. He also has been a key leader and contributor to Microsoft’s efforts in federated identity, access control, and privacy.

Previously, Shewchuk worked on Microsoft's development tools and runtimes and played a key role in the development of Visual Studio and .NET. Earlier in his career, he played a role in the development of many Internet technologies including stylesheets, browser behaviors and Web server controls.

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Learn how to add instream and companion ads (in Flash and Silverlight formats) to a Silverlight media player application. See real-world examples of how to use IAB's VAST and VPAID guidelines as well as other methods to display instream video advertisements along with companion display ads.

Nicholas Brookins

Nicholas Brookins is a Product Architect at Akamai Technologies, the leading managed services provider for powering rich media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Nick provides technical design for the Akamai AdaptiveEdge streaming solution, based on Microsoft Smooth Streaming for Silverlight. He is also the lead developer for the Silverlight version of OpenVideoPlayer, an open source project that aims to provide a foundation for stable and scalable web-based video players, available at openvideoplayer.sf.net.

Prior to his role at Akamai, Nick was the CTO of SAM Systems, where he played a key role in development of patent-pending methods for improving video quality and efficiency for the company's real-time surveillance video solutions. Aside from software development, Nick enjoys playing guitar and spending time at the beach in San Diego where he lives with his wife and daughter.

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Come hear how to work with external REST, SOAP, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services from Silverlight. Learn how to securely and efficiently communicate with services using Binary XML, debug services with improved Faults support, and implement server-to-client "push" using the new Add Service Reference for Duplex functionality.

Eugene Osovetsky

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Come hear how to run PHP on various Microsoft platforms including Internet Information Services (IIS), Microsoft SQL Server, Windows, Azure Service Platform, and more.

Michael Joffe

Shaun Hirschman

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