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 Visual Basic 9 makes generating rich XML orders of magnitude easier than using text concatenation or an object model. Come learn how XML literals, embedded expressions, LINQ integration, automatic schema generation, and other XML-specific Visual Basic 9.0 features will transform your XML experience!

Alex Turner

Alex Turner is a Program Manager at Microsoft. He works on compilers and keeps himself busy between VB, C#, and the Dynamic Language Runtime. Alex graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University.

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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 learn about plug-in support in Silverlight 2, and how to build a typical Silverlight-based application using the Silverlight tools for Eclipse.

Shawn Wildermuth

Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has spoken at conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about Silverlight, Oslo, Databases and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com). He is currently teaches workshops around the country through his training company AgiliTrain (http://agilitrain.com).

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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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Learn how to create better interactivity for your user experience. See how polished, functional user interfaces can be brought to life without code using a range of powerful features in Expression Blend.

Peter Blois

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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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See how Yahoo! is leveraging Silverlight plug-in components to deliver a visually appealing, rich, cross-platform user experience without having to re-do their various back-end infrastructures.

Matt Smith

Matt Smith is a recognized digital media industry evangelist and speaker. He presently serves are Senior Director, Systems Architecture for Inlet Technologies. In this role, Smith works closely with premier customers and partners, helping them deploy their digital media strategy quickly and successfully while reducing risks and avoiding pitfalls. Prior to Inlet, Matt most recently served as a key video architect and evangelist for Yahoo!, where he worked for 9 years designing, delivering and managing leading-edge video compression technologies and workflows to execute live events and create other digital media offerings. He was also responsible for working closely with technology partners like Microsoft, Apple, Adobe and others, and has been a featured speaker at a variety of video and technology conferences and events. Prior to Yahoo!, Smith spent several years at NBC, first at the affiliate level and later with the network.

Robert Ames

Robert Ames (B.S. C.S. / UT Dallas) has extensive experience with internet-related companies and technologies. Mr. Ames has had the good fortune of delivering a complete ecommerce community site with a start up as well as development, testing, and optimization of existing Top 100 internet destinations. Mr. Ames currently works with video delivery at Yahoo!, the number one trafficked site on the internet.

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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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Learn how to maintain compliance with a growing number of accessibility standards (including 508 in the U.S., WCAG 2.0, and others) by using Silverlight to produce fully accessible RIAs that are policy compliant. See how to use the new User Interface Automation (UIA) technology included in Silverlight by walking through the design and development decisions made when building Buttercup, a Silverlight based DAISY talking book reader.

Reed Shaffner

Chris Auld

You can usually find Chris Auld at events around the world by walking up the stack from his crazy yellow shoes. Chris is the Director of Strategy and Innovation (and too much travel) at Intergen, a Microsoft specialist consultancy based out of New Zealand. Chris travels the world enthusing others about technology. Trained as a lawyer but quickly realizing that it wasn’t much fun- he instead spent his formative years architecting Software as a Service applications for a Dot Com era company and building factory automation systems that to this day make some of the finest chocolate bars in the world. Chris has expertise that spans the Microsoft platform from the new Azure Platform to mainstay enterprise products such as Sharepoint and Dynamics CRM. As a Microsoft Regional Director Chris spends a bunch of time working with the development community around the world and providing their feedback up to Microsoft.

In his spare time Chris enjoys adventure sports such as whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and back-country skiing as well as playing records on turntables to throngs of enthusiastic party goers or usually just to the dog.

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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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Explore how Expression Blend integrates with the design tools from Adobe's Creative Suite. Learn how to use content from Photoshop and Illustrator to efficiently create Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Microsoft Silverlight-based applications, and see a range of useful tips and tricks from one of the core Expression Blend team members.

Joanna Mason

Joanna Mason is a Program Manager for Expression Blend and Expression Design focusing on graphics, animation and user-experience. Enabling artists, designers and animators with powerful tools to create engaging content and interactive experiences has been at the center of Joanna's career focus for 12 years. She has worked on a variety of software applications including authoring tools for interactive applications, multi-player gaming, computer animation and special effects. In the Research and Development group at PDI/Dreamworks, Joanna created software used for feature films such as Shrek and Antz. Joanna started her career at the location based entertainment company Virtual World Entertainment helping develop titles such as BattleTech and Red Planet.

Joanna earned her MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Chicago. She also received her BA in Computer Science from Lake Forest college.

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Real-world applications are more than just a Web site and generally include smart client applications, powerful admin sites, databases, Web services, and more. Dive into the anatomy of an application that took just two weeks to write and uses Windows Presentation Foundation, Microsoft ADO.NET Data Services, Internet Information Services 7, Microsoft ASP.NET Dynamic Data, and the Microsoft Entity Framework on SQL.

Scott Hanselman

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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 learn about Bizspark, a new partner program for early stage software startups. Discover how Bizspark provides startups the latest dev tools and production server licenses. Also hear about the worldwide network of experts available to help entrepreneurs succeed.

Julien Codorniou

Bizspark Project Manager, formerly EBT lead in France for 3 years.

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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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See how the CLR team slimmed down the size of the runtime into a small, zippy download, the Core CLR, yet kept the experience .NET developers have come to love.

Brandon Bray

Brandon Bray is Senior Program Manager Lead in the Common Language Runtime and responsible for the foundations of the .NET technology stack. His team works on the garbage collector, code generators (JIT, NGEN), concurrency, operating system features, and the Core CLR. Bray has been working in Microsoft's Developer Division for eight years, and most notably designed the C++/CLI programming language.

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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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Learn how to make industry leading mobile Web sites using the newly-released open and free device information service from Microsoft. Hear how to better detect the mobile handsets viewing your site and tailor your content to maximize visibility and user experience.

Chris Woods

Chris Woods is a Program Manager on Microsoft’s Mobile Browse Platform team in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to joining Microsoft, Chris worked with leading mobile companies including Symbian, Vodafone, and Nokia.

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Learn the rules for using content produced by others particularly as Web applications get richer and deep linking becomes more common. Get straight answers from a developer and not a lawyer to common copyright questions like "What are the real boundaries of the DMCA?", "Where does traditional copyright apply and what is fair use?", and "How do I license content for my Web site?".

Jonathan Zuck

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Learn how to add instant stickiness and drive new users to a Web site while uncovering the hidden social network within. Hear how Effective UI quickly and easily added these capabilities to its customers' existing Microsoft Silverlight projects using the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit.

Jordan Snyder

At EffectiveUI, Jordan builds web applications using Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight. She has been using Silverlight since v1.0 and is a member of Microsoft's Silverlight 2.0Beta TAP (Technology Adoption Program) and Silverlight 3 EAP (Early Adoption Program). She is a musician, interactive artist, snowboarder, avid reader and engineer who is interested in everything from architecture to physics to spirituality.

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Learn how to open your Web content to readers around the globe with the Microsoft Translator widget. See how to integrate the translator widget into a site and customize it.

Dr. Neil Roodyn

English born, Dr. Neil travels the world working with software companies. He loves Australia, where he spends the summer enjoying the Sydney lifestyle and helping software development teams get more productive. Dr. Neil spends his other summer each year flying between northern Europe and the USA working with software teams and writing about his experiences.

Over the last couple of decades Neil has worked with a variety of companies including Synon, ComputaCenter, SLK, EDI, Citect, Microsoft and Rogue Wave. Neil has also been involved in the formation of several software start-ups. Neil brings his business and technical skills to the companies he works with to ensure he has happy customers.

Dr. Neil has been closely associated with leading edge technologies for the last ten years. This started with adopting, using and then teaching C++ in the early 1990’s. Then in 1995 getting to grips with the details of COM and travelling around Europe teaching and mentoring development teams. Since 1999 Neil has been involved with the agile development movement, especially eXtreme Programming, which he has been using to help teams get more out of their development lifecycle. In the last 3 years Neil has been leading the push to .NET, by running several .NET projects and teaching .NET courses. Dr. Neil’s mobile lifestyle has lead him into the realm of mobile platforms and in the last couple of years Neil has been helping developers with mobile related development, including the Tablet PC, Pocket PC and Smartphone. Neil studied Software Architectures for Real Time Systems at University College London, for which he received a PhD.

Neil also formed Sydney's eXtreme Programming Activity Club ( SyXPAC ). Download a presentation on Neil's capabilities.

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Come learn SEO best practices and proven techniques that can boost the position of a Web site in search results pages.

Thomas Deml

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Learn how to use Live Services to light up rich client applications or to extend Web applications to the desktop. See how to easily access Live Framework to produce and consume data that automatically syncs with the cloud and the devices in a user's digital life.

Gregory Renard

Gregory Renard, known under the nickname of Redo within the French .NET communities, is recognized as a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft MVP since many years. Gregory began its career into 96 in the university research on the new technologies. Creating its first company in 1997 in the Web Development, he is in parallel in charge of university courses on the .NET development and new Technologies.

Today, Gregory is CTO and director for Research and Innovation within the research department and .NET expertise of Wygwam company of which he is cofounder. Gregory’s working daily on .NET architectures and futurology usages based on Microsoft technologies like Azure Services Platform, Live Agents, Live Mesh, Microsoft Surface, …

Gregory’s blog : http://blogs.developpeur.org/redo/

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Come learn how to build a Silverlight business application today with the new UI features including DataGrid, DataForm, validation and navigation. Also see an example of how to connect to services using a LINQ enabled, Entity Framework-backed, data management solution.

Ward Bell

Ward Bell is Vice President of Technology at IdeaBlade where he is responsible for the product direction of the DevForce .NET application framework, a product targeting smart client development. That product extends the ADO.NET Entity Framework with n-tier, client caching, and Silverlight support. Ward spent much of the last 30 years programming line-of-business applications for numerous companies including several of the Fortune 100. He is a Solutions Architect MVP. His blog is Never In Doubt.

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See how China's Tencent Corporation built a next-generation QQ Instant Messenger client using Microsoft Silverlight. Hear how one of the largest communities in the world with 400M+ active users and 50m+ concurrent users got to massive scale with Silverlight while leveraging UX to make more money with their services.

Steve Zheng

Steve Zheng, Ph.D., Chief Software Architect, Head of Tencent Research. Before joining Tencent, he worked in Microsoft, Redmond, for eight years.

Dr. Zheng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Peking Univeristy, and Ph.D. degree from University of Minnesota, majored in Computer Science.

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Come learn how to make your site more engaging with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit.

Chris Parker

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Come hear how Microsoft protects content and identities as servers and users become more distributed worldwide.

John Scarrow

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Come hear an overview of the Microsoft Web Platform, including information about the vision, strategy and community efforts.

Lauren Cooney

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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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Come see how to debug Silverlight applications using Fiddler, Internet Explorer 8, and the Web Development Helper tools. Learn how using the right tool save precious time and effort whether dealing with cross domain policy recognition, RESTful response analysis, or just a general error.

John Papa

John Papa (ASPSOFT), author of book Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 by O’Reilly, is a Microsoft C# MVP, INETA speaker, member of the WPF and Silverlight Insiders, consultant, speaker, author, and trainer for ASPSOFT who specializes in professional application development with Microsoft technologies. John has written over 60 articles for MSDN Magazine and authored several books on data access technologies including Silverlight, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, WPF, XML, and SQL Server. He can often be found speaking at industry conferences such as VSLive and DevConnections, and viewed on MSDN Web Casts. You can always find John at johnpapa.net.

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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

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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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