The Real-World AJAX Seminar launched in New York on May 13 with a panel highlighted by the appearance of Jesse James Garrett (pictured), known as the "Father of AJAX." Referred to by Backbase CEO Jouk Pleiter as "the first major AJAX event in the world," the Real-World AJAX Seminar is now coming to the San Jose Hilton on April 24.

Garrett will also be part of this program, which will also feature Paul Rademacher (the creator of HousingMaps.com), Web 2.0 guru Dion Hinchcliffe, and Yahoo's Eric Miraglia, one of the world's leading experts in Javascript utilities and widgets.

Jeremy Geelan, conference chair, notes that "by now there isn't a software developer on earth who isn't aware of the collection of programming technologies known as AJAX. But you can't bank awareness. So, how in concrete terms can you take advantage in your own projects of this newly popular way of delivering online content to users without reloading an entire page? How soon can you be monetizing AJAX?"

The "Real-World AJAX" seminar series aims to answer these exact questions, Geelan says. In addition to the top-notch individual presenters set for the San Jose seminar, there will also be a Power Panel discussion to be recorded for SYS-CON.TV that will include Garrett, Rademacher, Hinchcliffe, as well as Google VP of Engineering Adam Bosworth and Laszlo Systems Founder and CTO David Temkin.

Additional Real-World AJAX sessions will be presented at the SOA Web Services Edge Conference and Expo, to be held in New York June 5-6.

Information on the Real-World AJAX seminar in San Jose, as well as other events being produced by SYS-CON can be found at http://events.sys-con.com.