AJAX isn’t just for rich UIs and mashups anymore. Web 2.0 has infiltrated the enterprise workforce, and IT departments all around the world just like yours are feeling the pressure to make every back-office, call center, trading blotter, inventory management, and systems performance application look and feel like iGoogle or MyESPN.com. Simply slapping on a few AJAX widgets will make these applications look cooler, but what about business logic, data integration, and replicating the business processes?

Join Coach Wei, CTO and founder of Nexaweb, and Bob Buffone, Nexaweb’s Chief Architect, for a candid, fast-paced discussion anchored by real-world customer examples demonstrating how you can use AJAX and RIA technology to truly take your business applications to the next level!

Speaker Bios: Bob Buffone, chief architect at Nexaweb Technologies, is responsible for platform and tool technology at Nexaweb, a provider of the Nexaweb Platform enabling enterprise class rich Internet applications (RIAs). He is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project, which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating AJAX applications. Before Nexaweb, Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in user interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.

Coach Wei is Chairman and CTO of Nexaweb technologies, an Enterprise Web 2.0 software company. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a champion for open source and open standard, Coach is the author of open source word processor AJAXWord, a committer at Apache XAP project and a member of OpenAJAX Alliance steering committee, etc. He is a frequent speaker at industry events and has many publications on various technical journals. Coach obtained his master's degree from MIT, holds six patents and maintains “Enterprise Web 2.0” blog at http://www.coachwei.com.

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2008  Will Be The Decision Year for RIAs
AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 will provide delegates with the optimum balance between RIAs, Rich Web Technologies and AJAX, while underlining business needs, technology potential, and enhanced user experience.

This year at AJAXWorld the relentless focus is not only on where RIAs are now but also where Rich Web Technologies are headed, where Enterprise Web 2.0 and Social Applications are taking the software development industry and the end user, and how Rich Web Technologies are transforming our businesses and our lives.

Delegates will learn how RIAs are making money and gaining market-share for some of the leading businesses in the world.

The real-world questions that will be answered by this year's 140+ sessions are those that currently preoccupy working developers, architects, IT managers and business line managers. The 2008 tracks include:

• Enterprise RIAs and AJAX
• Rich-Web Case Studies and Mash-Ups
• Enterprise Web 2.0 & Social Applications
• Event-Driven Web
• iPhone Developer Summit
• Diamond Track

AJAXWorld is sponsored by the world’s leading RIA technology providers including.

Conference faculty includes the world’s top RIA experts.