MIX09 - MIX Videos

Ask The Gu

2009-04-13T03:48:11.83

As a special offering for the viewing audience at home, 30 minutes after Scott Guthrie walked off the stage, he came back for a live, intimate, online-only video chat with Jeff Atwood (StackOverflow.com) and Jeff Sandquist (Microsoft DPE). Viewers submitted their questions live via Twitter using the #askthegu hash tag and watched the discussion live.

Day One Keynote

2009-03-19T03:51:05.1

Day 1 keynote featuring Bill Buxton and Scott Guthrie.

Bill Buxton

Bill Buxton is the author of, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, published jointly by Morgan Kaufmann and Focal Press. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and has a 30 year involvement in research, design and commentary around human aspects of technology, and digital tools for creative endeavour, including music, film and industrial design, in particular. Prior to joining Microsoft, he was a researcher at Xerox PARC, a professor at the University of Toronto, and Chief Scientist of Alias Research and SGI Inc. – where 2003 he was co-recipient of an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement. In 2007, he was named Doctor of Design, Honoris Causa, by the Ontario College of Art and Design, in 2008 became the 10th recipient of the ACM/SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, and in January 2009 was elected a Fellow of the ACM. More information on Buxton and his work can be found at: www.billbuxton.com

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Scott Guthrie

Scott Guthrie is corporate vice president of Microsoft's .NET Developer Division, where he runs the development teams responsible for delivering Microsoft Visual Studio developer tools and Microsoft .NET Framework technologies for building client and Web applications. A founding member of the .NET project, Guthrie has played a key role in the design and development of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework since 1999. Guthrie is also responsible for Microsoft's Web server platform and development tools teams. He has also more recently driven the development of Silverlight – a cross browser, cross platform plug-in for delivering next generation media experiences and rich internet applications for the Web. Today, Guthrie directly manages the development teams that build the Common Language Runtime (CLR), ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), IIS, Commerce Server and the Visual Studio Tools for Web, Client and Silverlight development. Guthrie graduated with a degree in computer science from Duke University.

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Day Two Keynote

2009-03-19T19:04:37.307

Day 2 keynote featuring Dean Hachamovitch and Deborah Adler.

Deborah Adler
Motivated by a desire to make people’s lives easier and safer, Deborah Adler designed a comprehensive system for packaging prescription medicine as her master’s thesis. The result—a completely reinvented prescription bottle and label. She brought this innovation to Target, and together they developed the ClearRx system. Adler continues to deliver new directions in products, packaging, labeling, identity and information systems through her multi-disciplinary design studio Deborah Adler LLC. There she pioneers design solutions for clients such as Target, Johnson and Johnson, and Medline in addition to exploring and developing her own projects. Always at the heart of her work is the belief that design can change people’s behavior. Prior to forming her firm in 2007, Adler was a senior designer for Milton Glaser for five years where she provided guidance to clients seeking new avenues in visual communications, signage programs and brand identity. Many prominent media outlets including New York Magazine, Glamour Magazine, NBC Nightly News, and CBS Sunday Morning have featured Adler. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and has been shown at the Cooper Hewitt as part of the National Design Triennial and as a solo exhibition From Master’s Thesis to Medicine Cabinet. Adler received her Master of Fine Arts in Design from The School of Visual Arts in 2002.

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Dean Hachamovitch
Dean Hachamovitch is responsible for the design, development, and release of Internet Explorer. His passion is delivering trustworthy software that customers love. He joined Microsoft in 1990, helping lead the development and release of several versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office on both Windows and Macintosh platforms.

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Miss March and Other Distractions

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Don't miss Vertigo's tour of three major Microsoft Silverlight applications, including PlayboyArchive.com, KEXP and more. Highlights include Deep Zoom, Live Video, "Blendability" tips, VSM hacks, perspective transforms, SEO and deep linking tips for SL2 and SL3, out-of-browser and disconnected experiences, and more.

Scott Stanfield
Scott Stanfield is the CEO of Vertigo, a design and development agency in the San Francisco area. In 2008, Microsoft awarded Vertigo the Microsoft Partner of the Year for their ground-breaking Silverlight work on the Hard Rock Memorabilia experience. Other notable Silverlight projects include the Democratic National Convention in 2008, the Presidential Inauguration and CBS March Madness. Oh, and the MIX 2009 site.

Hiking Mt. Avalon

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

WPF has a reputation for a steep learning curve. Robby Ingebretsen and Jaime Rodriguez do remember back to the early Avalon days when things were hard: no tools, no docs, no sleep. Today, it is much easier: the tools are much better and there are a lot of lessons learned. This workshop will summarize their combined eight years of WPF experience into an actionable list of tips & tricks and good practices around organizing your projects, XAML guidelines, collaboration models, getting the most out of the tools, architecture patterns, etc. The workshop is aimed at intermediate WPFers, a little XAML experience is required.

Robby Ingebretsen
Robby Ingebretsen is a user experience designer and developer with a singular purpose: making great ideas real. As founder and principal of Pixel Lab, Robby helps clients make stuff -- especially the sort of stuff that gets made from the unique full-bodied blend of a little design love and little engineering kung-fu.
Mike Hillberg
Jaime Rodriguez
Jaime Rodriguez is aTechnical Evangelist in Microsoft’s Client Evangelism team. Jaime’s passion is great software architecture, he has been doing if for 15 years and has covered it all (from C++ on linux, to J2EE, to .NET). Jaime’s current mission is to show customers how easy it is to accomplish both great software architecture and amazing user experiences using Windows Presentation Foundation. You can follow Jaime’s musings at http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer.

Design Fundamentals for Developers

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

From colors to wireframes, this workshop introduces you to the fundamental principles and techniques of application design. The workshop is tuned especially for people who have some background in coding. If you are a developer who is working more frequently with designers, evolving to become a designer yourself, or simply a manager who needs to make sure that both roles work smoothly together, this session is an invaluable opportunity to jump-start the process.

Robby Ingebretsen
Robby Ingebretsen is a user experience designer and developer with a singular purpose: making great ideas real. As founder and principal of Pixel Lab, Robby helps clients make stuff -- especially the sort of stuff that gets made from the unique full-bodied blend of a little design love and little engineering kung-fu.

Semantic HTML and Unobtrusive JavaScript

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Progressive enhancement has become the established best-practice approach to standards-based front-end web development. Using HTML correctly is the foundation of these techniques, but it is deceptively tricky. Writing and using JavaScript unobtrusively and responsibly is how you bring it all together. Bookended with these techniques, your site can offer the most modern and powerful capabilities, ensure maximum availability and accessibility, and can be easily modified into the future. In this workshop you'll learn how to create a rock-solid foundation for any web project and how to enrich it using the most user-friendly interface improvements available.

Nate Koechley
Nate Koechley is a Yahoo! front end engineer and designer based in San Francisco’s Mission district. When he’s not helping design and build the open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library he edits the YUIBlog, promotes accessibility, defines Yahoo! browser support policies, writes occasionally at his personal blog, and presents at conferences around the globe.

Using Dynamic Languages to Develop Microsoft Silverlight Applications

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to use the Microsoft Visual Basic/C# DLR integration to test a statically-typed application with IronRuby. See how to develop a Silverlight application end-to-end with IronRuby, and how programming with dynamic languages helps improve the dev experience.

John Lam
John works on the Open Source IronRuby compiler at Microsoft. He also helps folks around the company understand how to work together with the Open Source community to make better products for our customers.

Microsoft ASP.NET 4.0 Data Access: Patterns for Success with Web Forms

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come learn about some cool new data access features for ASP.NET 4.0 Web Forms and beyond. Hear how a new Domain Data Source makes it easy to cleanly change your application's architecture from 2-tier to 3-tier and how a new query block lets you unleash the power of LINQ. Also hear about new Dynamic Data features like richer support for LINQ to Entities as well as how to use the ASP.NET data stack to target Windows Azure.

David Ebbo

Protecting Online Identities

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how Microsoft provides a range of identity solutions for helping developers more easily build seamless user experiences that include Federation, Authentication, UX Customization, Open Standards, Open ID and more.

Jorgen Thelin

Developing and Deploying Applications on Internet Information Services (IIS)

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how the Microsoft Web Platform fosters a powerful development ecosystem for Web applications, and how the latest wave of IIS extensions enable Microsoft ASP.NET and PHP to move seamlessly from a development environment to a production datacenter. Also learn how to package a Web application for the Windows Web Application Gallery to make it available to millions of users.

Thomas Deml

Building a Rich Social Network Application

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to build a social networking site using Microsoft Silverlight. See how to mash up existing services, how to tag and store data in back-end services, and how to build a rich and engaging experience.

Gilbok Lee
As CTO, of Huge Flow Corporation, Gilbok Lee is leading RIA Service Team, and his team focuses on Silverlight and Mashups (esp. Live Map), trying to apply those to SNS. Prior to founding Huge Flow, he studied Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Seoul National University and worked for PCB Industries for 5 years as an MFC Programmer developing PCB CAD/CAM. For pleasure, he enjoys putting boiled rice into milk.
Miho Heo
The Product/PJT manager of Hugeflow - MIHO, with years of industry experience, had worked in product planning & development for Samsung electronics and was responsible for Yahoo! Korea international PM. Also she founded weenu Inc. (Art community) in 2006.

Cloud Computing: What's in It for Me?

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn what cloud computing is, what it can do for you, and how to quickly deploy and scale Web applications. Understand the competitive benefits and cost savings of cloud computing, and how to determine when it is the right solution for your needs.

John Keagy
John Keagy is CEO and Co-Founder of ServePath, a Managed Hosting provider based in San Francisco that has just launched its new GoGrid cloud computing service. Keagy is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, having built and sold several successful Internet service providers since 1991. ServePath, founded in 2001, serves the critical Internet infrastructure needs of thousands of businesses worldwide from its headquarters and data center facility in San Francisco. In 2006, Keagy saw the impending shift to the cloud as ServePath’s second growth opportunity. Keagy’s vision became a two year development investment, now GoGrid, the cloud server hosting service launched in March 2008 that enables customers to deploy, scale and manage load balanced servers in the cloud in just minutes through a web-based control panel. Prior to ServePath, John founded InReach Internet in 1994 and grew it to become the largest profitable Internet Service Provider headquartered in California, with over 35,000 customers. In 1991, John used the Internet to manage the overseas development of software and electro-optical imaging devices for computer and Internet security for biometric security start-up Identicator Technology. John received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley. He lives with his wife, two children and dog in San Francisco and is an avid instrument-rated multi-engine pilot.

Escaping Flatland in Application Design: Rich User Experiences

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how technology and rich application design can not only enhance seemingly ordinary interactions but also engage users like never before. We showcase examples of how to create more compelling user experiences on the Web and desktop. To top it off, we walk through building a highly interactive application making use of these principles.

Peter Eckert
Peter is regarded as a visionary in User Experience Design by many of the top product and software companies in the world. As Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of projekt202, Peter has helped many Fortune 500 companies implement a meaningful User Experience Design process into their organizations. He has directed award winning efforts for SAP, Charles Schwab, Sabre, Motorola, Dell, Microsoft, Thompson Financials, Vignette, Buffalo, LeGrand, Logitech, Tektronix, Deloitte and many more. Peter aspired with projekt202 to build a unique environment that fosters creativity, provides a platform for innovation while delivering world class and award winning design solutions in an affordable manner to projekt202’s clients.. Before building projekt202, Peter was the Creative Director for frog design, inc. in Austin, TX. During his five years at frog, Peter directed efforts for SAP, i2 Technologies, Microsoft, Motorola, Symantec, Halliburton, Hire.com and many other well-known companies. While studying in Germany, Peter was president of WATCH GMBH., a design firm he founded in Cologne, Germany. His client list included DaimlerChrysler, SMART, ZDF, Spiegel, the Swiss bank SBG, and a number of other prominent companies throughout Europe. A graduate of KISD in Cologne, Germany, Peter also studied Design at Arizona State University.
Jeff McLean
Jeffrey McLean is the Director of Design Technology at projekt202 in Austin, TX. He was an early adopter of WPF and Expression Blend, having worked with these technologies since the first public Betas. He brings over 14 years of pertinent experience and blurs the line between creativity and technology. Prior to his experience with WPF, he worked in the Film industry at Rhythm & Hues Studios in Los Angeles. There he held many roles including: Compositor, CG Supervisor, and Technology Lead. He is credited on many feature films including, Superman Returns and Harry Potter. His design and programming skills were fostered at The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received a B.S. in Computers and Multimedia, a self-designed Major based on Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Art classes. Jeff also held positions as Art Director and Print/Broadcast Designer for companies on both the East and West coasts.

Advance Your Design with UX Design Patterns

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear about UX design patterns and a common design vocabulary to help facilitate collaboration among peers. Learn what resources are available to you in the community, and see an exciting new tool named Quince that makes finding, discovering, and using patterns much more practical.

Ambrose Little
Ambrose is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, and works at Infragistics, makers of the world's leading presentation layer tools and components. He’s an author of numerous articles, co-author of Wrox Silverlight 2, Silverlight 1.0, Professional ADO.NET 2, and ASP.NET 2.0 MVP Hacks, and has spoken at various user groups, events, and conferences.

Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Sharing Skills and Code

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come get an in-depth understanding of the compatibility between WPF and Silverlight. Learn the relationship between WPF and the various subsystems of Silverlight including: XAML parsing and serialization, control instantiation, styling and templating, layout, rendering, and more. Also, learn how to build applications that fully exploit both Silverlight and WPF.

Jeff Wilcox
Jeff is a Software Development Engineer on the Silverlight Toolkit team at Microsoft. Jeff created the Silverlight Unit Test Framework and the Silverlight Toolkit's AutoCompleteBox control. Before joining the Microsoft ASP.NET team in 2005, Jeff was a freelance open source developer, also founding YouTrip.com and MaizeWeb.com. Jeff is an alumnus of the University of Michigan, and maintains a blog at http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/.

Simplifying Distributed Access Control with Microsoft .NET Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how the Access Control Service capabilities of .NET Services make it easy to add authorization to Web applications. See how to federate with Active Directory and Live Identity Services, request and parse security tokens, and perform session and state management.

Justin Smith
Justin Smith is a Senior Program Manager in the .NET Services team. His focus is on the ‘Access Control’ feature area in Azure Services Platform. An expert on building distributed applications, Justin was a former developer evangelist at Microsoft. He was also a former trainer and consultant at Wintellect where he helped develop the Windows Communication Foundation course for professional developers. Justin regularly speaks at industry and user-group events, including DevWeek and MSDN Code Camp. http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/authors/auth9610.aspx

Caching REST with Windows Communication Foundation

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Without caching, the Web and scalable services wound not be possible. Come learn how to use Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to achieve caching nirvana with RESTful services.

Jon Flanders
Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST, but he sees a bright future for modeling as a way to build complex systems. He's a Microsoft MVP, and writes and teaches courses for Pluralsight (http://www.pluralsight.com/). You can read Jon's blog athttp://www.rest-ful.net/.

Introducing the Microsoft Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come see the new Virtual Earth Silverlight Map Control CTP, and dive deep into how to build the next generation of mapping applications with Virtual Earth and Silverlight.

Chris Pendleton
Chris Pendleton is the Virtual Earth Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Pendleton has been with Microsoft for over 6 years and has been in the location-based services and GIS industry for over 10 years. Mr. Pendleton specializes in all things Virtual Earth and Microsoft geospatial including, but not limited to technological deep dives, web and mobile application architecture and development, licensing arrangements and 3rd party revenue opportunities. Mr. Pendleton has a long history of application development, architecture, consulting and deployment of large scale web-based applications, especially those using geospatial intelligence. Mr. Pendleton also authors the Virtual Earth Blog on MSDN. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Management from San Diego State University.

Deep Zoom++ : Build Dynamic Deep Zoom Applications with Open Source

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Find out about Jellyfish, a collection of modules that you can install on your server to give your customers the ability to build, modify, and create Deep Zoom collections and provide useful Silverlight functions to developers. Hear about how the service has been used on real Web sites, and learn how to build your own server-side, scalable, easy to use enterprise Deep Zoom Solution.

Allan Li
Allan Li is the founder and lead creative development for Next Experience Interactive(http://www.nxmix.com) which provides its clients the highest quality digital marketing, software ,and rich application solutions. Allan is a Microsoft Expression MVP. He has 10 years experience in web and software design. With his wide range of skills in both design and development, he is passionate about design, usability, technology and delivery of next-generation web application solutions.
Ken Azuma
Ken Azuma has dedicated the most of his work life to Rich　Internet Application development project using various RIA technologies. He is working like catalyst to blend the designer, developer and business decision maker areas of RIA project. After years of considering how developers and designers can work together to deliver a high quality product, Ken's perspective on RIA development has widened from that of a programmer to that of an architect. Ken inspires talented people from across the developer and designer communities with his vision of RIAs and the possibilities they offer. As senior experience architect at 2ndFACTORY Japan, his enthusiasm for Rich Internet Application will result in more bridges being built between the designer and developer worlds and more inspirational RIAs when the talents of these two groups are brought together. And now he convinced about importance of business Aspect of RIA, is thinking about project workflow and results that be appreciated by business decision maker, too.

Modeling RESTful Data Services: Present and Future

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how use ADO.NET Data Services framework to approach the modeling of application behavior in terms that match the architectural style proposed by REST. Hear how to address common application needs such as authentication and authorization, and hear about the future direction of ADO.NET Data Services framework upcoming features.

Pablo Castro

State of the Art in Web Site Design on Microsoft SharePoint

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come see how to construct and deploy themes to SharePoint using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Also hear about the artifacts in SharePoint themes and how they are deployed to SharePoint.

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.

Creating a "Next Generation" E-Commerce Experience

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to create compelling and consistent e-commerce experiences. See a demo of an e-commerce experience that leverages a common commerce platform together with rich client application technologies that work on a range of Web and mobile platforms.

Scott Cairney
Jean-Yves Martineau
Jean-Yves Martineau founded Cactus Commerce in 1995 and has in-depth experience in the areas of business development, technology solutions, business consulting and software product development. He is responsible for the company’s strategic vision as well as the software and solution delivery methodology. Mr. Martineau has helped develop e-commerce strategies for enterprise customers and partners such as Microsoft, Cable & Wireless America, PwC Consulting, Avanade and Dell Computer Corp. He is a member of Microsoft's e-Business Partner Advisory Council (PAC), Microsoft's RFID PAC and a founding member of the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) PAC. Mr. Martineau has recently joined the EPC Global Software Action Group, which oversees the software applications portion of the emerging RFID market.

Building Microsoft Silverlight Controls

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to encapsulate structure, animation, and logic inside custom controls that handle theming, layout, validation, and data binding. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend, explore advanced design, coding, debugging, and testing techniques for building components that work interchangeably in Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Karen Corby

There's a Little Scripter in All of Us: Building a Web App for the Masses

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear about building an open, community-driven Web application. We explore concepts such as simplicity of code and tooling, fall-off-your chair extensibility, and zero-friction theming as it relates to the development of an MVC Storefront application.

Rob Conery

Building Data-Driven Scalable AJAX Web Pages

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to enable rich communication patterns between your AJAX Web pages and Web server using existing and new features in Windows Communication Foundation.

Jon Flanders
Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O'Reilly, as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O'Reilly. Jon's current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST, but he sees a bright future for modeling as a way to build complex systems. He's a Microsoft MVP, and writes and teaches courses for Pluralsight (http://www.pluralsight.com/). You can read Jon's blog athttp://www.rest-ful.net/.

High-Speed RIA Development with the Microsoft Silverlight Toolkit

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come learn how the Silverlight Toolkit can help jumpstart development of stunning Web experiences, and learn how to use the latest controls to create more immersive, more manageable user experiences. Using Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend, explore advanced debugging and unit testing techniques for building components that work across Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).

Shawn Oster

Adding Microsoft Silverlight to Your Company's Skill Set

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Discover how your team of Web designers and developers can add Silverlight to their toolbox without starting from scratch. Learn how to add the Microsoft Expression suite to your creative team's process and how to get your team of UI Developers, Flash Programmers, and Microsoft .NET experts working with Silverlight.

Noah Gedrich
Noah oversees all BLITZ server-side engineering, Flash and Silverlight development, integration practices, functional and technical quality control, and technical project development. Noah serves as the main Engineering and Software Development contact for the Business Development, Marketing and Account Management groups. Before joining BLITZ, Noah designed, developed and managed the technical architecture of database-driven movie marketing and social networking community websites both flash and html-based. His work on the website for the theatrical release of “Terminator 3,” began the trend of using user-generated content in web-based marketing for films. The culmination of that work was developing the web-based fan club for the cult hit Napoleon Dynamite, which topped 300,000 registered users in 6 months for Fox Searchlight Pictures. Noah’s work has garnered him numerous Clio, One Show and SXSW awards as well as an Award of Excellence in Communication Arts Interactive Annual. Noah’s experience ranges through concepting, architecture and development of web sites and site features for clients in fields as varied as automotive, entertainment, finance and consumer product. He has also been responsible for developing numerous internal business tools as well as budgeting, setting up and maintaining strategic corporate IT initiatives. Prior to kicking off his “professional” career, he taught web-development to underclassmen at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in his role as a teaching assistant. Noah is also a classically trained violinist and has played in many of the eastern seaboard’s largest concert halls, including Carnegie Hall in New York, The Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.
Ken Martin
As Chief Creative Officer, Ken is recognized as a thought leader for the experience economy as he works with top brands to identify trends and opportunities, fuse insights with ideas, and redefine the audience’s experience. He works with BLITZ’s top client list to conceptualize results-driven, brand-centric, campaigns and applications that entertain while they inform. With a diehard focus on quality and visual impact, Ken’s purpose is to drive the agency’s creative mind-set and vision from original concepts through final deliveries, setting the strategies for finish-line solutions which deliver measurable results. Ken has been involved in the conceptual development and design of interactive campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Google, GE, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Warner Bros., Electronic Arts, LucasArts and many more. His talents and experience have led to great success for client projects, which have won countless awards including OneShow, KeyArt, London International Advertising Awards, SXSW, Flashforward Film Festival, FWA, ADDYs, HBO Comedy Festival. Prior to BLITZ, Ken co-founded Silicon Valley-based, eStudio, an innovative interactive content developer. He was instrumental in raising $5M in venture capital. An avid entrepreneur even at age 15, Ken founded SignWorks and sold the business at age 18. Eleven years later, SignWorks is still going strong in the digital sign industry. When not at the office, Ken resides in Southern California with his wife, Ruth, and their three sons, Ethan, Gavin, and Colin. Ken has also been rumored to shred at Guitar Hero.

Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

The new Windows 7 desktop experience, including the new taskbar and Aero Snap, is both a major user experience change for Windows and an early success story. How did we go about evolving pieces of UI that haven't seen major change since 1995? Come hear about our design process and see the evolution of the design through sketches and prototypes. Find out about our challenges and learn how we used iteration, developer collaboration and design principles to increase customer satisfaction and enthusiasm.

Stephan Hoefnagels
Stephan Hoefnagels is a Senior UX Designer on the Windows team and is one of the key designers behind many of the new Windows 7 desktop features including the new taskbar, Aero Peek and Aero Snap. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2004, Stephan spent some time at Philips in the Netherlands, and Hewlett-Packard in the UK. Stephan received his master’s degree cum laude in Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology in 2003.

Web Form Design

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear key considerations and best practices for Web form design based on international usability testing, eye-tracking studies, and over ten years of designing Web applications. Learn how the interaction and visual design of Web forms can make the difference between acquiring a customer and completing a transaction or not.

Luke Wrobleski
LukeW is an internationally recognized Web thought leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 600 million people. He is currently Senior Director of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. where he leads the design of the world's most accessed Web page (Yahoo.com) and many other popular products including My Yahoo! and Yahoo! Buzz. Luke is the author of two popular Web design books: Web Form Design (2008) and Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability (2002). He also publishes Functioning Form, a leading online publication for interaction designers. Luke is consistently a top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and is a co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA). Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also foundedLukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how to improve your Web application performance in the browser by avoiding common pitfalls in JavaScript, CSS, and HTTP caching techniques.

John Hrvatin
John Hrvatin is a lead program manager on the Internet Explorer Team. His work focuses on developer tools and platform performance and he’s spoken at several Microsoft conferences about these and other topics.

The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Hear Dan Roam talk about persuading people with pictures. Whether convincing leadership to back a project, getting a VC to fund a business, building consensus on a project team, or selling a new technology platform within an organization, nothing is more powerful than a simple picture for discovering and developing technological concepts and business ideas. This session shows how to use the pictures we've created to persuade other people to take action.

Dan Roam
Dan Roam is the bestselling author of THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN: SOLVING PROBLEMS AND SELLING IDEAS WITH PICTURES. Amazon rated THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN the # 5 business book of 2008, while BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and the London Times all voted it the best creativity and innovation book of the year. Dan has helped leaders at Microsoft, Wal-Mart, Boeing, and the United States Senate solve complex problems through visual thinking. Dan and his whiteboard have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, Fox News, and NPR.

Build Applications on the Microsoft Platform Using Eclipse, Java, Ruby and PHP!

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how Microsoft has delivered multiple technologies that focus on interoperability with non-Microsoft and Open Source technologies. Learn how to use the Eclipse tools today to build Silverlight applications that run on PCs and Macs, how to develop using combinations of Java, Ruby and PHP in addition to the standard Microsoft languages, and how Microsoft's commitment to openness with the Azure Services Platform and the use of claims-based identity supports heterogeneous identity systems.

Vijay Rajagopalan
Vijay Rajagopalan is a Principal Architect in the Microsoft Interoperability team with the Platform & Interoperability Strategy division at Microsoft. His team is chartered to create & drive Interoperability Initiative across the company. His team collaborates with the Standards & Competitive Strategy teams at Microsoft on a number of projects – some recent interoperability efforts that were driven by his team include the Silverlight Tools for Eclipse, Cross Platform SDK for Azure Services Platform, OpenXML, Federated Identity & CardSpace. Vijay has about 15 years of experience in the enterprise space, has worked with customers and partners such as Oracle, SAP, Siebel, Intel, Fujitsu, Microfocus, Accenture among others; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, most of it in the enterprise space and spent 3 years as a Architect for Visual Studio Extensibility. His areas of interest are broadly in Software + Service, Formats & Protocol Interoperability, Federated Identity, data management, Domain Specific Languages, management of metadata and operational management but most of all in driving business value from technology investments.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come see how Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 enables building Web applications that take advantage of new features in the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Hear about the features that make building an MVC and Dynamic Data application easier, how to build an N-Tier solution with the Entity Framework, and how to better take advantage of it within your Web application.

Pablo Castro

Touch and Gesture Computing, What You Haven't Heard

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn about new patterns, behaviors, and design approaches for touch and gesture interfaces from a practitioners point of view. Learn early lessons from applied knowledge of touch applications, devices, and design methods.

Joseph Fletcher
Joe Fletcher is a User Experience Manager at Microsoft Surface and a recognized international speaker. He holds design to three core principles; Connection & Communication, Altering & Adapting behaviors, and Equivalent Exchange. His current passion is looking deeper into touch, gesture, and social computing. When not working on Microsoft Surface or traveling, he’s reading up on design and culture. He also enjoys finding parallels between the Design profession and the oddest of fields.

Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come learn about Microformats and why we built the Oomph toolkit to make it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. Also hear how you can get more involved with Microformats.

Tim Aidlin
Tim Aidlin came to Microsoft with years of freelance and agency experience in the Seattle area, designing next-generation consumer and e-commerce websites. Now a UX Designer for MIX Online, with his team, Tim looks toward the horizon to discover and explore emerging web scenarios, creates software prototypes around these scenarios, and open-sources the designs and code to the community … all in hopes of fostering communication and enthusiasm for the web. In addition, Tim is the Creative Director for the MIX09 and the MIX conferences. He loves his job.

User Experience Design for Non-Designers

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come participate in a discussion about changes in interface technology and a process for creating innovative user experiences that involve design briefs, brainstorming, feedback, ideation, composites, and production.

Shawn Konopinsky
Shawn Konopinsky is an award-winning team leader with a passion for finding creative software solutions to business problems and head of Infusion’s User Experience practice. He has extensive experience working with clients to understand their business needs and translating them into effective and engaging interfaces. His skills were honed as a Program Manager for Microsoft Office before joining Infusion in 2006. Shawn has been a specialist in the field of interactive interface design for over five years and has been focused on Microsoft Surface since the release of Surface in 2007. Shawn holds a BSc in Computer Science with a focus on Human/Computer Interaction from University of Toronto.

Effective Infographics with Interactivity

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Infographics (short for Information Graphics) are part design, part data visualization. Come hear how we created the Descry set of data visualizations as well as tips for creating effective infographics in software.

Joshua Allen

Optimizing Performance for Microsoft Expression Encoder

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

See demonstrations of how to fine tune your media for best encoding and Microsoft Silverlight playback performance. Learn encoding best practices to make sure your video playback is as fast and smooth as possible.

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.

Ten Ways to Ensure RIA Failure

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Explore the lessons learned and pitfalls of inefficient workflows, worst practices, and poor communication that will ensure the demise of any software project. Anthony Franco gives tips and examples on how to avoid the broken philosophies and misguided ideas that are certain to run a project into the ground.

Anthony Franco
Anthony Franco is the president of EffectiveUI, the leading provider of rich Internet, desktop and mobile applications for Fortune 1000 companies. He has an extensive background in providing award-winning RIAs and user experience consulting to Enterprise companies. An industry veteran with 10+ years of experience, Anthony began developing RIAs for Warner Brothers in 1998. He has also authored several industry white papers and articles, including an Adobe Flex business guide published by O’Reilly Media. EffectiveUI’s client portfolio includes Ford Motor Company, Dow Jones, GE, Adobe, United Airlines, NBC Universal and Discovery Networks.

Automated User Interface (UI) Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear about the new Visual Studio Team System 2010 tools and APIs for helping test a broad range of UIs that can consist of Winforms, AJAX, and Windows Presentation Foundation. See how to use Team System 2010 to ensure UI and application quality.

Brian Keller

What's New for Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Developers in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Take a tour of new Visual Studio 2010 enhancements that will help developers build more compelling applications and be more productive. See demos that focus on Silverlight apps and also directly apply to WPF apps.

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.

Standards for Aggregating Activity Feeds and Social Aggregation Services

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear a broad panel discussion about aggregating social feeds and services from leading people and companies in this rapidly evolving area including Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft as panel moderator, John McCrea from Plaxo, Kevin Marks from Google, Luke Shepard from Facebook, Marc Canter from Broadband Mechanics, and Monica Keller from MySpace.

Luke Shepard
Luke joined Facebook two years ago, and has worked on various products across the site, most recently on Facebook Connect. He is Facebook’s representative on the OpenID Foundation board. He is passionate about maintaining privacy and making the internet easy to use. Before Facebook he worked at Amazon and went to school at Univ of Chicago.
John McCrea
Marc Canter
Marc Canter, CEO of Broadband Mechanics (BBM) is a 25+ year veteran of the software business. BBM is a boutique social networking design and platform shop - specializing in building systems that support the open stack, custom semi-private networks and strategic thinking. Marc is an advocate of open social networking, open standards and what he calls the 'open mesh'. A speaker and panel moderator at many conferences around the world, Marc is not afraid to ask the hard questions which highlight the desire for users to control their own data and software developers to not be locked into web 1.0 strategies. Marc was the co-founder of MacroMind, which became Macromedia. While with MacroMind Marc helped develop: - the world's first multimedia player - now known as Flash, originally called Shockwave. The original player was the VideoWorks player - first created in Dec. 1984. Every Macintosh shipped with a player disc from 1986. - the world's first multimedia authoring system. Before MacroMind multimedia was created by programming. MacroMind helped introduce (along with Apple's Hypercard) the notion of end-user 'authoring' - where a simple scripting language and a timeline notional system were utilized to get images, sounds, animations and video synchronized and interactive - over time. First available in 1987. - the world's first cross-platform authoring system - popularizing the notion of "author once, play back many places". Content developers could create their interactive applications once, and play them back on Macintoshs or PCs. That was back in 1989. Mentioned in several books, a leading blogger and web personality - Marc is also known as a father of five kids and Reggae enthusiast.
Kevin Marks
Monica Keller
Dare Obasanjo

File|New -> Company: Creating NerdDinner.com with Microsoft ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC)

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

No slides. Just code. Start with File|New and build a real Web site with ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Authentication, Authorization, MVC, Microsoft SQL Server and jQuery in sixty-five minutes or less.

Scott Hanselman

Offline Network Detection in Microsoft Silverlight 3

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how to structure Silverlight applications to support a sometimes connected scenario, and learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of implementing network detection.

Peter Smith
Peter Smith is a new Program Manager at Microsoft in the .Net Networking group but an long time networking developer on a diverse set of applications ranging from networked simulations and statistical programs to occasionally-connected, self-updating catalog programs for a popular gaming company.

Delivering Media with Internet Information Services 7 (IIS) Media Services and Microsoft Silverlight

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

See how to deliver media with the best user experience in a cost-effective, scalable, and highly manageable way. Learn how to expand your reach and improve quality using Smooth Streaming, how to save on bandwidth, and how to maintain control when using Progressive Download. Understand how IIS Media Services and WMS light up the media ecosystem from encoding to playback.

John Bishop
John Bishop is a co-founder of Inlet Technologies and currently serves as Inlet’s senior VP of strategy and business development. He is recognized as a digital video industry expert with well over a decade of experience in the digital media space. Under Mr. Bishop’s leadership, Inlet has grown from industry pioneer to industry leader, and has developed strong partnerships with other leading companies in the space, including Microsoft, Akamai and Adobe. Mr. Bishop’s strategy at Inlet has been to focus on development of products that offer greater automation, higher media production capacity, greater efficiency and an overall higher quality of media experience. He has emphasized the development of software that minimizes an organization’s need for onsite video encoding expertise. Prior to joining Inlet, John served as the Director of Business Development and Product Management for Osprey Technologies (acquired by ViewCast Corporation). There, he identified and developed key market partnerships and opportunities resulting in multiple consecutive revenue growth quarters. He has contributed to numerous digital media publications, and authored white papers and industry presentations.
John Bocharov
John A. Bocharov is a Program Manager on Microsoft's IIS team, with a focus on Smooth Streaming and related Media technologies. After graduating from UC-Berkeley with a degree in Bioengineering, he opted to heed the call of Software and signed on with a small dot-com in San Francisco. He joined Microsoft in 2005 as a part of the Data Programmability team, where he delivered the Data Access Components for Windows Server 2008 and helped define the 1st release of the SQL Server Driver for PHP. John has been in his current Media-focused role for a year. He encourages listeners to follow up on any questions they may have by posting a comment on his blog (http://blogs.iis.net/jboch).

User Experience Design Patterns for Business Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear how creating great user experiences for business applications can result in both improved productivity and significant support cost savings. Learn how to use proven user experience patterns in cost effective ways with Silverlight 3, including rich data display, data input and advanced data validation, and application navigation.

Corrina Black
Corrina Black is the lead designer for the Silverlight platform and has recently been focused on understanding the unique value Silverlight enables for business applications.

Developing RESTful Services and Clients with "M"

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Learn how Web developers can use "M", a new language for describing data, metadata and domain specific languages, to enhance RESTful services like HTTP, JSON, RSS/Atom, and more. Also see how "M" can be used on premise or in the cloud to achieve greater development productivity and to create more compelling customer experiences.

Chris Sells
Douglas Purdy
Douglas Purdy is a product unit manager (Silicon Valley translation: Director of Engineering) at Microsoft working on next-generation languages and tools to broaden the franchise of people building applications. His vision is to “to make everyone a programmer (even if they don’t know it)”. Previously, Douglas was the group program manager for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF/WinOE), ASP.Net Web Services (ASMX) and .Net Remoting teams. Douglas has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.

Deep Dive into Microsoft Silverlight Graphics

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

Come hear about the Silverlight 3 rendering pipeline, and learn how to enhance your application experience with the latest additions to the Silverlight graphics APIs.

Seema Ramchandani
Seema is a PM on the Silverlight team in Redmond, where she works on the graphics system and optimizing the platform’s performance. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build WPF’s Controls and Panel system, and then moved to work on the platform’s hardware acceleration story. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, Seema worked on brain-computer interfaces at Brown.

Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote (and Other HCI Projects)

2009-03-23T17:02:03.857

The Wii remote is a sophisticated controller containing a variety of sensing capabilities. In this session, Johnny Lee covers several interaction techniques enabled by the Wii remote and explains how you can develop your own applications. Johnny also introduces a few of his other research projects in the broader domain of Human-Computer Interaction.

Johnny Lee
Johnny Chung Lee is a Researcher at Microsoft Applied Sciences. He is a recent graduate of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University and a winner of Technology Review’s TR35. Johnny’s past research has explored a variety of input and output technologies, ranging from multi-touch systems, spatially augmented reality, haptics, immersive audio, to brain-computer interfaces. A theme throughout his work has been to increase the accessibility and reach of interactive technology. His recent projects with the Nintendo Wii remote have startled and inspired the education and gaming communities, demonstrating simple, yet powerful ideas that are readily accessible to millions of people around the world.