This presentation by Kevin Hakman at the upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo (March 19-21, 2007, New York City), is a comprehensive discussion on the way we built Web applications yesterday is rapidly changing. As a developer, you now need a new set of baseline skills to keep up amidst a plethora of XML, SOAP, JSON, and other types of information services which are being exposed, consumed, mashed up and processed in new and innovative ways. And it’s happening not just with Google and craigslist, but also within businesses of all sizes. In this session, General Interface co-founder and director if product marketing for TIBCO Software Inc., Kevin Hakman, will discuss these new Web architectures and how you can evolve the classic three-tier Web application model toward a full service-oriented application stack complete with AJAX Rich Internet Application GUIs to deliver a new generation of more powerful, more scalable, and more richly featured Web applications.

Speaker Bio: Kevin Hakman is Co-founder, TIBCO General Interface, TIBCO Software Inc. Prior to TIBCO General Interface, he was the co-founder of Versalent Inc. a leading provider of enterprise client technology. Prior to Versalent, he founded a series of successful emerging Internet technology and ecommerce ventures. He has also written for eBusiness Journal and HotWired.

AJAXWorld Receives The Largest Number of Sponsor Support 
For Its March 2007 New York City Event
SYS-CON Events also announced the other "charter sponsors" of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 East, which included; Laszlo Systems (Diamond Sponsor), JackBe (Platinum Sponsor), Adobe (Platinum Sponsor), Cynergy (Platinum Sponsor), Google (Gold Sponsor), Nexaweb (Gold Sponsor), ICEsoft (Gold Sponsor), Sun Microsystems (Silver Sponsor), Parasoft (Silver Sponsor), Lightstreamer (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),  IT Mill (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),  FrogLogic (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor),  Zapatec (Exhibitor Plus Sponsor), and Manning Publications (AJAX Book Sponsor).

The first international AJAXWorld Conference & Expo was sponsored by Adobe, Amazon, Apress, Backbase, ComponentArt, Cynergy Systems, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, JackBe, Laszlo Systems, Nexaweb, OASIS, Parasoft, Sun, telerik, TIBCO, U7 Web Technologies, Visible Measures, Zapatec; including media sponsors AJAX Matters, AJAXWorld Magazine, BZ Media, ColdFusion Developer's Journal, DevtownStation.com, Eclipse Developer's Journal, Eclipse Review, Enterprise Open Source Magazine, Integration Developer News, ITtoolbox.com, Java Developer's Journal, LinuxWorld.com, Methods & Tools, Network World, Open Enterprise Trends, Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal, SD Times, Software Test & Performance, SOA Web Services Journal, SYS-CON.TV, Web 2.0 Journal, and Web Developer's & Designer's Journal.

Exhibit and Sponsorship Opportunities
AJAXWorld Conference & Expo is sponsored by leading technology vendors. Information on advertising, sponsorship and exhibit opportunities can be obtained by e-mail at events(at)sys-con.com or by phone at 201 802-3020.