Announcing the Final Open Call For Content Sessions and Speakers

Posted Jan 19, 2010 by drsmith

150+ Sessions were submitted and voted on for MIX10 during the Open Call for Content.  Topics submitted explore design, web development or business around building innovative web sites. While it was not required to address Microsoft-specific technologies, entries were encouraged to consider interoperability. 

The MIX10 team is excited to invite the following speakers to present at this year’s event. The listing of speakers is in alphabetical order:

  • Damian Edwards and Tatham Oddie | Building Great Standards Based Websites for the Big Wide World with ASP.NET 4
  • Dan Wahlin | Syncing Audio, Video and Animations in Silverlight Applications
  • Elijah Manor | 6 Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know
  • Jim Zimmerman | Building Facebook Apps with .NET and Deploying to Azure
  • Joshua Blake | Developing Natural User Interfaces with Silverlight and WPF 4 Touch
  • K. Scott Allen | IronRuby for the .NET Developer
  • Kyle Baley | The OpenRasta Framework for Building RESTful Applications
  • Laurent Bugnion | Understanding the Model-View-ViewModel Pattern
  • Mario Meir-Huber | Microsoft Surface Goes Social – A Research Project at the University of Linz
  • Matthias Shapiro | Creating Effective Info Viz in Silverlight
  • Rob Eisenberg | Build Your Own MVVM Framework
  • Shawn Wildermuth | RIA Services and MVVM: It Can Happen!

15 Comments

  • It's always an adventure when you completely open up a number of sessions and completely take control away from the Microsoft team! Exciting to see some of these sessions; I'm particularly looking forward to the one on information visualization and to see what real-world insights the ASP.NET and standards speakers have to offer. And it certainly looks like MVVM is a popular topic - I think we're going to have to have some kind of 'vote off' for the best one of the three.

  • Congrats to the winners! Looks like MVVM is the big topic this year.

    See you all at MIX.

  • Congratulations to all the winners. Looks like this MIX is going to be great!

    see you there

  • That's a lot of MVVM...there were lots of other topics that (while they obviously didn't get the votes) would bring great information and variety to MIX and I'm still hopeful that they can find a way to incorporate some of the other favorites into MIX. Maybe I'll ask a few guys to hold their session in the commons. I was really looking forward to them.

  • For anyone who was interested in my session, I will be spending a lot of time in the commons at Mix.

  • great congrats to all those who got selected. 3 topics on MVVM something to look forward to.

  • Was being an MVP a requirement for the participation, I see only MVP's are selected.

  • I would venture to guess that their MVP status and name recognition got them enough votes to push them to the top. At least that's what I think.

  • I would be interested in talking to anyone that was doing one of the sharepoint 2010 sessions. I will be in the commons looking to chat about that and silverlight.

    Jonathan

  • Ace (gravatar)

    Ace said
    Jan 20 2010

    A few interesting talks, but a somewhat odd collection overall. Is voting really the best way to choose speakers? Seems open to all sorts of manipulation / distortion that's not in the best interests of attendees or Microsoft.

  • Possible MIXer (gravatar)

    Possible MIXer said
    Jan 20 2010

    Congratulations to the winners. Not to put a damper on things but I can't say I'm neither surprised or happy about the final list: In a popularity contest the .NET sessions would always win leaving everyone who is not a .NET/Silverlight/WPF dev out in the cold. Which is too bad beacuse the .NETers already have several conferences all to themselves including PDC and others while us desingers and web heads are left with only MIX.

    I wish there would be more stuff for us at "our" conference and I was hoping to see some other non-.NET stuff on the menu. Now I'm not so sure it's worth the trip any more.

  • I agree,

    I think voting was just a scam for marketing, I don't think voting had anything to do with the selection.

    All MVP's get selected who are already in the camp with Microsoft technology.

    I wonder whats the point of external speakers and topics, if you are still looking for same technology which will be presented over and over at microsoft sessions.

    disappointed

  • Hey guys, I am *not* an MVP, and I'm really excited to have made the cut. I know there were a lot of good session ideas that didn't make it too.

  • I'm not an MVP either. Unless someone never told me about it.

    But I did a huge amount of pushing online for my session.

  • same here. i am not an MVP and got enough votes ...

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