Call for Participation for XTech 2008

Proposals for presentations and tutorials are invited for XTech 2008, Europe’s premier web technologies conference. The deadline for submitting proposals is January 25th, 2008.

XTech 2008 will be held from May 6-9th 2008, in Dublin, Ireland.

XTech’s theme this year is “The Web on the Move”, focusing on the emerging portability of data, applications and identity on the internet. We will explore the benefits, issues, practicalities and fun of a web built on open standards, open source and commodity technology.

XTech presentations should inspire, educate and challenge. Your audience will be people like you, responsible for steering the technological direction of their organizations and the web as a whole.

Last year’s schedule can be viewed on the XTech 2007 web site.

Please direct any questions to the conference chair, Edd Dumbill.

View the calls for participation and submit a proposal

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Social platforms
  • Design patterns for social software
  • Social network interoperability
  • Internet application platforms (Facebook F8, OpenSocial, etc.)

• Identity management
  • OpenID
  • Practical security
  • OAuth

• Ajax
  • jQuery, YUI, other toolkits
  • Offline applications
  • Comet
  • Professional Javascript
  • Flex

• The web of data
  • Collective intelligence
  • Semantic technologies
  • Search
  • Markup and meaning
  • Freebase, Twine, Google Base
  • The place of XML on the web

• Data and databases
  • Client-side databases
  • REST-oriented databases (e.g. CouchDB)
  • XML and RDF
  • Messaging architectures
  • XQuery

• Operations and programming
  • Web application frameworks
  • Virtualization and appliances
  • Application scaling
  • Multicore and concurrency oriented programming

• Mobile devices
  • Commodity mobiles
  • Android, iPhone
  • Hardware hacking and personal prototyping
  • Geolocation
  • Getting the mobile mindset

(Note: DERI will be a co-host of this event.)