Speaking Engagements

Following January's Mobile SVG extravaganza in New York City, I'll be speaking about SVG a few times in the coming months. First off, I'm flying out to Sydney to attend the first W3C SVG WG meeting of 2007, and incidentally speak briefly about Rich Mobile Experiences with SVG at MoMo Sydney, where some fellow Working Group members (Nandini Ramani from Sun, Andrew Emmons from BitFlash and Andrew Sledd from Ikivo) should be lending a hand presenting some very nice services that have been shipping in the last few weeks. Fast forwarding in May, I will be presenting about a session called Putting SVG and CDF to Use in an Internet Desktop Application at XTech 2007, the European XML Conference, held in Paris, my hometown. This talk will be about our experience with front-end XML languages in Joost:

The goal of this talk is to present how client-side XML technologies (SVG, (X)HTML, XUL, CSS, RDF, DOM and ECMAScript) were put to use to create a killer, multi-platform desktop application built around the Internet allowing television-watching via peer-to-peer networks: The Venice Project. The main points of this presentation will be to illustrate how the various XML grammars were put to use for different tasks, all within a unified XML presentation layer:

• SVG, DOM and ECMAScript for finely tuned, animated and highly interactive user interfaces that scale gracefully to any resolution and screen aspect ratio
• HTML, XUL and CSS for flexible control of the display of text content coming from remote data sources
• RDF, SPARQL and remote requests for data retrieval

The common thread within this talk will be to show as well that this technology mix is directly applicable within browser-based Web 2.0 applications as well.

There is another amazing event at which I'll be appearing in June, but it's too early to give out specifics, so I'll save that for a future post.

UPDATE: The MoMo Sydney website has a wrap-up of the event with pictures.