While the team continues getting ready for Mix09 coming up this week, we wanted to let you know about another unique opportunity coming up next week. On Thursday, March 26th, the IE team will host the Internet Explorer 8 FireStarter event. This is a one-day conference with IE8 talks from myself and other team members. If you are local to Redmond, we invite you to attend the event in person. Other options to attend are via Live Meeting or at a live streaming session hosted by your local user group. (Check with your INETA or Culminis associated user group.) Here is the schedule for the day (times are Pacific local time):
Session Name
Speaker
8:15 – 8:30
Kick off
Mithun Dhar
8:30 – 9:30
Keynote – A lap around IE8
Dean Hachamovitch
9:30 – 10:00
Creating value with IE8
Giorgio Sardo
10:00 – 10:15
Break
10:15 – 11:45
Trustworthy Browsing in Internet Explorer 8
Eric Lawrence
11:45 – 12:30
Lunch
12:30 – 1:30
Designing cross-browser websites using
Steven Guttman
1:30 – 2:00
Application Performance with IE8
John Hrvatin
2:00 – 2:15
2:15 - 3:15
Compatibility & Migration
Michel Barnett
3:15 – 3:45
IE8 Deployment
3:45 - 4:00
4:00 – 5:00
Browser War 2.0
David Tesar
We hope you can make it either in person or via Live meeting; however, a recording will be available after the event. More info is available here.
Thanks! John Hrvatin Program Manager