PDC's just out of the way and it's already time to start thinking about MIX. I saw this logo on the website and thought we were going to be expected to run a 10K in the desert. Fortunately it's 10K of storage and a challenge to do as much as you can with only 10k. There's also the traditional restyle challenge to redesign the MIX home page. Both challenges carry prizes including entry to MIX 09 and hotel accommodation.

Location: The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas (no surprises these)

Dates: 18-20th March

Website: http://2009.visitmix.com/

Workshops already announced:

• Black Belt Web Standards (Nate Koechley / Molly Holzschlag)
• Harmonizing Designer / Developer Workflow (Robby Ingebretsen / Rick Barraza, Jose Fajardo and Michael Wolf)

Sessions already announced

• C# for Designers (AGI)
• Escaping Flatland in Application Design: Visualizing Data (Peter Eckert — projekt202; Eric Gould Bear — projekt202)
• From Concept to Production: Design Workflow with Microsoft Expression Studio (Christian Schormann — Microsoft Corporation)
• The Future of Microsoft Expression Blend (Doug Olson — Microsoft Corporation)
• Go Beyond Best Practices: Evolving Next Practices to Prosper in the 21st Century (Lou Carbone)
• Improving UX through Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) (Christian Thilmany — Microsoft Corporation; Chris Bernard — Microsoft Corporation)
• Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote (and Other HCI Projects) (Johnny Lee — Microsoft Corporation)
• Making Wireframes Work (Bill Scott)
• Microsoft Expression Web: No Platform Left Behind (Wayne Smith — Microsoft Corporation)
• Microsoft Surface: Designing for a New Interactive Era (Joseph Fletcher)
• Optimizing Your Applications with Touch
• The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures (Dan Roam — Digital Roam, Inc.)
• Web Form Design (Luke Wrobleski — Yahoo! Inc.)