I’m going to be at Microsoft’s MIX10 conference, which takes place from Monday, March 15th through Wednesday, March 17th at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, where I’ll be catching sessions and posting photos and reports. If you can spare a couple of days off work to attend Mix10, you should too – and soon, because the early bird discount is going to evaporate very soon!
What is MIX?
The email sigs for people involved with MIX claim that it’s a “designer/developer lovefest for the web”, and I think it’s a pretty one-line summary of the event. It’s a conference for people who develop and design for the web, with particular attention paid to user interface and experience. This will be the 5th MIX conference, the first one having been held in 2006.
What Sort of Sessions Will There Be at MIX10?
Here’s a selection of some of the sessions and workshops at MIX10:
- Boot camps on up-and coming frameworks, such as Silverlight 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2
- Molly Holzschlag’s all-day HTML5 workshop
- Sessions on user experience such as:
- Technology sessions such as
There are some other cool things happening at MIX10 that I can’t talk about until the conference. Be there, or if you can’t, watch this space!
You Get to Vote!
You can help choose some of the content for MIX10! We took a number of submissions for presentations in an open call for content, and now it’s time to vote for them. You can see all the submissions here, and voting ends on Friday, January 15th.
Early-Bird Discount
If you register for MIX10 by January 15th, you’ll save US$600 off the admission and pay only US$795 – and you’ll also get a free night at the conference hotel, Mandalay Bay! After the 15th, the price goes up to a full US$1395, so if you want to go, register now!
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