The computing forecast, quips WaveMaker CEO Chris Keene, calls for continuing heavy clouds. But what are the technical issues for building AJAX applications in the cloud? What is the most productive way to build AJAX applications for deployment to EC2? These and allied enterprise IT questions will be answered in Keene's upcoming session at the 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo, to be held October 20-22, 2008, in San Jose, California.

Entitled "Cloudy AJAX: Putting RIAs on EC2," Keene's session will draw on lessons learned building enterprise applications using Dojo, Spring and other open source technologies.

Keene is Chairman and CEO of WaveMaker (formerly ActiveGrid). He was the founder, in 1991, of Persistence Software, a San Mateo, CA-based company that created a new approach for managing data in high-transaction banking and communications systems. Persistence Software investors included Cisco, Intel, Reuters and Sun Microsystems. The company went public in 1999 on the NASDAQ exchange and was sold in 2004 to Progress software.

After leaving Persistence Software in 2005, Keene spent a year in France as chairman of Reportive Software, a Paris-based maker of business-intelligence tools, and as an adjunct professor and entrepreneur-in-residence at INSEAD, a leading graduate business school.

He joins a star-studded speaker line-up at the conference, including:

• The CTO of Adobe - Kevin Lynch (keynote)
• Microsoft's Silverlight boss - Scott Guthrie (keynote)
• The discoverer of JSON and Architect at Yahoo - Douglas Crockford
• The creator of jQuery - John Resig
• Senior Evangelist, Amazon - Jeff Barr
• Principal Information Architect at Travelocity - Adam Polansky
• Developer Advocate, Google - Chris Schalk
• CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM - David Boloker
• Group PM for the UI Framework and Services, Microsoft - Scott Abrams
• Architect at eBay - Michael Galpin
• Director, User Interface Engineering at Netflix - Bill Scott
• VP of Engineering at TripIt.com - Andy Denmark
• Principal Software Developer, Red Hat - Thomas Heute
• Operations Manager of the OpenAjaxAlliance - John Ferraiolo
• Chief dragon-wrangler for Komodo - Shane Caraveo
• UI Engineer & Architect at Orbitz Worldwide - Mike Meeker
• Chairman & CEO of WaveMaker - Chris Keene
• Chief Strategy Officer of Curl - Jnan Dash
• CTO of Pathfinder Development - Dietrich Kappe
• Founder & Chairman of Nexaweb - Coach Wei
• Aptana's AJAX Architect - Greg Murray
• VP of WebEx Connect - David Knight
• Co-founder and CEO of Kaazing - Jonas Jacobi
• Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun - Arun Gupta
• Senior Engineer and Designer, Yahoo! - Nate Koechley
• President and senior trainer at Object Training Group - James Harmon
• Lead Developer of the Qcodo Framework for PHP - Michael Ho
• Lead Software Architect for ILOG - Christophe Jolif
• Front-end architect at Nethouse AB - Peter Svensson
• VP of Business Development at CommuniGate Systems - Jon Doyle
• Sr. Developer at Magnani Caruso Dutton - Mike Girouard
• UI Architect at Edream Solutions - Sue Googe
• System Operations Manager at EngineYard - Yehuda Katz
• Co-Founder & COO of Concept Solutions - John Krahulec
• Principal Engineer, VeriSign - Karthik Shyamsunder
• Co-Founder & COO of Finicity - Nicholas Thomas
• Principal Consultant, Experience Design at Molecular - Evan Gerber
• Web Theorist, IBM - Andrew Donoho
• President of IDC Consulting - John Fronckowiak
• Tech Lead of the Spring Faces project - Jeremy Grelle
• Senior Consultant at SpringSource - Rossen Stoyanchev
• Editor-in-chief of iPhone Developer's Journal - Kevin Hoffman
• Development Team Lead for the EGL Rich UI - Chris Laffra
• Development Manager, UI Framework and Services, Microsoft - Matt Gibbs
• Managing Partner of Catalyst Resources - Paul Giurata
• Host of iPhoneWebDev.com - Christopher Allen
• Co-founder of M/Gateway - Rob Tweed
• Consultant, OneStopAppSecurity.com - Neil Smithline
• Senior Research Analyst at Info-Tech - Howard Kiewe
• Founder & CEO of OpenLink Software - Kingsley Idehen
• Senior User Experience Designer at OneSpring - Laurie Gray