We're going to try our first ever Saturday event so we have more than a couple of hours to talk JS.

Vodafone is hosting us for this event!

9:00 Registration/Meet & Greet

9:30 Introduction: Dylan Schiemann (SitePen, Dojo)
** London Ajax
** State of JS (the brief version)
** Agenda

9:40 Client-side JS
James Thomas (IBM): "Browser Data Stores"

Break

Andrew Betts (Assanka, Meteor): "Ajax Navigation: pitfalls and best practices"
Piotr Zalewa (JSFiddle, MooTools):
Ross Illingworth: "Require or Repeat, dependency management and simulating multiple threading"

12:00 Lunch

Lightning talks

13:30 Server-side JS
Dylan Schiemann (SitePen, Dojo): "A quick summary of Comet and server-side JavaScript toolkits and frameworks"
Radu-Florin Cojocaru (Vodafone): "Node.js vs PHP & Apache"
José Moreira (TweetIRC): "TweetIRC: A Node Knockout entry"

Break

JavaScript Performance
Ciaran Rooney (Skimlinks): "How to serve a JS file a Billion times a month"

Lightning talks

15:00 Mobile JS
Sanj Matharu (Vodafone, mobile widgets): "Vodafone Widget Run-time"
Dylan Schiemann (SitePen, Dojo): "Transforming Dojo from Web to Mobile"

Lightning talks

16:40-17:00 Wrap-up, Raffle prizes

17:00-? Union Bar

The event is sponsored by SitePen , Comet Daily , O'Reilly , Vodafone/ , Research in Motion and JSFiddle

Directions to the venue (Google Maps doesn't show it as the site is new):

PDF map

1. At Paddington station, walk towards the back of Platform 8, leave the station at the exit there...
2. Follow directions to the left, Sheldon Square, walk pass under the Bishop's Bridge Road
3. Follow through left, you will have reached the amphitheathre in the centre, continue left
4. You'll see the Kingdom Street, the first (only) only one on the left... Turn left, the 2nd building on the left