The speaker list for this year's AjaxWorld Conference & Expo has been announced and one of Zend's own, Andi Gutmans is on the list:

more than a dozen high-caliber speakers lined up by SYS-CON Events to speak in the "RIAs in Action" track at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West taking place next month at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - one of just ten simultaneous content-rich tracks at biggest version yet of the world's leading AJAX, Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event.

Andi will be giving a talk with Bradford Cottel covering the creation of rich internet applications with the Zend Framework as a backend. They'll introduce the language and how the framework makes it simple to create a rich application, including a demo app.