In the City by the Bay for Web 2.0 Expo

We’re sending a number of our top technologists up the road to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week. Among the 11 speakers across Yahoo!’s properties who’ll be there, here’s where you can find Ari Balogh, Yahoo! Chief Technology Officer, Neal Sample, Chief Architect of the Open Platform, and Dustin Whittle, Technical Yahoo! and symfony evangelist.

Wednesday, April 23rd
Time: 10:50 — 11:40 a.m.
Location: 2nd Level Lobby
Topic: A Symfony Answer
Yahoo!: Dustin Whittle

Dustin will discuss how to work with open source tools to create a complete framework (PHP, JS, CSS) for the enterprise. He’ll use his experience redeveloping Yahoo! Answers with symfony and Yahoo! User Interface libraries as a case study.

Thursday, April 24th
Time: 10 — 10:15 a.m.
Location: 3rd Level Keynote Ballroom
Topic: Yahoo! and Open Platforms
Yahoo!: Ari Balogh

Ari, Yahoo!’s new CTO, will give a 15-minute keynote presentation on Yahoo! and open platforms.

Friday, April 25th
Time: 1:30 — 2:20 p.m.
Location: Expo Hall
Topic: Yahoo! and Open Platforms — A Deeper Dive
Yahoo!: Neal Sample

Neal will expand on Ari’s keynote by giving a deeper dive into Yahoo! and open platforms.

If you can’t attend the presentations, please feel free to stop by our Yahoo! Developer Network booth (#901) in the Expo Hall. Yahoo! Search, along with a number of other product teams, will be on hand to answer questions and do demos of our latest products.

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