If you wonder what Microsoft is doing in terms of new user experience and web technologies, you should certainly add ReMix09 to your calendar. During this free one-day event, international speakers will present sessions on SketchFlow, Expression Blend, Surface, User Experience and Natural User Interface. For developers, there will be technical sessions on Silverlight 3, building RIAs and ASP.NET. Some of the speakers are :

August de los Reyes (UX & NUI) Arturo Toledo (UX) Adam Kinney (Blend & SketchFlow) Brad Abrams (Silverlight & RIA) Maarten Balliauw (ASP.NET)

ReMix09 should be interesting for web developers, information architects, designers, UX professionals, and digital marketers who shares an interest on what is coming next on the web. As Microsoft’s Gold Partner, Emakina Group will be part of this event with a preview of The Reference’s innovating project ‘the Message Center’ for Synergics, and a video introduction by Brice Le Blevennec during the opening keynote. ReMix09 will take place on September 29th (from 9:00 to 16:30) at Kinepolis Brussels and you can register here.

Last week at the Convergence Web conference, the AWT asked us to present our vision of the Internet for the next ten years. Very ambitious proposal but the problem is we have no crystal ball and, like a wise man once said: always avoid to make predictions, especially about the future. Anyway, we tried to detect and explain ten major trends that are probably shaping the future of the new media scene. Just tell us in the comments what you think of our analysis.

10 Major Trends in the Internet View more OpenOffice presentations from awt.

Our partner Siruna is part of the programme at the 5th M-Forum organised by the AWT (Agence Wallonne des Telecoms) on 17th December. This presentation will be followed by a case study on how Siruna and Emakina/Mobile developed together a cross-platforms mobile search engine for Truvo. Info and registration on AWT website.

Remember our “members get members” action for Keytrade Bank? Thibault de Barsy, Sales & Marketing Director at Keytrade Bank, will present this very successful campaign as part of the the next IAB Net Café that will talk about “online for a small budget” this thursday. Info and registration here.

Poster by Emakina!

Mobile Internet is now a reality. With the rise of 3G networks and new multimedia devices like the iPhone, web is invading your cell phone and offers an unlimited range of opportunities to interact with your customers anywhere, anytime. But what are the concrete possibilities brought by mobile to promote your brand, your products or your services? How can you integrate a mobile channel into your media strategy efficiently? Just attend this event on 28th November and discover why mobile is next big thing in interactive marketing. During this 12th Emakina Academy, you will learn: - How cell phones are turning into always-on social networks - How Telenet and VRT successfully deployed their services on mobile - How Truvo turned its famous directories into mobile search engines - How French newspaper Libération reaches a new audience thanks to mobile - How to convert your website into a mobile platform compatible with any handheld device Want to attend this event? Two sessions, two dates: - 28/11 in Brussels from 9.30 to 14.00 - 11/12 in Ghent from from 14.00 to 16.40 Full agenda and registration in the Event section of our website.

As a publicly traded company, we participate this year to the “Finance Avenue” event that is set this 25th October in Brussels (Tour & Taxi). If you plan to visit this fair, don’t miss our corporate presentation in the special track on Alternext and Marché Libre companies. Info and registration here.

As the “Revue du Droit des Technologies de l’Information” celebrates its 10th birthday this year, the FUNDP organize this Friday a colloqium on the new legal issues brought by the Web 2.0 applications and services. Brice Le Blévennec, President of Emakina, will open the programme with a presentation on the Web 2.0 phenomenon. Info and registration here.

Technofutur TIC organizes the third edition of its “Forum e-Tourisme” on 7th October next week. We’ll be there to present the new version of the Thomas Cook website, developed by our colleagues of The Reference. Info and registration here.

The 4th IAB Congress is set on 7th October at Kinepolis Brussels. This year, the selected theme is “toys or tools”: in ten years, online has shifted from the “toy for boy” to the “tool for marketeer” status. But what are today’s interactive “toys” that we will use as “tools” in the future? Brice Le Blévennec (Emakina) and Jo Caudron (One Agency), aka the Statler and Waldorf of the Belgian Internet scene, will try to answer this question in a joint keynote that will explore ten years of toys and tools on the Internet. Info and registration on http://www.roulartaseminars.be.

If you live in Belgium you definitely should attend this Brussels’ chapter fifth edition of Yulbiz, an occasional gathering for professional bloggers, this saturday september 20th from 4PM to 8PM at this new trendy place for digital art, iMal, located 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels. It is organised by Vinch, one of Belgium’ most famous blogger and Emakina fellow. For this edition Vinch cooked up an interesting agenda, with presentations from DoYouBuzz (4.30PM), Doxys (4.50PM), Cityplug (5.10PM), iStockCV (5.30PM) and a demo of the new Spore video game by Electronic Arts (5.50PM) ; contests by CineNews (free movie tickets) and ContactOffice (free Advanced accounts)! Vinch will also distribute Packman Tees to the game top players (more explanations). If you are coming, please join the Yulbiz Brussels Facebook Group.

If you live in Belgium you definitely should attend this Brussels’ chapter fifth edition of Yulbiz, an occasional gathering for professional bloggers, this saturday september 20th from 4PM to 8PM at this new trendy place for digital art, iMal, located 30 Quai des Charbonnages, 1080 Brussels. It is organised by Vinch, one of Belgium’ most famous blogger and Emakina fellow. For this edition Vinch cooked up an interesting agenda, with presentations from DoYouBuzz (4.30PM), Doxys (4.50PM), Cityplug (5.10PM), iStockCV (5.30PM) and a demo of the new Spore video game by Electronic Arts (5.50PM) ; contests by CineNews (free movie tickets) and ContactOffice (free Advanced accounts)! Vinch will also distribute Packman Tees to the game top players (more explanations). If you are coming, please join the Yulbiz Brussels Facebook Group.

Emakina and The Reference are very keen on participating to the relaunch of Mobile Monday in Belgium. Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential individuals active in over 60 cities globally. Mobile Monday plays as a catalyst for mobile innovation with “grassroots” as main keyword. This first edition of Mobile Monday “2.0″ is set on 22nd September from 18.30 onwards. If you’re interested in mobile technologies, we’d be happy to meet you around a glass in the trendy bar of the BeManos design hotel (in case of good weather, the gathering will move to the terraces on the 3rd floor). No corporate presentation, no suit, no tie. Only networking on a very informal basis. Other sponsors include Agoria, City Live, MobileWeb, Mobixx (IBBT) and Agence Wallonne des Telecoms. Want to join us? Drop an e-mail to register@mobilemonday.be. Hope to see you there.