Jon Ferraiolo will introduce the industry consortium that drives AJAX standards and interoperability: the OpenAjax Alliance. He will provide an overview of recent accomplishments, particularly OpenAjax Hub 1.0, but focus on new initiatives. Among the new initiatives are two mashup-related efforts: OpenAjax Hub 1.1, which is adding secure mashup and Comet support (extending existing features in Hub 1.0, which focused on simple publish/subscribe APIs), and the Gadgets Task Force, which is working on standards and open source around 'widgets' (i.e., mashup components). Ferraiolo will also review other OpenAjax initiatives, including IDE standards, AJAX security, Mobile AJAX and runtime advocacy.