Developing with Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight Crash Course

I've just found this interesting track at the Web Directions conference that this year has some  Rich Internet Application tracks :

Developing with Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight

Web Directions focusses on practical and inspiring concepts, technologies and techniques for people whose day to day job is building web sites, applications and services. It’s for web designers, front and back end developers, product managers, Information Architects, and anyone else responsible for building great web solutions