Google will help host SVG Open 2009 conference covering such topics as design workflows, Web app development, and geolocation-based services Emphasizing its support of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and the so-called Open Web, Google will help host the SVG Open 2009 conference in October, pitching it as the “premier forum” for SVG designers, developers, and implementers.Planned for Oct. 2-5, 2009, at company facilities in Mountain View, Calif., the event will cover topics such as design workflows, mobile SVG, Web application development and geolocation-based services. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) members will participate including Google, IBM, Mozilla, Opera, and Oracle.[ Also on InfoWorld: Could HTML 5 kill Microsoft’s Silverlight and Adobe’s Flash? | Cut straight to the key news for technology development and IT management with our once-a-day summary of the top tech news. Subscribe to the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. ] “At Google we’re excited about Scalable Vector Graphics,” said Brad Neuberg, of the Google Developer Team, in a blog entry on Monday.Neuberg wrote, “SVG is an open, browser-based standard that makes it easy to create interactive Web graphics with new HTML-like tags such as the Circle tag. We like it because it’s part of the HTML 5 family of technologies while being search engine-friendly; easy for JavaScript and HTML developers to adopt; exportable from your favorite drawing tools like Adobe Illustrator and straightforward to emit from server-side systems like PHP and Google App Engine. It’s also available in all modern browsers.”The theme of the event is “SVG Coming of Age.” Some of the talks include: Beyond HTMLAJAX Toolkits supporting SVG graphics: Raphael, dojo, Ample SDK, SVG Web Project, JSXGraphSVG in Internet Explorer at GoogleSVG for Mobile Applications Software DevelopmentTechnology Industry