XML Conference & Exhibition 2005

Adlam, Marc - Director, SOA Program Office, Oracle Corporation, USA
Marc Adlam is a 10-year Oracle veteran focused exclusively on SOA. In addition to his work on making customers successful in their journey toward SOA, Marc also represents Oracle as a Voting Member in the OASIS Technical Committee for SOA Adoption Blueprints. A graduate of Georgetown University, he lives in San Diego with his wife and two children.

Adler, Sharon - Senior Manager, IBM Corporation, USA
Senior Manager, IBM Research, and Idealliance Board Member.

Ahuja, Ravi - DB2 Strategy Manager, IBM Information Management Software, IBM Corporation, USA
Bio coming soon.

Alschuler, Liora - Consultant, alschuler.spinosa, USA
Liora Alschuler is a developer of XML-based standards for electronic healthcare information and a consultant in their application for providers and system vendors. She is Co-chair, HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee responsible for HL7's Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), the first national standard for healthcare based on XML. As a project manager in 1997, she brought together and worked with the group that produced the Kona Architecture, adopted by HL7 as the basis for the CDA. Liora also Co-chairs the HL7 Board-appointed Marketing Committee. She designed and managed the HL7 HIMSS Interoperability Demo 1999-2003 and the healthcare track for the ebXML Proof of Concept in 2001. Liora wrote ABCD... SGML: A User's Guide to Structured Information, in 1995, and since that time has written and presented worldwide on SGML, XML and healthcare information exchange. Together with her consulting partner, John Spinosa, MD, Ph.D., she has developed product strategies for healthcare vendors and providers based on an XML document architecture.

Ambur, Owen - Co-Chair, XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP), USA
Owen Ambur co-founded and co-chairs the CIO Council's (CIOC) XML Community of Practice (xmlCoP), whose activities are documented at http://xml.gov. He also manages the CIOC's emerging technology life-cycle management process, hosted at http://et.gov/ He is a former vice chair and currently serves as a friend of the board of directors of the Federal Information and Records Managers Council (FIRM), a voluntary association of Federal information and records managers. Nearly half of his 32-year career in Federal service was spent on Capitol Hill, culminating as legislative director and chief of staff to Senator James Abdnor (R-SD). Subsequently, for more than seven years Owen served as Congressional liaison for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, where he directed the legislative program of the agency and implemented an electronic document management system in support of the program. The success and usefulness of that system led to his current assignment in the Division of Information Technology Management. Owen's undergraduate majors were psychology and sociology. He has done graduate work in psychology and holds a masters degree in computer systems management. He is a widely recognized expert in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and electronic records management. Many of his academic pursuits are documented on his personal home page at http://users.erols.com/ambur. He has been awarded recognition for technology leadership by the U.S. federal CIO Council. His current research focuses on why people, particularly those in positions of power, may not wish to have good records. His ongoing series of papers on that topic is available at http://mysite.verizon.net/ambur/index.html#recordkeeping

Antonov, Paul - CEO, Syntext, Inc., USA
Paul Antonov is a founder and CEO of Syntext Inc., which was established in 1999. Before that he headed the Engineering/Network Operations at Demos Co., historically the first and by then the largest Russian ISP. Paul was the first Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert in the ex-USSR.

Ariola, Wayne - Vice President of Corporate Development, Parasoft Corporation, USA
Bio coming soon.

Aymond, Patti - Senior Scientist, IEM, Inc., USA
Dr. Patti Iles Aymond is a Senior Scientist for Innovative Emergency Management, Inc. (IEM). She has guided the design, development, and use of large-scale simulation systems, such as IEM's revolutionary integrated protective action simulation system, QEM-World™. The design basis of QEM-World™ is Dr. Aymond's specialized general search tree that yields unparalleled storage and search performance. She also designed the Simulation Control object of the QEM-World™ traffic simulation model. Dr. Aymond served as design coordinator for Phase I of IEM's D-2 Puff-a chemical weapons dispersion model that IEM is extending with enhanced capability for the Soldier Biological and Chemical Command (SBCCOM). In addition, Dr. Aymond developed the plan for bringing D2-Puff into DoD High Level Architecture (HLA) compliance. Dr. Aymond was the Project Leader for a project for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to develop an automated tool for updating global population information, in the effort to reduce collateral effects of military actions. Dr. Aymond was the Senior Design Architect for an analysis support tool developed as part of IEM's Chemical and Biological Warfare Defense Study, conducted for DTRA. She designed the architecture, prototype, functional design specification, and database for IEM's Domestic Anthrax Model. Dr. Aymond holds both a PhD and BS in Computer Science from Louisiana State University. She is a member of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) Emergency Management Technical Committee, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Bals, Klaas - Chief Technology Officer, Inventive Designers, Belgium
Klaas Bals studied Computer Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is a member of the W3C XSL Working Group and the W3C XForms Working Group. He is Chief Technology Officer of Inventive Designers. He is responsible for Scriptura XBOS, a document design, generation, delivery and forms solution using XSL-FO and XForms, including the WYSIWYG designer.

Beck, Jeff - Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, NLM, USA
Mr. Beck works on the PubMed Central and NLM BookShelf projects at the National Library of Medicine managing the flow of journal and textbook content. He has been working with XML at NLM for 3 years. He has an editorial background, and his previous (relevant) experience includes print production and online production for journals and textbooks.

Belkhir, Lotfi - CEO, Kirtas Technologies Inc, USA
Lotfi Belkhir brings more than two decades of experience in research, development, and management to his role as CEO of Kirtas Technologies, Inc. In 2001, Lotfi founded Kirtas with the vision of digitizing information from bound documents, achieving an unprecedented level of speed, accuracy, and quality. At Kirtas, Lotfi oversees the management and implementation of the company's revolutionary automatic bookscanning technology, which is redefining digitization and information sharing in the marketplace. In his career, Lotfi has held key positions at Xerox Corporation facilities in New York, Connecticut, and California. While at Xerox PARC, Lotfi negotiated the exclusive license to key book scanning technology. Lotfi holds a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and an MBA in Management of Technology from National Technology University. For more information on Kirtas, please visit www.kirtas-tech.com.

Benedetto, Chris - Senior Director, Industry Development, RosettaNet, USA
Bio coming soon.

Beuchelt, Gerald - Web Services Architect, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA
Gerald Beuchelt is a Web Services Architect in the Chief Technologist's Offices Business Alliance group. He is focusing on advanced web services and security technology and their application, with an in-depth focus on standards and Microsoft interoperability. Before, Gerald was an Infrastructure Services Specialist in CTO's Competitive Strategy Group. He joined the CSG in 2000. Since then he has worked on operating systems, middleware software including Java and .NET, and security, specifically in Microsoft product related areas. In this function, he worked closely with Sun Legal. Prior to that, he worked for Sun Microsystems Deutschland (Germany) as a Senior Systems Engineer, most recently taking the lead in orchestrating technical support for large sales projects.Before joining Sun, Gerald worked as a lead network architect and system administrator in ITP and IGM, Cologne, Germany, and as a freelance writer for two major German computer periodicals.Gerald recently submitted two invention disclosures to the Sun Patent Office and contributed to numerous field and engineering education summits. He also authored and co-authored various competitive white papers on Active Directory.Education: * BS Physics 1994, Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität, Munich * MS Mathematical Physics 1997, Albertus Magnus Universität zu Köln, Cologne

Borenstein, Joram - Director of Marketing, Unicorn Solutions, USA
Joram Borenstein serves as Director of Marketing at Unicorn Solutions (www.unicorn.com). His previous experience includes managing the rollout of content management software platforms. He has written and lectured extensively semantics, ontologies, Web services, and grid technologies.

Bourret, Ronald - Researcher, rpbourret.com, USA
Ronald Bourret is a consultant, writer, and researcher, specializing in how XML and databases work together. He has worked in the software industry since 1982 and his experience includes five years as a contractor at Microsoft, where he co-wrote the ODBC and OLE-DB manuals, and two years at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, where he did research on XML and databases.His XML work includes XML-DBMS, a set of Java packages for transferring data between XML documents and relational databases, several widely read papers on XML and databases, the XML Namespaces FAQ, and an XML schema language (DDML).He has lectured on XML and databases at both commercial and academic conferences and has contributed articles to XML.com.

Boyer, John - Senior Product Architect, IBM Corporation, Canada
John Boyer is a Senior Product Architect and Research Scientist at IBM Corporation. Since 1993, John has worked to design and implement a platform for secure and robust web applications based on precise, dynamic, XML-based electronic forms.John has co-authored or edited numerous W3C Recommendations, including XML Signatures, XML Canonicalization and Exclusive Canonicalization, XPath Filtering, and XForms 1.0. He is currently a co-editor of XForms 1.0 Second Edition and XForms 1.1.In 2001, John earned his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science University of Victoria, Canada). He has published numerous journal, conference, and professional papers on topics ranging from algorithmics and computer security to XML-related technologies.

Brase, Jan - Research coordinator, Research center L3S, Germany
Jan Brase was a researcher at the Information Systems Department of the university of Hannover in Germany since 1999 and is now working for the L3S-center for innovative learning technologies.He graduated in Mathematics at the university of Hannover in 1999.He research background is metadata, ontologies and digital libraries.He wrote the first german version of the Metadata standard LOM by the LTSC/IEEE in 2000 and co-worked on the realization of the RDF-binding of LOM in 2003.Since his Ph.D. in 2005 Jan is coordinating the research issues in the field digital libraries for the German National Library for Science and Technology (TIB), a member of the L3S.In that context he is technical advising the DOI-registration of scientific content and learning objects at the TIB.

Bray, Tim - Director of Web Technologies, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Canada
Tim Bray has been in the software profession since 1981. In 1987 he managed the New Oxford English Dictionary Project. In 1989 he co-founded Open Text Corporation. In 1995 he built one of the first popular commercial Web Search Engines. In 1996-99, as an Invited Expert at the W3C, he co-invented XML and XML Namespaces. He is the author of Bonnie, a filesystem benchmark widely used in the Linux community and Lark, the world's first conformant XML processor. In 1999 he founded Antarcti.ca Systems Inc. He currently works for Sun Microsystems.

Brown, Alex - Technical Director, Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd., UK
Alex first became interested in structured markup when analysing literary texts for his doctorate (on early Shakespeare editions) in the late 1980s. Following this he worked as a developer on heavily object-oriented C++ application framework for cross-platform multimedia publishing, at the height of the CD-ROM boom. In 1997 Alex was one of the founding directors of Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd, a UK-based company providing XML-based services and products. He is responsible for leading the company's XML consulting and implementation, and his work includes advising clients on XML/IT strategy and practice, mentoring clients' staff, writing DTDs and Schemas, and designing and developing XML software systems in C++, Java and other languages. In 2002, Alex was invited to join the British Standards Institute (BSI) Technical Committee IST/41, where he contributes to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 in its formation of the DSDL ISO standard, among other things. Alex writes and speaks regularly on structured markup technologies and their application to information management.

Brun, Mikkel - Chief consultant, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark
Mr. Mikkel Hippe Brun (M.Cs.) has been an active SGML/XML consultant to Danish business and government since 1995. Mr. Brun has been the chief technical advisor and consultant to the Danish XML Committee at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation between 2001 and 2004. Mr. Brun is currently employed at the National IT and Telecom Agency at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation where he is responsible for the technical e-business standardization. Mr. Brun was the primary author to the first handbook on XML Schema Naming and Design Rules published by the Danish XML Committee in 2002. Mr. Brun has been an active member of the Danish SGML/XML community since 1993 and is also member of the OASIS UBL TC.

Buehling, Brian - Managing Director, Dakota Systems, United States, USA
Brian Buehling is currently the Managing Director for Dakota Systems, a consulting firm specializing in XML-related technologies. Prior to Dakota, he worked in various capacities on content management systems for several companies including Facts and Comparisons, John Deere, and SBC Communications. His team's decision support system at John Deere Health was selected as a Finalist for Business Intelligence Applications at Comdex/Window World Open 1997 and was nominated for the 1997 Smithsonian Award for innovation in information technology. He has earned a M.B.A. with concentrations in Finance and Strategy from the University of Chicago and a M.S. in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri. Previously he was a visiting lecturer at Ohio University teaching business communication and computational theory.

Bullard, C. Len - Senior Technical Consultant, Intergraph Corporation, USA
Len Bullard is a veteran markup specialist currently employed by the Intergraph Public Safety Corporation. He is an author, a working musician and composer, was the founding director of the <a href="http://www.digitalspaceart.com/irish">IrishSpace</a> team that created the world's first VRML epic, and is the married father of two children. He records and publishes his own musical CDs. To contact Len, write him at clbullar@ingr.com or cbullard@hiwaay.net.

Cagle, Kurt - Author, Metaphorical Web, USA
Kurt Cagle is an author and XML Developer with more than fifteen books and hundreds of articles on XML based technologies such as XSLT, SVG, XUL, XForms, computer ethics and more, and writes the blog UnderstandingXML.com. He has most recently been working with the Firefox browser and Mozilla technologies, as well as XML based languages such as XBL, trying to push what he sees as the re-emergence of client-based programming. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and daughters, where he can usually be found staring out the window at the falling rain while drinking coffee at local coffeehouses.

Campbell, Dave - SQL Server General Manager of the Data Engine and Access Technologies, Microsoft Corporation, USA
David Campbell is the Microsoft SQL Server General Manager of the Data Engine and Access Technologies. Dave has been professionally wrestling with data for close to 20 years after spending the first several years of his career attempting not to inadvertently break things while developing robotic workcell software. During his data foray, Dave has developed PLM and Engineering Data Management software for a division of Lockheed and then, in 1990, he joined Digital Equipment Corporation and worked on both their CODASYL database product (DEC DBMS) and their relational database product, Rdb. Since 1994 Dave has been working in the SQL Server team at Microsoft where he has held the role of Developer, Architect, and various management roles. Currently, David oversees the product development of XML, core relational engine, Data Access, and replication technologies. Dave holds several patents in the data management, schema and software quality realms. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a wide variety of data management and software development topics.

Champion, Michael - Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation, United States, USA
Mike Champion has worked as a software developer since 1980, and have specialized in SGML/XML since 1996, working at Arbortext and Software AG. He is currently Program Manager for XML Standards at Microsoft. His blog is at blogs.msdn.com/mikechampion.

Chaudhuri, Neil - Software Engineer, LMI Government Consulting, USA
A Sun Certified Java Programmer, Mr. Chaudhuri is currently a Software Engineer with LMI Government Consulting in McLean, VA. His work focuses on object-oriented design principles and best practices, and he leads development teams building applications utilizing such technologies as Java/J2EE, Microsoft .Net, leading database technologies like Oracle, and XML and related technologies like XML Schema, XSLT, ebXML Core Components, and web services. Mr. Chaudhuri's experience has led him to become a champion of agile methodologies for software development. He also teaches introductory XML and JavaScript courses for Fairfax County Public Schools Adult and Community Education Program. Mr. Chaudhuri is the author of "J2EE or .Net: A Managerial Perspective", published by the International Workshop on Evolution of Large-scale Industrial Software Applications in 2003, and "Very Large Software Systems: A Service-Oriented Approach," published by the 2005 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.Mr. Chaudhuri has a Master of Science degree in Information Systems Technology from The George Washington University. His undergraduate degrees include a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Mr. Chaudhuri is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a member of the Zeta Chapter of Alpha Iota Mu, the National Honor Society for Information Systems.

Coates, Anthony - Information & Software Architect, London Market Systems, UK
Anthony B. Coates (Tony) specialises in information management and integration solutions for financial and corporate clients. Tony is Information and Software Architect for London Market Systems, and previously was Leader of XML Architecture and Design in Reuters Chief Technology Office in London. Tony works on a number of financial XML initiatives, including ISO 19312 (Securities Data Model), MDDL (Market Data Definition Language, http://www.mddl.org/) and FpML (Financial Products Markup Language). Tony is also a member of the OASIS UBL TC. He has worked with XML since 1998, and Java since 1996.

Cokus, Michael - Senior Software Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Mike holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary. He has worked in parallel computing (languages and compilers) research at the NASA Langley Research Center and served on the Computer Science faculty at Hampton University in Virginia. Mike has been working with XML and related standards since 1999, and has been involved with the development of XML vocabulary and Schema specifications. In addition to XML technologies in general, his current interests also include web services, web ontology, and efficient interchange of XML infosets (i.e., "Binary XML"). Mike has been with MITRE, a not-for-profit corporation which manages Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs), since 1995. While at MITRE, he has focused on the area of information interoperability. Mike has been a key participant in an international forum for developing XML capabilities to support military information exchange in Joint and Coalition environments. In addition, he has been an active member of the W3C XML Binary Characterization Working Group and has served as a working note editor.

Connolly, Dan - Technical Staff, W3C, USA
Dan Connolly is on the technical staff at W3C and a researcher in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). He is a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group, and he chairs the RDF Data Access Working Group. More information is available at http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/

Connors, Cheryl - Senior Information Systems Engineer, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Ms. Connors, a Senior Information Systems Engineer with the MITRE Corporation, has a background in communications, programming, and as her title indicates, information systems. Her work has ranged from designing communication systems solutions to completing system engineering projects to database application development. During the last few years, her work has focused on XML initiatives, including the in-progress development of XML schemas for an USAF Community of Interest (COI) experiment. Ms. Connors also continues to make significant contributions to the ongoing evolution of the internationally adopted XML format for the military messaging information systems (USMTF & NATO ADatP-3), referred to as "XML-MTF". With hands-on experience in migrating messaging standards into an XML format, Ms. Connors has derived a set of practical lessons learned that can be applied to any effort that is attempting to develop an XML representation of existing data.

Cornelius, Gary - Technical Consultant, CSW Group Ltd, UK
Gary Cornelius began working in the publishing industry in 1992, following some early success as a student managing the production of a youth paper for the European Parliament. In 1993-1995 he completed an industrial apprenticeship based around digital imaging, where he experienced a wide range of positive changes brought about by computerization. In 1996-1999 he worked in Information Technology (IT) on a number of large scale consumer publishing projects, automating high quality PDF output from large databases and image repositories for Trader Media Group and various TV listings publications. In 2000-2003 he worked in software development as a programmer at Future Publishing Plc in their Internet Services research department on a project to unify publishing processes using XML. Since early 2004 he has worked for CSW Group Ltd. as technical consultant in the research department, specializing in XML, providing hands-on XML training at a series of XML Summer schools and training events in the UK. He also is an active member of Oasis and participates in several standards committees.

Cummings, David - Chief Executive Officer - President, Founder, Hannon Hill Corporation, USA
A business and technologist enthusiast, David has been involved in software companies for seven years including work as a software engineer for IBM. Through hard work and determination, David continues to guide Hannon Hill in an effort to provide powerful content management systems with an emphasis on personal service.David has published articles on O'Reilly's XML.com and OnJava.com in addition to popular web development sites like SitePoint.com. He has given presentations at the Silicon Valley Web Guild, for Silicon Networks, and the I.C.C.A. David taught entrepreneurship courses at Duke and an Internet technologies course at the Duke Fuqua School of Business. As for programming languages, he has written code for commercial applications in Java, PHP, ASP, and Visual C++. He is involved in the Business Marketing Association and in the Technology Association of Georgia in the Content Management and Entrepreneurial Special Interest Groups. David is from Tallahassee, Florida and graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in Economics.

Damodaran, Suresh - Technology Director, Sterling Commerce, USA
Dr. Suresh Damodaran is Technology Director with Sterling Commerce (www.sterlingcommerce.com), a subsidiary of SBC Communications. Between September 2002-September 2004, Suresh was the Chief Technologist of RosettaNet (www.rosettanet.org), on loan from Sterling Commerce. His background includes working on distributed tools for high performance systems with Hewlett Packard Co. and Los Alamos National Laboratory. In his career spanning two decades, he has held positions as software engineer, software architect, hardware design engineer, researcher, and lecturer. He has more than a decade of experience with OO and distributed programming, but his passion remains B2B integration technologies. He participated in technical committees within OASIS and W3C on behalf of Sterling Commerce. Suresh co-authored the recently published book "ebXML: Concepts and Application," published by Wiley. Suresh holds a B.Tech.(Hons) in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana.

Darugar, Parand - Director of Architecture, Yahoo Search Marketing, Yahoo Inc., USA
I'm responsible for architecture across Yahoo Search Marketing, yahoo's largest revenue segement. We use XML, REST, and SOAP extensively both internally and in our external APIs. Previously, I founded Blue Titan Software, a provider of software solutions for Web services management. Before that, I founded VelociGen, a provider of Web site acceleration technologies. I've written several XML related articles since 1998; an incomplete list can be found here:http://www.parand.com/talks/My latest is here:http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-abolns.htmlI've presented at a number of conferences, including including NextWare, Web Services Reality, XML Edge, XML Devcon, Networld + Interop, O'Reilly Open Source Conference, Usenix Tcl conference, and others.

Derrick, John - CEO, Conformative Systems, USA
A former IBM Systems and microprocessor architect, Derrick has been issued 19 patents in various fields including data processing, processor architecture, and systems optimization. Derrick, a seasoned entrepreneur, founded Chicory Systems, a semiconductor IP startup that was acquired within 18 months and sold for $50 million in cash and stocks. Derrick is dedicated to driving the adoption of Web Services using XML and building industry-leading solutions that allow enterprises to drive down the cost of implementing high-performance XML-based applications.Conformative Systems is a developer of high performance computer systems that dramatically increase application performance while reducing cost and complexity in the enterprise data center. Only Conformative is approaching the problem of XML processing performance through the application of a parallel processing architecture. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Conformative Systems was founded in 2003 and is backed by Austin Ventures and Charles River Ventures.

DuCharme, Bob - consulting software engineer, LexisNexis, USA
Bob DuCharme (www.snee.com/bob) is the author of Manning Publications' "XSLT Quickly," Prentice Hall's "XML: The Annotated Specification" and "SGML CD," and McGraw Hill's "Operating Systems Handbook." He writes the monthly "Transforming XML" column for XML.com and has contributed to Dr. Dobb's Journal, XML Magazine, XML Journal, IBM developerWorks, XML Developer, O'Reilly Books' "XML Hacks," and Prentice Hall's "XML Handbook." A consulting software engineer at LexisNexis, Bob received his BA in religion from Columbia University and his masters in computer science from New York University. Bob's O'Reilly Network weblog at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1191 is dedicated to linking-related topics.

FitzGerald, Adam - Principal Technologist, BEA Systems, USA
Adam FitzGerald has been teaching application design, J2EE development and server administration since joining BEA Systems more than four years ago. He has co-authored several BEA Education offerings, presented talks at JavaOne and eWorld conferences and actively promoted the WebLogic server platform in developer communities. Originally from England, he researched mathematical techniques in computer vision at the University of North Carolina before joining BEA and currently resides in New York, NY.

Foster, Howard - Research, Imperial College London, UK
Howard is a Research Assistant in the Distributed Software Engineering group at Imperial College London. He obtained his Bachelor and Masters Degree from University of East Anglia and will be submitting his thesis for Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Imperial. He also has over 10 years technical consulting experience in Global Technology and Internet Solutions.

Fox, Joshua - Chief Software Architect, Unicorn Solutions Inc., Israel
Howard is a Research Assistant in the Distributed Software Engineering group at Imperial College London. He obtained his Bachelor and Masters Degree from University of East Anglia and will be submitting his thesis for Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Imperial. He also has over 10 years technical consulting experience in Global Technology and Internet Solutions.

Germann, Ryan - Product Manager, Exegenix, Canada
Ryan is Product Manager and a founding employee of Exegenix Inc., a company providing content access and conversion technologies. He is involved in market research and the strategic aspects of developing practical applications of Exegenix technology. His professional focus is on facilitating broad adoption of XML content and XML-enabled applications across organizations of all sizes. Since 1995, Ryan has been involved in SGML and XML projects, lending his expertise to both client-side and server-side components. Ryan was previously employed at SoftQuad Software where he was involved in Product Management, Marketing, Web site development and user interface design.

Gettinger, Chip - Vice President Product Marketing, Astoria Software, Inc., USA
Chip Gettinger has been part of Astoria Software since its inception and has 20 years experience working with content management tools. While at Xerox Corporation's Chystal Software in the late-1990s, Gettinger provided technical sales consulting for XML content management support for direct and channel sales efforts. Gettinger has held management positions in sales, product marketing, training, course development and technical writing at Document Management Solutions, Harlequin, XyEnterprise and Agfa Corporation. Gettinger has a bachelor's degree in Graphic Arts Technology from Northern Illinois University.

Gillispie, Lisa - Senior Applications Engineer, PTC - Arbortext, USA
Lisa Gillispie provides technical sales support as a Senior Applications Engineer for Arbortext products at Parametric Technology Corporation. Lisa has spent her entire 25 year career involved in publishing, first on the customer side as a graphic book designer for Gallaudet University, where she was responsible for book design, production and print procurement at the University Press and then segued into the technical side of the world after being inspired by a course at George Washington University. For those who can remember it, she worked as an onsite system installer and trainer for Compugraphic Corporation on Quadex typesetting products. She worked as a sales support specialist and project manager at Xyvision for more than 10 years, and moved on to Xerox, where she was involved in selling and supporting Astoria content management systems. She has been at Arbortext for five years. She is an amateur watercolorist and enjoys contributing art to the poster display at XML shows.

Glushko, Robert - Adjunct Professor, School of Information Management and Systems, USA
Bob Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information Management and Systems and is the Director of the Center for Document Engineering. He has twenty-five years of R&D, consulting, and entrepreneurial experience in information management, electronic publishing, Internet commerce, and human factors in computing systems. He founded or co-founded three companies, the last of which was Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic commerce before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce One. From 1999-2002 he headed Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities and was named an "Engineering Fellow" in 2000. He has an undergraduate degree from Stanford, an MS (Software Engineering) from the Wang Institute, and a PhD (cognitive psychology) from UC San Diego.

Graham, Tony - Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Ireland
Tony Graham is a current member of the W3C XML Protocol Working Group and the OASIS Web Services Reliable Messaging TC and a past member of the W3C XSL Working Group. He is also the principal author of the xmlroff XSL formatter and the author of "Unicode: A Primer" and numerous articles and conference presentations on XML, XSL, XSLT, and Unicode.

Gregorio, Joe - President, BitWorking, Inc, USA
Joe Gregorio is President of BitWorking, Inc. He has over 14 years ofsoftware design and project management experience working on a rangeof applications from embedded and web-based systems to Windows desktopapplications. He is active in the syndication community, the authorof the Atom Publishing Protocol, writes "The RESTful Web" column for the O'Reilly publication "XML.com", and spends time exploring the limits of XML and HTTP.He holds a Masters of Arts in Mathematics from Dartmouth College andBachelors Degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science fromEastern Connecticut State University.Joe Gregorio maintains a personal weblog at http://bitworking.org.