Joel Amoussou is the Founder and CEO of Efasoft, a company specializing in helping organizations solve problems and achieve success through the innovative use of open and standards-based XML and Java EE technologies. Joel has been involved in numerous XML projects in different industries and is a proponent of the REST architectural style and interoperability standards like JSR 168 and JSR 170. Joel is also a corporate trainer on topics such as S1000D, XQuery, and XSLT 2.0. Joel has contributed to the XML Journal and Certification Magazine and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Charlton Barreto, Ph.D., has developed enterprise product architectures for Lawrence Livermore National Labs, UnifAce, Illustra/Informix, Visigenic/Borland, webMethods and Adobe, and has done related work in OASIS, W3C, the Java Community Process, OMG, and the IEEE. Charlton gained a Ph.D. from Columbia University. As a Senior Computer Scientist and Architect at Adobe, he concentrates on LiveCycle, Adobe’s Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. LiveCycle He is a co-author of the WS-BPEL, WS-Choreography, WSDL 2 and Java Enterprise Edition, and has been a contributor to the SOA Reference Model, WS-Transaction, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Policy specifications. He writes and presents regularly on Web and SOA technologies.

Mark Birbeck (and company) are behind formsPlayer, an XForms processor, and Sidewinder, a semantic web browser, seamlessly combining XForms with XHTML, SVG, and MathML.

He is an Invited Expert on the W3C’s XForms, XHTML 2 and HTML Working Groups. His most recent work involved proposing and developing RDFa.

His blog focuses on building a new generation of rich internet applications for the semantic web, using Ajax, XHTML, XForms, RDFa, and declarative mark-up.

Since co-founding Really Strategies, Lisa serves as the executive vice president and chief architect with primary responsibility for managing a staff of content engineers in their successful completion of client projects. Lisa is a recognized industry professional with hands-on data architecture, data analysis, content transformation, and project management experience. She is an expert in the design of XML-based content management systems, and in the integration of those systems with Web sites and other output media.

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John Boyer is a Senior Technical Staff Member for IBM Lotus Forms. He has co-authored and edited numerous W3C standards and is currently Chair of the W3C Forms Working Group. In 2001, John earned a Ph.D. in computer science, and he has published numerous journal, conference and professional papers on topics ranging from algorithmics to computer security to XML-related technologies.

Matthew Browning is Technical Lead of the BBC iPlayer Server-Side project.

Erik Bruchez has extensive experience in the software industry as a software architect and consultant. He was involved with World Wide Web technologies since the Web’s inception in 1992. As a former employee of Symantec Corp., he contributed to the VisualCafe for Java product line. In 1999, he co-founded Orbeon, Inc. (www.orbeon.com), where he is now an architect of Orbeon Forms, an open source web platform for form-based applications that builds on technologies such as XForms and Ajax. Erik participates in the W3C’s XForms and XML Processing Model working groups. He is the author of articles about web applications and XML technologies and has been a speaker at conferences such as JavaOne, ObjectWebCon, and XTech. Erik holds an MS/CS from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He spends most of this time between Switzerland and California.

Bob is the Chief Architect at Nexaweb and is responsible for platform and tool technology, a provider of the Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite enabling enterprise class rich Internet applications (RIAs). He is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project, which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating Ajax applications. Before Nexaweb, Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in user interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.

Ugo Cei is Project Manager at Sourcesense, Europe’s leading Open Source systems integrator. He has more than 15 years’ expertise in enterprise software architecture development using Web- and Java-based technologies. His passion for Open Source was ignited when curiosity caused him to install a Linux distribution received in error; today he is an active committer and Project Management Committee member on several initiatives at the Apache Software Foundation. He is a regular presenter at Open Source events and conferences, such as OSCON, RailsConf, and ApacheCon. Cei holds a Ph.D in Informatics Engineering from the University of Pavia, Italy.

Changyan Chi is a research member at IBM China Research Lab.

John’s CCF badge describes him as a “Systems Analyst”, and he has come to realize just how true that is. He tries to throw down as much code as possible in his job, but that code most often ends up managing information flow between system components. It just so happens that his favorite technology for encoding and forwarding information is XML.

Erin Clark is Senior Manager of the Time Inc. E-content Management Group (E-MaG) and co-chair of the PRISM Working Group.

Anthony B. Coates (Tony) is a Senior Partner at Miley Watts LLP, and is an internationally recognised XML expert and Technical Architect who specialises in banking/finance applications.

Tony is actively involved in developing XML standards at both the global and market sector levels, and participates in the development of industry standards including ISO20022 (ISO 15022 XML), FpML, MDDL, UBL, CCTS, and genericode.

Tony’s personal weblog is http://kontrawize.blogs.com/kontrawize/

David Connelly is CEO of the Open Applications Group, Inc, (OAGi). He joined OAGi as their Chief Technology Officer in 1996 and was elected CEO in 1998.

David’s has over 30 years experience building, selling, and managing software. He has worked for end user organizations as well as software vendors and also often acts as an advisor to software companies and end user organizations. David currently sits as a Board of Advisor for the NIST Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory.

David is a frequent speaker on Enterprise Interoperability, eBusiness, Service Oriented Architecture, and Web Services at conferences world-wide.

Taylor is a specialist in Java and semantic web technologies. His current interests are applying microformats and RDF to travel planning websites. He will be speaking at semantic strategies 07 in Oct. and has several publications with IBM.

Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON data interchange format.

Glen has been a longstanding figure in the development of SOAP and Web Services, and was one of the key participants in a number of standards efforts including SOAP, WSDL, WS-Addressing, and many more.

Several biographies from other talks here…

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Founder and principal engineer of Objective Systems, Inc., a company dedicated to producing software products that implement international data communications standards such as XML. Mr. Day has over 30 years of experience as a software developer in various sectors including telecommunications, defense, and finance. Objective Systems is a member of the W3C and a current member of the EXI working group.

Michael Day is the founder of YesLogic and the architect of the Prince formatter, a powerful tool for getting web content onto paper. Michael specialises in XML technologies and declarative programming and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.

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I like to think about communication, language, semantics, identity. And then apply it to real world problems. I have studied philosophy, and worked in IT 20 years, the last 10 as an independent consultant. Current preoccupations are healthcare, versioning and REST-vs-SOA. I live in work in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with my wife and three sons.

Miguel is a prominent Open Source software developer, co-founder of the Gnome desktop project, and leader of the Mono project, which provides a .Net environment for Unix-compatible systems.

Jeffrey Deskins is a Principal Consultant with JustSystems in their Solutions Consulting practice. Jeff has nearly 20 years experience in information development technology. He joined us from Iditarod Systems, where he was an Information and Solutions Architect. While there Jeff was instrumental in the implementation of S1000D for the Boeing 787 – the first use of S1000D for civilian aircraft. Before Iditarod Jeff was a Principal Consultant and Solutions Architect developing enterprise publishing solutions in various vertical industries (Aerospace, Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, Automotive, and manufacturing). Previously Jeff worked in a variety of information development roles for Bombardier, McDonnell Douglas, and Rockwell International both as a technical writer and SGML analyst.

Jeff has contributed to the development of international standards including S1000D & ATA working groups and OASIS DITA Learning and Training SC along with PLCS. He is a frequent speaker and on the board of directors at his local STC chapter in California.

Develop production applications for the bbc.co.uk web site.

Micah Dubinko is a Principal Engineer at Yahoo! Search in the Structured Web group. He has worked with web standards since 1999, wrote O’Reilly XForms Essentials, and served as technical reviewer for XSLT Cookbook, XML Hacks, Professional Web 2.0, and numerous other titles. He lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two daughters.

Bob DuCharme, a senior consultant at Innodata Isogen, was an XML “expert” when XML was a four-letter word. He’s written four books and dozens of on-line and print articles about information technology without using the word “functionality” in any of them. See www.snee.com/bob for more.

Jens Erlandsen has since 2003 been leading the development team behind iLEX, an integrated editing and database XML system for dictionaries, encyclopaedias, legal text and technical documentation developed by EMP. He founded TEXTware in 1988, which developed electronic dictionaries and encyclopaedias for leading international publishers such as Longman, Oxford University Press, MacMillan, Cambridge University Press, Bertelsmann and more. Before that, Jens taught computational linguistics at University of Copenhagen and was marketing manager for a 70 person division developing expert systems.

Joshua Fox is Project Lead and Chief Technologist for the Metadata Analytics project in IBM, in which he researches and develops innovative solutions for analyzing and classifying disorganized SOA metadata. Previously, Joshua Fox was Chief Architect of Unicorn Solutions (acquired by IBM), an early leader in semantic information management software.

Fox has also served as Principal Architect and Director at Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP) and as Senior Software Architect at VocalTec.

In addition to several presentations at XML Conference, Fox has spoken at many conferences including JavaOne, WebServices Edge, and published in Dr. Dobb’s Journal, XML Journal, WebServices Journal, and others in the fields of software, metadata, and enterprise ontology. (See http://www.joshuafox.com for details.)

He received his PhD from Harvard University and his BA summa cum laude from Brandeis University.

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Tony Graham is an independent consultant specialising in XSL, XSLT, and XML. He has been working with markup since 1991, with XML since 1996, and with XSL/XSLT since 1998.

Tony is an invited expert on the W3C XSL FO subgroup and a previous member of the W3C XML Protocol WG. He is the author of Unicode: A Primer and the developer of the xmlroff XSL Formatter. He is a member of the XML Guild.

Tony is interested in applying the tools for ensuring software quality – unit testing, code coverage, profiling, and other tools – to XML and XSL/XSLT processing.

Arofan Gregory is specialist in SGML and XML-based open standards in the areas of publishing, e-commer ce, research, and statistics. Recent work includes participation in ebXML and related initiatives, and acting as a technical expert for SDMX and DDI.

With more than thirteen years of industry experience, Chris Gruber, Technical Manager for Developer Initiatives, works with IBM Information Management on industry-leading Data Server products. Previously, Chris has worked as a Senior Product Manager for Sybase iAnywhere Solutions. He has worked very closely with engineering and development partners accelerating partners time to the market.

Elliotte is originally from New Orleans to which he returns periodically in search of a decent bowl of gumbo. However, he currently resides in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn with his wife Beth, dog Shayna, and cats Charm (named after the quark) and Marjorie (named after his mother-in-law). He’s an adjunct professor of computer science at Polytechnic University where he teaches Java, XML, and object oriented programming. His books include Java I/O, Java Network Programming, the XML Bible, and XML in a Nutshell. His next book will be Refactoring HTML from Addison-Wesley. He’s currently working on the XOM Library for processing XML with Java, and the jaxen XPath engine.

Kristen is a proven technical leader for both strategic and tactical projects with 16 years of high tech experience. She specializes in problem solving and finding creative technical and engineering solutions to tough business data objectives. Since joining Sun over 8 years ago, Kristen has held a variety of positions within the company. Most recently she has been managing the Content Management Engineering team for Sun’s global external web sites (http://www.sun.com). Kristen leads a team of globally dispersed engineers which are responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of Sun’s web content and metadata management systems. Her team provides the content services tools for authoring, tagging, maintaining, relating, and rendering the content which drives Sun’s high volume, external web sites.

Hideki Hiura is chief scientist and CTO of JustSystems, Inc. He is a founder and chairperson of OpenI18N.org/Free Standards Group, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. He is also a founding member of W3C I18N WG. As an architect at Sun Microsystems, he was involved with variety of standards and standard organizations including ISO, W3C, OMG, The Open Group, OSF, Unix International, X Consortium and Unicode.

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Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, a co-editor of the Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 specification, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the founding and current chair of the OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, a technical lead on UBL code list and customization task groups, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.

Dorothy Hoskins is an XML evangelist; her true love is the development of processes that tie together various applications for publishing XML to both print and web. Her recent book, XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+ (O’Reilly, June 2007) shows XML development for InDesign CS3 with XSLT as part of the import/export process (and for CS2 as a pre- or post-processing step).

From her initial career as a graphic artist and designer/illustrator, she has been lead far afield by her interests in all things XML. Besides creating server-side XSLT for a global corporation’s website, client-side widgets, and podcasts, she has created publishing workflows for importing database-derived XML into Adobe’s FrameMaker and InDesign CS3 products. She has presented numerous times on XML and XSL for the Society for Technical Communication and higher ed computing groups.

She resides with her family in western New York, where she finds the weather a refreshing change from her native Florida.

John Hunt is a senior software engineer at IBM and a member of the core team of IBM DITA architects. He is driving the move to support learning content with DITA and chairs the OASIS subcommittee that is developing a DITA specialization for learning and training content. He spearheaded the migration of IBM Lotus information development to DITA and its topic-based information architecture. He is currently DITA architect for the Lotus Information Development Center in the IBM Software Group.

Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He’s the author of “Java Servlet Programming” (O’Reilly Media) and the creator of the JDOM open source project for Java-optimized XML manipulation.

Dr. Carlo Innocenti (Minollo) is Program Manager for XML technologies at DataDirect Technologies, the unparalleled leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration. Before joining DataDirect, Minollo served as Principal Software Architect of Stylus Studio at Progress Software and eXcelon Corporation. While at eXcelon Corporation, Carlo managed an engineering group responsible for the overall tools strategy of the XML Database division, overseeing product design and development. Prior to that, he served as Development Manager for tools at Object Design, Inc., an object database company.

Carlo began his software development career at ViVi Software, an Italian company recognized by the European community for successful and innovative software products, where he served as Development Manager before the company was acquired by Object Design. Carlo holds a MS in Computer Science and a Ph.D in Robotics from the University of Genoa (DIST).

Eliot has worked with essentially every SGML- and XML-related tool relevant to document authoring, management, and production that has been produced in the past 15 years. He is a founding member of the W3C XML Working Group and Co-editor, with Charles Goldfarb and Steve Newcomb, of ISO/IEC 10744:1996, HyTime 2nd Edition.

As Senior Content Engineer at Really Strategies, Eliot leads publishers through various content management initiatives, including RSuite CMS implementations, XML and desktop publishing applications, DITA requirements and standardization, and information and process analyses. He is fluent in XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, DTD development, XSD Schema, XPath, XQuery, XInclude, Xlink, and other standards that relate to information management and publishing.

Irina Kogan is a software engineer at IBM Toronto Lab working on XML performance in DB2 with both developers and customers. Her areas of interest include XML storage and structural updates, XQuery, OLTP and benchmark development. Irina has B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from York University. Her Masters degree focused on semantic integrity and good design principles in databases. Before joining IBM in 2004, she worked on XML and Java development at Siemens in Germany.

Ravi Konuru has over 17 years experience in the software industry in diverse areas such as process-control systems, micro-kernel operating systems, distributed systems and parallel processing, Java Virtual Machines, J2EE, web services, data synchronization and more recently on document processing in the context of enterprise computing and collaboration. He has over 20 publications in technical conferences and a few patents in these areas.

Ravi has a PhD in Computer Science from Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology and has been working at IBM TJ Watson Research Center for the past 12 years. In his dual role as both a researcher and a manager, he and his team are currently looking into how document processing and document-centric programming models can be leveraged to both simplify collaboration, programming, processing and integration within and across enterprise and gain ubiquitous usage.

founder of DataPower

Ms. Lapeyre’s main technical focus is in the markup, management, and display of large textual documents. She designs XML tag sets in DTD, XSD, and RELAX NG form, writes and teaches XSLT, and advocates using Schematron to get some kinds of validation out of the content models and into another processing layer. Loves XML pipelining, running information analysis sessions, and performing evaluations of other folks tag sets and stylesheets.

Background includes: typesetting programming and book design, database programming, proprietary generic coding languages, and pumpkin carving. Owns far too many books.

Tony’s primary task for the last several years has been designing converters to allow legacy data formats to be processed by XML tools, and the results of this can be seen at XML Converters.

Prior to that, he worked on Stylus Studio on the Custom XML Converter module, OASIS Catalog resolver and on Saxon integration. Before working for Progress Software Corp. [PRGS], the parent of DataDirect Technologies, he spent more time than he cares to admit architecting and implementing enterprise software for the insurance industry.

Adam has done various works in XML usage model framework and computer system design. His work includes developing B2B XML content level secured document sharing models, structural and statistical XML usage models, random XML document generation, embedded real-time data acquisition systems, database security, and scalable clustered database systems.

Adam holds a MS in Electrical Engineering form Stanford University, and BS in Engineering/BS in Economics in Computer Science and Finance from the School of Engineering and the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania. He is currently a Senior Member of Technical Staff in Server Technology group of Oracle Corporation. Besides engineering work, Adam enjoys music and is a vocalist and a composer for classical music.

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Dr. Mary Ann Malloy is a Lead Information Systems Engineer for The MITRE Corporation. She is an internationally recognized expert in tactical messaging standards and information interoperability. Her research interests include XML technologies, business process/rules management and visualization. Dr. Malloy supports net-centric interoperability initiatives for various Department of Defense stakeholder communities, including Defense Information Systems Agency and U.S. Joint Forces Command. She leads MITRE efforts to engage in mentoring and collaborative research with local industry and academia in the Hampton Roads region. She has published nearly 40 technical papers, most recently “Generational Challenges to the Netcentric Future” and “Wicked Project Management.”

Minnesota-based data architect consultant interested in declarative systems and semantic web.

Nicholas (Nick) Nagel, an educational specialist in the field of information processing, earned his Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University in the field of cognitive science. After completing a number of linguistics oriented post-doctoral fellowships, Nick’s interests led him to Sun Microsystems where he acquired substantial expertise in information processing system development using XML, Java, J2EE and related technologies. Presently at Altova, Nick now focuses on the development and delivery of educational systems aimed at providing architects, developers, and information processing system engineers with the information they need to best leverage existing and emerging XML and Web-related technologies.

As Chief Technical Officer at Vordel, Mark oversees the development of Vordel’s technical strategy and product development in the areas of XML and security. Mark is also a member of the OASIS Security Services Technical Committee and an advisor to the XML.org industry newsletter.

He regularly presents at industry seminars on the security issues effecting Web Services and has been published in several leading industry publications including, Web Services Journal, XML Journal, ComputerWeekly (UK) and the Identrus eTrend quarterly. Mark is also the author of the book, “Web Services Security”, published by Osborne-McGrawHill in January 2003, and a contributing author to “Hardening Network Security”, also published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill.

Prior to Vordel, Mark designed and implemented EDI-over-Internet solutions for Ireland’s largest EDI Value-Added Network. He then formed a software development company, developing security solutions for blue-chip clients including Sony Europe, Intel, Royal & SunAlliance, AXA Group, the Irish Government, and Critical Path. Mark holds a double-honors degree in Mathematics and Psychology from Trinity College Dublin and studied neural network modelling at Oxford University.

Some Recent Speaking Engagements Include:

Location: RSA 2006, San Jose Topic: Security for REST Web Services Topic: Ten Web Services Security Case Studies

Location: XML 2005, Atlanta

Location: RSA 2005, San Francisco Topic: Mapping Security to a Service Oriented Architecture

Location: Integration 2004, Paris Topic: Mapping Security to a Service Oriented Architecture

Location: XML 2004, Washington Topic 1: Securing XML – Case Studies from the Financial Services Industry

Topic 2:XML and Web Services Security

Location:CISO Summit 2004, Geneva

Location: Netsec 2004, San Francisco Topic: Creating Watertight Applications Using Web Services

Location: ISS World 2004, Washington Topic: Web Services Securit

Born January 1977 in Cleveland, OH, Chimezie is a first-generation son of Nigerian immigrants. He moved (with his family) to Nigeria in 1980 where he was introduced to computers (and software programming) at a young age. Upon returning to the United States in 1990, his interest in Engineering and Computers eventually led him to attain a degree in Computer Engineering. As a software consultant for Fourthought Inc. from 2000 – 2002, his interest in XML related technologies was established. He currently is working for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation doing XML & RDF related research on Knowledge Management technologies for computerized patient records.

Jon Parsons has over 20 years experience automating the creation, management, and delivery of content in multiple forms. Currently he works in product marketing at XyEnterprise. Prior to that, he was a writer, editor, tools developer, and publishing consultant for a large computer manufacturer. Long an advocate of generic mark-up and an enthusiast for XML, he is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Shyam Pather is a Principal Development Lead on the Data Programmability Team at Microsoft. His team built some of the key infrastructure pieces within the ADO.NET Entity Framework, including the object-relational mapping and metadata systems. Shyam and his team are now focused on the Astoria project (an effort to help developers expose data services on the web), improving the DataSet experience with LINQ, and building the next generation of the core XML platform.

Shyam began his career at Microsoft in the Windows Networking team, working first on network driver infrastructure, then on the first two releases of Universal Plug and Play in Windows. Shyam joined the SQL Server team to work on an incubation project that eventually became SQL Server Notification Services. After shipping two releases of that product, Shyam started in his current role in Data Programmability.

Wendell Piez was born in Germany to American parents, and took his first trans-Atlantic airplane flight at age three weeks. His early years were spent in Somerset (Massachussets), Kabul (Afghanistan) and Manila (the Philippines). A graduate of the American School in Japan, he went on to receive degrees in Classics (B.A., Ancient Greek) and English (Ph.D.). He has been an active member of the global Humanities Computing community since 1994; currently he serves as General Editor of DHQ (Digital Humanities Quarterly). Since 1998, he has worked at Mulberry Technologies, Inc., an XML consultancy based in Rockville, Maryland (USA). As an XML practitioner, he is known for his work with XSLT and SVG as well as his theoretical investigations.

Gregg Pollack lives in Orlando, Florida where he runs the Orlando Ruby Users Group, organizes BarCampOrlando, and writes on his blog Rails Envy). He’s also sometimes known as the “Ruby on Rails” guy in the Mac parody commercials released earlier this year.

Mark Pruett is a programmer and writer. He works for a Fortune 500 energy company, where he’s developed a wide variety of applications using open source tools and platforms. A current focus is Ajax. Mark contributed to the O’Reilly book “Ajax Hacks” and is the author of two O’Reilly Shortcuts, “Ajax and Web Services”, and “Yahoo! Pipes”.

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Brian was co-founder of Reactivity, and is now Senior Director, Product Development in the Application Delivery Business Unit at Cisco.

Svante Schubert works for Sun Microsystems since 1999. He is co-lead of the ‘OpenOffice.org XML project’, member of the OASIS OpenDocument TC and the co-editor of the Metadata Model specification of the OpenDocument Format 1.2.

An internationally recognized XML pioneer and content management industry expert, Mr. Severson has over twenty years of experience in the technology field, ranging from hands-on product development and consulting to senior management roles in engineering and marketing.

Mr. Severson is currently Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of Flatirons Solutions Corporation, where he leads a consulting and systems integration practice specializing in content management and XML-based publishing. A frequent conference speaker on DITA and other XML-related subjects, Mr. Severson is also a past president of the OASIS XML industry consortium, is currently on the board of IDEAlliance, and has served as as an Executive Consultant for IBM Global Services, Vice President and Chief Strategist for Interleaf, Inc., and Executive Vice President and CTO of Avalanche (an early SGML/XML software company).

C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is a member of the technical staff of the World Wide Web Consortium, an international membership organization responsible for developing Web standards. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification and the <title>Guidelines</title> of the Text Encoding Initiative. His Erdos number is 6.

Stewart Taylor is a software architect at Intel Corporation. In his many years at Intel, he has worked on numerous software projects in multimedia and information processing, most notably the Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives and the Intel® XML Software Suite. He is the author of Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives and Optimizing Applications for Multi-core Processors

Matt Turner is a Principle Consultant with Mark Logic Corporation where he develops content applications and helps others do the same. Previously, Matt worked with PC World Online and Sony Music creating publishing, community and identity applications. Matt has been a speaker at multiple XML and publishing conferences including OpenPublish, Seybold, and the XML conference and publishes Discovering XQuery, a blog about content technology -> http://xquery.typepad.com

Matt is based in New York City.

Melissa Utzinger is a Senior Systems Engineer with the MITRE Corporation focusing on interface development, design and specification. For the past three years Melissa has made significant contributions to the establishment and development of a real-time System-of-Systems XML standardization specification for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). In September 2006 she was awarded the Director’s Award acknowledging her critical role to this effort. In addition, she serves as the MDA DoD Metadata Registry sub-namespace manager, MDA representative to the Joint Air and Missile Defense Community of Interest (COI), and MDA representative to the XML-Implementation Management Subgroup (IMSG). She has been particularly interested in the forward and backward compatibility trade-offs and approaches to XML Schema and continues to seek out innovative solutions for typical XML problems.

Laurens van den Oever is CEO and Co-Founder of Xopus BV since Januari 1st 2007. Before that he ran the Xopus business unit of Q42.

Laurens has over a decade experience with internet technology. He has a background in software development and information architecture.

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Lee is a Publishing Technologies Specialist of Editorial Web Production at The McGraw-Hill Companies Business Information Group, where he is responsible for maintaining XML standards and automating production workflows of published content. Lee has been Co-Chair of the PRISM working Group for 3 years, and has worked to implement the PRISM standard throughout McGraw-Hill Construction, Aviation and Platts.

Mr. Waldt has 25+ years working with SGML, XML, Publishing and Web technology. Dale teaches and consults on XML and related technology adoption worldwide, specializing in commercial publishing, government compliance, and legislative solutions. Previously he was a member of OASIS staff, a VP of Product Systems for RIA, the tax publishing division of the Thomson Corporation, as well as a technical developer for publishing and government organizations. Dale writes and speaks often on publishing technology and was co-author of the SGML Implementation Guide (Springer 1995). Dale has a BS in Publishing Technology (1983) and graduated from the Columbia Business School Executive Development Program (1996).

Norman Walsh is an XML Standards Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide. Mr. Walsh is an elected member of the Technical Architecture Group at the W3C where he is also chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group, co-chair of the XML Core Working Group, and an active member of the XSL Working Group. At OASIS, he is chair of the DocBook Technical Committee and a member of the RELAX NG and Entity Resolution Technical Committees. He was editor of the XML Catalogs specification for the Entity Resolution Technical Committee and wrote the implementation of that OASIS Standard that is part of the XML Commons project at Apache.

He is a specification lead for the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and has participated occasionally in several other XML-related JSRs.

Before joining Sun, he developed XML and SGML publishing systems for Arbortext, Inc., and O’Reilly and Associates. With more than a decade of industry experience, Mr. Walsh is well known for his work on DocBook and for the numerous works he has published. He is the principle author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide.

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I have worked as IT consultant for Dow Johns, ICL, Deutsche Bank and currently I am Principal Architect for Fortent.

Before that I was a tank commander in the army, a university lecturer and a managing director of a publishing house.

Charlie Wiecha is Manager, Multichannel Web Applications, at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research interests are in the areas of programming models and middleware for multi-channel and multi-modal web applications, and constraint-based distributed web applications. Charlie’s current work focuses on XForms, State Chart XML, and Collage, a declarative language for cross-organizational web applications.