Sharon Adler is Senior Manager of the Extensible Technologies Group at IBM Research, Hawthorne, NY. She is Co-chair of the XSL Working Group from the W3C and has worked in the area of markup standards and related style sheet standards from the ISO and W3C for more than 20 years.

Beatriz del Aguila

Beatriz del Aguila got her degree as Telecommunications Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She joined Editorial CISS, S.A., (currently CISS-PRAXIS) in 1997, as a member of a team responsible for the study of the features of SGML, related tools, etc., within the scope of a Pilot Project to find out the possibilities of application of this standard to the information managed in the company. Since the end of the Pilot Project, she has been involved in the design and implementation of the Major Project, providing the SGML point of view and her experience to the "SGML Project work-team". Currently she's the responsible of the SGML Production department ("from and to SGML" conversion) within the Electronic Publishing Area. Last November she became Project Manager of the SGML Project.

Kal Ahmed

Kal Ahmed is a Solutions Architect with Chrystal Software Inc. where he is responsible for the design and implementation of custom solutions built on the Astoria and Eclipse structured document management systems. Kal has presented Topic Map visualisation tools to the Meta-Structures'99 conference, the UK SGML Users Group and most recently at XML'99.

David Allen

David Michael Allen has been Managing Director of the International Press Telecommunications Council since 1991. Prior to that he was an Electrical Engineering Officer in the Royal Air Force for 23 years before being appointed as Telecommunications Manager of the Press Association and then Operations Director of BSB DataVision. David has been closely involved with all the standards work of the IPTC and has presented at seminars and conferences in Europe and North America. He was an external assessor for the EC Harmony Project for improving accessibility to news information and is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

Liora Alschuler

Liora is Co-chair of the HL7 XML SIG which is developing standards for the application of XML to healthcare information exchange. She was Project Manager in charge of clinical documents for the HL7 HIMSS 1999 and 2000 demos which coordinated applications in a simulated exchange network using the next generation of HL7 XML-based specifications. She was the Project Manager for Operation Jumpstart which created the Kona Architecture, a proposal for scaleable exchange of SGML-encoded clinical records and she is Chair of the Kona Editorial Group, chartered by the SIG to create a ballotable draft of the specification, now called the Patient Record Architecture (PRA). She was Program Chair of the HL7 SGML Mixer, held in August, 1997, and worked with eight vendors to create a prototype application for SGML and XML Claims Attachment Processing presented at that meeting. She is a member of the W3C XML Special Interest Group and of OASIS (formerly SGML Open). She has spoken on hypertext, XML, and SGML at local, regional, national, and international conferences. She produced a radio series on hypertext and computer documentation for the award-winning Personal Computer Show on WBAI, New York. Her articles have appeared in ComputerWorld, Seybold, Publish!, WebWeek and other publications. In addition to covering hypertext and SGML, she has reported on new technology from computer-generated holography (Computer Graphic) to microwave septic systems (Garbage Magazine).

Udo Altmann

Udo Altmann joint the Institute of Medical Informatics ten years ago. He became leader of the group which developed a comprehensive information system for cancer registries which is now in use in more than 30 centers in Germany. Since two years he is involved in the application of XML within this system for storing and managing medical record data and reports.

Jacek Ambroziak

Jacek Ambroziak joined Sun Microsystems' XML Technology Center in 1999, where he's been applying his extensive background in natural language technologies, Java, Jini, and XML to the problems of XML document search and retrieval. Jacek has been with Sun Microsystems since 1992, when he became a Research Scientist in the Knowledge Technology Group of Sun Laboratories. While in this position, Jacek worked on an approach to text search called "conceptual indexing," which combines techniques from knowledge representation and natural language processing to enable a computer to systematically organize relationships among concepts. Jacek architected and implemented modular semantic lexicons, co-developed a modular text processing pipeline, and built a highly efficient conceptual database and search engine. Subsequent to this work he designed and implemented in Java a full-text search engine that became part of Sun's JavaHelp facility. Jacek received his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences in 1990 from the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. He worked as a Research Associate in the Academy's Institute of Fundamental Technological Research and, before joining Sun, was a Visting Scientist in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. Jacek's recent publications include a presentation at the XTech 2000 Conference earlier this year entitled "An XML-Based Approach to the Control of XML Document Indexing," a 1998 SunLabs Report with William Woods on "Natural Language Technology in Precision Content Retrieval," and a presentation on "Conceptually Assisted Web Browsing" given at the WWW6 Conference in 1997.

Jeanne El Andaloussi

Jeanne El Andaloussi is Director of Operations at AIS - Berger-Levrault Document Engineering in Paris, a systems integrator for editorial production systems based on XML. She has long experience in XML/SGML training and corporate documentation standards, tools and methodologies. She is co-author of the book "Developing SGML DTDs from Text to Model to Markup" published by Prentice Hall in 1996. She has been a regular speaker at the XML/SGML conferences both in the US and in Europe for the last eight years.

Paula Angerstein

Paula Angerstein is Principal XML Architect at Vignette Corp., the leading supplier of e-business applications for building online businesses. Paula also represents Vignette in the W3C XML Activity and has had a long involvement with standards development. Formerly at Texcel Research Inc., she was instrumental in designing and deploying Texcel's Information Manager SGML document management system. Previously, she has held consulting, planning, and marketing roles at Interleaf and Computer Task Group. At Texet, Xerox, and Unisys, she implemented SGML software. She received a BA in both Computer Science and Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She received GCA's Tekkie award in 1989.

Nick Arnold

Nick Arnold is Director of Strategic Business Consulting for iMediation. iMediation is a pioneer in delivering software and services for managing Internet Selling Relationships. Prior to that, Nick managed the production, research and development, and Internet sections for the OECD's publishing activities. Prior to joining the OECD in 1990, Nick worked in New York in a variety of positions within the information management field.

Asta Bäck

Asta Bäck graduated with a Master of Science in printing technology and graphic arts from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1983 and since then she has worked as a research scientist and project manager at the Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT). She is now Senior Research Scientist at the media research field at VTT Information Technology. During the early nineties her work focused on developing new approaches and methods for the management and control of printing and publishing processes. With the advent of digital printing and web publishing, the main focus of her work has shifted to analyzing and developing solutions to utilize these new opportunities. She is the author or co-author of some 80 technical papers and has given numerous lectures both nationally and internationally.

Colin Baird

Colin Baird has been a web programmer and designer for 2 years and has an MSc in Electronic Publishing, as well as an Archaeology degree. He has always endeavoured to develop both technical and graphical skills concurrently so that his development work can be approached from a full perspective. He has recently joined STEP UK and has been involved in the development of this site.

Dr. Eduardo Barrera

COPY FROM 1999 - PLEASE EDIT: Dr. Eduardo Barrera is the founder and General Secretary of CommerceNet Spain and Executive Director of CommerceNet Europe. His is also very involved in the field of teleworking, where he co-founded the European Community Telework Forum (ECTF) back in 1992 and has since been its International President. He regularly advises policy formulators and writes articles for the local media and presents papers at relevant conferences to make people in general, and business leaders in particular, more aware of the challenges imposed by the emerging Information Society. He has actively participated in several European projects and initiatives for the promotion of these new ways of working and electronic commerce. In addition to this specific experience, he has more than 20 years of diversified, world-based, and result-oriented international business and high-level government experience at multilateral lending agencies (World Bank, Interamerican Development Bank, United Nations, EU, EBRD) large companies (KAISER, ISCOR), and Governments (Secretary of State for Mining of Argentina). On the academic side, he holds a MBA, a PhD and Engineer degrees.

Regis Baudu

Regis Baudu is the director of Research and Developpement for iMediation, a company member of Oasis, GCA,and W3C. He was previously at Netaway in charge of the development of an XML application server. He did several presentations and training on XML and XML application servers at various Workshops and Conferences including Comdex and Internet World.

Anders Berglund

Anders Berglund is Research Staff Member in Interactive Transaction Systems at IBM Research in Hawthorne, NY. He has been an active member in the XSL WG since its inception and is one of the major authors of the XSL FO specification. He has participated in markup and style sheet standards for more than a decade.

Karl F. Best is Director of Product Marketing at Enigma, a leading provider of e-commerce and e-publishing solutions. Prior to Enigma, Karl worked at Novell and Sun Microsystems designing and implementing electronic documentation authoring and delivery system, and at Adobe where he was the manager of FrameMaker+SGML developer support. Karl has been active in the SGML/XML industry for several years, serving on a variety of standards committees and speaking at numerous industry conferences. He was recently a Director and Chief Strategy Officer for OASIS.

Jean Bézivin is professor of Computer Science at the University of Nantes, France. He got his Master degree from the University of Grenoble and Ph.D. from the University of Rennes before spending several years, as an assistant professor, at the University of Brest. He also spent a year as a research fellow at the Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland) and later at the Concordia University of Montreal (Canada). Since 1980 he has been very active in Europe in the object-oriented community, starting the ECOOP series of conference (with Pierre Cointe), the TOOLS series of conferences (with Bertrand Meyer), the Objet'9X industry meeting (with Sylvie Caussarieu and Yvan Gallison), and more recently the <<UML>> series of conferences (with Pierre-Alain Muller). He founded in 1979, at the University of Nantes, one of the first Master programs in Software Engineering entirely devoted to Object Technology (Data Bases, Concurrency, Languages and Programming, Analysis and Design, etc.). His present research interests include object-oriented analysis and design, reverse engineering, knowledge-based software engineering, product and process modeling.

Michel Biezunski, Ph.D., is working as an independent consultant. He is actively involved in the creation of an information industry based on XML-related technologies. He is co-editor of the ISO/IEC 13250 Topic Maps standard and is now working on topic map implementations, including software tools to create and maintain topic maps. Michel has published several proceedings of GCA conferences showing topic map navigation.

As chief technology officer, Mr. Bodkin leads a team that is responsible for defining how to use e-Business technology to produce business solutions. Integral to this is assisting clients in strategic applications of technology and in demonstrating how technology functions. Mr. Bodkin is responsible for analyzing new technologies and works with vendors to create solutions for customers. Mr. Bodkin is a co-founder of the Company. Prior to C-bridge, Mr. Bodkin was a graduate student at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science where he specialized in object oriented and Internet technologies and distributed computing. Prior to MIT, he was a founder at Exsellerated Software -- an easy to use financial planning program for professional financial planners. Prior to Exsellerated, Mr. Bodkin worked as a senior consultant with Andersen Consulting working with customers such as AT&T Wireless, McCaw Cellular, and Microsoft. Mr. Bodkin holds an MS in computer science from MIT and joint honors -- B.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from McGill University. While at MIT, he was a finalist in MIT's $50,000 entrepreneurship contest for his plan based on applying Java technology to Internet business. Past speaking engagements include: over ten Cambridge Executive Enterprises seminars, Net Com trade show, DCI Net World trade show.

Dirk De Bosschere, Systems Development Manager, Digital Printing Systems, Barco. Dirk De Bosschere started as a Software Engineer for DISC in 1979, long before it became Barco Graphics. In his early years, Dirk refined his abilities to identify specialized user requirements in the Graphic Arts market place. Dirk defined various product specifications, and played a key role in developing and introducing successful products (DigiLabel, Mercator, ...) into the market. In 1990, Dirk left Barco to pursue further experience at the 'user side of the fence', managing production at a medium size pre-press service house. Early 1995, he returned to Barco, reinforced with an invaluable amount of customer-experience. In his current assignment, Dirk is fully involved with Digital and Personalized Printing. As a Systems Development Manager, he secures Barco's existing reputation of building innovative solutions and products for Personalized and Digital Printing. Dirk holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Management, both from the University of Gent, Belgium.

Florin Bota holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, since 1998, with a thesis on "Client/Server Programming in Windows", and a M.A. in Computer Science (Distributed Computing) from the same University since 1999, with a thesis on "Intranet Programming". Since October 1998 he is Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of European Studies of the "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania, teaching "Communication systems" and "Basics of Internet". In March of 1999 he was at the "Joszef Attila" University of Szeged, Hungary, for studying "Client/Server Programming in Internet", in the ambit of a CEEPUS project mobility. In October 1999 Florin Bota was at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, for studying "Distance Learning Using the Internet", in the ambit of a TEMPUS project mobility. During this period he worked on new technologies for distance education, and in particular on Internet applications using XML, contributing to the design and the implementation of the authoring tool described in the paper.

Frank Boumphrey has spoken extensively on XML, VB and ASP. He teaches classes on these subjects for the HTML Writers Guild. He is the author and co-author of several books on XML, including Style sheets for HTML and XML, XML applications, Beginning XHTML (Nov) and XML Unleashed (Dec). He is co-editor of the latest XHTML spec. and is working on the new XML forms working group for W3C.

Sandy Boyer is a pharmacist with many years of experience as a content expert involved in development of drug information. After participating in conversion of a large, highly structured drug information text into SGML, she became interested in the potential for SGML (and later XML) to facilitate utilization and integration of clinical healthcare data and resource information in systems designed to improve quality of healthcare. She has been involved with the HL7 XML Special Interest Group and Kona Editoral Groups since their inception, working intensively on the PRA Header and development methodology. She is currently working as a consultant in the U.S. and Australia. She has spoken on document markup (including document analysis) and XML at national and international conferences, including Health Level 7, the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and XML Europe.

Initially a Chief Medical Laboratory Scientific Officer in Immunology, then medical audit co-ordinator and Trust Information Manager, Sean's career reflected his personal objective "to link the application of IT to the "improving clinical care" agenda". Sean was appointed clinical audit advisor to the Department of Health in 1995. As Electronic Patient Record Project Manager for the NHS in England from 1996 - 1998, he was responsible for supporting a number of innovative and ground-breaking SGML projects at Oswestry Hospital, which had been proposed, with great foresight, by an orthopaedic surgeon, Mr Andrew Roberts. Since 1998 his time and duties have been split between the Health Department of the Scottish Executive, the NHS Information Policy Unit in England and independent consultancy projects. One such project was an invitation to Shanghai, along with two colleagues, to contribute to the development of the Shanghai Municipal Health Board's IM&T strategy. He believes that EPR (reinforced by the NHS's Information strategy "Information for Health") should be focused on supporting the clinical care processes with IT and not simply about creating a record on computer. And any record so formed, if XML based, will offer far more to clinicians and managers than traditional database paradigms.

Ken Brooks is Vice President of Digital Content at Barnes & Noble, Inc. and President of EP Ventures, Inc. He joined Barnes & Noble in 1999 where he founded EP Ventures, a Philippines-based text conversion and composition company, as well as the 1873 Press, a POD and eBook publishing entity. Ken has held several senior management positions in publishing, including Vice President of Operations, Production, and Strategic Planning at Bantam Doubleday Dell and Vice President of Customer Operations at Simon and Schuster. Prior to his entry into publishing, Ken was a Senior Manager in Andersen Consulting's Logistics Strategy Practice. He holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Allen L. Brown, Jr., Ph.D. is Senior Program Manager in Microsoft's Web Data Access group where he shepherds Microsoft's efforts in data access related XML standards. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Brown had a lengthy career at the Xerox Corporation, where held various positions including both Research Fellow and VP and CTO of Xerox's XSoft Division. His product development experience includes the management of large teams of engineers, as well as lead architectural roles in both Xerox's landmark Star system, and its Astoria object-oriented document repository. Dr. Brown has held positions in the corporate research centers of IBM, GE and Xerox. He is the author of numerous published technical papers and the holder of several U.S. patents. Dr. Brown's university and national service record includes professorships at the George Washington University and Syracuse University, and membership on the National Research Council NIST Panel on Information Technology.

Martin Bryan is now the Technical Manager for the European Commission sponsored Diffuse Project, whose aim is to promote awareness of, and increase input to, standards among those undertaking research into the needs of the Information Society throughout Europe.

David Burdett is a member of Commerce One's Advanced Technology group based in Pleasanton, California. Before joining Commerce One, David was Development Director, Internet, for Mondex Inernational, a subsidiary of MasterCard. David is the author of version 1.0 of the XML based Internet Open Trading Protocols and chaired the development of the OTP Consortium prior to the submission of IOTP to the IETF. David is an experienced Management Consultant and has worked for "big 6" consultancies including Ernst and Young for seven years. He has developed a reputation for designing innovative solutions using a wide variety of technologies including: distributed database, data mining, IS/IT strategy, systems development methods, and electronic commerce, in a wide variety of industries including, finance/banking, oil, healthcare, insurance, and broadcasting. David has also published several articles and presented at seminars internationally on electronic commerce addressing topics such as reliable messaging and barriers to implementation of new software and hardware based payment methods.

Linda Burman is President of L. A. Burman Associates, a company which provides XML consulting services. Some of these include: leadership of industry initiatives, strategic business development, analysis of industry trends and software tools, due diligence for companies seeking to make an investment in XML technology, and training. Prior to starting her own company five years ago, she was Director of Worldwide Marketing at SoftQuad International and before that she was the Publishing Evangelist at Apple Computer. She has also held technical and business roles at other hardware and software companies in both data communications and in publishing. Ms Burman is recognized as an industry expert in XML. She chairs the PRISM Working Group, an XML metadata initiative hosted by IDEAlliance. She is co-author of "Mastering XML", recently published by Sybex. She is also an active member of OASIS and teaches a course on XML at the University of Toronto. She also sits on the Advisory Boards of Foundry Ventures Inc, The XML Leadership Seminars and the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.

Eoin Campbell founded XML Workshop in 1998, following a number of years as an independent consultant. Eoin Campbell has spoken at the following industry conferences: SGML '98.

Bryan Caporlette has more than 11 years experience designing and implementing Internet publishing, electronic commerce, and document management solutions in a variety of vertical markets. Mr. Caporlette specializes in the development SGML/XML-based products. Mr. Caprolette is Vice President, Product Management for Sequoia Software. Sequoia is a recognized leader in the development of interactive enterprise portals. The Sequoia XML Portal Server (XPS) product is the premier portal development environment. In addition, Sequoia has created a powerful XML search engine, called Xdex, that enables complete context sensitive searching of XML repositories. Prior to joining Sequoia, Mr. Caprolette held various product and engineering management positions at companies such as Hynet Technologies, ARINC and Passage Systems, Inc. Mr. Caporlette is a recognized SGML/XML expert and a regular presenter at industry conferences and various SGML/XML user groups. He has won the Chief Scientist Award and the USAF Technical Achievement Award for the creation of the Interactive Electronic Technical Manual (IETM) Data Model. He has also published technical articles in the XML Handbook and CALS Journal. Mr. Caporlette received a B.S. in Systems Analysis at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.

François Chahuneau is General Manager of AIS and President of AIS Software, AIS's software publishing subsidiary. Throughout his ten years of experience with SGML and now XML during which he developed the AIS business, F. Chahuneau was involved as an expert consultant or project supervisor in a large number of SGML-related projects in France and Europe, covering all typical application areas. He supervised the design and development of several software products, including the SGML/Store SGML database, Balise and Dual Prism. Mr. Chahuneau graduated at the Ecole Normale Supèrieure in Paris.

The Business Systems Manager in the Royal Brompton & Harefield trust is responsible for new system development and implementation and is charged with delivering the Trust IS strategy. My background is in healthcare in the NHS in England over the last thirty years, working in a wide range of disciplines at all levels within the organisational structures of the NHS.

Dr John Chelsom is Managing Director of CSW Informatics, a company dedicated to providing object-level information management solutions using XML, SGML and database technology. Originally trained as an electrical engineer, John worked first as an X-Ray engineer and later gained a PhD for work on the application of knowledge based systems in medicine. Since founding CSW Informatics he has been responsible for the design and development of XML and SGML information management systems for some of the world's most prestigious engineering, healthcare and publishing organisations. John is a regular speaker at XML and SGML conferences, was a contributing author for the SGML Buyer's Guide and is the presenter of the Technology Appraisals seminar series on XML Databases.

Mark Colan is an XML Technologist for IBM Corporation. He is also well known as the Lead Architect for the InfoBus technology (a Java Standard Extension). With over 20 years experience in designing and implementing commercial software products and technologies, Mark is well versed in component software strategies, operating systems, and software tools. Mark has spoken at several leading Java and XML industry conferences and events, including JavaOne '98 and '99, the Java Developers' Kitchen series in 1998, the Colorado Software Summit in 1998, XML '99, and SD 2000 West.

Alan Coleman is a business consultant with Macalla Software. He has extensive experience in the functional and design analysis of e- and m-Commerce software solutions for the financial markets. Before joining Macalla Alan was a business analyst with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter working in their Derivative Risk Technology Group. He is a sitting member on the FpML Architecture Working Group, a finance industry initiative to further the adoption of e-Commerce to the Derivative Markets. Alan is also on the steering committee for JSIG (Java Special Interest Group) in Ireland. His academic qualifications include B. Sc. (Computer Science and Mathematics) and Masters of Business Studies (Management Information Systems).

Paul Conn brings to GCA and IDEAlliance over 12 years of experience in developing EDI and E-Business standards. His expertise includes guiding industry groups in the development and implementation of E-Business standards, having successfully worked in the petroleum and commercial aviation industries prior to joining GCA and IDEAlliance. Most recently, he was Manager of Technical Development for SPEC 2000, a global E-Commerce program used by most major airlines around the world in support of their maintenance and engineering operations. Mr. Conn has a Bachelor of Science degree in Decision Sciences with an emphasis on Information Systems Management.

Bennett Cookson, Jr. has been designing and developing software tools as a Senior Architect at NextPage (and previous parent companies including Folio and Open Market) for over 7 years. As an early advocate of SGML/XML, Bennett has been actively involved in the design of NextPage's LivePublish product around XML, HTML, and other industry standards. Bennett is the architect for Indexsheets, an "Extensible Indexing Language" based on the XSLT standard. Bennett graduated from BYU with a BS in Computer Science and a minor in Philosophy. While not at the computer, Bennett enjoys spending time with his wife Kathryn and four children Benjamin, Cozette, Katrina, and Spencer. Bennett Cookson has spoken at Success 98 and has done many internal company presentations.

Dave Cruikshank

Dave Cruikshank is an Associate Technical Fellow with The Boeing Company in the area of graphics and digital data interchange. He is also the Chief Technical Officer of the CGM Open consortium. He has several years of experience with SGML and CGM interchange. He is the co-chair of the ATA Graphics Working Group and has led projects within Boeing to convert maintenance information to SGML compliant with the ATA interchange DTD's. He is the technical architect of the ATA intelligent graphics model. Dave has spoken at several GCA sponsored conferences, including various TechDoch, SGML, and XML conferences. He has also produced and given tutorials on CGM and intelligent graphics.

Peter Davis

Peter Davis has designed and developed software for document composition, graphics editing, multimedia authoring, and print production since 1982. He has lead development efforts at Digital Equipment Corporation, Contex Prepress Systems, BBN, and Pageflex Inc. He has also developed educational software at MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives. Peter has been a member of the PPi standards working group since its inception. Peter holds a B.A. from Brandeis University and an M.S. in Computer Science from NYU.

Dave deBronkart

Dave deBronkart is Senior Consultant with PODi, the Print On Demand initiative, a not-for-profit industry initiative focused on developing the market for digital printing through market education and standards activities. Throughout his career in typesetting and the graphic arts he has focused on productivity enhancements, both as consultant and employee at industry leading firms including Compugraphic (now Agfa), Indigo, Scitex, Itek, and Du Pont. For the past year he has served as Program Director for PODi's initiative to develop PPML, an XML-based standard for personalized printing. A graduate of MIT's Sloan School of Management, Mr. deBronkart is based in the Boston area.

Beatriz del Aguila

Beatriz del Aguila got her degree as Telecommunications Engineer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She joined Editorial CISS, S.A., (currently CISS-PRAXIS) in 1997, as a member of a team responsible for the study of the features of SGML, related tools, etc., within the scope of a Pilot Project to find out the possibilities of application of this standard to the information managed in the company. Since the end of the Pilot Project, she has been involved in the design and implementation of the Major Project, providing the SGML point of view and her experience to the "SGML Project work-team". Currently she's the responsible of the SGML Production department ("from and to SGML" conversion) within the Electronic Publishing Area. Last November she became Project Manager of the SGML Project.

Andre DeWild

Andre DeWild is a supervisor in Wiring Diagram and System Schematic Production at United Airlines. He is the chairman of the ATA Graphics Working Group and has been instrumental in the definition of requirements for graphical interchange and intelligent graphics applications within the air transport industry. He has several years of experience with graphics interchange and use within the industry. Andre has spoken at GCA sponsored TechDoc and SGML conferences.

Denise Downs

Denise Downs is a Principal Lecturer at Huddersfield University in the School of Computing & Mathematics, with responsibility for all External Commercial Activities within the school. Denise started her career as a Secondary School teacher, and has 23 years experience in various educational establishments, and an MA in Education. In recent years, her academic work has been combined with working in an IT management role in a multinational chemical company, leading the development and deployment of innovative IT solutions to enable the company to manage their business processes electronically. This work brought first-hand experience of skills shortages and re-skilling, working with a wide range of IT, sales and customer service staff, from their mid fifties to their early twenties, and helping them to become effective using the new technology.

Jean-Jacques Dubray

Jean-Jacques Dubray, Ph.D., has nine years of experience in building large scale distributed object-oriented systems for the semiconductor and telecommunication industries, and more recently for business intelligence and e-Commerce applications. Jean-Jacques had led the design and implementation of NEC's eBusiness Solution Framework at the Boston Technology Center. He is currently chief eBusiness Architect at eXcelon Corp. He is also the project leader of the eCommerce initiative of the Open Applications Group

Joachim Dudeck

Prof. Dudeck is head of the department of Medical Informatics at the University hospital in Giessen (UHG). He has been involved in the development of medical data dictionaries, knowledge based hospital information and application systems. Since 1993 he is chair of the HL7 user group in Germany and became involved in XML applications in particular in healthcare and as interchange format in messaging. He was also chairman of the CEN TC 251 XML Tasc Force. The institute was partner of the ISIS XML /EDI Pilot Project.

Edd Dumbill

Edd Dumbill is Managing Editor of XML.com, part of the O'Reilly Network, and founder of XMLhack.com, the XML developer news site. As both a software developer and writer he maintains a unique position at the cutting edge of the XML world. Edd has been working with Internet applications for five years. Previously he was Head of Web Development at the Press Association, the UK's national news agency. During that time he was involved in the construction of web site content management systems, and developed several pioneering web sites.

Nils Enlund

Nils Enlund (Docent, Lic.Tech., M.Sc., B.Sc). is professor (chair) of Media Technology and Graphic Arts at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He is also program director of the KTH School of Media Technology. He has formerly held positions as acting assistant professor in Information Processing Science and head of the Media Technology Research Group at the Helsinki University of Technology, research director of IFRA, Darmstadt, Germany, and managing director of MediaCom, Porvoo, Finland, among others. Nils Enlund is currently participating in and managing research in the areas of production management in media production, interactive digital media, and media industry development.

Caroline Estève

As an engineer and project manager in AEROSPATIALE MATRA LANCEURS, Caroline Estève has been involved for eight years in different information systems projects, dealing with air command and control, definition data, system and mechanical synthesis data, logistics and documentaion data. She is now in charge of the electronic documentation of a major military project, responsible for both the specification and setting of methods and tools, and for the realisation of the e-doc of the system. AEROSPATIALE MATRA LANCEURS STRATEGIQUES ET SPATIAUX is a 100 % subsidiary of the Aerospatiale Matra group. Its role is to design, develop, test, produce and integrate civil and military launchers, space transportation and atmospheric re-entry vehicles and elements of orbital infrastructure. The Aquitaine plant has gained a unique experience in developing and integrating complex systems (MSBS), in atmospheric reentry (ARD, Huygens...), in composite materials (wound tank for launchers andsatellites, reinforcement rod for the Airbus A 330-340, thermal protection...) and in test facilities (EDEN).

Laura Farinetti

Laura Farinetti is a research engineer at the Computer Science and Automation Department of Politecnico di Torino. She holds a Dr. Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering since 1990 and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science since 1995, both from Politecnico di Torino. In 1991 she was with Digital Equipment Corporation in Marlborough, MA. Since 1992 she has been with the Computer Science and Automation Department of Politecnico di Torino, working in co-operation with Ce.Te.M. (Centre for Open and Distance Education of Politecnico di Torino) since 1997. She is member of the steering committee of Multimedia Laboratory of Politecnico di Torino (LAMP). Her research interests include computer-based tools for education, hypertexts, multimedia and hypermedia systems, distance education and human-computer interfaces. Laura Farinetti is the author of many scientific papers in these areas, which have appeared on Journals and have been presented at International Conferences. She has also experience in the management of European projects, both as a researcher and as the local project co-ordinator.

Jon Ferraiolo

Jon Ferraiolo is a member of Adobe's Advanced Technology Group where he focuses on issues related to the Web and XML. He is Adobe's representative to the W3C's working group on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) and is editor of the SVG specification. Jon has been an engineering manager and product manager at various software companies. He has an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and a B.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Stanford University.

Ramin Firoozye

Ramin Firoozye has worked in high-technology in Silicon Valley since 1983, in various technical and management positions. Prior to Activare Software, he was involved in founding several San Francisco Bay Area software startups. He has also worked as technical consultant to numerous companies, including Apple, AutoDesk, EarthLink Networks, IBM, Oracle, and Sony. In 1999 Activare developed a high-performance SXL processing engine for high-volume applications. In year 2000, Activare is releasing products to help move XML and XSL into the embedded systems market. Mr. Firoozye's last presentation was a presentation at XTech '99 in San Jose on DBML, an XML grammar for defining database schema and content, and DataXML, a Java-based tool for automatically converting DBMS content and schema to/from XML.

Philippe Fontaine

Philippe Fontaine is a project manager at ACSE sa/nv, Brussels, a member of the SGML Technologies Group. For over ten years he has been active as a software engineer and systems architect specializing in object-oriented distributed applications and complex document workflow systems. All these systems use XML either as a document storage and exchange medium or as a formal message specification tool for communications between distributed application processes. He obtained a degree in electromechanical engineering of the Free University of Brussels. Philippe Fontaine has spoken at several conferences and has published papers in different SGML/XML journals: - 'Graphic Object Oriented Development', Speaker, Proceedings of Les Journées Internationales du Génie Logiciel, Toulouse (France), December 1988 - 'SCOOP: a Software Environment for C++ Object Oriented Programming', Proceedings of EUUG Spring Conference, Brussels (Belgium), February 1989 - 'UDMS: the Future Network Infrastructure for Space Projects', Speaker, Proceedings of Chorus Jam Session, Portland (OR), June 1991 - 'SGML Boosts Standard Document Processing for a Major European Bank', Speaker, Proceedings of Markup Technologies '98, Chicago (IL), November 1998. - 'SGML and Information Mapping Combine for a Banking Professional Knowledge System', interCHANGE - The Newsletter of the International SGML/XML Users' Group, 2000 (being edited)

Eric Freese

Mr. Eric Freese is the Director of Consulting Services in the Midwest Region for Isogen International, a Datachannel company. In 1997, he founded Electronic Data Foundry which was acquired by DataChannel in 1999. Mr. Freese has more than a decade of experience in the area of information, document, and knowledge management. His specific expertise is in the development of SGML products and implementation of SGML technologies including XML, DSSSL, HyTime, Topic Maps, HTML and the WWW. This experience includes research, analysis, specification, design, development, testing, implementation, integration and management of database systems and computer technologies in business, education and government environments. Mr. Freese has developed and implemented training programs and materials from elementary to graduate level. He also has research experience in human interface design, graphics interface development and artificial intelligence. Mr. Freese has spoken at numerous conferences in North America and Europe, including Metastructures '99, SGML Europe '96, SGML '91, '92 and '94, Seybold Paris, the International WWW Conference and the Aerospace Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, on subjects including structured information, data and document management and artificial intelligence. Mr. Freese organized and chaired the Web-4-All Special Interest Day at XML '99.

Karl Füerst

From 1989 to 1994: Studies at Vienna University of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering. December 1994: Graduation in Industrial Electronics and Control Theory at Vienna University of Technology. Master Thesis: "Finite State Machine for Fuzzy Logic Based Local Collision Avoidance". From 1995 to January 1999: PhD in Electrical Engineering at Vienna University of Technology. PhD Thesis: "Module Structure for Flexible Component Integration for High Working Speeds in Machine Vision". since February 1996: Research Assistant at Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Flexible Automation (INFA). since July 1998: Head of the working group "Intelligent Product Design" at INFA. since August 1998: Teaching Assistant at INFA. Currently working on: Virtual/Extended Enterprise, Intelligent Product Design, Dynamic Development Tools, Optimimal Enterprise Operations Point. Karl Fürst has organized, chaired and spoken at the INFA Product Data Management Conference in May 1999 and has spoken at the following industry conferences: IECON´98, CPI '99.

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