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Greg Gallant

Greg Gallant is a Senior Systems Architect at Micrografx. He is currently leading the design of a middleware product which utilizes XML, WebCGM, and other W3C standards extensively. Mr. Gallant's professional interests include distributed systems and internet technologies.

Sophie Gamerman

Sophie Gamerman is the Product Manager for iChannel, the flagship product of iMediation Sophie Gamerman was the technical representative for Ardent Software at the Object Database Management Group where she was the editor of the OQL chapter. She made several presentations at Object conferences on XML and Databases, query languages and XML.

Eric P. Garcia

Eric Garcia is vice president for the Information Technology Solutions division of Sabre. He is responsible for planning the company's technology strategy and communicating the strategy both internally and externally to current and prospective customers. Responsibilities also include aligning both the technology and business strategy of Sabre and in coordinating the organizational development and process management. Prior to his current position, Garcia was chief technology officer, vice president and general manager technology marketing and director of platform technology for the Sabre electronic travel distribution division. At Sabre computer services, Garcia held the positions of manager premise design and senior engineer of local area networks. Prior to his work at Sabre, Garcia was a senior consultant operations researcher for American Airlines Decision Technologies. Garcia holds a master's in business administration in operations management and quantitative methods from Syracuse University and a bachelor's in chemical engineering from the University of the Philippines.

John Gebhardt

Dr. John C. Gebhardt, Vice President, Product Strategy and Architecture is a 30-year veteran in the computer graphics industry and has provided leadership in the development of electronic technical publishing products since the early 1980’s. Dr. Gebhardt is active in the development of international standards for the storage, interchange, and presentation of graphical information. He is an active member of Insight H3, the U.S. counterpart to ISO SC24. He was a co-author of WebCGM and was an active participant in the development of VRML97, the new ISO standard for 3D graphics. He is a director and officer of CGM Open, an affiliate of OASIS which promotes the use of the CGM standard. Dr. Gebhardt also serves as an observer on the Graphics Task Group of the Air Transport Association (ATA). Dr. Gebhardt has spoken on WebCGM and intelligent graphics at XML 98 in Chicago, XML 99e in Granada and at XML 99 in Philadelphia. He holds bachelor of science, master of science, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering from the University of Michigan.

Pamela Gennusa

Pam is a consultant providing services to associations and consortia in the area of standards-based content management. She is the European Representative for OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, and she serves as the Conference Chair for XML Europe 2000, which is presented by the Graphic Communications Association (GCA). Previously, Pam was Managing Director of Database Publishing Systems Ltd where she led the consultancy and development between 1990 and 1999. During that time, she has served as consultant for a number of SGML/XML-related applications in the oil, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, and defence industries. Prior to joining DPSL, Pamela was the Director of Marketing for Datalogics, Inc. in the U.S. She has participated on both the ANSI and ISO committees responsible for the creation of ISO 8879 - SGML. Until 1992, she served as Co-Chair of the US CALS committee responsible for MIL-M-28001. Pam is a recipient of the GCA Tekkie Award. She served as President of the International SGML Users' Group from 1992-1999. She also served as Chief Marketing Officer and President on the first OASIS (known then as SGML Open) Board of Directors (1993-1995). In 1992, she became a member of the GCA Board of Directors, and served as Chairperson of that Board in 1997-98. She is also a member of the GCARI (GCA Research Institute) Board of Directors. Each Spring since 1991, Pam has chaired the GCA's SGML Europe Conference. As such, she leads the programme committee in determining the content, does all speaker management, and is responsible for the development of marketing materials and the conference proceedings.

Robert Glushko

Bob Glushko is responsible for XML strategy, standards, and "community applications" at Commerce One, which he joined in January 1999 when it acquired Veo Systems, which he'd helped found in 1997. Prior to Veo Systems, Glushko was the Chief Scientist and Vice President of Passage Systems, a consulting and systems integration firm specializing in SGML-based publishing (which he co-founded in 1992). He has an undergraduate degree from Stanford, a MS (Software Engineering) from the Wang Institute, and a PhD (cognitive psychology) from UC San Diego.

Dr. Charles Goldfarb

Dr. Goldfarb invented the SGML language in 1974 and later led the team that developed it into the International Standard on which both HTML and XML are based. He serves as Editor of the Standard (ISO 8879) and as a consultant to developers of SGML and XML applications and products. While at IBM Dr. Goldfarb led the project that invented SGML's precursor, GML, in 1969, for which he coined the term "markup language". He edits Prentice-Hall's "Definitive XML Series from Charles F. Goldfarb" and co-authored "The XML Handbook, Second Edition". He has been profiled in Forbes and other publications and is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication and holder of the PIA Gutenberg Award. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College.

Arofan Gregory

Arofan Gregory currently maintains the "Common Business Library" for Commerce One. He worked for seven years in commercial book and journal publishing before becoming an SGML consultant at Passage Systems. After working as a consultant and manager of consulting there, he started his own consultancy, Aeon, also specializing in practical SGML implementation. Before coming to Commerce One, he worked for Documentum, Inc., as their Practice Leader for Technical Publications, with a focus on SGML and XML systems for repository-based Internet publishing. He has presented at major SGML and XML conferences, most recently at XML '99, and has served as an editor for the CommerceNet eCo Semantics Specification for XML business documents. He is an active participant in the ebXML harmonization initiative, and sits on MicroSoft's BizTalk Steering Committee.

Adam Greissman

Greissman is a practice leader in middleware technology and XML. He is one of the founding members of Financial Products Markup Language (FpML), an XML based markup language for currency and interest rate derivatives. He is currently managing the development of projects in Asia, North America and Europe. He has been the system architect for several major capital markets banking systems. Using techniques he has pioneered, he is also the author of the Universal Data Interface (UDI), an XML based middleware tool which automates the process of moving data between packages and systems. He is the author of the General Ledger Interface Application, which automates the creation of journal entries from native source system transactions, for ERP packages such as SAP and PeopleSoft.

Jane Grimson

Professor Jane Grimson obtained her bachelors degree in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and her Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science form the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh. She joined the Department of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer in 1980 where she is now an Associate Professor. She was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Systems Sciences from 1996 to 1999. She has published over 80 papers in journals and the proceedings of international conferences, and has co-authored a textbook on Distributed Database Systems published by Addison-Wesley. Her main research interests are in distributed information systems and health informatics. She has acted as principal investigator on several EU and national research projects. She established the Knowledge and Data Engineering Research Group in the Department of Computer Science and also, together with colleagues from the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Centre for Health Informatics in Trinity College. She is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society, Irish Computer Society, Institution of Engineers of Ireland, Irish Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and a member of ACM and IEEE. She is a member of the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation and chaired the Materials and Manufacturing Processes Panel of the Government's Technology Foresight Initiative. 'She is President of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland for 1999-2000.

Simon Groves

Simon works as a consultant with OpenMIND Consulting specialising in the development of Web-based applications using integrated combinations of XML, ODBC, Java, Javascript, ASP, HTML, WML and WMLScript.

Geir Ove Grønmo

Geir Ove Grønmo is an Information Architect at STEP Infotek, a Norwegian company that specializes in information reengineering. He studied Computer Science and Graphic Arts Technologies at the College of Gjøvik and joined Falch Infotek, now STEP Infotek, in 1995.During his military service Geir Ove worked with the implementation of SGML technologies at the Norwegian CALS office. He is currently involved in the design and implementation of document management and Topic Map solutions. He has been involved in a number of other projects in which SGML, HyTime and DSSSL technologies have played a key role, and is the author of several Open Source tools for processing topic maps, groves and SGML architectures, including tmproc, GPS and xmlarch.

Paul Grosso

As a founder of Arbortext, Paul Grosso has over 15 years experience in publishing and structured authoring technology. He oversees standards participation and research and strategic planning related to technology as well as serving as a key technical resource to Arbortext's software development group. He has been a frequent speaker at SGML, XML and World Wide Web conferences for the past 10 years and is widely recognized as an expert in the industry.

Marc Hadley

Marc Hadley is a Solutions Architect for Chrystal Software in Europe. He has 9 years of experience in technical software development, mainly in the areas of communications and distributed systems. Marc has spent the last 2 years working on the design and implementation of SGML and XML component management systems. Marc is a recent convert to the Python scripting language and is also looking forward to making extensive use of Java now that he has completed the Java API for Astoria.

Vincent Hardy

Vincent Hardy is working at Sun Microsystems, Inc. in Menlo Park, CA, where he is focusing on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an XML syntax for 2D vector graphics. Vincent is a member of the SVG W3C Working Group, the author of 'Java 2D API Graphics' (Prentice Hall) and a regular columnist for the Java Report (about the Java 2D API).

Lofton Henderson

Lofton Henderson is an independent contractor with long experience in computer graphics, and especially in internet graphical technologies - WebCGM and SVG. Prior to a 2-year tenure as Director of Advance Graphics Development for Inso Corp., Lofton Henderson presided over Henderson Software, Inc., specializing in CGM technology, products, and services for 12 years. He has taught and lectured extensively on CGM and other computer graphics topics, and is co-author of the "The CGM Handbook" (Henderson and Mumford, Academic Press, 1993, 450 pp.), an in-depth look at the standard and its application in the real world. He has worked on the ANSI and ISO committees responsible for graphics standards for 15 years, during which time he has had roles ranging from CGM document editor to Convenor of the ISO SC24/WG6 Metafiles Working Group. He has made substantial contributions to the definition of the significant industry CGM profiles: ATA GRexchange and IGexchange, PIP, J2008, RIF, and the recently approved WebCGM W3C Recommendation. He a director and past chair of the CGM Open Consortium, as well as a member of W3C's SVG Working Group.

Ken Holman

Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering OmniMark programming, DSSSL and XSL/XSLT language training, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, an invited expert to the W3C, the author of "Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (XSL Transformations and the XML Path Language)" (ISBN 1-894049-03-9), 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.

Kristie Hooker

Kristie Hooker has worked in the Internet and SGML industry for over 10 years and helped define and implement original DTD's and SGML solutions for Novell, Tandem, SGI, Sybase and many other companies while working at Passage Systems. She also designed and implemented much of the Beyond.com order processing system including a new XML interface with a custom DTD for E-Commerce data interchange. She has taught advanced SGML at Passage Systems alongside Marcy Thompson (a leading SGML authority and teacher) and Eliot Kimber (developed Hytime standard).

Liang Hsu

Liang H. Hsu is a distinguished member of technical staff and head of Multimedia Documentation Program, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Prior to joining Siemens, he worked for Digital Equipment Corporation as a field service support. He has many years industrial experiences in SGML/XML technology and business talks. His current interests include conversion of legacy documents into SGML, SGML-based document composition and hyperlinking for complex products, multimedia document delivery mechanisms, and browsing and navigation support for service-related applications.

Arved C Hübler

Prof. Dr. Arved C. Hübler, Director of the Institute for Print and Media Technology [pm] at Chemnitz Technical University, formerly was Technical Director with the Bertelsmann Group in Gütersloh, Germany. At pm Institute, several projects in PoD technology relating to PoD workflow, new book binding techniques, XML document structuring, automated book generation and document digitalisation are in progress. Also consulting projects in implementing PoD production in several companies where done. Arved Hübler is Member of the TAGA.

Brad Husick

Brad Husick is vice president of standards and evangelism for Vignette Corporation (NASDAQ: VIGN), and chairman of the marketing subcommittee of the ICE (Information and Content Exchange) XML-based standard. Brad also serves as co-chairman of the CPexchange (Customer Profile Exchange) initiative's marketing committee. Prior to Vignette, Brad was a co-founder of NetGravity, vice president of marketing for interactive design firm Clement Mok Designs, and held product management positions at Macromedia and Hewlett-Packard. Brad began his career at Apple Computer in advertising. He holds an M.B.A from Columbia University and a B.A. in Astrophysics from Rice University.

Neil Hutson

Neil Hutson has worked for Microsoft for over 5 years and is currently the technical owner of the Microsoft Biztalk Initiatives within the EMEA region, focusing on helping solution vendors, enterprise customers and systems integrations to develop application integration strategies using the XML technology. Before this, Neil worked as a senior application architect, working with leading Independent Solution Vendors developing Enterprise Resource Planning and Supply Chain solutions. Over this time, Neil has gained significant experience of XML, related Biztalk Technologies and Microsoft's Commerce platform. In his spare time Neil enjoys mountain biking and windsurfing.

Thomas Jell

Tom Jell is a Principal Consultant in Practice Management International at Siemens Business Services (Munich). He does top management consulting for Product Data Management, Structured Document Processing and Data Management Systems. He has been involved in object-oriented software technology since 1987. Current primary focus is in introducing modern technologies like ComponentWare, CORBA, Java, WWW, XML, SGML-based publishing into today's customer solutions. His reseach focus is on Distributed Object Computing, Fault Tolerant industry systems and Reliable Systems. He's the author of the books "Objektorientierte Programmierung in C++" and Editor of "Component based Software Engineering". He is Honorary Member of the ComponentWare Consortium.

Christophe Jolif

Christophe Jolif has been working for ILOG since 1997. Since January 1999, he has been an R&D Software Engineer working on ILOG JViews Component Suite. He is also currently representing ILOG at SVG World Wide Web Consortium Working Group and implementing SVG import and export features in ILOG JViews.

Benjamin Jung

Benjamin Jung is a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group at Trinity College Dublin. Before he came to Ireland he graduated from Technische Universitaet Muenchen in 1996 with a masters degree in computer science and theoretical medicine. He is involved in two major European Medical Informatics projects (Synapses, SynEx), where he works in the Electronic Healthcare Record Architecture group. Within the EU-project SynEx, he is the Technical Team Leader for Trinity College Dublin and additionally chairs the SynExML task-force which deals with the development of a common DTD for the exchange of Electronic Patient Records (EPR). He is also a member of the CEN/TC251 XML-Taskforce and co-founder of the local XML working group in the computer science department of Trinity College Dublin.

Simo Karttunen

Simo Karttunen, Professor DTech, is a research professional retired from VTT Information Technology after a long carreer (1962-1999). He is working as a docent (advisor and lecturer) and emeritus professor at Helsinki University of Technology, HUT. He has a similar arrangement with the KTH in Stockholm. His research area during the last 10 years of his career is the workflow and metadata technologies in the media production with emphasis on the cross-media, digital printing and printing services. He holds the TAGA Honors Award from 1985 and is a Foreign Delegate of the Engineering Science Academy of Sweden , IVA.

K Karun

K. Karun currently works as Project Lead in CORE and XML Development Group. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Michigan State University and B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He lives in Mountain View, California.

Una Kearns

Una Kearns is the XML Architect at Documentum, Inc. and is responsible for the company's overall XML product strategy and architecture. Her main responsibility is leading the development of Documentum's next generation XML product solutions. Una is a member of the XML.org steering committee and is involved in the OASIS and ebXML registry and repository initiatives. Previously as a consultant she led the development of production XML/SGML solutions for multiple fortune 1000 companies. Prior to Documentum, Inc, Una worked for West Group as a Lead Software Engineer developing SGML content management and publishing applications. Una received a BA Mod. in Computer Science, Linguistics, and French from Trinity College Dublin. She is an active participant and spokesperson in industry events and conferences.

John Kemble

John Kemble started work in the computer department at the British Insurance Association in 1973. He first ventured into electronic commerce in 1989, when he was asked to head up the newly formed IT Development department at the Association of British Insurers. Now Manager of Electronic Commerce, his role is to represent the industry's views on various EC standards bodies, and to help to co-ordinate insurance electronic commerce activities. He is also responsible for InStep, which is the UK EDI initiative in the personal lines area, and helped set up their first project involving the creation of XML standards for motor insurance. John is currently Chairman of EDIFACT D9, the insurance committee of the global EDI standards setting body, and a member of the EDIFACT Management Team and Steering Committee. He is also Vice-Chair of eEG7, the EDIFACT European insurance group. In his D9 role he was responsible for setting up a pilot project creating XML standards for cargo insurance.

Dianne Kennedy

Dianne Kennedy has a long history in publishing, SGML and XML. Today, Ms. Kennedy is an independent consultant and chairs the automotive industry SAE J2008, is the convener for ISO 12083 (SGML standard for journal publishing) and participates in the IDEAlliance Information and Content Exchange (ICE) Authoring Group. Ms. Kennedy serves as Chief Technology Consultant for IDEAlliance, is editor of the XML Files and Executive Director of IDEA ICC.

Brian King

Brian King joined XML Workshop Ltd. in early 1999, and has worked on the Fabula project for 1 year.

Gary Kinghorn

Gary Kinghorn is the Director of Corporate Marketing for Netfish Technologies, and is responsible for all aspects of strategic marketing and business development for the company. Kinghorn has over 15 years experience in the high-tech industry. His area of expertise includes XML, security, computer operating systems, networking, ERP systems and workflow. He has held a number of Product Marketing, Business Development and Executive roles with both start-ups and industry leaders, including Sun Microsystems, Tandem Computers and RSA Data Security. Prior to joingin Netfish, Kinghorn was responsible for the entire product strategy and marketing at RSA Data Security. He served a key role in the development of Tandem Computers' open systems and Internet security strategies and was an integral part of Sun Microsystems' licensing program to proliferate its operating system. Kinghorn has been a speaker at the RSA Data Security conference, as well as other e-commerce industry forums. He holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering from UCLA.

Amy Krane

Amy Krane is Director of Global Alliances for Enigma, Inc. She is responsible for Enigma's strategic business relationships with complementary software suppliers in the ERP, B2B e-commerce, and content management segments. Prior to joining Enigma, she was the senior marketing executive at Texcel International, a pioneering vendor in XML content management. She has held systems analysis, marketing and sales positions in the document information systems industry for over 15 years, and is a frequent speaker at industry events including Seybold Seminars, XML, and XML Europe.

Jürgen Krüger

Jürgen Krüger is a graduate in mathematics. >From 1981 to 1992 he was Project Manager and Main Designer with responsibility for developing WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors at Berthold AG, Berlin. In 1992 Mr. Krüger moved to Siemens AG as a Technical Assessor. Today Mr. Krüger is a business consultant responsible for Document Management Systems and archives in the area of Structured Document Processing. Mr. Krüger has spoken at the following conferences: Fachtagung Technische Dokumentation '98 Munich, SGML/XML Europe '98 Paris.

Manfred Krüger

Dr. Manfred Krüger (59) is the managing director of MID/Information Logistics Group GmbH in Heidelberg, Germany. He learned and worked in a scientific publishing house and studied economics in Berlin and Mannheim. He started his own business in 1984 as system developer and consultant for integrated publishing systems on the basis of SGML. His work entails development, maintenance and organisation for voluminous technical documentation and scientific publication for multiple media. He works on projects for a variety of industries: standardisation, scientific and reference publishers, computer-software, telecommunication, aircraft-industry, airlines, automotive industry and insurances.

K. Kreülich

K. Kreulich has been working at the Institute for Print- and Media Technology since 1997. He is involved in various research projects concerning XML and Print-on-Demand technologies.

Rafal Ksiezyk

Rafal Ksiezyk is Managing Director and Head Consultant of STEP Poland Ltd. His main fields of interest are application of structured information technologies to solving of reference, legal and STM publishing problems. Prior to joining STEP Rafal worked for Polish Scientific Publishers designing and implementing document and knowledge management solutions for encyclopaediae. Rafal is a frequent conference and seminar speaker, including SGML/XML Europe 98 (Paris) and XML Europe 99 (Granada). He is also author of number of papers popularising XML/SGML technology, as well as, since 1996, maintains Web page "XML/SGML in Poland" under www.xml.pl. Rafal graduated from Department of Physics, Warsaw University.

Nick Lanyon

Nick Lanyon worked for CAP Gemini, British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways and as an independent consultant before founding Lanyon Ltd. in 1984. Lanyon pioneered the use of a communications co-processor board in a PC to emulate a cluster of terminals using the ALC communications protocol, offering a uniform programming interface for the many variants of this protocol used across the travel industry. Following the 1999 sale of Lanyon’s connectivity business to Attachmate Corporation, Mr Lanyon is owner and Chairman of Lanyon, Inc, in Arlington, Texas. The company develops and markets application software and services to help the travel industry distribute its products, through both Internet-based and traditional channels. Mr Lanyon has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Oxford University. He has served on IBM’s Software Vendor Advisory Council and on Sabre’s Innovations Council. He is currently on the Board of the OpenTravel Alliance, and lives in London.

Deborah Lapeyre

Ms. Lapeyre has been working with SGML since 1986 and with XML since 1997. She was on the GenCode Committee (the committee whose work spawned SGML) in the 1980s. She was one of the two co-chairs of the international SGML';XX conference (the SGML technical conference) and now Markup Technologies every year since 1991. Ms. Lapeyre has spoken at the SGML'XX conferences, SGML Europe conferences, TechDoc conferences, American Association of University Publishers conferences, Association for Computers in the Humanities conferences, and the SGML Forum of New York. She has taught seminars and led workshops at Seybold conferences, TechDoc conferences, SIGS XMLONE conferences, and SGML user's group meetings. She has been active on the Tables, Fragments, and SGML Catalog technical committees of OASIS (and its predecessor, SGMLOpen), and has contributed comments on the revisions of ISO 12083 (the AAP SGML application standard), MIL-M-28001 (the Military Specification for SGML), and DSSSL (Document Style Semantic and Specification Language) a companion standard to SGML for document presentation.

Benedicte Le Grand

Benedicte Desclefs - Le Grand was born in 1975. She received her engineer diploma from the Institut National des Telecommunications in 1997 and is currently a PhD student at LIP6 (Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris 6) in the Network Department. Her research deals with Virtual Reality and its use for complex systems visualization. She is interested in markup technologies, especially XML; she spoke at ACM CIKM'99 - Conference on Information and Knowledge Management - in Kansas City and at XML'99 Conference in Philadelphia.

Karen Lease

Karen Lease has been involved in the design and implementation of structured document systems since 1983, on both the programming and the SGML sides. She has extensive experience in writing and using composition software for SGML documents (from Texet to Jade). In recent years, her focus has been on developing tools for preparing hyperlinked technical publications from a variety of source materials including SGML document modules and databases. Ms. Lease is currently working on new tools for delivering XML and SGML documents in electronic form. Her main interests include "old" standards such as DSSSL and HyTime as well as their XML-generation equivalents, XSL and XLink. Ms. Lease previously spoke at SGML Europe 1998 on the subject of "Making an IETM".

Christian Lienert

Christian Lienert studied computer science at the TH Darmstadt. Parallel and after his studies he had his own company with the focus of business software. 1987 he joined Software AG where he was responsible for the development of engineering tools. Later he became the head of middleware technology. 1997 he joined SAP with the responsibility for business framework and internet middleware technology.

Chris Lilley

Chris Lilley has been working with the Web since 1993 and has been a member of the W3C technical staff since 1996. He is Graphics Activity lead and also chairs two W3C working groups: CSS and SVG. Chris was co-editor of the CSS2 specification and has also contributed to the HTML 2.0, HTML 4.0, CSS1, PNG, and WebCGM specifications. He is based in the South of France.

Peiya Liu

Peiya Liu is a project manager and senior member of technical staff at Multimedia Documentation Program, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. Peiya received his PhD in computer science from University of Texas at Austin in 1986. He has spoken at the following industry conferences: Markup Technologies 98 and 99. IEEE Multimedia 94, 96. He has severed as a program committee member in many conferences. He is also a technical program co-chair for joint 2000 IEEE Multimedia Conference and Expo. He has conducted tutorials on SGML/XML-based multimedia documentation in academic conferences and Siemens Business Units. He is currently the standards section editor of IEEE Multimedia magazine and on the editorial board of Kluwer Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications.

Nicklas Lundblad

Nicklas Lundblad works as an analyst and researcher in the area of electronic commerce. During the last year he has been covering the XML development and global issues in electronic commerce for the Swedish Government´s Office of Science and Technology in Silicon Valley, USA. He is also closely affiliated with the Swedish Research Institute for Information Technology and in particular Research Corporation Media and Communications Technology FOMEKO. His work is oriented towards legal and behavioural issues in e-commerce. He has written a recent report on the development of XML based business languages in the US and works with emerging standards such as ebXML, CBL 2.0, BizTalk and CXML, among many others. His background is in philosophy and law, with a LL.M focusing on Information Technology and Law and a B.A. focusing on artificial intelligence and semiotics. He has worked with the Law and Informatics Research Institute of Stockholm University. He also has worked with computer related consultancy projects and education in Swedish Industry, with companies like Ericsson and Nitro Consult.

Brian Lynn

Brian Lynn, Vice President, Derivatives Architect at J.P. Morgan, has over 14 years of software applications development experience, five of which have been in financial derivatives. At JP Morgan he is program manager for FpML and is responsible for technology architecture and strategy in its interest rate derivatives and exotics group. Prior to joining JPM in September, he was a Managing Director at CIBC World Markets, where he was responsible for its fixed income quantitative research and development group. Previously at CIBC he was responsible for key parts of its derivatives technology, including a commodity derivatives trading system, spreadsheet analytics, front and middle office risk and P/L reporting applications, a global risk data consolidation system, a global credit exposure calculation system, and various operational reporting applications. He was exposed to fixed income, commodity, equity, credit and FX derivatives. Prior to joining CIBC, he worked in a variety of industries, including a stint developing the Canadian nuclear industry?s software development standards. He has a B.A. with honors in Physics from Harvard, where he studied chaos

Bruce Martin

Bruce is one of the pioneers of distributed object computing. At Hewlett Packard Laboratories in the early 90s, he designed and implemented an interface definition language that became the basis for HP's original CORBA submission. At Sun Microsystems, he was one of Sun's CORBA architects and was the primary author of five of the OMG's CORBA Services specifications. At Inprise Corporation, Bruce was architect and developer of Inprise's first CORBA-based Java Application Server. Bruce has extensive practical experience with Java, XML and the DOM. Bruce is now a software guru at jGuru. He is championing xbeans.org, an open-source project to create a repository of Java Beans that process XML and can be easily composed into distributed applications. Bruce has an excellent ability to convey both the conceptual basis of a technology and the practical nuts and bolts use of it. He has given talks around the world on distributed systems, advanced transaction models, object oriented programming, and distributed object technologies at both academic conferences and industrial events. Bruce has written many papers for conferences, journals, and books. He received Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at San Diego, and a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Christian Märtin

Christian Märtin studied mechanical engineering and industrial engineering. Until 1972 he was System Engineer and Project Manager in development projects at "Motoren- und Triebwerks-Union (MTU)", Munich. Since 1972 Mr. Märtin has been in charge of projects in the information systems area at "Siemens AG", Munich. In collaboration with the Siemens Local Companies he set up a number of documentation centers in Latin America and since 1985 he has been doing foundation work in the area of structured information processing. Mr. Märtin is responsible for "Strategic Internet Concepts" in the Information and Communication Networks Group.

Didier Martin

Didier PH Martin is developing XML tools since the the last two years. Previously and for the last 20 years, he managed research & development teams in the distributed processing domain. M Martin has spoken at the following conferences: XML dev '99; MetaStrutures '99; WebAutin; WebBoston and Markup technologies '99. Didier PH Martinhas also conducted seminars for managers and developers on XML and related technologies. M Martin is an ISO canadian representative and editor of the DSSSL-2 standard

Michael Maziarka

Michael Maziarka is the Director of the Dynamic Content Software Strategies service at CAP Ventures, providing research and consulting services on document and content management software technology. Prior to joining CAPV, Michael held corporate and product marketing positions at Xyvision and Datalogics. During his tenure at CAPV, Xyvision, and Datalogics, Mr. Maziarka was active in industry initiatives. Michael held the Chair position on the Board of Directors for OASIS (formerly SGML Open); was active in the development of the CALS electronic publishing standards; and participated in J2008 and ANSI committee work. Michael holds an MBA from DePaul University and a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University.

John McKeown

John McKeown received a bachelor degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin and is currently an MSc. Student in the Knowledge and Data Engineering Group at Trinity College Dublin. He has been involved in a number of projects to provide access to complex information using multimedia service kiosks. He is currently active on the MAPPA project. He is also a co-founder of the Trinity College XML working group.

Dan McPartland

Dan McPartland has worked in general aviation safety investigation, CADAM/CATIA graphics, and flight related technical publications since 1989. During the past 5 years, he has supervised the cockpit typography and FAA approved flight manual writing group within Technical Publications. As of January 1, 2000 Dan assumed responsibilities for the Engineering Technical Publications Department.

Norbert Mikula

Mikula is responsible for directing DataChannel's efforts in the XML standards bodies as well as further advancing DataChannel's leadership in the arena of XML and Enterprise Information Portals. He developed one of the first XML parsers (NXP) and has been engaged in XML-related efforts since the early days of this standard. Currently, Mikula also serves as Chief Technical Officer on the board of directors of OASIS - the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. He is the author of numerous whitepapers and articles and has been a speaker and/or track-chair at a variety of national and international conferences and industry events. Mikula holds a "Diplom Ingenieur" degree in Applied Computer Science from the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. Norbert Mikula has spoken at various industry conferences including (most recently) : XML '99, CNet Builder.com, XML World, XML One London, WWW8, XML Europe '99 and the DataChannel xDev Days. He was track-chairperson at : XML '99, XML Europe '99, XML '98, XML Europe '98 and XML - The Conference '98 and participated in various panels, most recently at the Gartner Group Conference on Applications Integration.

Chris Moffett

Chris has over 19 years of experience in the consulting, pre-sales, and training arena. He has been a member of the Arbortext team since 1993. Prior to joining Arbortext, Chris was a project leader in the consulting department and the manager of the pre-sales technical team with Lucas Management Systems. Prior to that, he was a Senior Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick's Information Technology practice in Detroit, Michigan. Prior to that he was a consultant with ADP Network Services. Chris holds a Bachelor's of Business Administration from The Ohio State University.

Graham Moore

Graham Moore is Chief Technical Officer for STEP UK and is responsible for the development of skills and technology that are used in the construction of information systems. Graham is the development lead responsible for the realisation of the X2X XLink product from STEP UK and has been developing Topic Map software for the past twelve months. Graham has worked in the SGML and XML industry for several years, including working for Database Publishing Systems Ltd. Graham is also studying for a Phd in Distributed Information Management at Southampton University, where the current focus is on the symbiosis of Meta Data and Linking.

Carolin Müller

In January 2000 Carolin Müller and Ingrid Schmidt founded VIA. By providing consultancy as a main focus, VIA accompanies firms (especially publishing houses) that want their content resources to outlive rapidly outdated media and thus be prepared for the constantly shifting requirements of the media landscape. Within this context VIA emphasises on the design and realisation of forward-looking SGML/XML-based information architectures. Carolin Müller works since 1998 as an independant consultant for SGML/XML-based publication environments. Before this she was involved in linguistic research with the main focus on lexikography. Apart from her own studies, she participated in the design of a XML-based lexicological-lexicographical information system, developed by the Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) in Mannheim. Besides she worked for a dictionary project covering the different language stages of Early New High German.

Klaus Müller

Dr Müller is Branch Head in the Information Systems Division of the NATO C3 Agency and is responsible for all XML work within the NATO C3 Agency.

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