John W. Anderson

John Anderson was born and educated in Perth, Western Australia, studying Engineering and teaching before leaving to see what else the world had to offer. After working in a range of careers from professional gorilla to field manager for geological data acquisition projects, he settled in the Netherlands where he moved into IT training, programming and documentation. Painful experiences with an SGML-based information system for software products led to the formation with Jim Gabriel of Barbadosoft. His role as CTO involves research into current XML standards and innovations and design of future product functionality, as well as some Java programming, an issue yet to be fully accepted by the engineering team.

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.

Pascal Auillans

Pascal Auillans, born in 1975, graduated from the University of Bordeaux I (France) in computer sciences. He started a PhD at the University of Bordeaux I Computer science department (LaBRI) in 2000 with Olivier Baudon and Andre Raspaud in the field of graph theory. At the same time he is working for Mondeca, a firm involved in Topic Maps software development. His PhD project deals with graph theory concepts (such as clustering) applied to semantic graphs.

Paul G.L. Baan

Paul Baan works as a consultant media at the Telecom Media Networks department of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in the Netherlands. He received his masters degree in Business Administration (Strategic Management major) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1997. He has been working on e-business and content management issues. Before joining Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, he has worked for a publishing company, for which he initiated the online publications.

Daniel Backhaus

Daniel Backhaus has nearly 10 years of consulting and business development experience in information technology, structured document processing, SGML, XML, e-business and the Internet. Prior to joining Schemantix, Dan played a key role in helping Proxicom, a leading global e-business consultancy, establish a European presence, first in Munich, Germany and then in London. Prior to that, Dan held positions with Chrystal Software, SPX Corporation and Syseca, the systems integration division of Thomson-CSF. Dan holds a BS Degree in international management from Arizona State University and an international MBA from the European University in Montreux, Switzerland. His hobbies include skiing, bicycling and spending time with his baby daughter, Jenifer Maret.

Race Bannon, Ph.D.

Race Bannon, Ph.D. is Director of Training at informationArchitects. He is the author of XHTML Developers' Guide, Web Design & Development, Introduction to Windows 95/98, and Database-Driven E-Commerce Sites. He has appeared on the Discovery Channel, A&E, and The History Channel. An experienced instructor, he was previously department head of information systems at Wake Technical Community College.

PG Bartlett

For the last six years, PG Bartlett has contributed to Arbortext's emergence as a leading software provider. He has served 15 years in key technical and marketing positions at leading-edge high-technology companies. A frequent speaker and author of several white papers and articles, he has become a well-known and well-respected industry insider.

Olivier Baudon

Olivier Baudon, born in 1962, graduated from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the University of Angers (France) and obtained his PhD at the University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France) in 1989. Since 1990, he is assistant professor at the University Bordeaux I. Baudon's main topic concerns graphs, interconnection networks and computer tools for graph theory. He is working with the company Mondeca since 1999 on graph clustering algorithms applied to graphs issue from Topic Maps.

Bryan L. Bell

Bryan Bell builds knowledge management systems that enable people and organizations to create and publish their intellectual property more effectively. Over the last 25 years, his clients have included some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, including Herbie Hancock, Santana, Neil Young, and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. From 1994-2000 Bryan worked as the Strategic Technologist for the Frank Russell Company, where he was responsible for long-term technology planning, vendor relationships, and advanced technology research. In 2000 Bryan produced a Synth-Bank® Technology Series video, "The Introduction to XML" for executives. Recent projects include advanced document management system architecture for the nuclear power industry, a secure web portal for financial services, and a multiple media catalogue for the aviation industry.

Kjell A. Bengtsson

Mr. Kjell A. Bengtsson have a Mechanical Engineering background and a diploma in Marketing. Started out at Volvo Car and General Electric doing CAD/CAM applicationsand later management positions, now SVP at EPM Technology, a world leader in STEP/Express applications. Kjell have been exposed to the STEP and other related (ISO TC84/SC4) standard for the last 10 years.

Karl F. Best

Karl F. Best is the Director of Technical Operations for OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. Based in the Boston area, OASIS is a nonprofit, international consortium dedicated to accelerating the adoption of product-independent formats based on public standards. These standards include XML, SGML, HTML and CGM as well as others that are related to structured information processing. Members of OASIS are providers, users and specialists of the technologies that make these standards work in practice. Information about OASIS may be found at www.oasis-open.org. Mr. Best has been involved with OASIS since its founding as SGML Open in 1993, and was a director and Chief Strategy Officer of the consortium in 1997-98. He was previously employed by Novell, Adobe, and Sun Microsystems, designing and implementing systems for the creation and delivery of electronic documentation using structured information standards. He has been a long-time participant in standards efforts related to XML and SGML, and a speaker at numerous conferences.

Stéphane Bidoul

Stéphane Bidoul is a project manager and has been working at Software AG since 1993 as a developer and systems architect for object-oriented distributed applications and complex documentary workflow automation systems (automation of the editorial process for the budget of the European Community, automation of the legislative procedures for the Belgian French Community Parliament, etc). All these applications have in common their use of SGML, 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, specializing in electromechanical engineering, from the Free University of Brussels in 1992.

Michel Biezunski

Since the earliest moments of the Topic Maps paradigm, Michel Biezunski has several times played the primary role in making topic maps useful, significant, popular, and understandable. He was the instigator of the ISO standardization process for topic maps, and he was a founding Chair of TopicMaps.Org, the host of the XTM (XML Topic Maps) Specification. He is still working to merge knowledge-based approaches with information management systems, both by designing custom applications and by fostering the development of new standards for the Web. Michel is leading a new series of seminars on Global Knowledge Interchange, as well as his longstanding Topic Maps Workshops.

Rolf Birkhofer

Rolf Birkhofer studied electrical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe with post-studies in business and administration. Currently he is a scientist at the Technical University Munich, institute for information technique in mechanical engineering. His research topics include Fieldbus technology, Influence of Web driven technologies to the automation technique domain, especially the use of XML for the description of field devices.

Mary Kay Blantz

Mary Kay Blantz is a Program Manager for Iona Technologies. She chairs the ISO TC 154 US TAG, X12/XML Core Components, X12 Materials Management, and is co-chair of the ebXML Core Components Project Team. In the international ebXML arena, she represents AIAG, the Automotive Industry Action Group. She spent over thirty years working at a major steel company, the last twelve working closely with the automotive industry in various areas of electronic commerce.

Andrew Bratt

Andrew Bratt is head of IT at RJAH. He joined the hospital towards the end of a successful pilot live XML Electronic Patient Record program. Since joined the hospital he has overseen the implementation of a fully operational system. He enjoys scuba diving and in particular swimming with sharks, which has been useful preparation for the live implementation.

Tim Bray

Tim Bray has been in the technology business for 20 years.After jobs at DEC and GTE, he became Manager of the New Oxford English Dictionary Project in 1987, co-founded Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989, and built one of the first successful commercial Internet search engines in 1995. Between 1996 and 1999 served as an independent consultant for, among others, IBM, Microsoft, Netscape, Adobe, the United Nations, the European Union, the Government of Canada, A.T. Kearney, and Merrill Lynch. During this period, serving as an invited expert for the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), he co-invented XML and served as co-editor of the W3C recommendations "XML 1.0" and "Namespaces in XML." Since mid-1999 he has served as founder and CEO of Antarctica Systems Inc. (http://antarcti.ca)

Martin Bryan

From a printing and publishing background, Martin Bryan started to work with SGML in 1986, writing the first textbook on the subject in 1987. After a spell as SGML Products Manager for the Sema Group, an international consultancy group, he went on to set up his own company, The SGML Centre, in 1992. Since 1996 Martin has been working with the European Commission to enhance awareness of standards relating to the Information Society, first through the Open Information Initiative, and since February 2000 through the Diffuse Project. Other standardization activities relate to the introduction of XML into the EDI arena, particularly through the ebXML initiative. Martin also chairs the CEN/ISSS EC Workshop working group on Defining and Managing Semantics and Datatypes.

Brian I. Buehling

Brian Buehling is currently the Managing Director for Dakota Systems, a consulting firm specializing in XML-related technologies. He is a former project manager at SBC responsible for several enterprise content management systems. Previously, he was a Finalist for Business Intelligence Applications at Comdex/Window World Open 1997 and was nominated for the 1997 Smithsonian Award for innovation in information technology for work in decision support at John Deere Health. He has earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.S. in Systems Science and Mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

Linda Burman

Ms Burman is founder and co-chair of the PRISM (Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) Working Group; co-author of Mastering XML (Sybex 1999); a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto; and co-chair of the marketing committee for the ICE (Information Content and Exchange) Authoring Group. Prior to joining Kinecta, Ms. Burman was president and CEO of L A Burman Associates Inc, an XML consulting firm. Directly prior to starting her own company, Ms. Burman was director of worldwide marketing at SoftQuad Inc., and before that, she was the publishing evangelist at Apple Computer. Previously, she held business and technical positions in the local area networking industry.

Stuart Campbell

As Technical Strategy Director, Stuart's responsibilities lie in the field of defining, planning, and portraying TIE's future technical direction. This includes working with external partners to build strategic relationships and representation in international, technical, eBusiness forums especially EDI/XML initiatives such as ebXML. Stuart has been involved in the field of eBusiness since 1989 when his career started after graduating from Loughborough University of Technology with a degree in Electronic and Manufacturing Engineering. Initially EDI project manager for ICL, Stuart then moved to manage the technical assessment activities in the Western European EDIFACT Board based within the European Commission. After a period involved with EDI software development he was invited to lead the eCommerce activities in the European Standards Institutes (CEN) European Board for EDI/EC Standardization (EBES). Before joining TIE in January 2001, Stuart worked as Solutions Director for CMASS/Vintura where he managed and was involved in diverse eBusiness projects.

Mansel Chamberlain

Responsible for implementing clinical systems across the organization and delivering the Electronic Patient Record for the Trust.

John J. Chelsom

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.

Chris Childers

Chris Childers is Director of Product Evangelism for Sequoia Software's portal software solution, XPS. Childers researches emerging e-business technologies and develops next-generation products that address the needs of this expanding market. Childers's expertise lies in XML-based technologies and its application within the e-business environment. Prior to joining Sequoia, Childers was a Healthcare Consulting Manager delivering custom Internet/intranet solutions to government and commercial healthcare organizations. Childers received a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Vermont.

Anthony B. Coates

Tony Coates is Leader of XML Architecture & Design in Reuters Chief Technology Office, and represents Reuters on the technical working groups for FpML (Financial Products Markup Language) and IRML (Investment Research Markup Language). As Head of XML Architecture & Design, Tony recommends XML technologies and design strategies to product groups within Reuters to co-ordinate the business usage of XML and leverage the best available solutions. This includes both general XML technologies and specific vertical market XML languages. His background includes developing software for technical analysis and & financial graphics, developing multimedia & Web applications, and theoretical & experimental physics. He has worked with XML since 1998.

Mark Colan

Mark Colan is an e-business Evangelist and Strategist; he gives presentations on e-business and XML strategy and technologies for IBM Corporation. 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. He has spoken at many leading Java and XML industry conferences and events, including JavaOne '98 and '99, and most XML conferences in 2000.

David Connelly

David Connelly is president and CEO of the Open Applications Group, Inc. During David's tenure, the Open Applications Group has grown from eight members to over 80 members. The OAGI currently ships over 170 XML Schemas for eBusiness and A2A. The OAGI also has the largest vendor support and largest install base of any XML language. Before joining the OAGI, David worked in various capacities and both customer organizations and software vendors. He graduated from George Tech in 1975 with a Batchelor of Industrial Engineering.

Eric Connor

Eric holds degrees in Psychology and Computing Science and has worked in IT and business development for over 10 years, currently focusing on the management and delivery of marked-up drug information. He is a member of the executive committee of the British Medical Informatics Society (BMIS) and is actively involved in HL7-UK.

Carla K. Corkern

Carla manages all of DataChannel's professional services activities and oversees all of DataChannel's training efforts. Prior to DataChannel, Corkern was the president and co-founder of ISOGEN International, a full-service consulting, systems-integration, training, and third-party product provider. ISOGEN merged with DataChannel in April 1999. Before ISOGEN, Corkern was the director of consulting for Insight Data Systems, which was acquired by Highland Consulting, at which time she became the director of professional services. During her time at Highland, Corkern helped develop and implement project plans for large-scale documentation systems based on SGML. She also has held positions at Ericsson Network Systems and Intergraph Corporation as an SGML specialist and technical writer. Corkern currently is a member of the Graphic Communications Association (GCA) Board and has been a speaker and/or co-chair at a variety of national conferences and industry events.

Paul Cotton

Paul Cotton joined Microsoft in May 2000 and is currently Program Manager of XML Standards. Paul has 28 years of experience in the Information Technology industry. He has been involved in computer standards work since 1988 when he began representing Fulcrum Technologies in the SQL Access Group where he was heavily involved in the development of the SQL Call-Level Interface (CLI), which is the de jure standard based on ODBC. Paul has represented his employer and Canada on the ISO SQL and SQL/Multi-Media committees since 1992 and was the Editor of the SQL/MM Full-Text and Still Image documents from 1995 until joining Microsoft. Paul was a founding member in the consortium efforts to standardize JDBC and SQLJ, which provide interfaces to SQL for the Java language. Paul has been participating in the W3C XML Activity since mid-1998 when he became IBM's prime representative on the XML Linking and Infoset Working Groups. Paul has been chairperson of the XML Query Working Group and a member of the XML Coordination Group since September 1999. Paul was elected to the W3C Advisory Board in June 2000 soon after joining Microsoft. Paul is also Microsoft's alternate on the XML Protocol Working Group.

Jay Cousins

Jay Cousins is a Consultant/Analyst at RivCom, a consultancy and services company specialising in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. His current focus is on the development of DTDs, schemas and other models. He is also actively involved in the application of Topic Maps and NewsML. Jay has an M.Sc. (Distinction) in Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems from The London School of Economics, where his dissertation was entitled "Language and communication: its role in the creation of meaning and understanding in the information systems development process". He also has a First Class Honours degree in English with Comparative Literature.

Dave Cruikshank

Dave Cruikshank is a 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.

Michael P. Cvetan

Mike has been with Progressive Information Technologies since December 1997. As Training Manager, he is responsible for all Training and Support for TARGET 2000, Progressive's Content Management Database Software as well as Training in related areas such as Tagging Standards, and Editorial Software and Composition Software. Beyond this support, his duties include designing and presenting all customer (and sales force) TARGET 2000 training, conducting product demonstrations, seminars, and tutorials, set-up and operation of trade shows and expos, and acting as liaison between Progressive's Database Department and the rest of the database, content management, editorial software community. Before joining Progressive Information Technologies, Mike spent eight years as an independent integrator of practice and patient management database software, and prior to that, did time selling AT&T communications systems, FAX machines, and computers.