Jim A Gabriel

British, born 1961. Educated at University of Kent, Canterbury (UKC), and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) -- honors degree in English Literature. Moved into IT in 1985 via marketing and technical writing. Learned to program in various languages using various tools, with a predilection for database applications with highly graphical front ends. Wrote untold numbers of technical documentation pages, ranging from entry-level tutorial material to programmer's reference manuals. Developed courses for UNIFACE programmers (and taught them), and built online tutorials for self-help environments. Built an online documentation, course material, and first-line support website using SGML for the content. Always looking for a more efficient way of making things work.

Lars Marius Garshol

Lars Marius Garshol is Development Manager for Ontopia and is responsible for its software development team. Lars Marius has been an active member of the XML community for several years and a speaker at international conferences for several years. He has written a validating XML parser in Python, translated the SAX API to Python and maintains the web's largest site of XML tools. He is now finishing a book on XML application development for the Charles Goldfarb series at Prentice-Hall. Lars Marius's previous experience includes adding Unicode support to the Opera web browser and participating in the design and development of the SigmaLink document management server.

Larissa M. Geroimenko

Dr. Larissa Geroimenko is a Web Designer and Part-Time Lecturer at the School of Computing, the University of Plymouth, UK. She teaches commercial short courses in HTML, Flash and XML. Her research interests focus on the Visualisation of Semantic Information.

Vladimir A. Geroimenko

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Geroimenko is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at the University of Plymouth, UK. His current research interests lie in the area of Visualisation of the Semantic Web including Interactive Multimedia Interfaces, MetaVR, Semantic VR and Topic Maps. He also provides consultancy on the latest E-Commerce Enabling Technologies (XML, Java, UML, Flash 5 ActionScript, Java3D, X3D) . Prof. Geroimenko is an author of 75 scientific publications including 8 books. At present, he is organising the First International Symposium on Visualisation of the Semantic Web as a part of the IEEE 2001 Conference on Information Visualisation that will take place in London in July 2001. He is a Professional Member of the Web3D Consortium.

Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner is CEO of Schemantix, an independent software vendor specializing in advanced business solutions based on XML technology. He received degrees in Computer Science and Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He then worked for 3 years as IT Director at LCI, a French communications company, supervising the development of tools for managing multilingual terminology. In 1995, Mr Gertner moved to POET Software in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked on internationalizing the company's object-oriented database system to sort and query multilingual text in a variety of character encodings. Following this project he led the development of POET Web Factory, a product for publishing object-oriented data on the Web, and then worked for a year as project manager for POET CMS, an SGML/XML-based content management framework based on POET's object-oriented database technology.

Ismael Ghalimi

Ismael Ghalimi co-founded Intalio in 1999 after organizing the first ExoLab Session, an Open Source software conference that laid the technical foundations for forthcoming Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). Mr. Ghalimi successfully built a world-class engineering team that is developing the first standards-based BPMS and authored the first definition of this new enterprise software infrastructure in his white paper, "The Process-Managed Enterprise" (July 2000). He created the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org) in August 2000, and was instrumental in the development of this organization into the de-facto standardization body for Business Process Management technologies. Mr. Ghalimi graduated from the Ecole des Mines de Nancy (France) and went on to study parallel & distributed computing at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (France).

Robert S. Gingras

Robert S. Gingras is Director of Electronic Commerce, Customer Experience, and Information Systems and Services for General Motors.

Marcus V. Goncalves

As a Chief Knowledge Officer, Mr. Goncalves brings 12 years of IS/IT management and analysis to Virtual Access Networks. He has been a Senior IT/Enterprise application integration analyst for ARC Advisory Group and has held a variety of senior systems and technology management positions at companies such as RECOLL Management Corp (FDIC) and Process Software Corporation. He has also consulted for several major Internet and computing firms, including Sun Microsystems, Microsoft and CSX. Mr. Goncalves is the author of more than 20 books on Internet and Web technologies and security, translated into seven languages. He holds an M.S. in computer information systems.

Xan Gregg

Xan Gregg's industry experience includes design and development on a variety of projects including embedded systems, a PowerPC Forth IDE, educational software, and radiology imaging systems. Prior to joining TIBCO Software, Xan was a Principal Developer at SAS working on an interactive statistical application and concentrating on user interface issues.

Scott D. Griffin

As CIO, Scott Griffin is responsible for computing functions, processes and people company wide. He chairs the company's Information Systems Process Council, which includes senior computing executives from Boeing operating groups. He also is responsible for Boeing information management and e-commerce strategies. As vice president of Shared Services Group Information Services, Griffin is responsible for computing and network operations, architecture and standards, company wide applications, enterprise projects and information technology strategies. Griffin joined Boeing in 1978 and has held a variety of assignments, including Customer Services, Avionics, Manufacturing and Computing.

Andy Hadley

Andy graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1985 with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Physics, and joined the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, where he studied for an MSc in Medical Radiation Physics (from North East London Polytechnic). A move to Poole hospital, and then a transition from the computing end of Medical Physics, via Information, lead to Resource Management and setting up the Information Technology department. His first project on a Hypertext based information system was in 1990, an information system for the Switchboard staff at Poole Hospital. He maintains the Internet presence for the Hospital, and the 16,000 page Intranet facility, which links well to the current work on the use of XML for storage and transmission of Clinical Records.

Vincent J. Hardy

Vincent is one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache and he represents Sun in the W3C's SVG Working Group (his daytime job is to be a member of Sun's XML Technology Center). Vincent is the author of papers and a book on the Java 2D API. When he is not working on the Batik code, test or documentation, Vincent loves to write new sample files for the project because SVG is really fun!

Detlev Hartenstein

Detlev Hartenstein is a software engineer. He has over 6 years of experience in software development for industrial automation systems, e.g. field buses (LonWorks). In his company, he is the chief evangelist for the connection of web, xml and database technologies for industrial automation systems. As such he developed some of the core xml based products of TLON GmbH. He is also an active member of the LonMark standardization organisation workgroup for the definition of an xml based standard for LonWorks device configuration applications.

Dr. Kai U. Heitmann

Deputy head of the Medical Informatics unit at the Institute of Medical Statistcis, Informatics and Epidemiology of the University of Cologne.

Paul Hermans

Paul Hermans is founder and CEO of Pro Text, one of the leading consulting firms and implementation service providers in Belgium for XML based information management and publishing solutions. Since 1992 he has been involved in major Belgian SGML implementations.Previously he was head of the electronic publsihing department of CED Samsom, part of the Wolters Kluwer group. He is also cair of SGML/XML BeLux, the Belgian-Luxembourgian chapter of the International SGML Users Group.

Chris W. Higgins

Chris W. Higgins has a B.A and M.S. in International Relations from Florida State University and a J.D. from the University of Washington. He was one of the founding officers of TechnoTeacher Inc., worked as a Coordinator for International Relations for Chiba Prefecture in Japan, an IP associate for Lane, Powell, Spears, Lubersky LLP in Seattle, and currently is VP of Intellectual Property at E-Premis Corporation. Since 1996, Chris has presented several papers at GCA's Annual Conferences on legal/technical issues of interest to the standards community.

Pieter Hintjens

Pieter Hintjens, the CEO of iMatix Corporation, founded the company 6 years ago in the belief that the then emerging web server/web browser architecture represented the ideal thin-client solution. Pieter believes strongly in the power of code generation, and has found a way to benefit from it on every project he's worked on in the last 10 years. Pieter developed Libero (an Open Source multi-language code generation program) 6 years ago, and then in the search of yet more flexibility and power, led the development of GSL (the Generator Scripting Language). When Pieter discovered XML he knew he had found the ideal data representation format for GSL. Harnessing the new-found power of GSL, and its native ability to process XML, Pieter developed iAF (the iMatix Internet Application Framework), a framework for generating three-tier business applications from XML descriptions. In a very busy year, iMatix developed several major iAF business to business applications for major multinational companies during the year 2000. Now Pieter is writing a book on using iAF to generate three-tier business-to-business web applications, harnessing code generation from XML descriptions, along with Ewen McNeill (also of iMatix Corporation), tentatively titled "XML in Business". Pieter holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from The University of York in England.

G. 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, current chair of the OASIS XSLT Conformance Technical Subcommittee, an invited expert to the W3C, former chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Subcommittee, the author of "Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (XSL Transformations and the XML Path Language)" (ISBN 1-894049-05-5), 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.

Sebastian S. Holst

Sebastian Holst is the Vice President of Marketing for Artesia Technologies where he is responsible for product direction and traditional marketing activities. As digital assets emerge as a mainstream market segment, he has been focusing on leveraging the XML family to promote better support for rich and streaming media and to enhance digital rights management. He has spent over 15 years in the software industry bringing to market DBMS, web publishing and other XML-based technologies. Previous positions have included Vice President of Strategic Marketing at Inso where he managed numerous XML and SGML publishing and content management products, and President, Texcel Research where he led the US operations for an XML repository vendor that was ultimately acquired by Broadvision. In addition to his regular duties, Sebastian is Artesia's representative to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Advisory Committee and is actively engaged in promoting the emerging family of XML recommendations.

Maryann Hondo

Maryann Hondo, joined Lotus in 1996. Her previous background includes working for HP on DCE and PKI based Single SignOn, working for Digital on a B1/CMW operating system and Bell Labs working on B2 Unix. Currently she is the security architect for emerging technology at IBM. Before joining the emerging technology group she was part of the IBM/Iris Jonah team (IETF PKIX reference implementation) and security architect for Lotus e-Suite.

Liang H. 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.

Prof. Dr. 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 XML technology relating to BoD workflow, new publishing models, XML document structuring, automated book generation and document digitalisation are in progress. In addition consulting projects in implementing XML-based PoD production in several companies where done. Arved Hübler is Member of the TAGA. He joined several TAGA, IARIGAI, IS&T and other conferences.

John E. Hunt

Dr Hunt has been both an academic and an industrialist. He currently runs a company that specialises in Object Orientation, Java and XML. He has worked with Java since its release by Sun Microsystems and has been involved within markup languages since the mid 80s. He first used SGML in the early 90s being introduced to XML in 98. He currently acts as a trainer, mentor and developer on projects involving both Java and XML for companies such as Hays Services Group and the Oxford University Press and others.

Freelon F. Hunter

Freelon F. Hunter is Senior Manager - Online Access for Boeing Customer Support. He manages the development and implementation of aircraft drawings, parts information, maintenance documents, and related products and services within the "MyBoeingFleet.com" eSupport web portal. In addition, he has managed the development of key publishing and digital data systems within Boeing for the last 12 years. Freelon has been active in the development of the Air Transport Association (ATA) digital data standards, and he was elected to the ATA Hall of Fame in 1997. Freelon is a member of the Board of Directors for the Graphics Communication Association (GCA), and in the past served as Vice-Chair, Information Technologies. He has spoken at and chaired numerous conferences, most recently speaking on the topic of eBusiness within the aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) industry. Freelon has a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Cheryl Hutchings

Cheryl graduated from University of Wales in 1978 with a BSc(Hons) in Computer Technology and joined Plessey (now Siemens) Traffic Control systems developing control systems for underground trains. Following a short period lecturing in IT she is now the IT projects manager at Poole Hospital procuring,developing and implementing clinical and adminstrative systems.

John Ibbotson

John Ibbotson is a member of the IBM XML Technology team with a special interest in messaging and was a joint author of the tpaML specification submitted to ebXML for further development. He is an active participant in the ebXML initiative Transport, Routing and Packaging working group and is also IBM's primary representative on the W3C XML Protocol Working Group. His career within IBM has included work on scientific image processing, multimedia databases and interactive television. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.