Dr. Janne Saarela

Dr. Janne Saarela has participated in eletronic publishing projects at European Laboratory of Particle Physics (CERN) and at Helsinki University of Technology. From 1997 until 1999 he was a visiting engineer at the W3C and at the Eurecom institute in France. During this time he participated in an EU project and built one of the parsers for Resource Description Framework (RDF) type of metadata. Since 1999 Mr. Saarela has been the technical lead of Profium Ltd in the development of content management software solutions. Mr. Saarela is also a frequent speaker at XML seminars.

Airi T. Salminen

Airi Salminen is visiting professor at the University of Waterloo, Department of Computer Science, in Canada, while on leave from the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tampere in 1989. She was responsible for planning a new Master's Program in Digital Media at the University of Jyväskylä and has headed the program from its beginning in 1995. She has been the leader of several projects where research has been tied to document management development efforts in major Finnish companies or public sector organizations. Her current research interests include document management, structured documents, XML, user interfaces, and software environments.

Andrew Salop

A senior product manager with Adobe Systems, Andrew Salop is responsible for driving the company's cross-media asset management strategy. With a background in film and interactive media development, he balances an understanding of the creative process with the ability to successfully frame and deliver products & enabling technologies that energize digital media publishing. His ongoing efforts will extend the reach of Adobe's line of award-winning Web graphics, digital imaging, video, and illustration products into diverse network publishing workflows. After earning his MBA, Andrew joined Apple Computer where he spent six years in international product marketing. Prior to Adobe, he was director of marketing at a small "Siliwood" startup, pioneering the distillation of leading edge digital media technology within the creative community. An amateur filmmaker and musician, Andrew holds a bachelor's degree in international relations from U.C. Davis and an M.B.A. from the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Krishna Sankar

Krishna Sankar, has about 20 years of experience in the computing field as a Developer, Architect, Project Director, Author, Security Professional etc. He has worked for/with many organizations including HP, US Air Force, Qantas Airways, MCI,AT&T and Ford Motor Co. Currently he is a Member Of Technical Staff - Global Commerce Technologies at Cisco Systems Inc. His industry certifications include CISSP (Security), MCSE (Microsoft), LCNC (Lotus Notes), SCJP (Java)et al. He has talked at various occasions including HP e-Services developers conference (Security), ACM conference in Virginia (Security/rbac), brown bag lunches and executive briefings at Cisco Systems (XML), VTC/Productivity Council/IEEE HongKong(ebXML) and Houston area CIOs (on Internet technologies). Krishna is involved with RosettaNet, W3C XP initiative, Sun's JCP and ebXML. His interests include dynamic configurable trading networks, autonomous services based ebusiness infrastructure, eBusiness services in a chip/hardware device et al. Krishna lives in silicon valley with his wife Usha and little son Kaushik.

Ulrike Schäfer

Ulrike Schäfer has set up INFOTAKT information design, providing consulting, training, and implementation services in standard based content management projects. She has studied German language and literature, philosophy, and computer science and had a teaching position at the university of Würzburg until 1994. From 1994 to 2000 she worked at STEP GmbH as a software developer, consultant, and project manager in document management projects, giving also workshops on SGML and XML concepts. Ulrike Schäfer left the company and set up INFOTAKT information design to start working as an independent consultant in April 2000. Since then she provides consulting, training, and implementation services in content management projects with the main focus on analysis and redesign of information architectures and processes, based on standards like SGML, XML and related languages. Her customers are dealing with various kinds of information, like publishers, industries (technical documentation), and trade (business to business / business to customer communication). Since 2001 she regularly provides courses on SGML and XML concepts.

Ingrid Schmidt

Ingrid manages VIA informationsarchitekturen. By providing consultancy as a main focus, VIA accompanies firms 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 XML-based information architectures and semantic nets. Ingrid worked since 1993 as independent consultant, information architect, and trainer in the field of SGML/XML-based (and related standards) publishing, for both, industry and research. Moreover, she is regularly teaching classes on SGML/XML at the German Linguistic and the Computational Linguistic Department of Heidelberg University. In 1999 she edited together with Wiebke Möhr a book on advanced SGML/XML projects in Germany. From 1993 to 1998 she worked as free-lancer on different projects with the Institute for Integrated Publication and Information Systems of GMD in Darmstadt. Research focuses were knowledge-based information access for hypermedia reference works and the evaluation of machine-aided, automated semantic encoding possibilities based on an object-oriented database system. From 1991 to 1993 she worked with Texcel as application developer and consultant. From 1988 to 1991 she worked, also in the field of application development and consulting, with Manfred Krüger, later MID/Information Logistics Group in Heidelberg.

Winfried Schmitz-Esser

Prof. Dr. rer.pol., Diplom-Volkswirt. Studied Economics and Political Sciences, Administrational and International Law, Romance Languagees and Literature, in Germany and Austria. Fluent in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. Professor at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Department of Library and Information Science. Chairman of the German Committee for Classification and Thesaurus Research. Board member and co-founder of ISKO, the International Society for Knowledge Organization, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Council of this Society. Chairman of the former German Information Specialists' Professional Association. Affiliations with other national and international bodies specializing in information, computer science,linguistics and knowledge engineering. Schmitz-Esser is the author of numerous publications in the field of media libraries and information technology in general, on information market policies, profession, training and education, among them the IFRA encyclopedia on "Computers in Mass Media Libraries".

Antony Scott

Antony Scott is Director of Professional Services at RivCom a consultancy and services company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. RivCom has been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards as active members of W3C (including the XSL Working Group), OASIS, as joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO, and as software development lead in the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project.

Pekka Siltanen

Mr Pekka Siltanen is a senior research scientist at VTT (The Technical Research Center of Finland). He received his masters degree (M.Sc, 1990) and licenciate degree (Ph.Lic,1995) in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki. He has been carrying out several research projects in document management systems, product modeling, image processing and CAD development. His current research interest include product data and document management and product data exchange.

Ed Simon

Ed Simon has been an ardent advocate and implementor of XML since 1997. He is a co-author of the IETF/W3C XML Signature specification and is also a contributor to the XML Encryption effort. Before joining Entrust, he explored new online information technologies at IBM and developed biomedical research software at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine. Ed holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University of Alberta.

Howard Smith

Howard Smith is Chief Technology Officer for Computer Sciences Corporation in Europe where he is responsible for strategic technology innovation and early stage vendor incubation and solutions development. He also directs Ontology.Org, a CSC sponsored research forum studying interoperability among enterprise and B2B applications. As a founding member, Howard is leading CSC’s participation in the Business Process Management Initiative (bpmi.org) that is standardising the management of business processes that span multiple enterprise applications, corporate departments, and business partners, both behind the firewall and over the Internet. In 1998, through a strategic alliance with CommerceNet Howard became an invited expert to the eCo Working Group [eco.commerce.net] which developed an architectural specification and semantic recommendations that have influenced many of the leading e-commerce interoperability and Web Services frameworks in practical use today. His current interests are focussed on Business Process Management, next generation Enterprise Integration, organisational agility and the Knowledge Level Business.

Richard W. Smith

Richard (Dick) Smith is the Director of Companywide Applications within Boeing’s Shared Services Group. He has responsibility for providing the leadership and direction for companywide information systems, including the delivery of electronic commerce and e-business systems. Other responsibilities include services such as architecture, database administration, planning and software methodology assistance for applications projects. Prior to the Boeing/McDonnell Douglas (MDC) merger, Dick was in a similar position reporting to the McDonnell Douglas CIO. At MDC, Dick also served as Director of MDC Missile Company Information Systems, as well as other Engineering and program management positions in MDC product divisions. Dick has an undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering, and a Masters degree in Business Management

Paul D. Spencer

Paul has been specialising in XML since 1997, when he founded Boynings Consulting. He provides advice to the UK Government in its adoption of XML and has written the "best practice guidelines" used for developing Government XML schemas. He also advises and develops schemas for several Government Departments. He is a member of the UK Government Interoperability and GovTalk working groups. He has worked with major commercial companies such as NatWest and Microsoft on their XML projects. Paul is the author of XML Design and Implementation and co-author of Beginning XML and Professional XSL (all Wrox Press) and a founder and CTO of alphaXML Limited.

Marc Y. Speyer

Marc Speyer works as a senior consultant media at the Telecom Media Networks department of Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in the Netherlands. He received his masters degree in Mechanical Engineering of the Delft University of Technology in 1986. He has been working on adaptive filtering techniques, information retrieval, database management, content management, editorial processes and printing systems. Formerly he worked for 7 years as a consultant at Wolters Kluwer on editorial processes and production systems. Before that he was a researcher for 2 years at TNO in the Netherlands.

Marc M. Stauch

Marc M. Stauch attended the Australian National University, Free University Berlin, and the Technical University Berlin. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the Technical University Berlin. He has experience in the fields of SGML and XML technologies.

Jim Stock

Jim is Managing Director of the UK subsidiary of empolis GmbH, part of German media company Bertelsmann. He started his professional career six years ago as an SGML analyst, progressed into project management and account management, and joined empolis UK as Managing Director in March 2000. In his spare time Jim likes to play bad golf.

John Symon

John Symon is Sr. Vice President Europe of AIIM International, a worldwide not-for-profit association with headquarters in Washington with offices in Datchet, Berks., U.K. AIIM International's role is to connect users and suppliers of document, business process and content management technologies and solutions - the key elements for the successful implementation of e-business. AIIM hosts conferences and exhibitions and offers a wide range of information including white papers, magazines, industry studies and technical standards. John has over 27 years experience in the Document and Information Management industry with international sales, marketing and management roles for North American and European suppliers and manufacturers, with postings in Chicago, Brussels and London. John is the author of several articles covering the above technologies and has spoken at a range of conferences. He has also owned and operated a specialist scanning service company in the UK and has an extensive knowledge of the Electronic Document Management market in Europe. John is a graduate from the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. For more information on AIIM international, visit www.aiim.org

Timo Syrjänen

Mr. Timo Syrjänen M.Sc (Tech) is a development manager at Jaakko Pöyry Oyj.He received his masters degree (1983) in Mechanical Engineering from the Tampere University of Technology. He is also a post graduate student in Helsinki University of Technology.He has long experience in product data and document management in both industry and research areas. His current interests include web based document management and delivery using XML.

James Tauber

As Bowstreet’s director of XML technology, James Tauber is responsible for educating developers, customers, partners and employees about Extensible Markup Language (XML) and for representing Bowstreet in the XML community. Tauber has played a role in the development of XML since he joined the movement that first identified the need for a web content labeling standard in the mid-1990s. More recently, Tauber was principal editor of the Directory Services Markup Language (DSML), an XML schema for representing directory contents and structure for seamless business-to-business Internet commerce. DSML is one of the key ingredients of the Bowstreet Business Web Factory, a system for dynamically creating, managing, mass-customizing and linking web sites for B2B e-commerce.

Margaret Thorpe

Margaret Thorpe is currently Product Manager of Business Rule Components at ILOG, a software component vendor based in Paris, France. Previously she was the founder and President of Infinite Intelligence, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the application of advanced techniques and technologies to the solution of complex business problems. She has over fifteen years of experience designing and developing intelligent systems for manufacturing, sales, finance & systems management. Margaret was an early proponent of "business rules" as a knowledge representation technique and has extensive experience modelling, specifying and implementing business rules for clients in the mortgage, mortgage insurance, and mutual fund industries. She has published a dozen papers and articles on the topics of business rules, database management performance, and expert systems tools.

Henry S. Thompson

Henry S. Thompson was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the first free XML instance editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and is currently a member of the XSL and XML Schema Working Groups of the W3C. He currently holds a World Wide Web Consortium Fellowship, and is editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema draft W3C recommendation. He has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and public settings over the last five years.

Doug Tidwell

Doug Tidwell is a Senior Programmer at IBM. He has almost twenty years of programming experience, and has been working with XML-like applications for several years. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on XML, Java, and Security topics at conferences around the world. His job as a Cyber Evangelist is to help customers evaluate and implement XML technology. He holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Georgia.

Pasi T. Tiitinen

Since 1996, Pasi has been doing research related to structured SGML/XML documents at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems in the University of Jyväskylä. At the moment he works in a project called inSGML, which is developing, testing and customizing methods for the SGML/XML standardization process especially for industrial purposes. The work is related to his Doctoral Thesis, whose subject is usability of structured documents. During the years 1998-2000 he worked in a project called EULEGIS, which was developing a unified interface for different legal databases in the Internet. Before that he worked in RASKE project, which developed means and methods for deployment of structured SGML documents in major Finnish public sector organisations. RASKE was a joint project, whose participants included Parliament of Finland, and ministries of the Finnish government.

Ralph RT Traphöner

Ralph Traphöner is Director Research & Consulting at empolis Knowledge Management GmbH (formerly known as tec:inno GmbH). As a co-founder of the company in 1991 he has 10 years of experience in applying knowledge based systems for knowledge management and electronic commerce. Besides his engagement at empolis Ralph is a trainer for knowledge management and acts as a reviewer within the research programmes of the European Union.

Bill Trippe

Bill Trippe is President of New Millennium Publishing, a Boston-based consulting organization that serves the content management and XML arenas. Bill has more than 15 years of technical and management experience in electronic publishing, content management, and SGML/XML and related technologies. He brings a unique blend of strategic and hands-on knowledge of the products and trends that are shaping the publishing and content technology marketplace. In addition to his work at New Millennium, Bill is Associate Editor of The Gilbane Report and a Consulting Associate with CAP Ventures.