(for: executives and business implementers)

ebXML: Creating a Single, Global Electronic Market
Chair: Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS, USA

ebXML Business Overview
Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS, USA; Klaus-Dieter Naujok, Chief Technology Officer, Netfish/IONA, USA
Eighteen months ago, the United Nations CEFACT and OASIS began an initiative to facilitate electronic business over the Internet using XML. Hundreds of organizations from around the world came together in an open process to collaborate on the development. This presentation provides a historical overview of the ebXML project, celebrates the accomplishments of the past year and a half and offers insight into the future of the initiative.

Conducting Business via ebXML: ebXML - The Global Standard for Electronic Business
Stuart Campbell, Technical Strategy Director, TIE Holding, The Netherlands
The unique approach of ebXML for application-to-application exchange of business data has been built on a solid experience in business process standardization combined with the opportunities the Internet and XML now offer. This session will provide a technical overview of the ebXML architecture, the approach to messaging and the infrastructure.

Adoption Strategies for Existing XML Standards and the ebXML Infrastructure
Duane Nickull, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, XML Global Technologies, Canada
Deciding on an XML vocabulary is one of the critical decisions an organization can make. The most obvious option is to select an existing vocabulary. It also delves into the ebXML initiative and how it works with XML vocabularies.

(for: executives and business implementers)

ebXML: Creating a Single, Global Electronic Market
Chair: Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS, USA

ebXML Security
Maryann Hondo, Security Architect, IBM Emerging Technologies, USA
In architecting an ebXML solution, some thought must be given to the protection of information from the modelling of the business process through the message exchange. A group of ebXML participants have authored a risk assessment document identifying the risks and countermeasures that exist in a subset of the V1 specifications including some recommendations for emerging technologies to track. A summary of this document will be presented with an overview of some additional countermeasures currently being defined in the W3C and Oasis.

ebXML Trading-Partners Specification
John Ibbotson, XML Technology and Messaging, IBM UK Ltd, United Kingdom
A standard XML specification for electronic trading partner agreements (TPA) is essential to widespread electronic business. The ebXML TPA provides a key element for interoperability among B2B server implementations. This session will describe how the ebXML Trading-Partners specification defines technical parameters of trading partner profiles and agreements. Details will include partner identification, communications protocol, security for message exchanges (including encryption, authentication, and non-repudiation) and definition of requests and responses.

ebXML Messaging
Chris Ferris, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems, USA
Take an in-depth look at a cornerstone of ebXML--the ebXML Messaging Service. This session explains details of the MIME multipart/related packaging solution, the ebXML Header document and its relationship to required behaviours of a compliant ebXML Messaging Service implementation. The session also explores the business quality messaging characteristics of the ebXML Messaging Service; reliable delivery and security.

Industry/Academic Partnerships for XML
Tim Weitzel, Research Assistant at the Institute of Information Systems and Head of XML Competence Center at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
This session describes successful partnership designs for bringing together industrial and academic activities in order to create public awareness for XML standardization. Besides scientific and technological cooperation, neutral institutions like universities can greatly contribute to propagating information and to creating problem awareness among the most different audiences, including SMEs as well as governmental institutions and enterprises or industries not yet sufficiently involved. In this session, we will try to encourage partnerships between academia and enterprises to commonly research, develop and talk about their experiences to as many people as possible. We offer some recommendations based on very promising experiences with XML partnerships made at Frankfurt University.

(for: executives and business implementers)

ebXML: Creating a Single, Global Electronic Market
Chair: Laura Walker, Executive Director, OASIS, USA

ebXML Business Process
Karsten Riemer
This session gives an overview of the ebXML Business Process Definition model, and how it will enable XML based interoperability among b2b partners. We will take a tour through the ebXML metamodel and walk through an example business process and its associated information model. Finally we will take a bold look into the future and discuss break through business models that will be enabled by ebXML.

Panel: Implementing ebXML
How does ebXML fit with the work of other industry standards groups? This panel will feature representatives from the Object Management Group (OMG), HR-XML, the Human Resources XML Consortium, the Open Travel Alliance, a DISA organization, and the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG). Each provides information about how the work of their group relates to ebXML and their plans for the future.

Panel Members:
Andrew Watson, Vice President & Technical Director, Object Management Group, USA
Lon Pilot, Systems Consultant, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Chairman, HR-XML Consortium, USA
Mary Kay Blantz, Program Manager, Iona Technologies, representing AIAG, USA
Dick Raman, CEO & President, TIE Holding NV, representing EEMA, The Netherlands
David Connelly, President & CEO, Open Applications Group (OAG), USA