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Late-Breaking News Sessions Just Announced
For Leading Edge
XML European Conference
Alexandria, VA (27 April 2001)—GCA and IDEAlliance,
sponsors of the XML USA, XML Europe, Knowledge Technologies
and Extreme Markup Language Conferences, have just
announced speakers for this year’s Late-Breaking News
presentations at XML Europe 2001, being held 21-25
May 2001, at the ICC in Berlin, Germany.
The Late-Breaking News Sessions are part of this
year’s extensive XML Europe 2001 program that includes
pre-conference tutorials and Special Interest Day
topics, as well as a 3-day conference lineup consisting
of a variety of conference tracks. The Late-Breaking
presentation slots have been reserved for ideas and
technical presentations that are so cutting-edge,
they were still in the pre-release phase when the
conference program was developed in January.
In keeping with the theme of this year’s event, these
presentations cover a wide spectrum of industry applications.
These newly announced presenters and topics include:
- Tim Bray, CEO, Antarcti.ca Systems, Canada--"RDDL
Makes Namespaces More Useful."
- Race Bannon, Director of Training, Information
Architects and Robert Gingras, Director of Electronic
Commerce, General Motors, USA--"RDF E-Commerce
Advantages: A Case Study"
- Libby Miller, IRLT/University of Bristol, UK and
Greg Fitzpatrick, Metamatrix, Sweden--"RDF
Calendar Taskforce"
- Erik Wilde, ETH, Switzerland--"BibTeXML:
An XML Representation of BibTeX Data"
- Peter Ebenhoch, XML Consultant, epico Informationssysteme
GmbH, Austria--"Building Trust Infrastructures"
- Pradeep Jain, Chief Technology Officer, Hypervision
Ltd., USA--"A Practical Approach to XML
Based Messaging"
- Jim Gabriel, CEO and John Anderson, CTO, Barbadosoft,
The Netherlands--"Fault-tolerant valid XML"
- Peter Nilsson, System Developer, Sörman Information
AB, Sweden--"Efficient Braille Production
With XML"
These previously unreleased presentations will round
off a full week of XML presentations from leaders
in the industry, standards updates, practical knowledge
to use today, and predictions for the future.
About the Conference
XML Europe 2001 will be held 21-25 May 2001 at the
Internationales Congress Centrum (ICC) in Berlin,
Germany. Last year’s record-breaking event drew over
1,400 industry professionals from all over the world.
This year’s event will take a concentrated look at
the way XML is used in vertical and horizontal industry
applications. A series of tracks have been designed
to focus on how industry uses XML to conduct business
on the Web or corporate Intranets.
Complete conference information is available online
at www.xmleurope.com
or call 703.519.8167 for a printed brochure.
Opportunities for Involvement
About GCA
GCA (Graphic Communications Association) is the leading
global membership organization that advances the process
of information interoperability and dissemination
of knowledge in print and electronic communications.
GCA accomplishes this by engaging in and supporting
the creation and adoption of globally recognized standards
for information definition and exchange. www.gca.org
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance provides comprehensive support to working
groups who develop industry-specific applications
of both vertical and cross-industry open information
standards. IDEAlliance is the latest step in GCA’s
35-year history to foster the development of SGML,
XML and related structured information standards.
www.idealliance.org
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