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- tutorial instructors/topics in italics

Kal Ahmed, Principal Consultant, Ontopia - Developing a Topic Map Programming Model & An Implementers Guide to Developing Topic Maps
Dave Beckett, Technical Researcher, Institute for Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol - Practical RDF Tools Towards a Semantic Web
Michel Biezunski, CEO/Founder, InfoLoom, Inc. - Topic Maps and XTM; A Manager's Overview
Dr. Charles H. Bixler, Director of Knowledge Management, Keane Federal Systems, Inc. - Creating a Dynamic Knowledge Management System for Increased Enterprise Performance and Innovation
Ramon F. Brena, Professor, Center for Artificial Intelligence, ITESM, Mexico - Just-in-time Knowledge Flow for Distributed Organizations Using Agents Technology
Linda Burman, VP, Standards & Evangelism, Kinecta Corporation - PRISM: An RDF-Based Metadata Standard for Publishers & Standards for Knowledge
Bryan Caporlette, Executive VP of Strategic Technology, Sequoia Software - Knowledge Aggregation Using XML
Nick Carr, CEO, Allette Systems - Personalized KM for eLearning
Dan Connolly, XML Activity Leader, W3C - DAML: The DARPA Agent Markup Language
Dr. Jeff Conklin, CogNexus - Compendium: Making Meetings into Knowledge Events
Scott Cooper, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Knowledge Management Business Unit , Lotus Development Corporation, a division of IBM - Opening Keynote
Ron Daniel Jr., Interwoven, Inc. - PRISM: An RDF-Based Metadata Standard for Publishers & Standards for Knowledge
David Dodds, Senior Software Engineer, iKnowMed - Intelligent Graphics Using Simultaneous RDF and XTM Metadata
Edd Dumbill, Managing Editor, XML.com - Closing Keynote
Eric Freese, Director of Professional Services-Midwest Region, ISOGEN International/DataChannel - Extracting Knowledge from XML Documents Using Topic Maps & Knowledge Management at the Datum Level
Dr. Nic Fulton, Chief Technology Strategist, Reuterspace, a division of Reuters - Opening Keynote - The Industrialization of Knowledge
Lars Marius Garshol, Development Manager, Ontopia - Developing a Topic Map Programming Model
Carol Jean Godby, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC - The Automatic Encoding of Lexical Knowledge in RDF Topic Maps
Marcus Goncalves, Chief Knowledge Officer, Virtual Access Networks, Inc. - The Van: The Power of Cocoon for Web-Enabled Knowledge Sharing
Chris W. Higgins - Getting on the Knowledge Bus: Objects, Links and Asset Management Strategies
G. Ken Holman, CTO, CraneSoftwrights, Inc. - Application of XSLT to Knowledge Transformations
Cindy Hubert, KM Practice Area Manager, APQC, Custom Solutions - Best Practices in Using IT to Support KM
Dale Hunscher, CEO, South Wind Design, Inc. - The Laws Of (New) Media: Marshall McLuhan And Knowledge Technologies
Dianne Kennedy, Chief Technical Consultant, IDEAlliance - Standards for Knowledge
W.Eliot Kimber, Lead Brain, DataChannel, Inc. - Preserving Process: Hyperlink-Based Workflow Representation
Sam Knox, Director of Analyst Services, Inxight Software - Case Study - Portfolio Tracking and Competitive Intelligence
David Koepsell, Business Web Ontologist, Bowstreet - Accounting for Social Objects in Consumer Ontologies
Benedicte Le Grand, PhD Student, Laboratoire d Informatique de Paris 6 - Topic Maps Metrics
Douglas B. Lenat, President and CEO, Cycorp, Inc.- Opening Keynote
Jim Mason, Chairman ISO/IEC JTCI/SC34 - ISO Standards Update
Simon McGuire, IT Manager, ReservoirTeam - A Knowledge Capture Framework for Distributed, Multi-Disciplinary Teams in the Upstream Oil and Gas Industry
Bain McKay, Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President, CIRI Lab, Inc. - Knowledge Holographs that Leverage How We Learn for Maximum Knowledge Management Productivity
Derek Millar, Director, Professional Services, NewBook Production, Inc. - Applying Topic Maps to the Classification of Health Interventions
Chuck Myers, Senior Manager, Business Development, ePaper Solutions Group, Adobe Systems, Inc. - Using XML Metadata with PDF to Enable Asset Management
Jim Nisbet, Senior VP of Technology, Semio Corporation - Designing Quality Taxonomies
Steven Newcomb, CoolHeads Consulting - Topic Maps and XTM; A Manager's Overview
Uche Ogbuji, Principal Consultant, Fourthought, Inc. - Practical RDF Inference: A Case Study of OpenTechnology.org
Chime Ogbuji, Consultant, Fourthought, Inc. - Introduction to RDF
Nikita Ogievetsky, President, CogiTech, Inc. - Harvesting XML Topic Maps
Mike Olson, Senior Developer/Founder, Fourthought, Inc. - Introduction to RDF
Soelwin Oo, Student Developer, empolis UK - XML, newsML, and Topic Maps: Integration and Implementations
Jack Park, Sr. Scientist, Advanced Products and Strategies, VerticalNet Solutions
Steve Pepper, Founder and CTO, Ontopia - An Implementers Guide to Developing Topic Maps
Ronald Poell, Consultant Knowledge Management, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research - The Semantic Network of IKM-I3
Paul S. Prueitt, Founder, OntologyStream.com - Grounding Knowledge Technology in Neuroscience
Dr. H. Holger Rath, Business Segment Manager "Knowledge Management", empolis Content Management GmbH - eCommerce Powered by Knowledge Technologies & TMQL (Topic Map Query Language)
Daniel Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies, RivCom - Creating Standards-Based Knowledge Systems using NewsML and Topic Maps & A Managers Guide to Topic Maps
Joel Sachs, Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - An Introduction to RDF and the Semantic Web
Albert M. Selvin, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Verizon Communications - Compendium: Making Meetings into Knowledge Events
Reid Smith, Vice President Knowledge Management, Schlumberger - Knowledge Technologies, A Users Perspective
Stefan Smolnik, Research Assistant, University of Paderborn - K-Discovery: Identification of Distributed Knowledge Structures in a Process Oriented Groupware Environment
Dan Z. Sokol, President, Cohesia Corporation - Intelligent Document Content for e-Business
John Sowa, Independant Consultant - Building, Sharing, and Merging Ontologies
Carsten Tautz, Manager Research & Consulting, empolis Knowledge Management Division, Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group - Practical Ontology Construction
David Turner, XML Product Manger, Microsoft Corporation - An Introduction to Service Architectures
Bernard Vatant, Knowledge Representation Consultant, Mondeca - A Methodological Tool for Topic Maps Building
Diane Vizine-Goetz, Senior Research Scientist, OCLC - Taxonomies and Indexing; A Technical Strategy
Eric van der Vlist, CEO, Dyomedea - Implementing a Semantic Web Site
Dr. Joseph Williamson, Vice President Knowledge Services, EDS-Federal - - Ontologies and Taxonomies; A Manager's Overview
Ann Wrightson, Consultant, Ontopia AS - Ontology Analysis and Design for Topic Map Applications & TMQL (Topic Map Query Language)
Norman Zimmer, Business Development Manager, Knowledge Management Division, empolis NA, Inc. - Case Study - Knowledge Management at Siemens Automation & Drives