Planning Committee
IDEAlliance would like to thank this year's XML 2004 Planning Committee for helping us bring this conference to you.
Sharon Adler, Senior Manager, Extensible Technologies Group, IBM Corporation, United States
Bio to be posted shortly.
Paul Cotton, Program Manager of XML Standards, Microsoft Corporation, Canada
Paul Cotton is currently Program Manager of XML Standards at Microsoft. Paul has been participating in the W3C XML Activity since mid-1998 when he became IBM's prime representative on the XML Linking and Infoset Working Groups. Paul has been chairperson of the XML Query Working Group and a member of the XML Coordination Group since September 1999. Paul was elected to the W3C Advisory Board in June 2000 and resigned in Dec 2001 when he was elected to the first W3C Technical Architecture Group. Paul is also Microsoft's alternate on the XML Protocol Working Group. Paul holds a M.Math from the University of Waterloo.
Marion L. Elledge, VP of Information Technology Alliances & Conferences, IDEAlliance, United States
Marion Elledge is Executive Vice President of the International Digital Enterprise Alliance (formerly GCA). During his 22 years with IDEAlliance, Mr. Elledge has been instrumental in developing successful industry events focused on evolving standards and technologies, such as XML. He is also responsible for initiating a number of organizational alliances and instituting IDEAlliance working groups, such as ICE and PRISM. Marion holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Psychology from the University of South Carolina.
Eve Maler, XML Standards Architect, XML Technology Center, Sun Microsystems, Inc., United States
Eve Maler is an XML Standards Architect at Sun Microsystems. She leads Sun's work on XML/web services security standards and promotes adoption of these standards in the industry at large and in Sun products and programs.
Eve co-founded, formerly chaired, and is the lead editor for the OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee, and she is vice-chair of the WS-I Basic Security Profile group. She also co-founded and contributed actively to the OASIS UBL (Universal Business Language) effort.
Eve was a charter member of the original W3C working group that created XML. She has edited several W3C and OASIS specifications.
Eve co-authored Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, a book that remains unique in providing a targeted methodology for DTD design. She also served for several years as maintainer of the popular DocBook DTD for software documentation.
Eve holds a bachelor of arts degree in Linguistics from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Brand Niemann, Computer Scientist and Semantic Web Services Specialist, U.S. EPA, United States
Brand L. Niemann received his Ph.D. in Meteorology and Air Pollution Science from the University of Utah and has been with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for 22 years and is currently a Computer Scientist and XML and Web Services Specialist in the Office of Environmental Information. He has received awards and recognitions for his work from the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the US Geological Survey, LOTUS, and ComputerWorld-Smithsonian. He is the recipient of Vice President Gore's Hammer Award to teams of federal employees and their partners whose work resulted in a government that works better and costs less. He lead a team that was recognized by OMB Associate Director for Information Technology and E-Government, Mark Forman, and the Quad Council with a Special Award for Innovation in the 2002 CIO Showcase of Excellence for their use of XML in a distributed content network and use of VoiceXML in providing universal access to emergency response information. During 2002-2003, he was chair of the CIO Council's (Architecture and Infrastructure Committee) XML Web Services Working Group (http://web-services.gov) which graduated recently to become the Emerging Components Activity (http://componenttechnology.org) of the Emerging Technology Subcommittee of the CIO Council's Architecture and Infrastructure Committee. He was recently recognized with the Emerging Technology / Standards Leadership Award at the SecureE-Biz.Net Summit, from Mark Forman, Associate Director, IT and eGovernment, OMB, and David McClure, VP e-Gov, Council for Excellence in Government: "for ushering in new technology to allow us to conduct e-Business securely to further implement the President's Management Agenda". He was also recently recognized with the EPA Bronze Medal "for outstanding collaboration on EPA's Geospatial Blueprint on the EPA Geospatial Team which outlines the enterprise approach for acquiring, managing, and deploying geospatial data and tools" by EPA's Chief Information Officer, Kim Nelson. He was recently asked to co-chair the CIO Council's (Best Practices Committee-Knowledge Management Working Group) Semantic (Web Services) Community of Practice (http://km.gov). He is a member of the EPA Enterprise Architecture Team and can be contacted at niemann.brand@epa.gov.
Lauren Wood, Independent Consultant, Textuality & XML 2004 Conference Chair, Canada
Lauren Wood is an independent consultant, focusing on applications of XML and issues in product management. She is an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Board. She has been on several technical committees for both W3C and OASIS, including chairing the W3C Document Object Model Working Group until after Level 2 became a W3C Recommendation. Lauren holds a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.