Track Chairs
The XML Summer School is now over - plans for the XML Summer School 2007 are under way. Please keep checking the website for further information.
Each track is chaired by a world renowned expert in their chosen field. They use their passion for technology to inspire and expand your thinking so that you can apply this new found knowledge to real world application. The chairs for 2006 are:
John Chelsom
Chair - Building XML Applications- John is Managing Director of CSW Group Ltd. He has been responsible for the design and development of XML information management systems for some of the world's most prestigious engineering, healthcare and publishing organisations.
He is a regular speaker at XML conferences and was a contributing author for the original "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice Hall, 1998). 
Bob DuCharme
Chair - XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery- Bob is the author of Manning Publications' "XSLT Quickly", Prentice Hall's "XML: The Annotated Specification" and "SGML CD", and McGraw Hill's "Operating Systems Handbook".
He writes the "Transforming XML" column for XML.com and has contributed to XML Magazine, XML Journal, IBM developerWorks, and Prentice Hall's "XML Handbook".
Bob is a senior consultant at Innodata Isogen. 
Peter Flynn
Chair - Content and Knowledge with XML- Peter is Manager of the Electronic Publishing Unit at University College Cork, Ireland, and also runs his own text management consultancy, Silmaril. He is editor of the XML FAQ and author of "The World-Wide Web Handbook" (ITCP, 1995) and "Understanding SGML and XML Tools" (Kluwer,1998). He was a member of the W3C's XML Special Interest Group, a member of the IETF's Working Group on HTML, and has been active in the Published Subjects and XML Office File Formats technical committees of OASIS.
A. Leander Fontaine
Chair - XML for Drug Information- President of Pharmiceutics LLC, a Pennsylvania-based company which offers labeling and regulatory consulting, expert services and training. Before founding Pharmiceutics in March 2005, he served as Vice President and Head of Global Labeling Division and Vice President, International Labeling Liaison, for Wyeth, USA. He started his career in global labeling in 1991 and has served as head of global labeling functions for Hoechst Marion Roussel (USA) and Hoechst (Germany). He has also held positions in clinical development with Behringwerke (Germany).
Eve Maler
Chair - Web Services and Service Architectures- Eve Maler is a Technology Director at Sun Microsystems, developing interoperability strategies and leading partner engagements related to web services, security, and identity. Eve was one of the inventors of XML. She has also made major leadership, technical, and educational contributions to other successful standards, such as the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), the Liberty Alliance identity specifications, the Universal Business Language (UBL), and DocBooK.
Ron Summers
Chair - XML in Healthcare- Ron is Professor of Information Science in the Research School of Informatics at Loughborough University where he is responsible for teaching and researching clinical knowledge management systems and health informatics. As a member of the Health Informatics Research Group (HIRG) at Loughborough, Ron is actively involved in initiating and carrying out world-class research in partnership with the healthcare community, from a local, national and international level of participation.
Lauren Wood
Chair - Trends and Transients in XML- Lauren Wood is a senior technical program manager for interoperability and technology partnerships at Sun Microsystems. She also chairs IDEAlliance's XML conference series in the US. Lauren has served on many technical and advisory committees, including W3C's Advisory Board (an elected position) and Advisory Committee, as well as chairing the W3C Document Object Model Working Group from its inception through to the successful publication Technology for SoftQuad Software.
