Speakers for the XML Summer School 2003 include experts in the field of XML and related technologies:

Kal Ahmed

Kal is an independent consultant specialising in XML-based information management. He was a founder member of TopicMaps.org and one of the co-authors of the XML Topic Maps (XTM) specification. Kal is a frequent speaker at XML conferences and has contributed to Wrox Press's "Professional Java XML" and "XML Meta Data". In the meagre spare time that all this affords, Kal heads development on the open-source Topic Map processing software, TM4J.

John Chelsom

John is Managing Director of CSW Informatics. He has been responsible for the design and development of XML/SGML information management systems for some of the world's most prestigious engineering, healthcare and publishing organisations. He is a regular speaker at XML and SGML conferences and was a contributing author for the SGML Buyer's Guide.

Bob DuCharme

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 consulting software engineer at LexisNexis.

Peter Flynn

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 as well as a member of the IETF's Working Group on HTML, and is active in the Published Subjects and XML Ontology technical committees of OASIS.

Jeni Tennison

Jeni Tennison is an independent consultant specialising in XSLT and XML schema development. She trained as a knowledge engineer, gaining a PhD in collaborative ontology development, and since becoming a consultant has worked in a wide variety of areas, including publishing, water monitoring and financial services. She is the author of "XPath On The Edge" (Hungry Minds, 2001) and "XSLT" (Wrox, 2002) and one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardise extensions to XSLT and XPath. She spends much of her spare time answering people's queries on XSL-List and xmlschema-dev mailing lists.

Lauren Wood

Lauren Wood is an independent consultant. She chairs IDEAlliance's US XML conference series and is an elected member of the World Wide Web Consortium's Advisory Board. Lauren was previously Director of Product Technology at SoftQuad Software Inc. playing a major role in the design of SoftQuad Software's HTML and XML authoring tools, as well as taking part in various technical committees at W3C and OASIS. She chaired the W3C Document Object Model Working Group and was on the Advisory Committee for both XML.org and W3C.

Eve Maler

Eve is an XML Standards Architect in Sun's XML Technology Center, where she specializes in developing XML-related standards and vocabularies. Eve was a charter member of the World Wide Web Consortium working group that created XML, and for two years coordinated Sun's W3C activities. Eve was a co-editor of the XML 1.0 (Second Edition) and XLink specifications. She co-founded, and is the coordinating editor for the OASIS SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) committee, and chaired the committee through its requirements-gathering phase. Eve is also chair of the Schema Naming and Design Rules subgroup of the OASIS Universal Business Language effort.

Philip Johnstone

Philip Johnstone is a senior XML Consultant at CSW. He has extensive experience of SGML and XML content management and data conversion. Philip has been responsible for several CD and Internet publications for some of the best known and most prestigious names in publishing, including Oxford University Press and Elsevier. He has experience of technical training over a number of years for companies in the utilities market and has developed and presented a number of XML training courses at CSW.

John-Paul Birch

John-Paul Birch’s main responsibility is for the development and maintenance of Wigan, Wrightington & Leigh NHS Trust's Intranet and web sites. He also plays a key role in the development of the Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system implementation, which includes developing stylesheets for pathology results reporting. His core skills include HTML, XML and XSLT, as well as the use of toolsets (Dreamweaver, XMLSpy). John-Paul has also previously had experience as a webmaster in local government and educational settings.

Charlie McCay

Charles McCay is chair of the HL7UK technical committee and provides technical co-ordination for HCIF, a UK supplier initiative to accelerate the delivery of a set of HL7V3 interoperability standards. He is an active participant at HL7 working group meetings in the US, and regular conference speaker. Charles provides XML and HL7 expertise to the GP Record Transfer and the Electronic Transfer of Prescriptions projects, as well as working with the NHSIA Disease Management Systems Programme on an appropriate representation for publishing Care Pathways.

Colin Meadon

Colin Meaden, Head of ICT Strategy for South Staffordshire Health Informatics Service, leads a team that provides strategic support to NHS organisations within South Staffordshire. Colin has 30 years ICT experience, the last 15 of these being within the NHS. He is a Chartered Information Systems Practitioner, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Fellow of the Institute of IT Service Management. Colin chairs the NHS Technical Information Standards Board, is President of the Institute of IT Service Managerment and is a past chairman of the IT Service Management Forum. He is also Programme Director for the South Staffordshire EHR project.

Dave Nurse

Dave Nurse currently directs research activities across the CSW Group. Whilst working in the NHS as a biomedical scientist, he pioneered the move in healthcare towards Web and XML based solutions in information delivery and knowledge management. He specialises in the application of Web technologies and XML in information management and has authored and contributed to numerous academic journals and conferences on this subject.

Paul Hynes

Paul Hynes is an IT Developer working for Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh NHS Trust. His main responsibility is the development of Web-based systems to support and enhance the Trust's Electronic Patient Records (EPR) system. Recent projects have included the development of an interface with the main Pathology system which imports lab results as HL7 format messages and
converts them into XML events. Paul has also developed a Discharge Letter Web application which enables clinicians to store patient diagnoses and medication details and to produce a Discharge Letter for a patient. Previously in his career Paul has also been a Civil Servant in both the Inland Revenue and DSS where he worked in IT support and project implementation.

Sandy Boyer

Sandy Boyer is a pharmacist/drug information specialist and independent consultant. She worked for many years with the U.S. Pharmacopeia developing content for the USP DI drug information compendium and played a major role in the conversion of their database into SGML. Other consulting engagements have included assisting in data modeling and development of XML-based HL7 messages for reporting of adverse events and development of XML markup based on the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) for the approved prescription drug label. She is also co-editor of the HL7 CDA specification, and is a co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee.

Ian White

Ian White is Head of Information at Doncaster & South Humber NHS Trust. Since joining the Trust in 1993 he has implemented an award winning (HC2002 IT Effectiveness Award) Electronic Health Record service into Doncaster. This in turn led Ian to become involved with setting up and developing the ENHANCE ICRS Collaborative. Ian is now Programme Director for the ENHANCE Collaborative and is working to promote Doncaster’s achievements to inform and influence national ICRS policy.

Adrian Kent

Adrian is the Interoperability Policy Advisor at the Office of the e-Envoy, which is responsible for putting government services online. He has several years experience as a systems integrator of government computer systems. Previously, he was a lecturer in computer science at Cranfield University for ten years. He is particularly interested in the use of Web service technology.