The Speakers, Chairs and Panel Members for the XML Summer School 2004 include:

Kal Ahmed
Speaker - Knowledge Management & Delivery
Kal is an Independent Consultant specialising in XML-based information management. He was one of the co-authors of the XML Topic Maps (XTM) specification and is currently editor of part of the ISO standard for Topic Maps, ISO 13250. Kal is a frequent speaker at XML conferences and has contributed to several books including Wrox Press's "Professional XML Meta Data" and Addison-Wesley's "XML Topic Maps". In the meagre spare time that all this affords, Kal heads development on the open-source Topic Map processing software, TM4J.

Sandy Boyer
Speaker - XML in Healthcare
Sandy Boyer is a Pharmacist/Drug Information Specialist and Independent Consultant. She is Associate Editor of AusDI, an SGML-encoded compendium of Australian drug information. Sandy is co-editor of the HL7 Structured Product Labelling specification. She is also co-editor of the HL7 Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) specification, which received HL7 and ANSI approval in November 2000, and is a co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee.

Peter Brown
Speaker - e-Government & XML
For the past four years, Peter has led data standardisation and interoperability efforts in the European Parliament and introduced the EU institutions to XML standards, business-centred information modelling, information architecture, and most recently to Topic Maps. He is the author of "Information Architecture with XML - a Management Strategy" (John Wiley and Sons, 2003) and lectures extensively in Europe and North America. He is currently on sabbatical leave, combining research on semantic interoperability with a period as a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS). www.XMLbyStealth.net

Martin Bryan
Instructor - Hands-on Introduction to XML
Martin Bryan, a Senior Technical Consultant at CSW, has specialized in SGML and XML since 1985. A typesetter by training, Martin worked as an author, editor, production controller and typesetting systems tester for two decades before becoming Product Manager for the first SGML product suite to be developed in Europe. Since 1985 Martin has represented BSI on ISO committees evaluating document processing standards, and has served on the various ISO committees that have been responsible for the development of SGML, DSSSL, HyTime, Topic Maps and many other precursors to XML. In 1999 Martin helped create the first European test project on the combination of XML and EDI, a precursor to the development of ebXML as part of a CEN standardization initiative.

John Chelsom
Chair - Information Modelling
Chair - XML Digital Archiving Services
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).

Tony Coates
Speaker - Information Modelling
Tony specialises in information management and integration solutions for financial and corporate clients. He is Chief Architect for London Market Systems, and previously was Leader of XML Architecture and Design in Reuters Chief Technology Office in London. Tony has worked as an architect for a number of financial XML initiatives, including MDDL and FpML. Tony is also an editor of the MDDL specification. His background includes developing software for technical analysis and financial graphics, developing multimedia and Web applications, and theoretical and experimental physics.

Gary Cornelius
Instructor - Hands-on Introduction to XML
Gary is a Product Specialist at CSW Group Ltd.  He has been involved with XML standardisation at the Institute of Printing, XML UK, and OASIS, including various technical committees (TC) such as the Docbook TC and Topic Maps Published Subjects TC. Prior to joining CSW, Gary gained hands-on development experience in several publishing organisations using XML technologies to improve the publishing production process.  He is currently involved in the configuration of CSW's Case Notes product for electronic health records management, and Case Notes KMS for content and knowledge management using XML and related standards.

Bob DuCharme
Chair - XSLT/XSL-FO
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
Chair - Knowledge Management & Delivery
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 is active in the Published Subjects and XML Office File Formats technical committees of OASIS.

Pam Gennusa
Panel - What's Hot & What's Not in XML
Pamela Gennusa is Chief Executive Officer of Ontopia, and has been European Representative for OASIS (1999-2000) and Chair of the XML Europe conferences (1992-2001). Pam was co-Managing Director of Database Publishing Systems Ltd (UK) where she led the consultancy and development for nine years. Prior to joining DPSL, Pam was Director of Marketing for Datalogics, Inc. She participated on the ANSI and ISO committees responsible for ISO 8879 - SGML; was Co-Chair of the US CALS committee responsible for MIL-M-28001; was President of ISUG (The International XML/SGML Users' Group) (1992-1999); Chief Marketing Officer and President on the first OASIS (formerly SGML Open) Board of Directors (1993-1995); and has been a member of the IDEAlliance (formerly GCA) Board of Directors 1992-2003 (Chair: 1997-98).

Stephen Green
Speaker - Web Services
Stephen Green is a Freelance Consultant with Seventh Project Consulting Limited, through which he advises on the adoption of the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) standards and methodology. His main line of work with UBL has been as a business modeller and as a reviewer of the rules for schema design and naming. He has worked with various organisations producing e-procurement XML standards in the UK, Europe and internationally. In local government, Stephen provides advice to public sector bodies on the adoption of standards for electronic business.

Marc Hadley
Speaker - Web Services
Speaker - Information Modelling
Marc Hadley is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Java Web Services division of Sun Microsystems. Marc is the specification lead for JAX-RPC 2.0 (the next version of the Java API for XML-based RPC) currently under development at the JCP. He is Sun's technical lead and alternate board member at the Web Services Interoperability Organisation (WS-I) and also represents Sun on the W3C XML Protocol Working Group where he is co-editor of the SOAP 1.2 specification.

Andrew Hinchley
Speaker - XML in Healthcare
Andrew Hinchley pioneered the use of XML in healthcare messaging in the GP-to-GP messaging project in the NHS. This development together with pilots by the healthcare standards organisation: HL7 around the same time laid the basis for the XML-based HL7 messaging now being implemented widely in the NHS. He is a Board Member for HL7 UK and is actively involved in HL7 development both in HL7 committees and in the NHS. He has written an HL7 V3 Primer which is widely used in many countries. Andrew Hinchley runs his own consultancy, CPL Consulting which focusses particularly on the healthcare field.

Michael Kay
Speaker - XSLT/XSL-FO
Michael Kay is widely known in the XML world as an expert on the XML processing languages XSLT and XQuery. This reputation derives from his book “XSLT Programmer's Reference”, from the open-source Saxon XSLT and XQuery processor which he developed, and from his work within the W3C consortium. Recently Michael set up his own company, Saxonica, to develop the Saxon technology on a commercial basis.

John Kemp
Speaker - Web Services
John Kemp is a technical architect at Nokia Corporation, working in the area of mobile web services. He has contributed to the development of several web services specifications, including OASIS SAML and the Liberty Alliance Identity Federation (ID-FF) and web services (ID-WSF) frameworks. As Co-ordinating Editor for the Liberty Alliance, John was responsible for creating an electronic publishing system, based on Docbook XML and XSLT, for the automated production of specification documents in multiple output formats.

Colin Mackenzie
Panel - e-Government & XML
Colin has been working in the XML, SGML and publishing arena since 1988. He has been an Independent Consultant since 1999, producing advanced XML systems (for authoring, translation and content management) and providing XSLT, XSL-FO and XML schema training. Over the last three years, Colin has primarily provided XML consultancy and schema development services to public sector projects working with both Government organisations and product companies delivering information to those organisations. For the PARSOL national project, Colin developed over twenty XML schema conformant to Government and industry standards. Colin has contributed to the Government Schema Guidelines and now sits on the Government Schema Group. www.elecmc.com

Eve Maler
Chair - Web Services
Eve Maler is an XML Standards Architect at Sun Microsystems. She leads Sun's engagements with web services security standards and promotes adoption of these standards in the industry at large and in Sun products and programs. Eve is lead editor for the OASIS Security Services (SAML) committee and vice-chair of the WS-I Basic Security Profile group, and co-founded the OASIS UBL effort. Eve was a charter member of the original W3C working group that created XML and edited the XML 1.0 Second Edition specification.

Jonathan Monks
Speaker - XML in Healthcare
Jonathan Monks has worked in Social Care for over 25 years mainly in Multi-Agency Multi-Disciplinary settings. He was the first Social Worker to be attached to a GP Practice in Worcestershire, where he undertook a research project with Birmingham University to better understand the implications of the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 on Primary Care Services. This project was a nationally recognised example of good practice that has since been replicated across Worcestershire and beyond. Jonathan then went on to manage and develop the Physical Disability Service in South Worcestershire, where he developed an interest in Supported Housing and Community Services for people with Acquired Brain Injuries. Latterly Jonathan has been instrumental in developing an electronic assessment process for Worcestershire Social Services and is presently the lead for the Single Assessment Process in Worcestershire, working with Health and Social Care agencies.

Dave Nurse
Speaker - XML in Healthcare
Dave Nurse is Technical Director for the CSW Group. Prior to working at CSW, Dave worked for the NHS as a biomedical scientist where 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.

Andrew Orlowski
Speaker - What's Hot and What's Not in XML
Andrew Orlowski is an investigative reporter and columnist for The Register, the independent technology news site, from where he chronicles the absurdities of the IT industry. He previously wrote for the satirical magazine Private Eye for several years and appears regularly on the BBC and NPR. His work on digital rights and archives is widely discussed and his columns have incited two antitrust lawsuits. Recently he was really credited, erroneously, with masterminding the Belle De Jour "literary hoax". He lives in San Francisco, California and is writing a history of techno utopias. 

David Pawson
Speaker - Knowledge Management & Delivery
David was introduced to XML via the XML-DEV list, when reviewing multi-media publishing for his present employer, the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). Since joining the XSLT list at MulberryTech.com in 1998, he maintains the XSLT, XSL-FO FAQ on his website. David is author of O'Reilly’s book on XSL-FO. He is also a contributing member of the DAISY working group, which has provided a second generation digital talking book player targeted at blind and partially-sighted users.

Steve Pepper
Speaker - What's Hot and What's Not in XML
Steve Pepper is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Ontopia. He leads the work of the ISO committee responsible for the Topic Maps standard and is also the editor of the XML Topic Maps specification (XTM). A frequent speaker at SGML, XML, and Knowledge Management events around the world, Steve was for many years the author and maintainer of the "Whirlwind Guide to SGML and XML tools". He also co-authored (with Charles Goldfarb and Chet Ensign) the "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice Hall, 1998).

Peter Rodgers
Speaker - What's Hot and What's Not in XML
Peter Rodgers is the founder and CEO of 1060 Research and architect of the 1060 NetKernel XML Application Server. Prior to starting 1060 he established and led Hewlett-Packard's XML research programme and provided strategic consultancy to Hewlett Packard’s software businesses. Peter holds a PhD in solid-state quantum mechanics from the University of Nottingham.

Gregor Rothfuss
Speaker - What's Hot and What's Not in XML
Gregor is COO of Wyona, an Open Source Content Management consultancy with offices in Boston and Zurich. He is an Apache Lenya comitter, co-founder of the Open Source Content Managment Organization (OSCOM) and a founding member of the Digital Development Foundation (DDF). In the past, Gregor has been involved with Postnuke and was on the founding Project Management Comittee for the Xaraya CMS project. He was also former president of the Association of Students in Computer Science at the University of Zurich.

Ron Summers
Chair - XML in Healthcare
Ron Summers is Professor of Information Science 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 basic and empirical research in partnership with the healthcare community, from a local, national and international level of participation.

Jeni Tennison
Speaker - Information Modelling
Speaker - XSLT/XSL-FO
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 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.

Malcolm Todd
Speaker - e-Government & XML
Malcolm Todd has been a Central Government Records Manager for over seven years, based at The National Archives [TNA] since 2001. He is an acknowledged authority on records management metadata, currently authoring part of the forthcoming ISO Technical Report on the subject. International collaboration is an important part of this work: Malcolm is a member of the Advisory Group of the Monash University Clever Recordkeeping Metadata Project (research funded by the National Archives of Australia) and chairs the current records domain of the InterPARES 2 project based at the University of British Columbia.

Brett Trusko
Speaker - XML in Healthcare
Brett is the Healthcare Industry Consultant for OASIS and is a well known healthcare futurist and technologist. He is the author of several hundred articles in healthcare and healthcare technology and is a frequent speaker on the future of healthcare.  His experience as a noted healthcare futurist allows him to lecture globally on the necessity of international standards in IT and processes to improve healthcare. He works regularly with HIMSS, HL7 and ISO 215 on healthcare standards as they apply to the business of healthcare. His presentations include the challenges of standards adoption to the real world of healthcare and the application of XML to a vision of the future of healthcare. 

Ian White
Speaker - XML in Healthcare
Ian White is the Regional Head of Programme (NPfIT) for the North East Cluster National Programme Office. Prior to this role Ian worked for ten years in the NHS (1993-2003), most notably as the Head of Information for Doncaster & South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust. During this period, in addition to developing the Trust's Information services he was also responsible for developing and implementing an award winning (HC2002 IT Effectiveness Award) Electronic Health Record service into Doncaster. During 2003 Ian's experience at Doncaster and South Humber NHS led him to perform the role of Programme Director for the South Yorkshire (SY) ENHANCE (EPR) Project, and then from July 2003 as Acting Chief Information Officer (CIO). In these two roles Ian has been responsible for promoting a SY collaborative approach to IT service development and delivery.

Kevin Wise
Instructor - Hands-on Introduction to XML
Kevin Wise is a Technical Consultant at CSW Group Ltd. He has been working with XML technologies since 1999, when he established their use for multimedia publishing within the University of Bath's Centre for the Development of New Technologies for Learning. He then spent several years working in the emerging interactive TV industry in New Zealand, where he was the architect for GadgetMill, an XML-based extensible authoring framework for iTV which uses XSLT for a range of purposes including code generation for a C API. Kevin has provided workshops on XML at the University of Bath and has spoken on the role of XML in Interactive TV at international iTV conferences in the USA and Australia. He has a PhD in multidimensional geometric modelling from the University of Bath.

Lauren Wood
Chair - What's Hot and What's Not in XML
Speaker - Knowledge Management & Delivery
Lauren Wood is an Independent Consultant, working in the areas of markup language design, project management, and internet standards. She chairs IDEAlliance's US XML conference series and is an elected member of the W3C 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.

Reuben Wright
Instructor - Hands-on Introduction to XML
Reuben Wright first experienced XML technologies in the electronic publishing industry where he worked on conversions and integration of tens of millions of reference and mapping assets. He has since been a consultant on schema design, standards compliance, validation, and metadata management. At CSW he is Implementation Consultant for various clients and a producer of training courses, XSL transformations and schemas. He is also building an integrated document and diagram management system using XML, PDF and SVG tied together with XSLT, XSL-FO, and JSP.  He studied at Wadham many years ago and looks forwards to returning - this time as a teacher.

Ann Wrightson
Chair - e-Government & XML
Ann Wrightson has specialised in XML & SGML since 1985. She is well known in the XML field, presenting at conferences and participating actively in the continued development of international standards for XML-based technology. Following a varied and successful early career in electronic publishing, Ann spent 10 years lecturing, researching, and consulting in an academic context, including, in 1998, developing the first UK postgraduate course in XML technology. Moving back to industry, she was employed by a major UK publisher as an XML/SGML technical authority, and then as a consultant for a number of leading-edge XML technology development companies, before joining CSW Group in 2004.