Track Chairs
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 -
Information Modelling
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 consulting software engineer at LexisNexis.
Peter Flynn
Chair - Content and Knowledge Management and 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 has been active in the Published Subjects and XML Office File Formats technical committees of OASIS.
Eve Maler
Chair -
Web Services and Service Architectures
Eve Maler is a senior technical program manager at Sun Microsystems, leading engagements in identity and web services standards and specifications. Eve has made major leadership, technical, and marketing contributions to several successful standards, including OASIS Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL), WS-I Basic Security Profile, DocBook, and XML itself.
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 of Level 2. She has worked as an independent consultant, is a published industry analyst, and was Director of Product Technology for SoftQuad Software.