Speakers
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.
Speakers are hand picked for their in-depth expertise and ability to convey their experiences to maximise your learning experience.
The confirmed speakers for the 2006 curriculum are:
Open AllClose All- Liora Alschuler (Alschuler Associates LLC)
Liora Alschuler is a developer of XML-based standards for exchange of electronic healthcare information and a consultant in their application to providers and system vendors.
Alschuler Associates, LLC is a consulting firm implementing XML-based document solutions for healthcare. The company supports standards-based development through consulting, document analysis, tool development, data migration, training and documentation. Alschuler Associates is under contract to the US Military Health System supporting design and implementation of electronic clinical documents across the enterprise and to the Health Information Technology Standards Process (HITSP) facilitating standards convergence and testing for the national health information network, as well as working with commercial solutions vendors. Liora Alschuler, principal, is a co-editor of HL7's Clinical Document Architecture, co-chair of the HL7 Structured Documents Technical Committee and a member of the HL7 Board of Directors, 2005-2006.
She lives in East Thetford, Vermont, and can be reached at liora@alschulerassociates.com.
XML in Healthcare- James Averback (Life Science Integration Partners)
James M. Averback, President, Life Science Integration Partners, has since 1994 driven innovation in the use of Information Technology to accelerate and enhance Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery and Development. As a leader in Informatics with Merck and Bristol-Myers Squibb, he has implemented mission critical transformation initiatives in the areas of Documentation & Knowledge Management, Electronic Regulatory Submissions, Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Compliance.
Currently, his work is as a consultant to industry with emphasis in advising clients on approaches for integrating knowledge in pharmaceutical R&D.
XML for Drug Information- Bilal Baig (CSW Informatics)
Bilal Baig has worked with XML technologies for 6 years as a developer and a consultant. He dabbled a bit in oil industry and research after his electrical engineering before he started his M.Sc. in Management of Information Systems from London School of Economics. After his masters he started working with RivCom, which later became part of CSW Group. During this time as a Senior Technical Consultant he has worked for clients like Shell, NHS, Sun Microsystems, and BMJ.
Hands on XML Lab- Jeff Barr (Amazon Web Services)
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Jeff Barr, evangelist, is focused on furthering awareness among software developers of the opportunity to innovate and build businesses using Amazon Web Services. Launched in July 2002, Amazon Web Services exposes Amazon.com technology and product data that enables developers to build innovative and entrepreneurial applications on their own. Barr meets regularly with developers in the U.S. and internationally to introduce Amazon Web Services and to help them build businesses and applications with the program's services. Barr has a longstanding interest in Web services and programmatic information interchange. He has held development and management positions at KnowNow, eByz, Akopia, and Microsoft, and was a co-founder of Visix Software. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from American University and completed graduate work in computer science at George Washington University.
Web Services and Service Architecture - Peter Brown (Independent Consultant)
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From 2000 to 2004, Peter 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.
Peter has now been seconded to the Austrian Government to promote work on pan-European eGovernment services, electronic identity management and EU "Information Society" policies. www.XMLbyStealth.net
Content and Knowledge with XML - Murray Bywater (Silicon Bridge Research Ltd)
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Following a varied career in IT, latterly as Director of Business Planning for Honeywell, Murray Bywater spent five years as Managing Director of Shared Medical Systems (SMS) in the UK. He founded Silicon Bridge Research in 1988 to provide research based consultancy services for the healthcare informatics market in the UK and Europe. Murray's primary interest is the impact of eHealth on global trends in healthcare delivery.
In addition to industrial and financial clients, Silicon Bridge undertakes research work for the UK Department of Trade & Industry, NHS and Department of Health. Murray worked in collaboration with Deloitte in Belgium to set up Health Information Network Europe as the first pan-European information service focusing solely on IT in the healthcare sector. Most recently, Murray has advised a variety of organisations seeking to work more effectively in a changing NHS IT environment.
XML in Healthcare - John Chelsom (CSW Group Ltd)
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).
Content and Knowledge with XML, Building XML Applications- Tony Coates (Miley Watts LLP)
Anthony B. Coates (Tony) specialises in information management and integration solutions for financial and corporate clients. Tony is a Senior Partner at Miley Watts LLP, and has worked for a number of financial sector companies in London, including Reuters. Tony participates in a number of financial XML initiatives, including ISO 20022 (XML financial messaging), ISO 19312 (Securities Data Model), MDDL (Market Data Definition Language) and FpML (Financial Products Markup Language). Tony is also a member of the OASIS UBL TC (Universal Business Language). He has worked with XML since 1998, and Java since 1996.
Web Services and Service Architecture- Gary Cornelius (CSW Group Ltd)
Gary Cornelius began working in the publishing industry in 1992, following some early success as a student managing the production of a youth paper for the European Parliament. In 1993-1995 he completed an industrial apprenticeship based around digital imaging, where he experienced a wide range of positive changes brought about by computerisation. In 1996-1999 he worked in Information Technology (IT) on a number of large scale consumer publishing projects, automating high quality PDF output from large databases and image repositories for Trader Media Group and various TV listings publications.
In 2000-2003 he worked in software development as a programmer at Future Publishing Plc in their Internet Services research department on a project to unify publishing processes using XML. Since early 2004 he has worked for CSW Group Ltd. as technical consultant specializing in XML, providing hands-on XML training at a series of XML Summer schools and training events in the UK and presenting at XML related conferences. He also is an active member of OASIS and participates in several standards committees.
Building XML Applications- Niki Dinsey (CSW Group Ltd)
Niki currently manages CSW Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of CSW Group, taking the existing experienced Research team and making their services available to the public. Primarily working with XML for companies such as BBC Monitoring and the United Nations FAO.
He also directs the research defined technology direction for CSW's flagship products Case Notes and KMS. Previously, Niki worked within the telecommunications sector: Orange Communications working on SAP Enterprise.
Hands-on Introduction to XML- Bob DuCharme (Innodata Isogen)
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.
XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery- Peter Flynn (University College Cork, Ireland)
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.
Content and Knowledge with XML- A. Leander Fontaine (Pharmiceutics LLC)
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). Before joining the pharmaceutical industry, he worked in internal medicine (German Army Hospital Ulm, Germany) as well as in anesthesiology, intensive care and emergency medicine (University Hospital Ulm, Germany). He received his medical degree in 1979 from Saarland University, Germany, and received his doctoral degree in 1985 from University of Ulm, Germany.
XML for Drug Information- Ant Grinyer (CSW Informatics)
Ant has worked in IT for over 10 years in various positions. Currently, Ant is working for CSW as a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Consultant, in which time he has been involved in a wide variety of projects with clients such as Ford, Jaguar, the NHS, and the MOD. Ant has a keen interest in research and is pursuing a part-time PhD in Computing with the Open University. His research interests include agile methodologies, empirical software engineering, and diffusion theory. He holds a BSc honours degree in Computer Science and also MBCS and Chartered Information Technology Professional (CITP) status awarded from the British Computer Society.
Hands on XML Lab- Dr. Marc J. Hadley (Sun Microsystems)
Dr. Marc J. Hadley is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO, Sun Microsystems. Marc represents Sun on the W3C XML Protocol and W3C WS-Addressing working groups where he is co-editor of the SOAP 1.2 and WS-Addressing 1.0 specifications. Marc was co-specification lead for JAX-WS 2.0 (the Java API for Web Services) developed at the JCP and has also served as Sun's technical lead and alternate board member at the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I).
Marc has more than fifteen years experience in the software industry and holds a D.Phil in Physics from the University of York, UK.
Web Services and Service Architecture- Steve Harris (Oxford University Computing Laboratory)
Steve Harris graduated with a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Birmingham in 1988, where he was the first to submit his thesis unbound and laser printed. He then became a full-time software engineer specialising in data-mining, CRM and warehouse management applications, he returned to the University of Birmingham in the late '90s to lead IT for two of the University's three clinical trials units. In 2001 he was appointed Director of IT for NTRAC, and IT Manager for the Department of Clinical Pharmacology in Oxford. Here he established the IT infrastructure and staffing for the NTRAC Head Office, the OCTO trials unit and IT provision for the Department of Clinical Pharmacology. In 2003 Steve was seconded from NTRAC to the Computing Laboratory under Jim Davies to help develop Oxford University's contribution to clinical and bioinformatic e-Science.
Steve has a practical interest in clinical information systems for research, medical informatics, medical research system security, health care system integration. Recently he has become an evangelist of all things beginning with X, especially XQuery.
Content and Knowledge with XML- Mike Kay (Saxonica)
Michael Kay is widely known in the XML world as an expert on the XML processing languages XSLT and XQuery: he is the current holder of the XML Cup. His reputation derives from his books "XSLT 2.0 Programmer's Reference" and its XPath 2.0 companion, from the Saxon XSLT and XQuery software, which he developed, and from his work within the W3C consortium. Michael runs his own company, Saxonica, which develops the Saxon technology and provides support and consultancy for XSLT and XQuery users.
XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery- John Kemp (Nokia Corporation)
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.
Web Services and Service Architecture- Deborah Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies)
Deborah Lapeyre is a Senior XML and XSLT Consultant for Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a firm specializing in helping their clients toward better publishing through XML and XSLT solutions. She teaches XML literacy; business implications of XML, and hands-on XML (and SGML) syntax, DTD and schema construction; XSLT, and XSL-FO courses.
Debbie has been working with XML and XSLT since their inception and with SGML since 1984, which was before SGML was officially adopted as an ISO standard. In a previous life, she write wrote code for systems that put ink on paper and used, taught, and documented a proprietary generic markup system named "SAMANTHA".
Content and Knowledge with XML- Paul Madsen (NTT Group)
Paul Madsen works in NTT's Information Sharing Platform Laboratory. He has served in various design, editing, and education roles for a number of XML-based security standards. He represents NTT in the Liberty Alliance, an industry initiative for federated identity on the Web, where he Co-Chairs the Technology Expert Group. He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Carleton University and the University of Western Ontario respectively.
Trends and Transients, Web Services and Service Architecture- Sean McGrath (Propylon)
Sean McGrath is CTO of Propylon. He is an internationally acknowledged authority on XML and related standards. He served as an invited expert to the W3C's Expert Group that defined XML in 1998. He is the author of three books on markup languages published by Prentice Hall. He writes a weekly 'E-Business in the Enterprise' column for ITWorld.
He runs a technology blog at: http://seanmcgrath.blogspot.com
Web Services and Service Architecture- Eve Maler (Sun Microsystems)
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.
Web Services and Service Architecture- Jake Nadler (Independent Consultant)
Jake Nadler is an independent consultant working with leading technology companies that target the pharmaceutical and healthcare fields. During the five years prior he worked as Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President of Business Development for Intrasphere Technologies, a systems integrator serving the Life Sciences industry. Mr. Nadler began his career in the technology business in retail at Computer Era in New York City. Subsequently, he served as Vice President of Marketing for DJR Associates, one of the original commercial publishers of database management software for microcomputers. He holds a BA from Reed College.
XML for Drug Information- Simon Nicholson (Sun Microsystems)
Simon Nicholson is Director, Business Strategy and Development for Sun Microsystems focusing on the area of Mobile Networks and Mobile Data Services.
His previous role at Sun Microsystems was in the Office of the Software CTO in which he led the Sun Digital Rights Management Strategy team, and served as the company's General Manager for its' work at the Liberty Alliance. Over the past seven years Simon has led the formation, development and leadership of multiple industry wide programs including OASIS, ebXML and the Liberty Alliance.
Trends and Transients- Dave Nurse (CSW Group Ltd)
Dave Nurse is Technical Director for the CSW Group. Prior to working at CSW, Dave worked for the NHS as a clinical scientist where he pioneered the move in healthcare towards web and XML-based solutions in information delivery and knowledge management. As well as being responsible for CSW's Product Road Map, Dave has led CSW's strategic developments in electronic health architectures at local, regional and national level. Dave has authored and contributed to numerous academic journals and conferences on this subject.
XML in Healthcare- Paul Prescod (XMetaL)
Paul Prescod is the Group Program Manager of the XMetaL XML Authoring Suite. He is also the co-author of the XML Handbook, member of the DITA TC, author of numerous articles on XML and contributor to open source XML and DITA tools. Paul has a Bachelor of Math and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo.
Trends and Transients, XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery- Gunther Schadow (Indiana University)
Dr. Schadow, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Regenstrief Institute. He has been a leader in healthcare information standards for over a decade. He has developed most of the HL7 version 3 Reference Information Model (RIM) and its data type specification, and publishes the Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) standard. He has been co-leading the design of several HL7 specifications on EKG and other waveform data, on drug stability testing, and the Structured Product Label (SPL) standard for electronic prescription labels, which includes computer interpretable decision support knowledge. He is currently building a decision-support enabled e-prescribing system.
XML for Drug Information- Mark Stone (CSW Group Ltd)
Mark Stone is Knowledge Transfer Team Lead at CSW Group Ltd, where he leads training delivered to CSW's clients & supports internal knowledge transfer. Mark's background is in multimedia, training and teaching and he particularly enjoys communicating the concepts of XML to non-specialists. Before coming to CSW, he worked as a Consultant at RivCom. He has presented and given workshops on XML at events including Pira International, IfraExpo and Ifra Training. Mark has an MA in Interactive Multimedia from the London College of Printing.
Hands-on Introduction to XML- Ron Summers (Research School of Informatics, Loughborough University)
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.
XML in Healthcare- Inigo Surguy (CSW Group Ltd)
Inigo Surguy has 12 years experience working in software, in a variety of areas (including publishing, healthcare, logistics, and energy research). His technical skills include software architecture design and modelling; Java, J2EE and .NET development; web development; and a wide variety of XML-based technologies including XSLT, XQuery, HL7, RDF and OWL. Inigo has written chapters for the books "Practical XML for the Web", "Content Management Systems" and "Practical Intranet Development" published by Glasshaus, and presented a paper on ontologies at the WWW2006 conference this year.
Building XML Applications- Jeni Tennison (Independent Consultant)
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 several books including "Beginning XSLT 2.0" (Apress, 2005) and was one of the founders of the EXSLT initiative to standardise extensions to XSLT and XPath. She is an invited expert on the W3C's XSL and XML Processing Working Groups.
XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery- Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic)
Priscilla Walmsley is Managing Director of Datypic, and a senior consultant specializing in XML architecture and implementation, XML and schema design, XQuery and XSLT development, and content management. She has over fifteen years experience as a software architect, developer and writer. She is the author of Definitive XML Schema and Definitive XQuery.
XSLT, XSL-FO and XQuery- Ian White (NHS Connecting for Health)
Ian White, although Regional Head of Programme (NPfIT) for the North East Cluster National Programme Office, NHS Connecting for Health, he has recently been seconded to work as Head of the Senior User Team for the Front Line Service Support Project. In this role, Ian is responsible for ensuring business readiness and engagement with Trust IM&T management in preparation for the commercial provision of service support for NPfIT products and services. This new service support will ultimately replace the existing NHS National Service Desk. Prior to joining NHS Connecting for Health in November 2003, Ian worked for ten years in the NHS (1993-2003) as most notably the Director 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 Healthcare NHS Trust 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 was responsible for promoting a SY collaborative approach to IT service development and delivery.
XML in Healthcare- Robin Wilton (Sun Microsystems)
Robin Wilton is in the Business Alliances team of Sun's Chief Technology Office. This team looks outwards (at Sun's relationships with strategic business partners) and inwards across the Sun product lines - seeking to maximise Sun's added value in all areas of identity management through business innovation.
His role involves a mixture of product knowledge, industry expertise, marketing, consultancy and strategic thinking - in support of which he draws on over 20 years of experience in the IT industry.
Web Services and Service Architecture- Kevin Wise (CSW Group Ltd)
Kevin Wise is a Senior Technical Consultant at CSW Group Ltd and is currently leading the development team responsible for the OCS (Order Communication System) and Result Reporting modules of the Case Notes product. 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.
XML in Healthcare- Reuben Wright (CSW Group Ltd)
Reuben has been an XML consultant in a variety of fields including UK government, business communications, healthcare and publishing. He has practical technical XML expertise with XSD, XSLT, XSL-FO, XQuery, OWL, RDF and more. He is a Technical Consultant and Business Analyst for various CSW Group clients and internal teams, working primarily in the publishing sector developing content and knowledge management systems. He got his bachelor's degree at Wadham and looks forwards, as ever, to returning to his alma mater.
Content and Knowledge with XML- Ann Wrightson (CSW Group Ltd)
Ann Wrightson has specialized in SGML and XML since 1985. Following a varied and successful early career in electronic publishing, Ann spent ten years lecturing, researching, and consulting in an academic context, developing interests in formal methods, requirements modelling and IT system safety. Moving on from academia in 2000, over the last few years Ann has worked mainly in eGovernment and Healthcare, providing strategic IT advice and developing interoperability standards both in the UK and internationally.
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