Presenters

Dan Appelquist, Senior Architect, Global Service Development Group, Vodafone

Daniel K. Appelquist is a Senior Architect with the Global Service Development group of Vodafone, with responsibility for platforms that provide data and content services to mobile handsets. Previously, he was Director of Content Management at TheStreet.com and later CTO for TheStreet.co.uk. He has written articles and spoken at numerous conferences and events in the area of XML-based publishing, multiple-device publishing and metadata. He is a published author in the field XML and he is Vodafone's W3C Advisory Committee representative.

Linda Burman, CEO, L. A. Burman Associates Inc.; PRISM Working Group Chair and Founder

Linda Burman has been in the computer industry for seventeen years. Prior to founding L.A. Burman Associates Inc., she was Director of Worldwide Marketing at SoftQuad International and prior to that, the Publishing Evangelist at Apple Computer. Beginning her computer career as a systems engineer at Datapoint Corporation, she brought a strong technical background to her later positions in business management and product marketing at companies like MICOM-Interlan and Bitstream. Trained originally as an educator, Ms Burman also transferred her years of experience as an instructor to her new industry.

Ms. Burman is recognized as an industry expert and often speaks at conferences such as the Seybold Seminars, Documation, SGML & XML conferences and more. L.A. Burman Associates is an active member of SGMLOpen and InterXorg the new XML initiative. She previously chaired the Marketing Research Committee of SGMLOpen and also served as a founding member of the Advisory Board for Documation.

Ron Daniel, Principal, Taxonomy Strategies; PRISM Specification Editor

Ron Daniel is a Principal at Taxonomy Strategies, an information management consultancy that specializes in applying taxonomies, metadata, automatic classification, and other information retrieval technologies to the needs of business.

Ron Daniel is an expert on XML and metadata industry standards, having chaired the PRISM (Publishers Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata) working group (prismstandard.org), and served as the Acting Chair of the XML Linking working group. In addition, he has been a member of the RDF working groups, and has co-edited numerous specifications including PRISM, XPointer, three IETF RFCs, and the first two Dublin Core (dublincore.org) reports.

Before becoming a partner at Taxonomy Strategies, Dr. Daniel was a Standards Architect at Interwoven, representing the company in industry standards bodies such as the W3C and OASIS. He came to Interwoven in November 2002, when Interwoven acquired Metacode Technologies for its technology and know-how in automatic classification, metadata, and taxonomies. He was Senior Information Scientist at Metacode, where he played a major role in defining the main product, Metatagger. Prior to Metacode, Ron was a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he worked on a variety of projects focused on the lab's need for a large-scale, long-duration, information infrastructure. Ron earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Cambridge University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Chet Ensign, Director of Architecture & Development Services, LexisNexis

Chet Ensign is Senior Director of Architecture & Development Services in the editorial systems group at LexisNexis(tm). His team's responsibilities include developing the core XML definitions used for LexisNexis's extensive collection of legal, academic, scientific, news and business information content. He is also involved in LexisNexis' ongoing strategy for exploiting XML in its systems and electronic products. Chet is currently a member of the Technical Architecture Board at OASIS. He is vice-chair of the OASIS LegalXML Legislative Documents Technical Committee and a member of the PRISM Working Group.

Ken Ficara, Director, Content and Information Strategy, Dow Jones

Bio coming soon.

Takahiro Fujiwara, Senior Manager, EAST Co. Ltd; NSK NewsML Team Member

Takahiro Fujiwara is a key member of NSK NewsML team and is playing an active role in the team since 2000. NSK NewsML Team is a working group for the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (NSK), an organization promoting progress of NewsML in Japan. He is in charge of authoring detailed description manuals of NewsML based on his good understanding of the NewsML and is conducting study meeting for beginners in the team since last year.

He also made presentations at a number of seminars and introduced NewsML in some magazines for the promotion of the NewsML in Japan. He introduced how to embed Color Management information in NewsML in November this year on the stage set in IBM Japan booth at Japan Newspaper Production Show (JANPS2003).

These activities have been made on the basis of information exchange with key members of IPTC, and have contributed to the promotion of right NewsML in Japan. This, in turn, contributed to IPTC as a fruit.

The contributions include delivery of detailed description manuals focused on some selected functions of NewsML; cooperation with David Allen, IPTC former managing director in IPTC, for the development of NewsML Compliance Checker; cooperation with author Laurent Le Meur, IPTC NewsML Working Party Chair for News Agencies Guidelines for NewsML; and other works.

Mr. Fujiwara is recently engaging in the development of a standard of TV-Listings, the work approved by IPTC in response to the request by NSK. He is placing emphasis, in particular, on the consensus-building with TV-Anytime Forum which is a related other group. As a result, broadcasting industry is recognizing NewsML which is a standard for news industry.

He also has rich experience of consultation on many NewsML systems in Japan, and is managing production of professional tools of NewsML in EAST Co., Ltd.

Ben Hammersley, Author of "Content Syndication with RSS"

Bio coming soon.

Patricia R. Harris, Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

Pat Harris is the Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (http://www.niso.org) a nonprofit organization which develops and promotes technical standards used in information services, libraries, and publishing.

Harris is actively involved in standards development activities at the national and international levels. She has been a member of the American National Standards Institute's Information Systems Standards Board, the ANSI Organizational Member Council, and the ANSI Executive Standards Council.

Harris is the secretary of the International Organization for Standardization's Technical Committee 46 Subcommittee 4 on Technical Interoperability.

Pat has an M.S. in Library Science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has worked at Princeton University, the American Library Association, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Library of Congress.

Geoff Haynes, Manager of Product Development, AP Digital; IPTC Specialized Content Working Party Chair

Bio coming soon.

Alan Karben, President, XML Team Solutions; NITF & SportsML Working Party Chair

Bio coming soon.

Dianne Kennedy, VP Publishing Technologies, IDEAlliance; Editor ICE 2.0 Specification

Dianne Kennedy has a long history in publishing, beginning with her experience as an editor/writer for the textbook division of Doubleday in 1982. She began working with SGML in 1986 while employed at Datalogics, Inc. In 1992 Ms. Kennedy founded her own consultancy and since then has focused on providing SGML/XML and Publishing Systems design services for her clients. Ms. Kennedy also serves as a Chief Technical Consultant for IDEAlliance, is editor of the XML Files, participates in the IDEAlliance ICE authoring group. Kennedy has offered tutorials for GCA/IDEAlliance since 1986. She served as chairperson for the XML 1998-2000 Conferences, launched the Knowledge Technologies Conference series in 2001, and the Open Publish Conference series in 2002. In 2000, Ms. Kennedy combined forces with a leading Topic Maps expert to co-found InfoLoom, Inc., a US-based corporation providing Topic Maps products and services. Today Ms. Kennedy is the CEO of PublishASAP, offering publishing tools over the Web. Ms. Kennedy recently authored portions of the new XML and Web Services Unleashed from SAMS Press that focused on metadata and metadata standards.

Laurent Le Meur, Technical Manager of Multimedia Development, AFP; NewsML Working Party Chair

Bio coming soon.

Peter Meirs, Director, Alternative Media Technologies, Time Inc.

Bio coming soon.

Gunar Penikis, Product Manager, Creative Professional Products, Adobe Systems Inc.

Bio coming soon.

Sam Ruby, Senior Technical Staff Member, Emerging Technologies Group, IBM; VP, Apache Software Foundation

Sam Ruby is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies group at IBM and is involved in a host of open source initiatives. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Apache Software Foundation and a developer on the Apache SOAP project. He is also the chairman of the Jakarta project, whose mission is to provide commercial-quality server solutions based on the Java Platform, developed in an open and cooperative fashion. He is a member of the XML PMC and a member of the ECMA TC39 group standardizing the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) for the .NET Framework. He is also a member of the PHP group, a select group of developers who contribute to core PHP. Ruby holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Math from Christopher Newport College.

David Schlesinger, Global Managing Editor and Head of Editorial Operations, Reuters

Bio coming soon.

Koji Tanaka, Chief Engineer of Production Engineering Department, Mainichi Newspapers; NSK NewsML Team Vice Chair

Koji Tanaka is a vice chairman of the NewsML team in the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association (NSK).Since July 2002 he has been a leader of the group promoting the spread of NewsML in NSK. December 2002 he introduced his company's NewsML system as a case study at the NSK Newspapers Production Seminar. Cooperating with his group he held a lecture about the way how to study NewsML in Page2003, the exhibition held by the Japan Association of Graphic Arts Technology.

He is a Chief Engineer of Production System Department, the Mainichi Newspapers. Now he is a project manager of NewsML Content Management System. This system handles all contents (such as article, photo, video, etc.) by using NewsML and all reporters and editors (of 393 branches including 29 overseas branches) are going to use terminals of this system. Before this project he was a project manager of Election News System. He joined many projects of the newspaper's computer system such as Sports Event System (for the National Athletic Meet ,Japan-League soccer, etc.), Financial Accounting News System, Radio-TV Listings System.

Misha Wolf, Standards Manager, Content Architecture Group, Reuters

Misha Wolf is Standards Manager for Reuters, a post he has held since 1994. Over the years, Misha has represented Reuters at many Standards bodies, including the BSI, the FpML Consortium, the IPTC, OASIS, the Unicode Consortium, and the W3C. He was the founding Chair of the W3C Internationalization WG, Chair of the Dublin Core Data Model WG and, for many years, Co-Chair of the International Unicode Conference. Before joining Reuters, Misha worked for Logica (1978-1994).