Presenters

Dave Compton, Technical Specialist, News & Media, Reuters

Dave Compton has been working with Reuters news and financial data since 1995. He co-developed the Reuters Internet Delivery System, which pioneered the use of NewsML within Reuters, prior to the emergence of IPTC NewsML. Subsequent initiatives have included authoring the open source NewsML Application Level Toolkit, and co-designing the NewsML-based TopNews multimedia capability. Dave now works as a Media Architect, spanning Editorial news & media creation through to client rendering, and is the NewsML Technical Owner within Reuters.

Arnaud Descamps, Chief Technical Officer, relaxnews
Arnaud Descamps is the CTO of relaxnews. Relaxnews is a news agency dedicated to Leisure news. It produces and distributes news and event information for feature and listings formats, about sport practice, home hobbies, culture, going out, and tourism. Arnaud has designed relaxnews' information management platform dedicated to leisure news, that was recognized with French innovation label from Anvar (now Oséo). Arnaud is relaxnews' IPTC representative and has been involved with EventsML since 2003. He has been at relaxnews for 4 years, after working for the telecom industry, with Vodafone's partner in France SFR, and before that in manufacturing and planning. He gratuated from Ecole Centrale Paris. Amusingly enough for someone now involved with standards, his first job was at the golf equipment manufacturer called TalyorMade!

Jean-Pierre Evain, Senior Engineer, European Broadcasting Union
After 7 years in the research laboratories of France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, Jean-Pierre Evain joined the EBU in 1992. He is a senior engineer in the EBU's Technical Department where he coordinates research, development and standardisation on metadata (EBU production to delivery processes) and rights management. He represents the EBU in several key projects, foras and standardisation groups like DVB, TV-Anytime, ETSI, and also in diferent working groups of the European Commission.

Ivan Herman, Head of Offices, W3C 

Ivan graduated as mathematician at the Eötvös Lóránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as a Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He is also member of the Semantic Web Coordination Group at W3C. As part of his work at W3C, Ivan regularly gives presentations on W3C technologies, as well as tutorials, for example on SVG or the Semantic Web.

Rudolf Horvath,  Technical Director APA, Managing Director, APA-IT Informations Technologie GmbH

Degree in Technical Mathemetics, Electronic Data Processing, Technical University Vienna, Austria 1974 - 1983 Senior System Analyst, Sperry Univac Austria Since 1983 APA and APA-IT Informations Technologie GmbH.

Dianne Kennedy, VP Publishing Technologies, IDEAlliance

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.

Hubertus Koehler, Chief Technical Officer,  dpa-infocom GmbH

Hubertus Koehler is the Chief Technical Officer at dpa-info.com. He studied Computer Science and Economics. With this background he was among the pioneers in Germanys content management Industry, working for CoreMedia, KPMG Consulting and 4content, a technology driven content syndicator. From 1996 to 1999 he was involved in the launch of dpa's online services, representing the CMS provider CoreMedia. He was in charge of the development of a multimedia publishing system, enabling dpa to launch and produce its cutting edge online services. In this and other projects for major media players he gained valuable knowledge about workflow and publishing processes and developed frameworks for the seamless integration of diverse content streams into the content base as well as the automated packaging and distribution of that content. In 2001 he joined the management board of dpa-infocom. He is in charge of the technical strategy, especially the creation of future multichannel workflows in the newsroom, the technical realization of digital publishing services (Online, Mobile, Print) as well as an integrated service concept for customers.

Dean Large, Sr. Software Architect, Business Wire; IPTC NewsML 1 Maintenance WP Chair

Dean has been a key player in Business Wire's news management and delivery system development since 1998 and played an architectural role in Business Wire's move from an ANPA text satellite feed to an Internet based NewsML feed. Dean was key in the design of Business Wire's Internet news delivery technology including the transition from satellite delivery, database schema and support procedures for storing NewsML and integrating with Business Wire's legacy distribution systems. As a System Architect, Dean handles interface and integration issues between news management/editorial systems and workflow/accounting and web solutions subsystems.

Laurent Le Meur, Technical Manager of Multimedia Development, AFP; IPTC News Architecture WP Chair

Laurent Le Meur is manager of the AFP Medialab, a post he has held since 2000. The AFP Medialab unit coordinates worldwide New Media projects (multimedia products, wireless applications, etc.), drives the development of online platforms, enhances the integration of AFP content into client-side editorial systems, and develops new products for the print media.

With an expertise on XML, metadata industry standards and their use in the Press industry, Laurent chairs the new IPTC News Architecture Working Party and leads the XML development efforts inside AFP. He is project manager of the new AFP Magazine Forum platform (http://mag.afp.com), which relies heavily on NewsML multimedia content. AFP is a prominent NewsML provider and is able to offer all its multimedia and text production in this format.

Laurent is also expert in object oriented software development and image processing; he earned his French engineer diploma (Ph.D) at the ENS Physique Marseille.

Jayson Lorenzen, Software Developer, Business Wire

Jayson has worked a combined total of 6 years for Business Wire and has been working with NewsML since Business Wire's decision to adopt it as its delivery mechanism. He has designed and implemented large portions of Business Wire's NewsML based editorial and news distribution systems, including NewsML  generation, a News Code management system, and various solutions for migrating from satellite to an Internet based delivery feed. Jayson is continually  working to improve Business Wire's NewsML systems and currently serves as one of Business Wire's delegates to the IPTC, where NewsML 2.0 is being developed. He also participates in the Open Source community and has contributed to Open Source applications, and to various books and articles on Open Source projects.

Manfred Mitterholzer, Manager Research & Development, APA-IT Informations Technologie GmbH

Degree in Information Technology, Technical University Vienna, Austria Since 1986 APA and APA-IT, worked in different areas of program development for Online Retrieval Systems Since 2001 Manager R&D and chief developer of fulltext retrieval system APA-IT-PowerSearch.

Steven Pemberton, W3C HTML WG and Forms WG Chair
At the end of the 80's, Steven with a group of colleagues built a browser with extensible markup, a DOM, stylesheets, client-side scripting, etc. Following from this work, he organised two workshops at the first WWW conference in 1994 on client-side computation and electronic publishing. He chaired the first-ever W3C event, the workshop on style sheets, the first W3C internationalisation workshop, and was a long-time member of the CSS and HTML working groups. He now chairs the HTML and Forms working groups, and is co-author of amongst others HTML, CSS, XHTML, XForms and XML Events. He was until recently editor-in-chief of ACM/interactions. He is based at the CWI, Amsterdam. For more information: www.cwi.nl/~steven.

Gunar Penikis, XMP Product Manager,  Adobe Systems Inc.

Gunar Penikis is the Product Manager for Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP), an open, standards-based enabling technology that fosters the capture, preservation, and interchange of metadata across digital media and workflows. He had been with Adobe for over 6 years involved in the definition and management of diverse product such as Adobe Version Cue, Adobe DesignTeam and consumer products such as PhotoDeluxe. Previous to Adobe he has worked as a software engineer for Creative Wonders, an educational software joint venture between Electronic Arts and ABC. Holds a bachelor of science degree in engineering physics from Queen's University, Canada, and an International MBA from York University, Canada. Featured speaker at industry events, including: News Standards Summit Digital Asset Management Symposium Research Library Group IFRA - Metadata for the Newspaper Industry.

Kevin Smith, Architect, Vodafone Global Technology
Kevin has worked with XML and related technologies for six years, for the last four producing XML content models and handlers for the Vodafone live! mobile portal. These have included device-independent content interfaces, metadata vocabularies and syndication enablers. Through 8 releases of the Vodafone live! portal he has built up frontline experience with concurrent language, character encoding, device filtering and access controls issues across 21 countries. Kevin is based in London.

Michael Steidl, Managing Director, IPTC, International Press Telecommunications Council

IPTC Managing Director since 2003 Michael is deep in the business of creating, promoting and maintaining standards for the news industry having himself a long record with information technology for news as he works as an IT consultant for news agencies for almost 20 years. Being an engineer by education he also worked as an editor and manager for news agencies knowing the news business in a broad sense.

Dr. Miles Whitehead, Senior Technologist, Reuters

Dr Miles Whitehead has been working at Reuters since 1986 in a variety of technical roles, including a spell in the Research and Standards group where he had responsibility for technologies focused on text. He was instrumental in creating and distributing Reuters Corpus, a collection of over 800,000 news stories in English, which Reuters give away freely to researchers. He now works as a Senior Technologist, helping to implement automated text categorisation, entity recognition and fact-finding. Miles has a PhD in Graph Theory from London University.

Misha Wolf, Standards Manager, Reuters; IPTC News Metadata Framework WG Chair

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).

Bob Wyman, CTO, PubSub

Bob Wyman, CTO and co-founder of PubSub,   Bob has been developing innovative, industry leading products for almost 25 years.  His career began in the 1980's with at DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), where he was the first product manager for the industry's first customizable and integrated office automation suite. Bob moved to Microsoft in 1991, becoming Senior Product Manager for Applications Programmability in the Visual Basic group.  After Microsoft, Bob became VP of Emerging Technologies at the start-up Medio Multimedia, where he created and edited Medio Magazine -- the first broad-market, multimedia, CDROM based magazine.  Today Bob serves as CTO for PubSub, a matching service that instantly notifies you when new content is created that matches your subscription. Using a proprietary Matching Engine, PubSub is able to read millions of data sources on your behalf and notify you instantly whenever a match is made.

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