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Dr.
H. Holger Rath, Business Segment Manager "Knowledge
Management", empolis Content Management GmbH
H. Holger Rath
is Business Segment Manager "Knowledge Management" at empolis Content
Management GmbH (formerly known as STEP Electronic Publishing Solutions
GmbH) providing premium products and services in content management
and knowledge management. He started at STEP in 1996 as senior consultant
and project manager and headed the consulting department from 1998-2000.
Holger represents Germany in the ISO standards committee which is
responsible for SGML, DSSSL, HyTime, and Topic Maps. Numerous national
and international presentations and publications as well as more
than ten years experience in information re-engineering prove his
competence.
Daniel
Rivers-Moore,
Director of New Technologies, RivCom
Daniel Rivers-Moore
is Director of New Technologies at RivCom, a consultancy and services
company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies
to meet their information management and distribution needs. He
has been actively involved in the development of the XML family
of standards, having been a member of the original XML Special Interest
Group, joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonization initiative
under ISO, and software development lead in the recently completed
European XML/EDI Pilot Project. In April 1997, at the WWW6 conference
in Santa Clara, he gave the world's first public demonstration of
XML content being displayed within an industry-standard browser
(using a browser plugin developed by RivCom). In addition to giving
numerous XML seminars and tutorials for corporate customers such
as Shell, Unilever, BNFL and Foster Wheeler Energy, his teaching
experience includes several years as a professional trainer giving
voice and theater workshops. Recent tutorials include a one-day
introduction to XML for the British Computer Society's Object Oriented
Programming Specialist Interest Group, and the introductory Keynote/Tutorial
at a strategy planning meeting on XML adoption at the NATO Consultation,
Command and Control Agency in The Hague.
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Joel
Sachs,
Researcher, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center
Joel Sachs,
Researcher, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center. Joel is
designing a semantic web architecture to enable the interoperation
of NASA satellite data with environmental law databases. He is also
investigating the general use of ontology based knowledge markup
to support content based queries, and as a framework for datamining.
Joel has been involved in several past datamining projects, both
NASA and commercial. In 1997, with IBM France, he was amongst the
first to successfully apply modern datamining techniques to e-commerce
server logs. Joel has a masters degree in mathematics from Syracuse
University, and is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science at UMBC.
Reid
Smith, Vice President Knowledge Management, Schlumberger
Reid Smith is
vice president, knowledge management, at Schlumberger. He is responsible
for leading the effort to improve organizational performance through
processes and technology to capture, share, and apply the overall
experience and know-how of people in the company. Smith has worked
for Schlumberger since 1981 in a variety of positions in the United
States and the United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. (1979) in electrical
engineering from Stanford University for his work on distributed
problem solving. He also holds a B.Eng. (1968) and an M.Eng. (1969),
both from Carleton University.
Stefan
Smolnik, Research Assistant, University of Paderborn
Stefan Smolnik
– was born in 1970. He received his computer science diploma from
the University of Paderborn in 1998 and is currently both a PhD
student and research assistant at the Business Computing Department
of the Faculty of Business Management, Business Computing and Economics
at the University of Paderborn in Germany.
Dan
Z. Sokol, President, Cohesia Corporation
Mr. Sokol has
managed over thirty computer integration projects in the aerospace,
automotive, and metals industries, including research on behalf
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National
Science Foundation. He has previously published papers on using
SGML for concurrent engineering. Mr. Sokol holds a BS in Industrial
Engineering and a BS in Computer Science from the Ohio State University.
He received his MBA from the University of Dayton.
John
Sowa,
Independant Consultant
John F. Sowa
spent thirty years working on research and development projects
at IBM, and another seven years teaching, writing, and consulting.
He has a BS degree in mathematics from MIT, an MA in applied mathematics
from Harvard, and a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel. He is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, and he has participated in ANSI and ISO standards
projects for conceptual schemas, knowledge sharing, and ontology.
In conjunction with those projects, he edited the proposed standard
for conceptual graphs, which is based on the notation used in many
of his publications.
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Carsten
Tautz, Manager Research & Consulting, empolis Knowledge
Management Division, Bertelsmann Mohn Media Group
Carsten Tautz
has a strong background in Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge
Management. After receiving his diploma in Computer Science at the
University of Kaiserslautern in 1993, Carsten Tautz joined the Software
Technology Transfer Initiative Kaiserslautern (STTI-KL) where he
was responsible for structuring technology packages in general and
the buildup and maintenance of a technology package on Experience
Factories (a concept for reuse of all kinds of software knowledge)
in particular. In 1996 the STTI-KL became the Fraunhofer Institute
for Experimental Software Engineering (Fraunhofer IESE). As a researcher
at Fraunhofer IESE, Carsten focused further on the application of
AI and KM in the field of Software Engineering, which is exemplary
for knowledge intensive processes. He developed a technical support
platform for the Experience Factory concept. He introduced this
platform, which uses case-based reasoning to find similar experiences
from past projects, and established Experience Factories (especially
for the area of lessons learned) in several organizations including
Allianz, the biggest German insurance business, and a large German
aerospace company, and Fraunhofer IESE itself. He recently received
his Ph.D. on the topic of "Customizing Software Engineering Experience
Management Systems to Organizational Needs". Since January 2001,
Carsten Tautz is working for the empolis Knowledge Management Division,
where he manages strategic KM projects.
David
Turner,
XML Product Manager, Microsoft Corporation
David Turner
is the Product Manager and Technical Evangelist for XML technologies
at Microsoft. He is responsible for promoting adoption of XML within
the development community. Before working at Microsoft, David was
responsible for shipping SGML and HTML authoring products and Internet
development tools. He has been working with XML and structured information
for over seven years. He is currently Microsoft's representative
to the W3C Advisory Committee and is also Microsoft's representative
to OASIS. David has a degree in Engineering Science from the University
of Western Ontario, Canada.
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Bernard
Vatant,
Knowledge Representation Consultant, Mondeca
Bernard Vatant
is a former high school mathematics teacher, graduate from ENSET
(Cachan, France) in 1975, and presently working as an independent
consultant. He's been recently involved in the development of ontologies
for Mondeca Topic Navigator applications, and is Invited Guest in
XTM Authoring Group. He has a 20 years long background in astronomy
and epistemology popularization, of which most recent episode is
the management of a multidimensional website focused on solar astronomy,
sustainable development and knowledge representation - www.universimmedia.com.
His main present research interests are collective knowledge building
and representation, and web indexing ; his experience as a former
editor in Open Directory Project has led him to envision further
alternative non-hierarchical tools grounded in the Topic Maps paradigm.
In everyday life, Bernard is managing complexity with his wife and
(up to) 5 children, in French Southern Alps.
Diane
Vizine-Goetz,
Senior Research Scientist, Office of Research, OCLC
Diane joined
OCLC (Online Computer Library Center), a nonprofit, library service
and research organization (www.oclc.org), in 1983 as post-doctoral
fellow to continue research on automated database quality she began
as a doctoral student. While at OCLC, she has conducted research
on information organization using controlled vocabularies and classification
schemes. She is a member of the knowledge organization (KO) research
team, which developed a Web-based version of the Dewey Decimal Classification
system. The KO research team is currently investigating techniques
for automatically associating subject access systems such as thesauri,
term lists and classification schemes for use in metadata creation
tools and to support browsing and searching across databases that
employ different KO schemes (staff.oclc.org/~vizine/).
Eric
van der Vlist, CEO, Dyomedea
Eric van der
Vlist is a consultant, a trainer and a contributing editor for xmlhack
(https://www.xmlhack.com) and XML.com (https://www.xml.com). He has created
and maintains (https://www.xmlfr.org), a French portal dedicated to XML
and 4xt (https://www.4xt.org), a resource site for XT users. Eric is
a seasoned software engineer, co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification
and active contributor to XML and XSL mailing lists. He has an engineer
degree (B.Sc..) from the Ecole Centrale de Paris He has been a contributor
for XML 2000 (Style Free Stylesheets), Forum XML 2000 and the European
Commission Semantic Web Technologies Workshop.
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Dr.
Joseph Williamson,
Vice President Knowledge Services, EDS-Federal
Dr. Joseph Williamson
is the Vice President, Knowledge Services, EDS Federal. He is responsible
for the strategy and oversight of EDS Federal Government's Knowledge
Management Practice. His knowledge and 22 years of information technology
experience bridges Public and Private sector markets; as a result,
he is a sought after international leader in the alignment of technology
with business success. Dr. Williamson personally contributed to
the establishment of clients .knowledge management and clients'
CIO environments. He has consulted to the US and Foreign Governments
and is an international speaker on Knowledge Management. Dr. Williamson
joined EDS Federal in 1994 as a Chief Engineer and Deputy Program
Manager and has held the positions of Chief Information Officer
and of Senior Program Manager. In this role, he personally led teams
in the establishment and chartering the Office of the CIO for two
different clients to include: the establishment of of a governance
program.; Information Policy Boards; Strategic Plans; and enterprise
architectures. Prior to joining EDS, Dr. Williamson was the Program
Manager for the development, test, and fielding of E-Systems Adaptive
Mission Planning Systems for the remotely controlled surveillance
and reconnaissance business area. In 1994, the Department of Transportation
selected Dr. Williamson, as a nationally recognized expert for the
evaluation of a National Information Architecture for the Intelligent
Transportation System. In this same time period he was appointed
as the U.S. expert to the International Standards Organization's
Technical Committee on Transport Information and Control Systems.
Dr. Williamson was an author of IEEE 802.10, Standard for Interoperable
Local Area Network Security (SILS). In 1999, he founded and continues
to chair the Object Management Group's Knowledge Management Working
Group.
Ann
Wrightson, Consultant, Ontopia AS
Ann Wrightson
is a recognized expert on Topic Map usecases, and is an experienced
conference speaker. In recent years, she has had lecturing and practical
experience in Web development, OOAD, XML technology, Systems integration
and Knowledge Representation. Ann started her career in electronic
publishing, then moved into academic life, teaching and researching
in formal methods, requirements engineering, information systems
analysis, safety-critical interactive technical publications, and
multimedia applications design. More recently, she returned to publishing,
as a technical architect for Sweet & Maxwell Ltd., a leading UK
print and online legal publisher; during this time she was an invited
expert on the XML Topic Maps authoring group. Ann now works as a
consultant for Ontopia AS, a leading provider of Topic Map technology
and solutions.
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Al
Zollar, President and CEO, Lotus Development Corporation,
a division of IBM Corp.
Al Zollar is
President and CEO of Lotus Development Corp., an IBM company and
the undisputed industry leader in messaging, collaboration and Knowledge
Management frameworks. These solutions enable corporations and institutions
of all sizes to create modern and effective organizational concepts,
based on Internet technologies. Previously, Al had been general
manager of IBM's Network Computing Software Division, responsible
for orchestrating IBM's push to design, develop and deliver leading
internet infrastructure middleware for e-business. He is a member
of IBM's Worldwide Management Council. During his 23-year career
at IBM, Al served as general manager, IBM eNetwork software, senior
vice president of development for IBM's Tivoli Systems unit, and
has held key management positions in IBM software development laboratories,
including Raleigh and Santa Teresa. He joined IBM in 1977 as a systems
engineer trainee in San Francisco, California.
Norman
Zimmer, Business Development Manager, Knowledge Management
Division, empolis NA, Inc.
Norman has worked
in the field of systems analysis, database administration and knowledge
management for 13 years. His previous roles include programmer/analyst
at Unitronix Corporation - a software company specializing in Manufacturing
Administration and MRPII software, database administration and web
technology integrator at Mercedes-Benz Client Assistance Center,
Research Scientist at DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology NA,
Technical Specialist for the Mercedes-Benz Internet Strategy Group
concentrating on client self-service.
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