The BBC, Mozilla.org and Microsoft to provide keynote speakers for XTECH 2005 -- registration open now

Keynote
Speakers for XTech 2005 Announced

Speakers
Include Executives from The BBC, Oracle, and Microsoft;

Conference
Slated for 24-27 May, 2005, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Alexandria, Va. February 7, 2005 - IDEAlliance, a leading industry
association dedicated to fostering XML and other information technology
standards, today announced the keynote speakers for XTECH (formerly XML Europe)
http://www.xtech-conference.org being
held 24-27 May, 2005, at the Amsterdam RAI Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands.  XTech 2005 is the premier European conference
for developers and managers working with XML and Web technologies, with tracks
focusing on core platforms and standards, browsers and mobile user interfaces,
plus open data exchange and the semantic web.

 

The keynote presenters
are:

 
Paula Le Dieu,
     Co-Director, Creative Archive, BBC

 
Jean Paoli, Senior
     Director of XML Architecture,
     Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT)

 
Mike Shaver, Mozilla
     Foundation and Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL)

 "Our keynote speakers
from major players in media, industry and open source all have great success
stories to tell about open standards and XML," says Edd Dumbill, XTech
2005 conference chair.  "We'll hear
about projects we didn't even dream of 10 years ago."

 "XML is a great example of
architecting for ideas," says Le Dieu. "The BBC is delighted to be
able to share one of the big ideas."

"Microsoft is a long-time supporter of the XML body of standards,
which are now core components of Office and Windows and enable true
interoperability," says Paoli. 
"We've also proudly supported IDEAlliance in their efforts
to bring together the best minds and ideas in the industry at their conferences,
both in Europe and the United
  States." 

 

For information on presentations, sponsorships,
exhibiting and other marketing opportunities, visit http://www.xtech-conference.org.  Current sponsors include: Antenna House, Astoria, DataDirect
Technologies, O'Reilly, Quasar Technology, and Vamosa. 

For general information
and to register to attend, visit http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/registration.asp.

XTech
2005 is being held in conjunction with the Gilbane Conference on Content
Management, giving attendees of both events unprecedented educational and
networking opportunities.  For more
information, visit http://home.lighthouseseminars.com/lighthouse/Amsterdam2005/gcsf.html.

 

 

 

About XTech

XTech is a key
forum for the web, XML, and open standards worlds.

Formerly known as
the XML Europe conference, XTech has widened its scope to incorporate
neighboring technologies from the web and business. As well as XML, XTech 2005
will cover web development, browsers, open data, the semantic web and more. 

 

About IDEAlliance

IDEAlliance
(International Digital Enterprise Alliance) is a not-for-profit membership
organization. Its mission is to advance user-driven, cross-industry solutions
for all publishing and content-related processes by developing standards,
fostering business alliances, and identifying best practices. Founded in 1966
as the Graphic Communications Association, IDEAlliance has been a leader in
information technology - developing Document Markup Metalanguage
(GENCODE), sponsoring the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), and
fostering eXtensible Markup Language (XML). IDEAlliance builds on these
languages to create specifications that enhance efficiency and speed
information in all aspects of publishing and content-related processes. Learn
more about IDEAlliance at www.idealliance.org.

 

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Marion L. Elledge

IDEAlliance 

Telephone: (251) 432-3766

email: 

 

Check out news and upcoming events at:

http://www.idealliance.org

 

XTECH 2005 (formerly XML Europe)

"XML, The Web and Beyond"

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

May 24-27, 2005

http://www.xtech-conference.org

 

Dates set for XML Conference 2005

November 14-18, 2005

Atlanta Hilton, Atlanta, GA

http://www.xmlconference.org

 

 

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