Peter Pappamikail

Peter has recently taken charge of a new service created with the explicit mission to develop a new information architecture for the European Parliament. He is coordinator of the ParlML project (to develop common XML vocabularies for parliamentary work). His previous experience as an adviser on IT and communications strategy honed his commitment to interoperability and public, open standards. He writes and lectures extensively, in English and in French, in the European Union institutions and beyond, and is author of the forthcoming "XML by Stealth", to be published by John Wiley & Sons.

Simon Pearson

Simon holds a university degree in Medical Biology and has frontline experience as a Phlebotomist. Simon has been involved with the Path.Finder project for two years, originally working with proprietry systems and HTML, he is now a proficient user of XML to support a comprehensive 'one stop' health information system. He has worked with a number of different organisations in the development of XML based systems, most recently with the NeLH as part of the team that developed the recently unveiled Guidelines database. In addition, as webmaster, he maintains the Consortium website and provides technical support, advice and training to the 14 UK Trusts which make up the National Path.Finder Consortium. As the joint Coordinator of the Path.Finder Consortium, he has experience in workshop and consortium organization, communications and administration, and has proven communications skills.

Teppo Peltonen

Mr. Teppo Peltonen is a trainee research scientist at VTT (The Technical Research Center of Finland). He is a student in Helsinki University of Technology and doing his masters thesis on usage of XML in product data management.

Steve Pepper

Steve Pepper is the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ontopia, a company dedicated to the development of high quality topic map software and the provision of consulting and training services. He is a founding member of TopicMaps.Org, an independent consortium of parties that seeks to enhance the applicability of topic mapping to the World Wide Web by leveraging the XML family of specifications, and editor of XTM (the XML Topic Maps specification). Steve represents Norway on JTC 1/SC 34, the ISO committee responsible for the development of SGML and related standards, and is convenor of WG 3 (Information association), whose responsibilities include the HyTime and Topic Map standards. A frequent speaker at SGML, XML, and knowledge managements events around the world, he is the author and maintainer of the "Whirlwind Guide to SGML and XML tools" and co-author (with Charles Goldfarb and Chet Ensign) of the "SGML Buyer's Guide" (Prentice-Hall, 1998).

Eric Perottet

Eric Perottet has a Ph.D. in computer science from the university of Paris VI. As project manager, he is in charge of integrated Logistic support and maintenance documentation at ALSTOM Transport.

Lon Pilot

Lon Pilot is a systems consultant with Watson Wyatt Worldwide specializing in the design and implementation of Internet and Intranet based human resources systems. Lon is also the current Chairman of the HR-XML Consortium, a non-profit standards body dedicated to the development and promotion of standardized XML vocabularies for human resources (HR).

Anastasios Emm Politis

Anastasios Politis born on October 15tth 1955, is a graduated Dipl. Eng. in Graphic Arts Technology (BA- Athens TEI) and holds a MSc degree in Interactive Multimedia (University of Wesminster, UK). He holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Dept of Graphic Arts Technology, Athens Technological Educational Institute, where he works since 1981. Since September 1999, he is working on his doctoral dissertation as a Research scientist at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm Sweden. He has more than 25 years of experience in education,training,project and research within the Greek and European Graphic Arts and Media sector. He is author of 4 books and over 100 articles and studies. He speaks English and German.

Dr. Rainer Prosi

Dr. Rainer Prosi is a high-energy physicist turned workflow architect working with Heidelberg since 1998. He has been involved with the Job Definition Format (JDF) project from its early phases in 1999. He is the Heidelberg representative of the JDF task force that originally drafted the JDF specification. During that time, he drafted a first prototype of a JDF API. He is currently working on a number of workflow and XML related projects within Heidelberg. He has recently been appointed Chief Technical Officer of the CIP4 standards group.

Steve Pynegar

Worked as a Biomedical Scientist for 23 years at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, attaining all the necessary professional qualifications. In 1992 became the Pathology Business Manager and in 1995 managed the procurement and installation of a new pathology computer system. Keenly interested in the use of application software within a hospital environment and the development of user interfaces, which encourage the use of information technology. In 2000 successfully completed a Masters Degree dissertation on the implementation of the NHS IT strategy in a district general hospital and currently project manager for the introduction of an order communications system at Doncaster Royal Infirmary, using Graphnet who are XML software providers.

José Carlos Ramalho

José Carlos is a teacher at U.Minho where he has just finished his Phd in "Strucured Document Processing and Semantics". He is supervising several XML/SGML projects and acting as an external consultant for several institutions.

Dick Raman

Drs. Th.H. (Dick) Raman, CEO & President of TIE Holding NV, leads the ebXML Quality Review Project Team. Dick graduated from the Free University of Amsterdam where he studied Business Economics. After a brief teaching career, he started to work for IBM in the Netherlands. In 1987, he left IBM to start his own company providing software for Electronic Trading. The company has grown considerably and today has five subsidiaries and over thirty agents worldwide. On 2 March 2000, the company was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange as TIE Holding NV. In June 1999, Raman was appointed Chairman of the CEN/ISSS XML/EDI Workshop.

Joruly Rangnes

Mr. Ragnes is the president and co-founder of EPM Technology. Obtained Masters degree from the University of Trondheim and he has more then 15 years of experince in Product Data Technolgy and have been attending IS0 TC184/SC4 and STEP development for 8 years.

H. Holger Rath

H. Holger Rath is Director Consulting 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 that 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.

Joseph Reagle, Jr.

Joseph Reagle, Jr. is a Research Engineer at the MIT Lab for Computer Science where he serves as a W3C public policy analyst, and Working Group Chair for the joint IETF/W3C XML-Digital-Signature Working Group and the W3C XML Encryption Working Group. At the W3C, he has also worked on privacy, content-selection/free-speech, and intellectual property issues as they relate to the Internet. Mr. Reagle, Jr. has a Computer Science degree from UMBC and a Masters from MIT's Technology and Policy Program, where he was a Research Assistant at the Research Program on Communication Policy. Joseph has been a Resident Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School where he wrote about Web-data schema design and contract law, computer agents and legal agency, and Internet culture and democratic/anarchist principles. He's also done short consulting projects for Open Market (electronic commerce protocols) McCann-Erickson (Internet and interactive media) and go-Digital (Internet gambling).

Michael Reiche

Michael Reiche is working as researcher at the Institute for Print and Media Technology [pm] at Chemnitz Technical University. Before, he worked for debis AG and other companies as project manager and SAP consultant. Besides his activities in publishing fields he is involved in launching a XML-based museum project.

Karsten Riemer

Karsten Riemer is the b2b architect at Sun's XML technology centre. Karsten has been with Sun for 12 years, and has been involved in setting industry standards efforts for most of that time. Internally at Sun he was part of a team introducing event-based business computing. He also implemented an XML based IT asset management solution. He is currently heading up the metamodel team for ebXML and has also been instrumental in setting the overall ebXML.

Adrian Rivers

Adrian Rivers is Managing Director or RivCom, a consultancy and services company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. RivCom has been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards as members of the W3C XSLT Working Group; as joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO; as editors of the NewsML standard and as software development lead in the European XML/EDI Pilot Project. Adrian was joint-facilitator of the full-day workshop for invited experts and practitioners at the 9th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW9 - 15 May 2000 - Amsterdam) entitled "Making the Best Use of XML within the Enterprise". Prior to joining RivCom, Adrian was a professional trainer and management consultant.

Daniel Rivers-Moore

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 a decade of experience helping organizations gain business benefit from the adoption of standards-based publishing solutions and been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards for many years, having been a member of the original XML Special Interest Group, joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO, software development lead in the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project. Daniel is a Founder Member of TopicMaps.org and a member of the XML Topic Maps Authoring Group. He is the editor of the NewsML standard and chair of the provisional steering group of KnoW (Knowledge on the Web), a collaborative initiative aimed at fostering the development of Web technologies for the sharing and interchange of knowledge.

Jonathan Robie

Jonathan Robie is an editor for the W3C XML Query language, XQuery. He was also one of the inventors of Quilt, an XML query language that was the basis of XQuery, and of XQL, which was a precursor of XPath. Jonathan has been on the architectural team for three different XML databases or repositories, an editor of the W3C DOM Level 1 and Level 2 specifications, and an editor of the W3C XML Query Requirements and Data Model documents. Jonathan is a Research Fellow at Software AG, and serves as their representative on the W3C Query and Schema Working Groups.

Michel V. Rodriguez

Michel V. Rodriguez is a consultant specialized in Perl & XML. He has been involved in all sorts of SGML/XML endeavors in the last 8 years, from a huge SGML workbench for the aerospace industry to the XML::Twig Perl module, including developing an SGML transformation language and participating in the AECMA 1000D specification. He is been using Perl for the past 5 years and he is still amazed at how much fun it brought back into programming.