John Allsopp Western
Civilisation
John Allsopp is a founder of Westciv, an Australian
web software development and training company, which
provides some of the best CSS resources and tutorials on
the web. Westciv's software and training are used in
dozens of countries around the World.
The head developer of the leading cross platform CSS
editor, Style Master, John has written on web
development issues for numerous web and print
publications and was one of the earliest members of the
Web Standards Project.
Jodie Camden Police Information
Exchange
Jodie Camden is Project Manager for CNIE, a project
which will provide a vastly improved information
exchange between NSW Police and the court system.
A fully-qualified lawyer, Jodie's experience in the
Justice Sector is second to none, covering ICAC, Dept of
Juvenile Justice, and Ombudsman's Office. In the court
system, Jodie has worked in Local and Children's Courts
in some of the toughest areas in the state.
In NSW Police, Jodie has held senior positions in
Internal Affairs, Protective Security, Legal Services,
State Crime Command, and several Local Area Commands,
before joining Business and Technology Services. In her
last IT project for NSW Police, the Technical
Infrastructure Enhancement, Jodie had complete
responsibility for Organisational Change for 20,000
employees across 500 locations. This $55m project has
been judged one of the most successful in the history of
NSW Police, with unprecedented levels of client
satisfaction.
Strong business skills allied with user-based
technical exposure developed through many years
experience in both the courts and with NSW Police give
Jodie a unique viewpoint into how well-designed
information systems translate into more effective
policing.
Steve Capell Red Wahoo
After 9 years in international oilfield operations,
Steve joined the IT industry in 1996. 2 years managing
SAP deployments followed by 3 years building B2B
marketplaces with Commerce One has given Steve a strong
understanding of both the business and the technology
challenges around building scalable B2B communities. In
2001 Steve co-founded RedWahoo, an organisation focused
on bringing open standards based genuine B2B capability
to organisations of all sizes. RedWahoo are the
architects of the Australian National Government
Interoperability Framework, and are leading the
development and deployment of GovDex, a Government
interoperability toolset (www.govdex.gov.au). Steve is
contributor to both OASIS and UN/CEFACT standards
working groups.
Marcus Carr Allette Systems
Marcus has a diverse background in the development of
SGML and XML systems, architectures and standards
spanning fifteen years. He has designed and implemented
systems for numerous large-scale Australian and overseas
publishers in areas such as defence, legal, financial,
pharmaceutical, air transport and others. Marcus is the
current editor of the LIXI group of standards and
contributes time to several international standards
bodies.
Clive Finkelstein Information
Engineering Services
Clive Finkelstein is acknowledged worldwide as the
"Father" of Information Engineering, and is Managing
Director of Information Engineering Services Pty Ltd in
Australia. He has published many books and papers. He
provides training and consulting in all aspects of
Enterprise Architecture, with rapid delivery of priority
areas using Enterprise Engineering. During
implementation he moves organizations to rapid
implementation using XML, Web Services, Service-Oriented
Architecture, (SOA) Business Process Management (BPM)
and Enterprise Portals.
Stephen Gould Open Interchange
Consortium
Stephen Gould is the Chair of the XML & eCommerce
Special Interest Group [XZIG] of the Open Interchange
Consortium [OIC]. He is the former Director of Office
Automation for Burroughs (Unisys) and has advised a
number of SME Business Associations on eCommerce
Strategies for their members.
Jason Harrop Consultant
Jason Harrop is a consultant specialising in web
strategy and implementation. Jason is currently working
with the Office of the Chief Information Officer to
ensure the Victorian Government's websites support its
iGovernment transformation. Previously Jason was founder
and CTO of SpeedLegal (now Exari). Exari's core offering
is an XML-centric document automation solution which is
designed to cater for complex variable content, such as
is found in contracts and other legal documents. In
those days Jason also served on the leadership team of
the OASIS LegalXML eContracts Technical Committee.
Bhushan Khaladkar Oracle
Corporation
Bhushan Khaladkar is a Principal Member of Technical
Staff in the Oracle XMLDB team. He has been with Oracle
since 1999.
Christophe Lauret Allette
Systems
Christophe Lauret has a master’s degree in IT
engineering from French Grande Ecole INSA (National
Institute of Applied Sciences). His particular interest
is in software design and hypermedia engineering. In his
role at Allette Systems, he has gained experience with
the design and development of network and web-based
applications, database design and software architecture,
as well as numerous programming languages.
Andy Lee Changfeng Alliance
With a PHD in electrical engineering from Stanford
University in 1995, Dr. Lee started his career in LSI
Logic as a senior packaging engineer from 1988 to 1991,
then SGI corp. as a senior system engineer from 1991 to
1993, HP Lab from 1993 to 1997 as senior system
consulting engineer.
Internet Image Inc. a company started by Dr. Lee in
1997 to develop web based MIS tool was acquired by
Intraware Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRA) in 1999. Dr. Lee was then
appointed Sr. Vice President of Intraware from 1999 -
2001. Dr. Lee was invited to be the director of
eCommerce R&D center of the China academy of
sciences, the top government funded research
institute.
Dr. Lee was also the deputy general secretary of
China eCommerce Association, the chairman of technical
committee of ChangFeng alliance, the largest industry
consortium in China, and the adjunct president of
Digital China research institute. Digital China is the
largest application software vendor in China.
Tim McGrath UBL
Tim McGrath was an active participant in the
development of the ISO 15000 (ebXML) standards. In 2005
he published (with Bob Glushko) "Document Engineering:
Designing Documents for Business Informatics and Web
Services" from MIT Press. Since 2002 Tim has been
working with the OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL)
project and in July 2005 was appointed Vice-chair.
Darren Menachemson Australian Taxation
Office
Darren Menachemson is the director of the Standard
Business Reporting Project at the Tax Office. Since the
start of 2004, Darren has led a number of Change
Management areas, most recently associated with ATO's
Change Program, where he was involved in solution
integration/assurance and visualisation.
Since 1998, Darren has worked in several of roles
relating to the web space. This includes Web Channel
Manager for the Australian Maritime Safety Authority,
and as a Project Manager for Health Insurance Commission
(Now Medicare Australia), where he was led or
participated in a number of aspects of their
implementation of the Government Online strategy.
Darren has been an active participant in the field of
design, particularly human-centred design, interaction
design and information architecture. This has included
formal roles such as ATO's UCD Community of Practice
Leader, and membership of a variety of related groups
and forums.
Paul Pogonoski Japara Solutions
Paul Pogonoski is the CTO and principal of Japara
Solutions. Paul has held positions in architecture and
OO analysis/design specialist for BHP IT, Optus,
Prudential, Zurich, Westpac, Deutsche Bank, and a number
of start-up companies. He has been involved in J2EE
based implementations since the release of J2EE 1.0 and
is part of the Web Services Vanguard in Australia.
Rick Jelliffe Topologi
Rick Jelliffe is the CTO of Topologi Pty Ltd, an
Australian company supplying integration solutions for
large scale publishing and markup operations. As a
standards activist, Rick is a recognised expert in
schema languages and internationalisation, where his
ideas have influenced XML and SGML. He is currently the
editor of the ISO Schematron schema language standard
and an invited expert to the W3C Internationalisation
Interest Group.
Vish Viswanathan Open Group
Dr. Vish Viswanathan is currently Managing Principal
of CCANDC Solutions, an organisation in Asia/Pacific
specialising in practical implementations of Enterprise
Architecture based on a best of breed approach involving
TOGAF, Zachman and other methodologies and tools. He is
actively spearheading The Open Group activities through
championing TOGAF in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN
regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his
capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for the
Architecture Forum.
Bill Young State Services
Commission
Bill is Technical Architect for the All-of-government
Authentication Programme run by the New Zealand
Government's State Services Commission. The Programme
provides common infrastructures for agencies to
authenticate users accessing government services via a
common means of authentication. Bill's specialty lies in
Information Security, implementing Authentication and
Access Control solutions. |