Last week, after a lot of agonizing, the planning committee managed to pick nine late-breaking presentations (plus one to replace a last-minute cancellation) from the 60 excellent submissions:
- Sam Hiser, OpenDocument Foundation. The ODF Plugin for MS Office
- Peter Meirs, Time, Inc. Creating Intelligent Workflows with PRISM Metadata
- Patrick Chanezon, Google. Fun and Profit with the Google Checkout API
- Susan Malaika, IBM. Resistance is Futile: You will store XML
- Douglas Crockford, Yahoo! Inc. JSON, The Fat-Free Alternative to XML
- Joel Geraci, Adobe. Mars: A First Look at XML Friendly PDF
- Andrew Savikas, O’Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Content with the Atom Publishing Protocol
- Scott Tsao, The Boeing Company. Building and Sustaining an Enterprise-Wide Community of Practise
- Quyen Nguyen, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. XML Metadata For Digital Records Archives
- Bob DuCharme, Innodata Isogen. Relational database integration with RDF/OWL
You can find the complete programme online at http://2006.xmlconference.org/programme/. Thank you to everyone who submitted, and don’t forget that the XTech 2007 call for submissions is now open (Paris, 15-18 May 2007).