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Wednesday, October 27
| 7:00-9:00 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-5:00 | Introduction to XML, Clive Finkelstein (Full Day) |
Thursday, October 28
| 7:00-8:30 | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:15 | Keynote: How the World's Largest
Corporation is Using XML Ron Shelby, Chief Technology Officer & General Director, Data Management and Warehousing, General Motors Corporation |
| 9:15-10:00 | XML - Lessons Learned from an Early
Adopter Bill Emberton, Vice President of Development, Fidelity Systems Company, Architecture Services |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:15 | What Does XML Mean for E-business?
- An Analyst's View Philip Russom, Director of the Business Intelligence Service, Hurwitz Group |
| 11:15-12:30 | XML Metadata Interchange (XMI): A reusable XML framework for modeling and implementing interoperable E-business Solutions Sridhar Iyengar, Chair of Object Mangement Group's Object Analysis and Design Task Force; Unisys Fellow |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30-2:00 | How XML can pave the way for
organiations to re-use vital busines information Eve Maler, Manger of Solutions Marketing, Arbortext |
| 2:00 -3:15 | Metadata Models For XML Interchange
Common Warehouse Metadata (CWM) Dr. Daniel T. Chang, Member, IBM Data Technology Institute and chair of the Object Management Group's CWM working group Open Information Model (OIM) Brian Welcker, Lead Program Manager SQL Server/Repository, Microsoft and member of the Meta Data Coalition's OIM working group. |
| 3:15-3:45 | Coffee/Soda Break |
| 3:45-5:15 | PANEL: Major Vendors Discuss Their
XML Strategies How does XML impact their strategy, and what are they doing to support XML in the products? Each participant will give 10-minute opening remarks. This will be followed by moderated discussion and audience Q&A. Moderator: Renée Gotcher, News Features Editor, InfoWorld Panelists: Dr. Daniel T. Chang, Member, IBM Data Technology Institute Brian Welcker, Lead Program Manager SQL Server/Repository, Microsoft Dennis Fogg, Sr. Product Mgr. for XML, E-Business Program Office, Oracle Sridhar Iyengar, Unisys Fellow, Unisys Corp. |
Friday, October 29
| 8:30-9:15 | Reality Check: Where is XML Likely to Deliver
on its Promise? Stephen Gantz, Consultant, American Management Systems |
| 9:15-10:00 | Engineering Enterprise Portals: Metadata
Engineering in Preparation for XML-based Delivery Prof. Peter Aiken, Research Director, Information Systems Research Institute Virginia Commonwealth University |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-11:15 | XML and Enterprise Application Integration
(EAI) Chris Kurt, Managing Consultant, PriceWaterhouseCoopers; lead architect for the XML implemenation project within the Open Applications Group |
| 11:20-11:55 | XML makes the most of
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Coco Jaenicke, XML Evangelist, Object Design, Inc. |
| 12:00-12:30 | XQL - XML Query Language - An
implementation of XSL Joe Lapp, Senior Engineer, WebMethods |
| 12:30-12:45 | Conference Summary and Conclusions Clive Finkelstein, Managing Director, Information Services Pty Ltd |
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