Dave Hollander is the Chief Technical Officer for Contivo, Inc., an Enterprise Application Integration software provider and is the co-inventor of XML. Dave co-authored the W3C Namespaces in XML Recommendation and XML Applications, a book from Wrox Press. Dave served as co-chair of the W3C Web Services Architecture Group in 2003-04 and XML Schemas Working Group in 1998-2004. Prior to joining Contivo, Dave held senior technical positions as CommerceNet, Hewlett-Packard and Bell Laboratories. Dave led efforts to deploy www.hp.com within HP and also worked with the Open Systems Foundation and Davenport Group to develop industry support for SGML based computer documentation. Less   View all posts

Ronald Schmelzer is the senior analyst and founder with ZapThink. He is a renowned expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and "ePostle of Partners" of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994. Ron was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40. Less   View all posts