XTECH 2005 http://www.xtech-conference.org/ , 24-27 May, The RAI Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Late-Breaking presentations have just been announced for XTECH 2005. Presentations include the following.  For full program, visit: http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/schedule.asp

"Open Street Maps and Spatial Data", http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_sz.asp#jwalsh , Researcher, University of Openess, United Kingdom

"BBC News and RSS, Or: How we Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Open Data Services", http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_ae.asp#chippindale, Software Engineer and http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_fk.asp#hinde, Head of Technical Development, BBC News Interactive, United Kingdom

"XHTML2: Accessible, Usable, Device Independent, and Semantic",

http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_lr.asp#pemberton, Senior Researcher, W3C/CWI, Netherlands and http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_ae.asp#birbeck, CEO and CTO, x-port.net Ltd., United Kingdom

"WHATWG: Proposing extensions to HTML4 and the DOM", http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_fk.asp#hickson, Standards Development, Opera Software, ASA, Norway

"xfy Technology: Making the Most of XML in Enterprise Client Software",

http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_ae.asp#bennett, Principal Systems Designer, Justsystem Corporation, Japan

"Web Services Based Syndication Protocol for Valued Content",

http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_fk.asp#kennedy, VP Publishing Technologies, IDEAlliance, United States

"Dynamic Topic Maps using Web Service Interfaces",

http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/bios_fk.asp#freese, Consulting Software Engineer, LexisNexis, United States

Check out the latest list of sponsors and exhibitors at: http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/exhibitors.asp

Don't forget the News Standards Summit, http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/newsstandards.asp , and the OASIS Open Standards Day http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/oasisosd.asp, Tuesday, 24 May.

Take advantage of the special conference room rate at the Novotel Amsterdam: http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/venue.asp  Deadline for conference discounted rates is 29 April.

Register for XTECH 2005 today at: http://www.xtech-conference.org/2005/registration.asp

XTECH 2005 is co-located with the Gilbane Conference on Content Management Technologies http://home.lighthouseseminars.com/lighthouse/Amsterdam2005/gcsf.html  Registrants to XTECH 2005 receive a number of session passes to the Gilbane event.

Marion L. Elledge

VP, Information Technologies Programs

IDEAlliance http://www.idealliance.org

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