Futures, Schema, UDDI/ebXML/Web Services (panels at XML DevCon 2000)

XML DevCon 2000 has added a panel to discuss Web Services, UDDI, ebXML and Trading Partner Agreements (details below). The conference runs November 12-15 in San Jose:
www.xmldevcon2000.com

The conference program includes:

• the co-inventors of SQL, SGML, and XML
• a Turing Award winner, W3C Fellow, ACM Fellow, Seybold Fellow, and STC Honorary Fellow
• speakers such as Tim Bray, Don Chamberlin, Jim Gray, Charles Goldfarb, Norbert Mikula, Jonathan Robie, Henry Thompson
• members of a variety of W3C XML Working Groups.
• three panel discussions
  1. Tim Bray, Paul Brown, Peter Coffee, Kevin Dick, Jim Gray, and Norbert Mikula will discuss "The Future of Software Development". The panel runs from 10:40-11:40 am on Tuesday, November 14.
  2. Several members of the W3C XML Schema Working Group will participate in "Schema Schism: A Dialogue with the Experts", a panel discussion from 9:30-10:30 am on November 15. Lauren Wood will moderate a panel that includes Henry Thompson, Matthew Fuchs, Jonathan Robie, and Simon St.Laurent.
  3. A panel to discuss "Web Services, UDDI, ebXML and Trading Partner Agreements" from 10:40-11:40 am on Wednesday, November 15. The panel includes Mark Colan (XML Evangelist for IBM), Michael Abbott (Vice President of Engineering for Electron Economy), and James Tauber (Director of XML Technology, Bowstreet). Tauber is a member of the UDDI Advisory Board, the W3C XML Protocols Working Group, and Chair of the Directory Services Markup Language (DSML) Working Group.