Dianne Kennedy has a long history in publishing, beginning with her experience as an editor/writer for the textbook division of Doubleday in 1982. She began working with SGML in 1986 while employed at Datalogics, Inc. In 1992 Ms. Kennedy founded her own consultancy and since then has focused on providing SGML/XML and Publishing Systems design services for her clients. Ms. Kennedy also serves as a Chief Technical Consultant for IDEAlliance, is editor of the XML Files, participates in the IDEAlliance ICE authoring group. Kennedy has offered tutorials for GCA/IDEAlliance since 1986. She served as chairperson for the XML 1998-2000 Conferences, launched the Knowledge Technologies Conference series in 2001, and the Open Publish Conference series in 2002. In 2000, Ms. Kennedy combined forces with a leading Topic Maps expert to co-found InfoLoom, Inc., a US-based corporation providing Topic Maps products and services. Today Ms. Kennedy is the CEO of PublishASAP, offering publishing tools over the Web. Ms. Kennedy recently authored portions of the new XML and Web Services Unleashed from SAMS Press that focused on metadata and metadata standards.