Anders Tholén is managing partner at Ferrologic, an IT services company focusing on EAI/B2B integration using XML and EDI. Anders has worked with business integration solutions for several years, mainly in industrial sectors. He's been involved in various EDI and XML standardisation projects since 1997, including EDIMAR and Metal XML. He's presently involved in various projects implementing ebXML MS, UBL, ESIDEL (www.eurofer.be/edifer/publications.htm) and EDIFACT. Anders is a frequently asked speaker at seminars on integration topics.

Pim van der Eijk is a consultant in XML topics and also works as European Representative for OASIS.

Jef Vanbockryck is Business Manager at XT-i (XTreme-integrations NV).XT-i is a Belgian company founded in March 2001 as a member of the Cronos Group, which is a group of IT service companies employing about 700 people.Cronos — the mother company — started off in 1991 and is the largest privately-held Flemish IT company in Belgium.XT-i focuses on EAI/B2B Integration with XML as its key technology. Both Jef and the XT-i employees have built their knowledge on Integration and XML during their years at Cronos, working on large e-Business and Integration projects, while growing a solid customer base.This experience was built by Jef and his team inside a business unit of Cronos called Wepplications, a unit with a strong focus on XML usage for exchanging data between CRM applications and BackOffice systems.Next to his business manager role, Jef is also consulting Cronos/XT-i customers on EAI/B2B project implementation issues and e-Business architecture design. He is a frequently asked speaker at seminars and he also regularly organizes seminars himself on the practical issues of XML for Integration purposes. He is a member of the Belgian Healthcare Messaging Workgroup and contributes to a number of international XML consortia (e.g. HR-XML).

Mr Colin Barham MSc, BSc graduated in MSc Information Technology from University of East London in 1998. His dissertation focused on XML and EDI and the changing face of electronic business. In 1999, he joined TIE International B.V., and became a developer for company's XML & EDI translator and mapping tools. In his current role of Development Consultant, he is TIE Product Developments interface to TIEs country units providing explanation of new technologies and concepts - focusing on Business-to-Business standardisation and interoperability - performing high level requirements analysis and sizings and assistance with proposals. He also provides seminars, training sessions and consultancy, both internally and externally on ebXML. In the ebXML project, he has participated as amember of the Architecture team and as author/editor of the ebXML Glossary.

Born 1970 in Freiburg, Germany. Study of business computer science in Karlsruhe, Germany. Started to work for SEEBURGER in 1996 in Software Development with the focus on cryptography and workflow processing. During 2001 Head of Technical Department of the SEEBURGER US subsidiary SEEBURGER, Inc. in Atlanta, Georgia, focussing on pre-sales consulting as well training and education of technical staff. Since 2002 heading the Research & Prototyping department with to verify and evaluate new technologies and to establish new methodologies in the SEEBURGER product portfolio.

Farrukh Najmi is a Staff Engineer in the J2EE team at Sun. His focus in recent years has been web services, eBusiness and XML Registries. He is an active contributor to the ebXML eBusiness standards activity, where he is a primary author of the ebXMLRegistry specifications. Currently he is the specification lead for Java API for XMLRegistries (JAXR). Previously, he helped develop Sun's Java Messaging Service Reference Implementation. Prior to joining Sun, Farrukh was at Hewlett Packard where he led the development of a large scale enterprise Java application in the field of Medical InformationSystems. He started his career at HP Labs where he worked on the first single chip HPPA RISC processor from HP.

Dave has recently joined Sonic Software through the takeover of eXcelon Corporation, where he joined over 4 and a half years ago. Dave now has responsibility for the UK team of Pre-Sales engineers, as well as European responsibility for the Sonic XML product line. Dave was involved in some of the first sales of the Sonic XIS XML Server and the Sonic BPM (Business Process Manager) within Europe, and it is the BPM product that incorporates an ebXML Message Handler.