Alan Kotok
Alan Kotok is a Washington, DC-based
reporter and writer on technology, business, and public policy,
editor of E-Business Standards Today, published by Data Interchange
Standards Association (DISA) and U.S. Techno-Politics on
Suite101.com. He writes frequently for the information technology
trade press, and is lead author of Print Communications and the
Electronic Media Challenge (Jelmar Publishing Co,
1997).
Kotok previously served as DISA’s
Director of Education. He joined DISA in October 1999 as standards
manager for the OpenTravel Alliance.Before joining DISA, Kotok
served 10 years with Graphic Communications Association (GCA) as
Director of Management Technologies and then as Vice President for
Electronic Business. Before joining GCA, Kotok founded Overseas
Technology and served 15 years with U.S. Information Agency.
Kotok has a B. A. in journalism from
the University of Iowa , a Master of Science in communications from
Boston University, and postgraduate work in Technology of Management
at The American University in 1981-82.
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David R.R. Webber
David R.R. Webber is Vice-President
for Business Development for XML Global Technologies, in Vancouver,
BC, Canada. He is a cofounder of the XML/edi Group and an
acknowledged authority on XML. Webber lectures frequently in the
U.S., Europe, and Asia, has more than 20 years' experience
implementing business systems in a broad spectrum of industries, and
is a U.S. patent holder for advanced EDI software
technologies.
Webber has published numerous articles
and multimedia on requirements for developing XML/edi business
solutions, and is currently involved in an advisory role with a wide
variety of industry initiatives developing XML business schemas. He
is also participating with the RELAX Schema Working Group and is
heavily involved in ebXML interoperability standards
development.
Most recently, Webber has been
focusing on facilitating the development and deployment of semantic
registry systems by government and industry organizations.
He received his degree in physics
with computing from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, in
1976.
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