ADOPTION FORUM PROGRAM

09:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions
Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS and John Borras, CEO, UK Local e-Government Standards Body

09:10 AM

Ovum, the global analyst and consulting company, offers unique insights into the often-but-not always complimentary roles played by open standards and open source efforts in today's marketplace. This keynote will explore why the two terms are often misunderstood and misrepresented by articulating the common ground as well as the divergence in the methods and goals behind each. Learn why users need to look beyond 'open' and take an active stand to ensure that standards being developed today meet their needs for interoperability.

Presenter: David Mitchell, Practice Leader, Software, Ovum

09:50 AM

Historically, tax administrations have exchanged information with customers using millions of paper forms and documents each year. They now face the challenge of transforming their services in order to keep up with changes in technology, business and management practices, to improve their capability to exchange information in support of international taxation agreements, and to assist in compliance activities. This presentation will discuss the work of the OASIS Tax XML TC, which was formed by the OECD Tax Administrations Tax payer services group and other OASIS members to provide direction to tax administrations on building services based upon open standards.

Presenter: Terry Hawes, Head of Channels Architecture, HM Revenue United Kingdom

10:25 AM Break

10:55 AM

The OASIS e-Government TC was organized to provide a forum for governments internationally to voice their needs and requirements with respect to XML-based standards. This presentation will detail how OASIS accomplishes this mission by creating best practice documents, promoting the adoption of Standards and specifications (OASIS and non-OASIS) within governments, and routing appropriate government input on projects for core components, taxonomies, naming and design rules, semantic interoperability, records management, workflow and Web Services to relevant OASIS TCs and other XML standardisation bodies.

Presenter: Harm Jan van Burg, Netherlands Ministry of Finance, OASIS eGovernment Technical Committee Chair

11:30 AM

Join us to hear about the work of the OASIS Election & Voter Services Technical Committee and their development of the Election Mark-up Language - EML. The presentation will show how the UK is leading the global adoption of EML in its e-voting pilots.

Presenter: John Borras, CEO, UK Local e-Government Standards Body, OASIS Election and Voter Services Technical Committee Chair

12:05 PM Luncheon

13:30 PM

This presentation will give an overall technical solution and share the experiences after two years of operation between the National Insurance Administration and general practitioners, pharmacies and hospitals. The focus will be on how sensitive information safely can be distributed over open networks by means of end-to-end security solutions based on XML, ebXML and PKI.

Presenter: Øyvind Gjørven, Senior Adviser, IT Department, National Insurance Administration

14:05 PM

This presentation will discuss how standards organizations are working to harmonize and understand the key differentiators when addressing healthcare issues. Much effort is being put into the use of information technologies to reshape healthcare sector: harmonising medical records across the EU; working on plans to determine and combat the threat of global epidemics; providing better value for money healthcare globally; and integrating processes in the push to reduce medical errors. It is now recognised that no one expert constituency has the monopoly of solutions so major standards organizations are making a significant effort to harmonize and co-ordinate to enable better informed choices by specifiers and implementers.

Presenter: Melvin Reynolds, Senior Partner, AMS Consulting

14:40 PM Break

15:10 PM

Business Processes not only play a key role in business-to-business (B2B) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) scenarios by exposing the appropriate invocation and interaction patterns, but they also provide the fundamental basis for building heterogeneous and distributed applications (workflow-based applications). WSBPEL provides the language to specify business processes that are composed of Web services as well as those that are exposed as Web services. Business processes specified via WS-BPEL are portable; they can be carried out by every WSBPEL-compliant execution environment. This presentation gives an overview of the WSBPEL language and shows how it can be used to compose Web services. It provides highlights of WSBPEL, including structured activities, correlation, compensation, and fault handling. Work of the OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee, the current status of the specification, and an outlook on follow-on activities will be explored in detail.

Presenter: Dieter Koenig, IBM and OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee Representative

15:45 PM

The OASIS Universal Business Language provides XML-based document models for e-commerce applications such as service oriented architectures and web services. As such it is an open standard for what is often the missing link for these services - the structures and semantics of the payload itself. This presentation will introduce the big ideas of UBL and discuss the successes and failures in achieving its goals.

Presenter: Tim McGrath, Member of the OASIS UBL Technical Committee

16:20 PM Mini-Break

16:30 PM

The event will close with a panel of leaders from Europe's most influential standards bodies including: ICTSB, CEN/ISSS, GS1, WfMC, and ITU have been invited to join OASIS CEO, Patrick Gannon, to discuss how their organizations are responding to user outcry for more cooperation in the standards development arena.

Moderator: Patrick J. Smith, Director of Product Management for XML Products, Xenos

Panelists:

• Simão Ferraz de Campos Neto, Counsellor, ITU
• Dr. Keith R. Dickerson, Chairman, ICTSB and Head of Standards for BT
• Patrick Gannon, President and CEO, OASIS
• Thomas Bikeev, B2B Group Manager, GS1
• Verina Horsnell, Chairman, CEN/ISSS
• Jon Pyke, CEO, The Process Factory & Chair WfMC

17:30 PM

09:00 AM

Presenter: Patrick Gannon, President and CEO of OASIS

09:15 AM

There has been such an increasing interest in open standards within the public sector. This opening presentation will discuss the importance and impact open standards currently have on the European eGovernment community. The presentation will specifically focus on the ongoing and planned OpenDocument Format activities within IDABC.

Presenter: Dr. Barbara Held, European Commission, Enterprise and Industry Directorate-General, European eGovernment Services (IDABC)

09:45 AM

DITA became an OASIS Standard in June 2005. Indi Liepa of Nokia, member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, and Ian Larner, IBM DITA Architect, will explain the current status of the standard and briefly illustrate the value of the standard using implementation examples.

Presenters: Ian Larner, Information Architect and Software Engineer User Technologies, IBM Hursley Lab, United Kingdom and Indi Liepa, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Representative/Senior Information Architect, Technology Platforms, Nokia, United Kingdom

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM

This presentation will discuss where OpenDocument and its predecessor OpenOffice.org XML have been adopted already by the public sector. It will also provide an overview of the activities taking place around the world with the goal of recommending an office application file format for use in the public sector, and where OpenDocument is a candidate. In addition, the presentation will touch briefly on how companies and organizations can migrate to OpenDocument, discussing the problems that may occur and how they can be resolved.

Presenter: Erwin Tenhumberg, Product Marketing Manager, Client Systems Group, Sun Microsystems GmbH

12:00 PM