PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

09:00 AM

Welcome and Introductions
Patrick Gannon, President and CEO of OASIS and John Borras, 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.

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, Inland Revenue United Kingdom

10:30 AM Break

11:00 AM

11:40 PM

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 ELM in its e-voting pilots.

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

12:10 PM Luncheon

13:30 PM

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 of Netherlands Ministry of Finance, OASIS eGovernment Technical Committee Chair

14:10 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, United Kingdom

14:50 PM Break

15:20 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 of IBM, OASIS WSBPEL Technical Committee Representative

16:00 PM Mini-Break

16:10 PM

The event will close with a panel of leaders from Europe's most influential standards bodies including: BT, CEN/ISSS, 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.