OASIS EVENT ALERT: WWW9 Workshop - Making the Best Use of XML within the Enterprise - call for participation

["Laura Walker" <laurawalker@earthlink.net>]

RivCom, OASIS  and the W3C UK Office have combined together to organise a
one-day Workshop "Making the Best Use of XML within the Enterprise" on 15
May as part of the WWW9 Conference to be held in Amsterdam. We would like to
invite applications for participation from people who have an interest in
the strategic introduction of XML to user organisations, who would like to
join XML leaders from Boeing, DataChannel, ebXML, Flash Creative Management,
IBM, NATO, Sun Microsystems and others in a highly participative event.

The thinking behind the Workshop is that, while XML is becoming established
as a key enabler for Internet-based enterprise information exchange and
distributed computing, many user organisations are finding it difficult to
know how best to adopt this emerging technology that can play many roles
across the whole enterprise.

The goal of the day is to bring together leading figures from the XML world
representing user organisations, software vendors, consultancies and
standards bodies. This group will seek to identify the technical and
cultural issues involved in introducing XML to the enterprise and the
options that are open to organisations in addressing these issues.
The proceedings of the day will be used as input towards the development of
a set of materials which will aim to support organisations setting out to
establish clear strategies for the adoption of XML. These materials will be
made publicly available and presented for discussion at the XML Europe 2000
conference.

More information about the workshop can be found at
http://www.rivcom.com/www9workshop and more information about the WWW9
conference can be found at http://www9.org. I would also be happy to discuss
any concerns, or provide further information that may be of use.

We look forward to receiving applications from people with a responsibility
or interest in the strategic issues relating to the application of XML. I
would be happy to address any questions that you may have.

With best wishes

Adrian Rivers
tel: +44(0)1793 792003
email: adrian.rivers@rivcom.com

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Workshop Facilitators
Adrian Rivers and Lynn Labieniec - RivCom
Pam Gennusa - OASIS
Brian Matthews - W3C UK Office
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