Keynote Speaker: Patrick J. Gannon
Patrick J. Gannon is President and CEO of OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards); an international not-for-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to drive the development, convergence and adoption of e-Business standards. He has served on the OASIS Board of Directors since July 2000. He has also served since 2000 with the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), as Chairman of the Team of Specialists for Internet Enterprise Development, which advises governments in transitional economies on best practices for electronic business.
Patrick
has worked for BEA Systems, as Senior Vice President in the
eCommerce Integration Division. He also served as Vice
President of Marketing and Industry Programs at Netfish
Technologies and as Vice President of Strategic Programs for
the CommerceNet Consortium, directing research and development
efforts in new Internet commerce standards such as XML. While
at CommerceNet, Patrick was the first Project Leader for
RosettaNet and served as Executive Director for the Open
Buying on the Internet (OBI) initiative. He is co-author of
the book Building Database-Driven Web Catalogs, and is
an international speaker on electronic business and Web
Services standards. Patrick is based in Boston.
He can be reached at patrick.gannon@oasis-open.org