Confirmed Invited Speakers

Tuesday 23rd May 2006

Opening Welcome by:

Tim Berners-Lee: Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
Allan Ellis: Chair of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee (IW3C2)
Wendy Hall: WWW2006 Executive Director, Head of School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.

Followed by a welcome speech by:

Followed by the Plenary Keynote Speaker:

Jeff Barr: Web Services Evangelist, Amazon.com
Mike Harris: Executive vice chairman, founder, Egg PLC
Sohrab Kakalia: Vice President & Head of Technology Consulting, Infosys Technologies
Gillian Kent: Director, MSN.co.uk
Andy Mulholland: Global CTO, CapGemini
Tao Yang: Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, Ask.com

Panel - New business models:

Nick Baker: Chief Strategy Officer for Reed Elsevier Group
Peter Buckingham: Head of Distribution & Exhibition, UK Film Council
Shawn Burns: Managing Director, Wunderman Interactive in France
Scott Cohen: Co-Founder, the Orchard
Tim Faircliff: General Manager of digital media business, Reuters
Daniel Harris: Founder, Kendra Initiative
Paul Jessop: CTO, International Federation of the Phonographic Industry
Peggy Miles: Chairman, International Webcasting Association & President/Founder of InterVox Communications
Richard Smith: Chief Executive, UnitedHealth Europe
Dominique Vidal: Regional Vice-President, Managing Director, Yahoo! Europe

Opening the Technical Agenda by:

Followed by the Plenary Panel:

Nigel Shadbolt (Chair): Professor of Artificial Intelligence, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
Tim Berners-Lee: Director of the World Wide Web Consortium
Jim Hendler: Director, Semantic Web and Agent Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab – MINDSWAP
Clare Hart: President & Chief Executive Officer, Factiva

Richard Benjamins: Director of Innovation and R&D, Intelligent Software Components (iSOCO)
Michael Brodie: Chief Scientist of Verizon IT
John Davies: Manager, Next Generation Web Research, BT
Horst Forster: Director "Content", Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission
Ralph Hodgson: Co-Founder and Executive Partner, TopQuadrant
Atanas Kiryakov: Founder and Head, Ontotext Lab
Alexander Linden: Independent Consultant and Technology Expert
Ian Ritchie: Non-Executive Chairman, the Interactive University
Hans-Peter Schnurr: Managing Director, Ontoprise GmbH
Nigel Shadbolt: Professor of Artificial Intelligence, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton

David Belanger: Chief Scientist, AT&T Labs
Briam Bolam: Co-Founder, President & CEO, OmPrompt Inc.
Lee Epting: Vice President, Forum Nokia
Geoffrey Hall: Chief Technology Officer for Europe, Nortel
Richard Hull: Director, Network Data and Services Research Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies
Candace Johnson: Telecommunications expert & media entrepreneur

Panel - Opportunities for the Mobile/Pervasive Web:

Mark Crocker (Chair): Group Managing Director, Organisational Technology Research (OTR) Plc.
Diego Anza: Mobile Multimedia Standardisation Manager, Orange Group, Paris
Neil Edwards: General Manager, mobile Top Level Domain
Paul Walsh: Co-founder and CEO of Segala
Jonas Wilhelmsson: Co-Founder and Vice President Partner Alliances at Drutt Corporation

Franco Accordino: Scientific Officer, Grid Technologies Unit, Information Society and Media Directorate-General, European Commission
Malcolm Atkinson: Director, National e-Science Centre
Steven Gaines: Business Strategy Director, Novell
John Hurley: Distributed Software and Systems Integration group head, Boeing
Gary Kendall: Founder of CDO2
Mark Linesch: Chairman, Global Grid Forum
Reagan Moore: Director of Data Intensive Computing Environments, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Tim Pearson: Chief Executive Officer, RM
Susie Stephens: Principal Product Manager, Life Sciences, Oracle
Gordon Thomson: Director, Scotland & Ireland, Cisco Systems UK & Ireland

Panel - Security:

Souheil Badran (Chair): Vice President, VeriSign Security Services
Jonathan Armstrong: Vice-Chair of the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association
Tom Ilube: Chief Executive Officer, garlik
Mary Ellen Zurko: Security Architecture and Strategy Leader for Lotus Workplace, Portal, and Collaboration Software at IBM

Richard Granger: Director General of IT for the NHS
Daniel Weitzner: Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society Activities

Jeffrey Berkowitz: Partner, Finnegan, Henderson
Mike Futcher: Relationship Manager, Sopra Newell & Budge
Jim Kinney: Director of Operational Services, the Improvement Service
Clara Neppel: Examiner, European Patent Office
Myles MacBean: Vice President, Technology & Operations, Walt Disney Internet Group, International
David A Thomas: Chief of Criminal Computer Intrusion Unit, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mike Bainbridge: Clinical Architect, NHS Connecting for Health Programme
Celia Boyer: Executive Director, Health On the Net
Ray Jones: Professor of Health Informatics, University of Plymouth
John Loonsk: National Health Information Technology Coordinator
Simon de Lusignan: Course Director, Biomedical Informatics, St George's Hospital School
Frances Mair: Professor of Primary Care Research, Glasgow University
Michael Rawlins: Chairman of the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Alan Rector: Professor of Medical Informatics, University of Manchester
Michael Rigby: Professor of Health Information Strategy, Keele University
Frank Sullivan: Professor of Research and Development in General Practice and Primary Care, University of Dundee
Rod Ward: Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Health & Social Care, University of the West of England, Bristol