| | Adrian Rivers
- Adrian Rivers is Managing Director or RivCom, a consultancy and services company specializing in helping businesses adopt XML technologies to meet their information management and distribution needs. RivCom has been actively involved in the development of the XML family of standards as active members of W3C (including the XSL Working Group), OASIS; as joint project leader of the STEP/SGML harmonisation initiative under ISO, and as software development lead in the recently completed European XML/EDI Pilot Project. Adrian was joint-facilitator of the full-day workshop for invited experts and practitioners at the 9th Annual World Wide Web Conference (WWW9 - 15 May 2000 - Amsterdam) entitled "Making the Best Use of XML within the Enterprise". The aim of this day was to address the issue of how best to make use of XML within the enterprise. Participants included leading figures from the XML world, representing 'user' organisations, software vendors, consultancies and standards bodies. Adrian has contributed to many XML conferences and training courses. Recent speaking engagements include presentations on XML at SGML UK, the XML Forum in Paris and the British Computer Society's Object Oriented Programming Specialist Interest Group. Prior to joining RivCom, Adrian was a professional trainer and management consultant. |
Rivers, Adrian 