Geospatial Search Experts Attending the Summit

Eliot Christian
 - Senior Scientific Officer, WMO Information System
 - Co-authored architecture for GEOSS (Global Earth Observations System of Systems)
 - Participated in US Federal Enterprise Architecture design
 - Led the Global Information Locator Service initiative
 - Chaired ISO Metadata Working Group (ISO 11179)
 - Participated in W3C Working Groups on XML (XML Query)
 - Worked with the Federal Geographic Data Committee 

Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
- Chair, OASIS Search Web Services Technical Committee
- Library of Congress representative to both W3C and OASIS
- Director, Z39.50 Maintenance Agency and SRU Maintenance Agency
- Principal author of the Z39.50 standard
- Co-author of the SRU specifications

Nicolas Lesage
- Manager for Standardization, Institut Geographique National (IGN), i.e., French mapping agency
- Representative of the Digital Geographic Information Working Group (DGIWG) to ISO/TC 211
- Editor of OGC 07-038,  OGC Cataloguing of ISO Metadata (CIM) using the ebRIM profile of CS-W
- Co-editor of ISO/TS 19139, Geographic Information - Metadata - XML Schema implementation
- Member of the INSPIRE Drafting Team for Metadata
- Feature expert on Cataloguing in the GIGAS european FP7 project
- Member of most of the DGIWG, OGC and ISO/TC 211 working groups related to metadata and catalogue services
- Member of the OGC Architecture Board

Josh Lieberman
- Traverse Technologies: VP of Enterprise Architecture.
- OGC Interoperability Program Team initiative architect
- Co-chair Geosemantics DWG and Services subgroup
- Contributor to OGC WMS, WFS, SLD, Catalog, and Context standards
- GeoRSS core participant
- Member OGC Architecture Board

Andrew Lowe
- Technical Lead: GeoFinder - Web-based geospatial catalog information discovery tool being developed based on CSW 2.0.
- Chair of Field Data Collection Subgroup, USEPA GIS Workgroup
- Member of USEPA Geospatial Quality Council
- Technical Lead for an electronic data interchange (EDI) system based on
- ASC X12 standard

Farrukh Najmi
- Editor - OASIS ebXML RegRep standard
- Co-chair - OASIS ebXML Registry Semantic Content Management SC
- Contributor - OGC CSW-ebRIM and Catalog specifications
- Founder and CTO - freebXML Registry open source project
- Founder and CTO - Wellfleet Software Corporation

Doug Nebert – Chair for the meeting
- Geospatial Technology Advisor, US Geological Survey and Federal Geographic Data Committee.
- OGC Architecture Board Member
- Catalogue WG and SWG Chair, editor of the Catalogue Spec document

Ed Parsons
- Google, Geospatial Technologist
- Google OGC Planning Committee Representative
- Chair OGC Mass-Market Working Group
 -Formerly CTO, Ordnance Survey

Carl Reed
- CTO and Executive Director OGC
- Geospatial standards liaison with OASIS, NENA, the IETF.
- Chair, OGC Architecture Board
- GeoRSS participant since inception

Barry Reff
- FEMA/DHS IT-GIS Solutions Branch
- FGDC SWG/ INCITS ANSI L1 Representative

Satish Sankaran
- Product Manager - Standards and Interoperability, ESRI
- OGC Architecture Board member
- OGC Web Map Service (WMS) Standards Working Group Chair
- Member of ISO Editing Committee working on the Web Features Service
- Contributor to (WFS) and Filter Encoding (FE) standards.

Paul Scarponcini, PhD
- Geospatial and Civil Software Standards, Bentley Systems, Inc.
- SQL/MM major contributor since 1994
- Member of the OGC Architecture Board
- Editor for ISO TC211 19148 Linear Referencing standard
- Major contributor, UML modeler, and SQL realization author for ISO TC204 GDF

Panagiotis (Peter) A. Vretanos
    - CTO / Senior Developer, CubeWerx Inc.
    - OGC Catalogue WG and SWG member
      - contributed clause 10 of the catalog specification (CSW)
    - Editor of the ISO/OGC Web Feature Service specification
    - Editor of the ISO/OGC Filter Encoding specification
    - Editor of the GML Simple Features profile
    - Member of the OGC Architecture Board