Propylon CTO to Deliver Keynote at Leading Web Technology Conference

XTech 2008 Ponders “Web On the Move”

Dublin, Ireland – April 28, 2008

Sean McGrath, Propylon’s Chief Technology Officer, will be making the closing plenary presentation at this year’s XTech, in Dublin on Friday, May 9, 2008.

XTech is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. Edd Dumbill is the creator of XTech, and calls the event “a thought-provoking, well-informed and friendly conference covering the latest in Web and open standards technology.” The event includes keynote presentations, tutorials, lightning talks, general panels and networking opportunities.

Sean’s keynote is titled “Orangutans, Oxen and Ogham Stones: Mulling the Movable Web,” and will bring a uniquely Irish perspective to a consideration of this year’s conference theme of “The Web on the Move.” More detailed information on Sean’s keynote can be found here.

Sean is joined on the speaker roster by executives from leading IT and media organizations such as Google, W3C, BBC, Oracle, Flickr, IBM, Adobe Systems and Six Apart.

The abstract of the 2008 conference theme for XTech is:

“For years we have been developing and promoting open data standards, enabling data portability. Recent developments have led to web-wide programming APIs and virtualization. It’s no longer just our data on the move, it’s our applications and even our servers too. What impact will this era of unprecedented portability have on us? How should we change the way we build for the web? XTech 2008 will examine the technology, war stories and practical concerns of developing for today’s web.”

About Sean McGrath

In addition to serving as Propylon’s CTO, Sean McGrath is an internationally-recognized authority on XML and related standards. He graduated in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin in 1987, and has been active in the IT industry for twenty years.

Sean is a vocal proponent of the power of mashups, microformats, syndication formats and dynamically-typed programming environments. He is invited regularly to speak on these topics, to the worldwide legislative and parliamentary communities as well as to IT audiences. He served as an invited expert to the W3C Special Interest Group that created XML in 1997, and was the architect of Mission Control, an early mobile portal for the European telecoms market.

Sean is the author of three books on markup languages (two on XML and one on SGML). He has been blogging on technology topics since 2002. Sean has also been a columnist for ITWorld for the past six years.

To register for XTech, or to see the full conference schedule, visit the XTech registration page.

About Propylon

Propylon was established in 1999 and is a world leader in lawmaking software. The company’s solutions support legislatures and parliaments with document management, workflow improvement, bill drafting, chamber business management, and publications. Clients include the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Oregon State Legislature, the Kansas Legislature and the Irish National Parliament.

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