The NetworkedPlanet Team
Kal Ahmed
Kal has worked in SGML and XML information management for
10 years working in both software development and consultancy.
He is well-known in the topic map community for his work on
the open-source Java topic map toolkit,
TM4J
and for his contributions
to development of the ISO standard. Kal has published many
articles on topic maps and topic map-related themes and is a
frequent conference speaker.
Graham Moore
Graham has worked for 8 years in the areas of information, content and knowledge management as a
developer, researcher and consultant. He has held leading roles as CTO of STEP, Vice President
Research & Development empolis GmbH and Chief Scientist Ontopia AS. He has been responsible for the
development of knowledge management products including K42 Topic Map Engine, X2X Link Management
Engine and e:kms knowledge suite. Graham is co-editor of the XTM 1.0 XML
Topic Maps standard and IS013250-1 and -2 (Topic Map Data Model and Syntax), he is also co-editor of
TMCL (Topic Map Constraint Language).
Andy Brodie
Andy's background is primarily with enterprise systems development. He has worked at IBM as a tester for CICS on z/OS,
component lead on WebSphere Business Integration - Server Foundation 6.x.,
Standards Architect for the IBM Software Group Strategy organization on API standards and was
responsible for the design and development of the Alphaworks
API Usage Scanner.
Andy was also one of the principal developers for the empolis K42 Topic Map Engine and e:kms Knowledge Suite.
Beforehand he was lead instructor for the J2EE Enterprise Javabeans and Java Security courses for Sun Microsystems UK.