Track Focus Group: Developers, Software product managers, IT professionals, anyone in software or IT industry
Track Chair: Diane Mueller, JustSystems
Track Description:
The Developer track offers the key technical sessions that will help you build XBRL technical skills across a wide array of XBRL technologies, learn about all of XBRL's latest modules and specification releases and get behind-the-scenes views of how others are solving their toughest information management challenges with XBRL technology. The sessions include plenty of opportunities to learn about new topics, dive more deeply into technology, provide input to XBRL's development community, and get insight into the depth and breadth of currently available XBRL products and solutions.
XBRL technology leaders will provide best practices, tips and tricks, and valuable insider news. Presentations will illustrate how they met real-world challenges with the use of XBRL technology.
The development community includes all those who write the code that makes the Web work. XBRL developers work at startups, IT departments, software vendors and government, but also include researchers who have a commitment to developing usable tools and products. The aim of this track is to support the needs of developers better, by recognizing that they are an integral part of the conference. This special track is for any software company, system integrator or IT consultant who wants to understand the business opportunities of offering integrated XBRL in a current product suite. It allows product managers and business developers insight in the potential of XBRL. The sessions also provide practical information related to existing systems and strategies to make important build or buy decisions. These sessions are a must for every person in the software and IT industry.
Track Schedule: (see Program Schedule for full schedule)
Monday, May 5, 2008 |
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| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Market Positioning - an overview of the trends in software industry and positioning XBRL technology and impact for vendors |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm |
The Future of XBRL -- A Developer/Software Town Hall This session will be led by John Turner, Chair of XBRL Standard Board (XSB) and will include a panel of members of the XSB and Hugh Wallis, Technical Director, XBRL International. John will give a presentation on the road map and proposed timelines for XBRL technical work for the coming years and the XSB members will discuss the implications of the different work efforts (Rendering, Versioning, Formulas, and Base Specification). There will be Q&A time allocated and audience interaction is encouraged. |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
XBRL and the Semantic Web The Semantic Web is fast becoming a reality and one of it’s main focuses is to integrate the data on the Web and help the Web become a “Web of Data”. Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. and member of SWSA (Semantic Web Science Association), will give a brief introduction to the Semantic Web, and then there will be a moderated discussion led by Diane Mueller, JustSystems and panelists Ivan Herman (W3C), David Vun Kannon (PwC), Hugh Wallis (XBRL Int) will discuss the implications for integrating XBRL into the Semantic Web. |
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 |
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| 8:30am - 9:30am |
The New Frontier; Formulas Herm Fischer, UBMatrix will lead this session and give a brief introduction to Formulas. The session will include demonstrations from additional Formula Working Group members covering implementors from both the product side (of formula processors, editors, and debuggers), and the application side (of formulas for corep, us-gaap,etc) of formulas. |
| 9:30am - 10:30am |
Implementing inline XBRL This session will explain Inline XBRL: what it is, why it was developed, how the specification is defined, and where it will soon be implemented. Ray Lam (JustSystems) will describe the fundamental concepts behind Inline XBRL, to enhance XHTML (or any other XML document type) so that it can directly contain all of the tags in n XBRL instance document. Walter Hamscher (Standard Advantage) will demonstrate how Inline XBRL simplifies a number of problems that arise for regulators seeking to encourage preparers to submit full financial statements and other formatted documents using XBRL. Philip Allen (Decisionsoft) will explain each part of |
| 11:00am - 11:45am |
Rendering Linkbase: A Technical Introduction This session will explain current approach to developing a Rendering Linkbase being developed by the XBRL Technical Working Group on Rendering: what it is, why it is being developed, how the specification is defined, and where it will soon be implemented.
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| 11:45am - 12:30pm | Getting to Know You: Best Practices for Dimensions Panelists: Herm Fischer-UBmatrix, Gianluca Garbellotto-IPHIX, Ray Lam-JustSystems Herm Fischer will give a brief overview of Dimensions and the panelists will discuss the best practices and implications for where and when to use Dimensions, how Dimensions have impacted new taxonomy development practices around the world – as well as discuss the implications for new application development in a multi-dimensional world. |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Leveraging XBRL & DITA to Deliver Authoritative Literature to the Web One of the core capabilities of XBRL linkbases is to link the concepts in an XBRL taxonomy to the Authoritative Literature and Reference Materials via the Reference Linkbase. In this session, you will learn how FASB and IASB are delivering this functionality and content on the web today by leveraging DITA, the XBRL reference linkbases, and content management systems. Speakers include Tom Saleh (FAF), Holger Obst (IASCF), Jim Stock (Empolis), in a panel moderated by Diane Mueller (JustSystems). |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Business Case - how to extend the offering to the customers and strategy for software vendors and IT staff in delivering XBRL into product portfolio. This session explores the impact of XBRL on the software industry in the financial reporting area. XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is a language that has established itself as the standard for communication of business information between different organizations and information systems. XBRL is targeted at exchanging financial and other business reports electronically between companies and regulators, banks and stakeholders as well as internally between different subsidiaries and business divisions. XBRL will be utilized in the existing product suite of small, mid sized and large software vendors. Confronted with the emerging XBRL standard independent software vendors (software vendor’s) need to answer questions that - amongst others - involve:- Therefore many software vendors already have been confronted with these and other questions. Many vendors have to cope with strategic decisions at hand.
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