Conference Speakers

Said Tabet

Said Tabet is Co-Chair of the OCEG Technology Council, Technical Director for the OCEG GRC-XML Program. He is leading efforts to develop and deliver XBRL Taxonomies for Governance, Risk, and Compliance. Said is a dedicated member of the standards community involved in software initiatives worldwide, collaborating with large and small companies. Said is the co-founder of the RuleML Group, a non-profit organization focused on the standardization of business rules and rule-based systems. RuleML runs a yearly International Conference in conjunction with the Business Rules Forum.

Said has been involved in the development of Business and Enterprise Architectures, Rule-based IT systems for close to two decades with domains of application including risk and compliance, accounting and financial reporting using XBRL, trading platforms, mortgage and insurance systems, eGovernment, healthcare, and others.

Said has been working more recently on Model Driven (MDA) XBRL and XBRL GL to deliver a standards-based modeling capability using popular enterprise IT development tools.

Said is a regular speaker and panelist at academic and industry conferences and workshops worldwide.

Bruno Tesniere

Bruno Tesnière is a Partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit, France. Bruno Tesnière has, since 2000, contributed to the development of XBRL through participation to the consortium. Bruno is the current chair of the XBRL Advisory Council of the IASCF. The XBRL Advisory Council provides strategic advice to the Trustees and the Foundation's XBRL team on the future development and adoption of the XBRL Taxonomy for International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs). He is also a member of the Federation of European Accountants (FEE) XBRL Task Force representing the French auditing profession at this committee. He is Vice President of XBRL France.