Conference Speakers
Dave Raggett
Member, XSB
Dave Raggett has been closely involved with the development of standards for the World Wide Web from a very early stage, including HTTP, HTML, ECMAScript, XHTML, MathML, XForms and VoiceXML. As a JustSystems-sponsored W3C Fellow, Dave has organized workshops on HTML, printing on the Web, math on the Web, voice, and multimodal interaction, as well as chartering working groups on a range of topics.
Dave's current focus is on realizing the potential for financial data as part of the Web. Filing annual and quarterly reports in XBRL is a good start, but we now need to focus on how to exploit this data and how to combine it with other kinds of information increasingly available on the Web. As our understanding of what this means and how to achieve it improves, we can expect to see a need for changes to standards, including XBRL.
In addition to helping to forge closer links between XBRL International and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Dave is taking a hands on approach to working with XBRL. He has developed tools for mapping XBRL filings into RDF for use with Semantic Web technologies, and for rendering XBRL as a web service. He aims to make it really easy for all kinds of websites to embed financial data. Dave is an experienced software architect and has a doctorate in Astrophysics from the University of Oxford.
Deepta Rangarajan
Deepta Rangarajan, a co-founder of IRIS, has 16+ years of experience in operations, previously worked at American Express Bank and headed CRISIL's North India operations (CRISIL is India’s first credit rating agency, a subsidiary of Standard and Poors).. Deepta has played a key role in the conceptualization and design of almost all of IRIS' information products and services, including the content management system and Myiris.com. She now works largely on IRIS' XBRL practice. Deepta is a Chemical Engineer from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and was featured in 'Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish', a bestseller on entrepreneurs from IIM Ahmedabad.
Daniel Roberts
Daniel Roberts is the past-Chairman of the XBRL US Steering Committee and past member of a number of XBRL working groups, including International and US Assurance working groups. He has a strong and longstanding interest is issues of Sustainability and effective business reporting. He is based in France/UK.
Manuel RodrÃguez
Graduated in Computer Science at the University of Bask Country (Spain). Proven track record in managing and developing Banking projects, and designing technical architectures and banking applications with several XBRL reporting initiatives in his background.
Manuel is at present Financial Services Consulting Manager in Atos Origin, responsible for the integration of distributed systems architectures and XBRL projects. XBRL specialist, leading projects and initiatives since 2004. He was in charge of the XBRL practice during his career at Fujitsu Services, Spain (2004/2005). Member of the XBRL Spain Technology and Taxonomies working groups.
Saeed Roohani
Published over 30 articles, on Editorial Board of three journals, edited a research monograph funded by PricewaterhouseCoopers Trust and Data Assurances in Capital Markets: The Role of Technology Solutions ; Program Chair of annual Global XBRL Academic Competition, Moderator of XBRL Research Opportunity Forum that is sponsored by PwC; research area includes financial reporting supply chain; corporate governance; synergy between IT and accounting and auditing; XBRL and International Financial Reporting Standards, and forensic accounting. Professor Roohani has promoted innovative curriculum and established meaningful relations with local, national, and international accounting firms, he has serves as consultant to firms about issues and Sarbanes Oxley and IFRS compliance, to Financial Accounting Foundation SEC US GAAP Taxonomy project,he is the founding Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers Accounting Careers Leadership Institute at Bryant University. He ocasionally supervises PhD students working on XBRL research from other countries.
