Indran Naick is an e-business Architect for IBM Developer Relations Technical Consulting in Austin, Texas, which provides education, enablement, and consulting to IBM business partners. Indran has over 14 years of industry experience. He joined IBM in South Africa in 1990. Prior to being transferred to Austin, Texas he served as a Software Solutions Architect consulting to a number of financial and government institutions. He has authored a number of publications and is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He can be reached at indrann@us.ibm.com .

Doug Tidwell is a Cyber Evangelist for IBM. (No one really knows what that job title means, we just thought it sounded cool.) He spends his time helping people use new technology to solve business problems, encouraging them to use standards-based, cross-platform tools. He also write articles, tutorials, sample code, and tools for developerWorks.

Doug was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has been working with markup languages for more than a decade. In the last year or two, he's spoken on XML, Java, Security, and Web services topics at dozens of conferences around the world, including developerWorks Live!, WWW9 and WWW10, GCA's worldwide XML conferences, O'Reilly's Open Source Conference, ApacheCon, ApacheCon Europe, Web Services World, JavaOne, XML Asia Pacific, XML World, XML and Web Services One, and the SD West and SD East conferences.

Doug has been with IBM since 1989, a stark reminder of the power of inertia. He have a Masters Degree in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and a Bachelors Degree in English from the University of Georgia. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with his wife, cooking teacher Sheri Castle (check out her Web site at shericastle.com), and their eight-year-old daughter Lily. In his mythical spare time, Doug enjoys travelling,reading, and writing ludicrous autobiographies. You can reach Doug at dtidwell@us.ibm.com.