Northern Voice 2007

Lauren Wood is a Senior Technical Program Manager for Sun Microsystems, working in identity standards. Previously she was an independent consultant . She has worked in the areas of markup language design, project management, lecturing, writing, and editing. She has chaired and served on technical committees for both the World Wide Web Consortium and OASIS since 1994.

Lauren chaired the largest annual XML conference for five years, and served on the W3C Advisory Board as an unaffiliated elected representative. She speaks at various events, such as the CSW XML Summer School most years. She blogs at Anyway.