Good Morning And Welcome!

• Introduction
• Information about WS2 and W3C
• Agenda

WS2 Project

• Web Services and Semantics (WS2) Project
• Financed by European Commission's IST Programme
• Increase European awareness in Web services technologies and standardization
• Raise the European participation level in Web services standardization work
• Support work on integration of semantics in Web services

About W3C

• International consortium with around 400 Members
• Started by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, in 1993
• Goal: To lead the Web to its full potential
• Standardization of core Web technologies, publication of guidelines, etc.

Technologies Designed At W3C

Web Services Infrastructure

Adding Semantics To This Infrastructure

• RDF mappings
• Semantic annotations of Web service descriptions
• Characterization work

For More Information

• W3C home: http://www.w3.org/
• Web Services Activity: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/
• WS2 Project: http://www.w3.org/2004/WS2/

Agenda For Today

9h20-10h00	SOAP 1.2, MTOM and their applications	Hervé Ruellan - Canon
10h00-10h30	Web services ubiquity in the Travel & Tourism industry	Denis Lacroix - Director of Development, Amadeus
10h30-11h00	Coffee break
11h00-11h30	Web services: usage and challenges in mobile phones	Timo Skytta - Director, Web Services, Nokia Technology Platforms
11h30-12h00	Web services in corporate semantic Webs	Fabien Gandon - INRIA
12h00-12h30	Demonstrations (Web Services validators and demonstrators)	Yves Lafon and Eric Prud'hommeaux; W3C Web Services technical staff
12h30-13h00	Open discussion	Philippe Le Hégaret - W3C Architecture Domain leader - and all speakers
13h00-14h00	Closing and lunch buffet