An Open Forum on the Future of Electronic Data Formats for the Commonwealth

December 14, 2005

10:00 AM – Noon

Senate Reading Room, State House

Hosted by:

Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, Sen. Jack Hart & Rep. Dan Bosley, Chairs &
The Science & Technology Caucus, Sen. Jack Hart, Rep. Cory Atkins, & Secretary Ranch Kimball, Chairs

Agenda

10:00 Welcome and Introductory Remarks

10:05 Open Standards and the Evolution of the OpenDocument Standard:

How did we get here?
  - John Palfrey, Executive Director
    Berkman Center on Internet and Society
    Harvard Law School

10:25 Introduction of Panelists

• Bob Sutor, IBM
• Alan Yates, Microsoft General Manager of Information Worker Business Strategy
• Peter Quinn/Linda Hamel, ITD
• Bob Sproull, Sun Microsystems
• Judy Brewer, Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
• Alan Cote, Secretary of State’s Office

10:45 Moderated Panel Discussion

Noon Adjourn

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