Joe Gollner (www.gollner.ca) is the Director of Gnostyx Research (www.gnostyx.com), an initiative he recently launched with the purpose of helping organizations adopt open content standards and leverage intelligent content technologies. In this activity, he focuses on providing objective, independent guidance (based on 20 years of wide-ranging implementation experience) on how to establish a practical content strategy and how to manage the design, development, and deployment of cost-effective solutions.

Prior to launching Gnostyx, Joe was Vice President and Chief Solution Architect for Stilo International (www.stilo.com) where he led a world-class team in the design, development, and deployment of industrial-strength content management and publishing solutions. Previously, he was the founder and president of XIA Systems Corporation, a widely respected XML solution integrator that he founded in 1998 and that he sold to Stilo International in 2004. Before XIA, he was best known for his ground-breaking content solution work within the international defense community. Over the last twenty years, Joe has designed and managed the implementation of numerous large-scale content management and publishing solutions in such diverse industries as aerospace, defense, education, healthcare, transportation, engineering, energy, legal, publishing, software, automotive, telecommunications, and government. During this time, Joe worked closely with some of the world's most innovative implementers of intelligent content technologies including Boeing, Samsung, Nokia, Schlumberger, Alcatel-Lucent, Xerox, the US Department of Defense, NATO, and the Russian Academy of Science. Joe served as an Artillery Officer in the Canadian military and was educated in a wide variety of subjects at Queens University (Bachelors of Arts, Mathematics and Literature) and the University of Oxford (Masters of Philosophy). He has completed graduate programs in project management, business analysis, and knowledge management. Joe is a popular keynote speaker at major content management events and for several years chaired the XML World Series of conferences.