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Ken North is a consultant, software developer, author, speaker, industry analyst and company founder. He teaches Expert Series seminars and is the publisher of
SQLSummit.com, WebServicesSummit.com and GridSummit.com. Ken was Contributing Editor for Internet Computing, Web Techniques and Dr. Dobb's Journal.
He wrote the "Database Developer" column for Web Techniques and Dr. Dobb's Sourcebook and was XML and Web Services Editor for Dr. Dobbs Journal.
Ken has consulted and spoken at conferences and seminars in North America, South America, Asia and Europe. He was conference chair for the NEXTWARE conference
and for the XML DevCon conference series in Europe and North America. He was responsible for technical content for several conference producers, including Penton
Media, SIGS and Camelot Communications. Ken wrote Database Magic with Ken North (Prentice Hall) and Windows Multi-DBMS Programming (John Wiley &
Sons). He developed APIBench, the SQL API benchmarking suite and contributed to Dr. Dobb's Database Development: Tools and Techniques (R&D Books). He was a
technical reviewer for JDBC Database Access with Java (Addison-Wesley) and JDBC API Tutorial and Reference:Second Edition (Addison-Wesley). Ken's
articles have appeared in dozens of publications including Intelligent Enterprise, SQL Server, DB2, Business Integration Journal, XML,
XML-Journal, Web Techniques, Dr. Dobb's Journal, The Data Administration Newsletter, SearchDatabase, Java Pro,
Software Development, DBMS, Byte, PC Week, Windows NT, Network Computing, Windows NT Systems, Windows Tech Journal.
Prior to founding Resource Group, Inc. in 1981, Mr. North held management and software engineering positions with TRW and Computer Sciences Corporation.
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"Ken is *the* world's expert on interfaces to SQL DBMSs, a topic of critical importance in the integration space."
David McGoveran President, Alternative Technologies Senior Technical Editor, Business Integration Journal
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