Conference Chair Blog

10) The participation of State level regulators and government officials in the conference (Keynote speech by: Kim Wallin, State Controller, Nevada & Public Sector track presentation: John Radford, State Controller, Oregon) hailing a burgeoning awareness of Interactive Data and XBRL penetrating yet another level of government in the US.

9) Canada goes Interactive! With keynote speeches hailing a Canada's nascent Voluntary Filing program, it's drive to IFRS adoption by 2011 from both the Ontario Security Commission Chair David Wilson and Canadian Accounting Standards Board Chair Paul Cherry - Canada has truly emerged from the coat tails to active participant in the Interactive Data Era.

8) Three Countries committing to go SBR with XBRL! Netherlands
(always a visionary leader), Australia, and New Zealand all spoke to
the emerging trend to go government-wide with XBRL and implement
Standard Business Reporting (SBR) projects that will eventually enable
a single filing for all government agencies.

7) The announcement by the IASCF that they were hosting the XBRL Education Bound Volume
of IFRS online fully integrated with the IFRS XBRL
taxonomy. If you didn't 'get' this announcement, the implications are
quite far-reaching for those of you trying to keep up with all those
IASB announcements and changes to documentation or looking to integrate
IFRS documentation into your applications' online help. Kudos to the
IASCF team for making this happen!

6) The emergence of Microformats
for XBRL as a rendering technique promising to exponentially improve
the delivery of XBRL documents with all the rich semantics of XBRL in
human-readable web-ready format with support from two key vendors'
products (Decisionsoft & JustSystems) already in the works!

5) With participants from over 20 countries with influential
speakers like Ms. Usha Narayanan, Executive Director, Exchange Board of
India (SEBI), Mr. José-Maria Roldán, Director General – Banking
Regulation, Bank of Spain on the main stage and China's Dr Shiping Liu,
Chairman of Global Business Intelligence Consulting Co. (GBICC); this
conference is the international meeting of the minds on XBRL worldwide.

4) Joint presentation on the main stage by Toshinori
Kobayashi from Japan's FSA, David Blaszkowsky from US SEC and Olivier
Servais from IASC Foundation on their respective countries'
perspectives on IFRS and XBRL adoption.

3) Having Chairman Cox once again take the stage as
opening keynote so eloquently speak to the XBRL message AND get the
word out to the masses in TV Interviews on both
CNBC TV and Canada Business News Network.

2) Ok, and having my picture taken with Chairman Cox on my birthday was pretty cool..

1) Getting to work with all of you wonderful XBRL-ites! Thanks so much for making this event such a wonderful success!

See you in Netherlands!

Please note the following time change: the Rendering Working group meeting will now start at on WEDNESDAY at 2:30 pm in the Port McNeil room!

Please note the following time changes:

the XBRL-EU working group meeting will now be meeting on TUESDAY at 7:00 am in the ORCA room

the Assurance working group meeting will now be meeting on WEDNESDAY at 9:00 am in the Port McNeil room

More pre-conference ramping up is going on today as the snow turned to rain which is much more typical Vancouver weather. The Sheraton Wall Centre lobby is filling up with XBRL conference attendees, with a minimum of lost luggage and missed connections. The vendor exhibition hall is a buzz with booth set-up and early arrivals.

Today as an at-large representative, I am participating in the XBRL International Steering Committee (ISC) day-long meeting. The ISC governs XBRL International. This includes responsibility for setting technical, financial and operational strategy within the organization. The Steering Committee is comprised of elected representatives from Established jurisdictions and eight At-Large representatives as well as one seat committed to the AICPA. (to see a list of all the current members, visit http://www.xbrl.org/steering.aspx ). Today, we welcomed 2 new full jurisdictions, Sweden & Denmark and one new provisional jurisdiction, China.

Still working away on governance issues...

It's Saturday - 2 days before the opening speeches for the conference and Vancouver is blanketed in a thin coat of white. This is quite a rare event for the city especially this early in the season - but it makes good on my promise to all the skiers in the XBRL community that we would have snow on the nearby mountains. Check out the current conditions at EnvironmentCanada's Weather Office

The International Steering Committee members and XBRL International Staff are arriving today for meetings tomorrow - so slowly we are converging on this wonderful city I call home.

I'm busy today writing up opening remarks, memorizing introductions for all the wonderful speakers we have lined up on the main stage, and coaxing presenters to make sure that their presentations are uploaded to the website and to check that their speakers profiles are accurate. I have my well-read copy of Don Tapscott's Wikinomics handy so I can get it autographed in person!

If you have any questions or need help with your speaker profile or uploading your presentations (powerpoints,pdfs,etc) - please email cherylneal@xbrl.org and we'll give you a helping hand.

If you are already here - try out a favorite restaurant within walking distance is the Tsunami sushi bar on Robson with it's floating boats delivering sushi to your seat.

Travel safely, and be prepared to collaborate!

Thanks for coming!

Diane