History

In 1993 Allette Systems worked with IDEAlliance (then known as GCA) to present SGML Asia-Pacific. The original event focused on the publishing community that supported the SGML standard. However when the event changed to XML Asia-Pacific in 1997, it quickly brought a lot of interest from an audience that was more interested in business transactions and software development.

In 2002, as XML became ubiquitous, the decision was made to split the XML conference into Open Publish and Open Standards. Focused on e-business, Open Standards was presented in conjunction with global standards body, OASIS.

Throughout Open Standards evolution, our objective has consistently been to support better understanding and adoption of open standards. Our hope is that our event will help to foster and promote standards to the traditional IT community.

In 2008, recognising the intersection between open standards and open source is the key theme of the 6th annual Open Standards conference. Not aligned to any single standards body or consortium in addition to being industry and vendor neutral, this even explores standards based value, relevance and concept rather than who they are administered by.