17th XBRL International Conference and Expo to Be Held in Eindhoven, Netherlands (near Amsterdam, Brussels, Dusseldorf) on May 5-8

The 17th XBRL International Conference/Expo is co-hosted by XBRL International, Inc. and the XBRL-EU Jurisdiction and is a jointly organized event with the Netherlands Taxonomy Project conference: "Standard Business Reporting in Action."

The conference will offer the unique opportunity for visibility to not one but two groups of conference attendees under one roof and will be the largest event executed by XBRL International. The governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, United Kingdom, United States have regulatory mandates or have voluntary filing program for business reporting using XBRL.

The following organizations have already confirmed attending the XBRL conference: European Commission; European Parliament; Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR); Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS); International Accounting Standards Board (IASB); US Securities and Exchange Commission; US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Ontario Securities Commission; UK Company House; New Zealand Inland Revenue; National Bank of Belgium; Banque de France; Royal NIVRA; Nederlands Belastingdienst; Bundesbank; UBS; Euronext; Bank of Greece; American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Oracle; Australian Government Standard Business Reporting, PricewaterhouseCoopers; KPMG; Deloitte; E&Y Grant Thornton; BDO Seidman; Hewlett Packard; SAP; Fujitsu; JustSystems; Corefiling; UBMatrix; EDGAR Online; Semansys Technologies; and other software companies and preparers/ issuers

Featured Speakers Include: Gerrit Zalm, Chair of the Trustees – International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, Christopher Cox, Chairman, US Securities and Exchange Commission, Eddy Wymeersch, Chair of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), Dr. Heinz Hense, Chief Accountant, ThyssenKrupp AG, Paul Madden, Program Manager, Standard Business Reporting, Australian Government Treasury.

Business executives and finance Professionals will participate in unique workshops and forums to hear leading financial industry experts speak on: How governments are requiring XBRL for business reporting and how financial analysts, regulators, accounting professionals, and technologists are collaborating and using XBRL to solve complex business problems and issues.

What tools and cost-effective solutions that can be used to help organizations use the power of XBRL to enable investors, management, analysts and regulators to create interactive data, access the business information they want and analyze in a reliable format that they can easily use.

Why Interactive Data greatly improves the way in which business information is created, communicated and consumed to help investors, management, analysts and regulators increase the access and accuracy of business information to make quicker, better and more accurate decisions.

Who Should Attend and Why: CEOs, CFOs and finance professionals of public and private companies will be educated on how to tag their financials in XBRL using cost effective vendors and understand the external and internal benefits of using interactive data through real users. They will hear from companies using XBRL to improve investor relations activities and from internal financial management teams using XBRL to consolidate financials and better manage the operations of the company.

Investment Professionals and Analysts will learn from peers around the world how they are using XBRL to improve the depth and breadth of coverage of companies to help their clients make better investment decisions.

Regulators will share how they are using XBRL to improve efficiency and accuracy of regulatory reporting and hear case studies from government agencies successfully using interactive data.

Software developers will be briefed on new tools and add-ons that can be used in their XBRL products that have been created from leading XBRL technology providers. Accounting and audit professionals will learn how XBRL is improving client relations by integrating XBRL into their practices and those of their clients.

Eindhoven, Netherlands at Evoluon is a world-class conference and exhibition facility.

For XBRL International Conference information and registration and hotel registration, please go to http://conference.xbrl.org/registration

Register by March 30 and receive a 10 percent discount on admission to the conference. For sponsorship opportunities please visit http://conference.xbrl.org/sponsors-exhibits/exhibits-and-sponsors