17th XBRL International Conference & Expo to Be Held in Eindhoven, Netherlands (Near Amsterdam, Brussels, Dusseldorf) on May 5-8, 2008

The 17th XBRL International Conference and 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.

Featured Speakers Include:

-- Christopher Cox, Chairman, US Securities and Exchange
Commission

-- Eddy Wymeersch, Chair of the Committee of European Securities
Regulators (CESR)

-- Paul Madden, Program Manager, Standard Business Reporting,
Australian Government Treasury

-- Gerrit Zalm, Chair of the Trustees - International Accounting
Standards Board

-- Dr. Heinz Hense, Chief Accountant, ThyssenKrupp AG

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.

Where Eindhoven, Netherlands at Evoluon, a world-class conference
and exhibition facility:

For XBRL International Conference Information and Registration &
Hotel Registration please go to:
http://conference.xbrl.org/registration

Register by March 30, 2008 and receive a 10% discount on admission
to the conference.

For sponsorship opportunities please to:

http://conference.xbrl.org/sponsors-exhibits/exhibits-and-sponsors