The XBRL23 International Conference was held in Montreal, Canada October 25 – 27th at the Le Sheraton Centre.  The theme for the conference was “Enhancing Business Performance”.  The conference had about 300 attendees, including regulators, banks, agencies, and XBRL practitioners from the US, Canada, Europe and Asia. 

The conference started with the XBRL International Committee meetings on Monday, then conference sessions and exhibits Tuesday through Thursday.

Here are some of the session highlights:The State of XBRL International Roadmap to XBRL Adoption in Canada, UAE:  Securities and Commodities Authority Implementation Project ,IFRS Convergence in Canada and the IFRS Taxonomy ,The Implications of XBRL for Financial Statement Audit ,Update on XBRL Activities at the IASB and IFRS Foundation .Risk, OCEG, GRC-XML, Solvency II Launch of the XBRL Abstract Model as Public Working Draft ,Standard Business Reporting: SBR and IFRS Deeper XBRL – XBRL’s Global Ledger Framework .Climate Change Reporting Taxonomy – Towards Integrated Reporting Improving the Usefulness and Relevance of XBRL-Tagged Data .The Evolution to Integrated Reporting First Canadian end-to-end XBRL Implementation – Deposit Insurance Corp. Corporate Actions Project Panel Insurance Project:  Bermuda Monetary Authority Case Study – including Solvency II ,Global Reporting Initiative Taxonomy ,Tax Project:  Creation and filing of Inline XBRL in the UK ,Integrated Reporting in South Africa ,US GAAP Taxonomy Project:  FASB Best Practices .

As you can see from the session list above, there are many different XBRL projects underway around the world, and some of them overlap – i.e. Climate Change Taxonomy vs. GRI Taxonomy for Sustainability Reporting.  There were a number of sessions on Integrated Reporting and how to combine financial statement information with non-financial data tagged in XBRL with different taxonomies.  A number of countries are moving forward with Standard Business Reporting (SBR) where multiple regulators are adopting the XBRL Standard (e.g. Belgium, Netherlands, Australia).   There is also growing interest in Solvency II with the EIOPA mandate (European Insurance Occupational Pensions Authority).

Here’s a link to the XBRL International web site where you can find additional information these global projects: