The 16th XBRL International Conference was held in Vancouver Canada from December 3rd to 6th, 2007. The themes of the conference are “centralization, communication and interactive data”. It was co-hosted by XBRL US, XBRL Canada and XBRL International, and would become a landmark in the history of the interactive data’s use and promotion in the world and the North America.

This conference would focus on the industrial standards generated in the process of the combination of the business information, accounting and technology, and would improve the communicating and decision making processes among the investors, managers, analysts and regulators.

l          Speech by SEC Chairman: Address to the 16th XBRL International Conference

l          Interactive XBRL Format Poised to Displace PDF as the Global Financial Filing Standard