Cercia held its first Advisory Board meeting on 25 November 2004 in Room 245 of the Computer Science Building in the University of Birmingham. Ten advisory board members attended the half-day meeting, including:

• Peter Abraham, Practice Leader, Integration Infrastructure (Middleware), Bloor Research
• Dr. Steven J. Barrett, Principal Scientist & Manager, New Applications Team, Data Exploration Sciences GlaxoSmithKline R&D
• Prof. Michael Clarke, CBE (Chair of the Board), Vice-Principal, The University of Birmingham
• Dr. Dave Cliff, Principal Scientist, HP Labs
• Dr. Tom Khabaza Director, Appiled Analytics, SPSS
• Prof. Gerald P Noone, MBE, Sales, Marketing and Communications Director, Severn Trent Water Limited
• Mark Scanlon, Managing Director, XL Cubed Ltd
• Dr. Berhard Sendhoff, Chief Technology Officer, Honda R & D, Offenbach / Main, GERMANY
• Dr. Richard Tetson, BTexact Technologies
• Prof. Jennifer Tann, The Business School, The University of Birmingham
• Prof. Xin Yao, Director, Cercia, The University of Birmingham

The next Advisory Board meeting will be held in March 2005.