'Assuring E-Commerce' to Assess Internet Payment Systems and Set Agenda for Action to Improve Robustness and Dependability.

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1999--

Leading e-businesses and information infrastructure providers will convene to examine progress and prospects for making e-commerce ever more useful, reliable, trustworthy and robust.

They will meet on October 26-27, 1999 in Washington, DC to set the course for industry and government action to improve the infrastructure for the explosive growth of e-commerce.

Featured keynote addresses will be made by:

Jeff Jaffe (General Manager, SecureWay Business Unit, IBM), Steve Kent (Chief Scientist - Information Security, BBN Technologies), Joseph Eng (Chief Information Officer, SWIFT), and Bud Tribble (Chief Technology Officer, Sun-Netscape Alliance).

Speakers from GTE, CitiGroup, CommerceNet, the Federal Reserve Board, Compaq, InverseNet, NARUS, NAI, Cisco, Novell, CyberCash, VeriFone and other major industry players will discuss new technologies, services and issues in depth in sessions covering Cross-Sector Cooperation, Secure Payments, Infrastructure Robustness and Dependability, Reducing Vulnerabilities, and Cooperation and Competition. Details regarding the meeting are available at: http://www.xiwt.org/events/Oct99Agenda.html

Reserve your place today! Registration is on a first-come, first served basis. On-line registration is available at: http://www.xiwt.org/registration/xiwt-reg_form.html Questions? Please contact Pamela Memmott at [phone].

"Assuring E-Commerce" is organized by the Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT) and the Electronic Payments Forum (EPF), with support from the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) and CommerceNet.