ADVISORY/COMDEX Continues Innovation Forum Series with Focus on Autonomic Computing and Its Impact on Global Business Strategy.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Thursday (June 12)

COMDEX Fall 2003

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

Luminaries and Business Leaders Gather for Targeted Educational

Sessions

WHAT:
In the third of its series of five Innovation Forums designed to bring
COMDEX to the buyer where they live and work, COMDEX and Jack Shaw,
author of "The Autonomic Enterprise," are hosting a free, half-day
educational session on autonomic computing.  Autonomic computing is a
new technology aimed at delegating business tasks to automated
information technology (IT) systems, allowing knowledge workers more
time and energy to focus on generating revenue, servicing customers
and developing new services and/or products.

In an autonomic model, IT systems monitor and run business processes
automatically, just as the human body's central nervous system
controls breathing functions and heartbeat without conscious effort.
However, to realize the promises of autonomic computing, there are
significant technological and business process hurdles to overcome.
The San Jose Innovation Forum provides a venue for IT and corporate
buyers to learn more about the benefits and challenges surrounding
this emerging technology.

The COMDEX Innovation Forums are one-day interactive educational
seminars scheduled to take place from May through June in Chicago,
Washington, D.C., San Jose, Calif., New York and Los Angeles.

WHEN:
Thursday, June 12, 2003
9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

WHERE:
Fairmont Hotel
170 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
[phone]

AGENDA:
8:15 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Registration and continental breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m.: COMDEX Welcoming Remarks
9:05 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.: Jack Shaw, Consultant, Speaker, and Author of
"The Autonomic Enterprise:" "Autonomic Evolution: From Autonomic
Computing to the Autonomic Enterprise"
9:50 a.m. - 10:10 a.m.: Charlie Boyle, Director, N1 Architecture, Sun
Microsystems: "Changing the Economics of IT"
10:10 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Jay Rossiter, Vice President, System
Management Products, Oracle, "Real Autonomics: A Strategy for Real
Return on Investment in the Data Center"
10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.: BREAK
10:45 a.m. - 11:05 a.m.: Bob Burkey, Sentinel Program Channel Manager,
Unisys: "Simplifying IT Infrastructures with Autonomic Capabilities"
11:05 a.m. - 11:25 a.m.: Katherine Glassey, VP of Marketing, Software
Global Business Unit, Hewlett Packard: "Adaptive Enterprise Evolution:
Achieving the Ultimate State of Fitness Through Business and IT
Alignment"
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.: Panel Discussion moderated by Jack Shaw
12:15 p.m. - 12:20 p.m.: COMDEX Closing Remarks

CONTACTS:
RSVPs may be forwarded via email to Emily Swanson at
[e-mail] or via phone at 650/637-9600.

Questions related to media/analyst COMDEX registration can be directed
to Kennedy Jones at [e-mail].  For additional event
information, visit www.comdex.com.

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