ADVISORY/NEBATA to Host the Leadership Roundtable, `Technology-Enabled Business: Assessment and Future-Spective' on Tuesday, June 15, 2004 in Boston, MA.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday (June 15)

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NEBATA:

WHAT:   The New England Business and Technology Association (NEBATA)
        announces that it will host the Leadership Roundtable,
        "Technology-Enabled Business: Assessment and Future-Spective,"
        a forward-looking thought leadership program that will focus
        on technology as a driver and enabler of business
        effectiveness and profitability on Tuesday, June 15, 2004 at
        the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA.

        A summit of leading business and technology leaders will
        convene for a future-spective to explore a number of emerging
        technologies that are transforming business today, and at the
        promises for the future. Areas to be explored include the
        evolving technologies in IT, the Internet
        evolution/transformation, breakthroughs in life sciences and
        implications for healthcare, and the next frontier for
        telecommunications.

WHO:    Participants include:

        --  Stan Gibson, Executive Editor, eWeek (moderator)
        --  Walter Bender, Executive Director, MIT Media Lab
        --  Dr. Juan Enriquez, Author, As the Future Catches You: How
            Genomics & Other Forces Are Changing Your Life, Work,
            Health & Wealth
        --  John Landry, Founder and Managing Director, Lead Dog
            Ventures
        --  Tom Leighton, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Akamai
            Technologies
        --  Reed R. Prior, Chairman & CEO, MicroCHIPS, Inc.
        --  Joseph Weinman, Strategy & Technology Vice President, AT&T

WHEN:   Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

        Later that evening, at the Technology-Enabled Business/Awards
        Summit, NEBATA will announce the 20 finalists for the New
        England Business and Technology Awards, as well as induct Dr.
        Myra Hart and Dr. Kenan Sahin into NEBATA's "Circle of
        Excellence."

        To register for these events, please go to www.nebata.org. To
        receive a press pass, please contact Jonell Rusinko at
        617-520-7242.