ADVISORY/PeopleSoft Executives to Speak at 2003 BusinessWeek CFO+CIO Forum.

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ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. - Friday Friday: see Sabbath; week.

Friday

young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe]

See : Servant (March 20 - 21)

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(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization. Forum



    WHAT:   PeopleSoft Inc. (Nasdaq:PSFT) Executive Vice President of
            Products and Technology Ram Gupta and Chief Information
            Officer David Thompson will speak at roundtable discussion
            sessions at the BusinessWeek CFO+CIO Forum.

            "Corporate Governance Decision Making Best Practices"

                The corporate governance issues that dominated much of
            the business news in 2002 will have a profound impact on
            how corporations will do business in 2003 and into the
            future. Gupta will provide his outlook on the IT
            challenges surrounding this issue. Other panelists include
            senior executives from the American Institute of Certified
            Public Accountants, BearingPoint, Computer Associates
            International and Standard & Poor's.

            "Technology Performance Management: Where's the Value?"

                This session will examine the need for CFOs and CIOs
            to collaborate on managing IT costs. Speakers will provide
            their business performance strategies for IT cost
            transparency, monitoring and measuring outsourcing, and
            defining the value of technology. Thompson will address
            this issue from a CIO's perspective. Other panelists
            include senior executives from American International
            Group, SAS, BearingPoint and Mercury Interactive.

    WHEN:   "Corporate Governance Decision Making Best Practices"
            Thursday, March 20, 3:40 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

            "Technology Performance Management: Where's the Value?"
            Friday, March 21, 10:15 a.m. - 11:15 a.m.

    WHERE:  BusinessWeek CFO+CIO Forum
            The Breakers Hotel
            Palm Beach, FL

    For more information or to schedule an interview with Ram Gupta or
David Thompson, contact:

    Steve Swasey                        Kristin Muff
    PeopleSoft, Inc.                    Porter Novelli
    925/694-5230                        408/571-2307
    steve_swasey@peoplesoft.com         kristin.muff@pnicg.com

For more information on the BusinessWeek CFO+CIO Forum, please visit http://conferences.businessweek.com.

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