ADVISORY/Wharton to Hold Technology Conference and Career Fair.Business and High Tech Editors ADVISORY...for Thursday - Saturday (Feb. 17 - 19) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Event: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania will host its 2000 Technology Conference, &uot;The Net Millennium: Economics of eBusiness.&uot; The Conference will seek to develop insights into what business models are working, which technologies are critical, how profitable Internet-related companies have succeeded, and how those that are not profitable plan to become so in the future. In addition, the School will hold the First Annual Wharton Entrepreneurial Career Fair in an effort to match start-ups and entrepreneurial companies with students looking for full-time and summer employment. For more information, go to the conference Web site at www.whartontechconference.com. When/Where: February 17, 18, 19 Pennsylvania Convention Center The Pennsylvania Convention Center is a multi-use public facility in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania which is designed to accommodate conventions, exhibitions, conferences and other events. One Convention Center Place 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Featured Speakers: Guy Kawasaki Guy Kawasaki (born 1954), one of the original Apple employees responsible for marketing of the Macintosh in 1984, is a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He is noted for bringing the concept of evangelism to the high-tech business, focusing on creating passionate user-advocates for , Founder/CEO, Garage.com Jay Walker, Founder/Vice Chairman, Priceline.com Michael Moritz Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. , Partner, Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. Seth Godin, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Do You Zoom Inc. Brian Roberts For the CEO of Comcast, see . Brian Michael Roberts (born October 9, 1977 in Durham, North Carolina), nicknamed B-Rob, is a switch hitting second baseman who plays for the Baltimore Orioles in the MLB. , President, Comcast Corporation Steve Burke, President, Comcast Cable Communications Panel Discussions: Home Delivery: The End of the Checkout Line? ASPs: Software at your Service Just Add Water: Outsourcing eBusiness Entertainment: Content Moves to the Web Innovative Marketing: Beyond Banners PDAs: Access Anywhere Online Retail: Ringing the eRegister Role Reversal In psychodrama, role reversal is a technique where the protagonist is asked, by the psychodrama director, to exchange roles with another person (an auxiliary ego) on the psychodrama stage. The former assumes as many of the roles of the other as possible and vice versa. : Increasing Buyer Power Broadband: Profiting from the Plumbng Featured Companies: Kozmo.com, Shoplink.com, Streamline.com, HomeRuns.com, Yack.com, MediaOne, On2.com, CameraPlanet.com, AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , Online Retail Partners LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , uBid Inc., Accompany.com, Amazon.com, JCrew.com, SAP America, USinternetworking, Employease, Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. , Digital Impact, Cybergold, Personify per·son·i·fy tr.v. per·son·i·fied, per·son·i·fy·ing, per·son·i·fies 1. To think of or represent (an inanimate object or abstraction) as having personality or the qualities, thoughts, or movements of a living being: , Inc., BizBuyer.com, Warner-Lambert Company, PurchasingCenter.com, FreeMarkets, Inc., Microsoft, Nokia, Enron Broadband Services, Sprint, and others. A complete conference agenda follows this advisory.
WHARTON TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE AGENDA
Thursday, February 17, 2000
6:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker
Guy Kawasaki, CEO/Founder, Garage.com
Friday, November 18, 2000
8:00-9:00 a.m. Opening Keynote
Jay Walker, Vice Chairman/Founder, Priceline.com
9:15-10:30 a.m. Panel Discussions
-Home Delivery: The End of the Checkout Line?
-ASPs: Software at Your Service
-Just Add Water: Outsourcing eBusiness
10:45-12:00 p.m. Panel Discussions
-Entertainment: Content Moves to the Web
-Innovative Marketing: Beyond Banners
-PDAs: Access Anywhere
12:00-2:45 p.m. Luncheon Keynotes
Michael Moritz, Partner, Sequoia Capital
Seth Godin, CEO, Do You Zoom Inc.
3:00-4:15 p.m. Panel Discussions
-Online Retail: Ringing the eRegister
-Role Reversal: Increasing Buying Power
-Broadband: Profiting from the Plumbing
4:30 -5:30 p.m. Closing Keynotes
Brian Roberts, President, Comcast Corporation
Steve Burke, President, Comcast Cable Communications
Saturday, February 19
10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Career Fair
For details on the panelists, please go to www.whartontechconference.com. |
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