Business Thought Leadership, B2B Experience are Unifying Themes of Delphi e-Business Summit, May 7-10.

Business/Technology Editors

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000

Tom Peters Keynote Links WOW Philosophy to B2B; Extensive B2B

Community Participation

The Delphi Group's e-business Summit (http://www.delphisummit.com), a uniquely comprehensive conference and executive retreat for organizations moving to B2B markets, begins this Sunday May 7 through Wednesday, May 10, 2000 at the Hotel Del Coronado, San Diego. This event is exclusively focused on B2B e-business issues and concerns, providing a balanced perspective of the e-future with an emphasis on the user.

Highlights:

-- Tuesday, May 9: Tom Peters, the world's best selling business author and management guru delivers a keynote that puts the B2B buzz into perspective. The true benchmarks of a new economy are not in the volume, velocity and locust-like descent of dot.coms, but in the recent and sudden mobilization of the brick and mortars. Free markets CAN survive without the inefficiencies that today offer great competitive advantage; and competition will thrive in the face of zero-margin enterprise.

-- Sunday, May 7 Executive Retreat: What's next? The e-marketing future from Regis McKenna, the man who helped launch the first mircroprocessor (Intel), the first PC (Apple Computer), the first recombinant DNA genetically engineered product (Genetech, Inc.) and the first retail computer store (The Byte Shop).

-- Monday, May 8: A view of early stage e-company operations from Peter Mills Managing Director of CMGI's @Ventures unit. This group oversees a one-billion dollar B2B fund and Mills' team reviews an amazing 1000 new business plans every month for potential venture investment.

-- Wednesday, May 10: A ground level look at B2B Markets of the Millenium from Delphi Group's Tom Koulopoulos. They are here: vortals, syndicated value chains, anonymous markets. What skills will your organization need to survive the coming years?

-- Daily: over 40 case studies and 30 application demonstrations.

-- Daily: Q & A with ebusiness pioneers, analysts and visionaries.

-- Daily: over 50 companies exhibiting B2B products and services.

Sunday, May 7, 2000 -- Executive Retreat: B2B Best Practices

The immediate challenge facing senior IT and business practice leaders, the movers and shapers of B2B e-business within organizations, is to build the underlying infrastructure of content, commerce and community. Here, Fortune 500 CEOs, executives, thought leaders, and industry pioneers actively participate in an intensive one day interactive dialog on the key issues facing them. Discussion leaders for this retreat are individuals with practical experience in shaping the practice of B2B ebusiness in their organizations:

-- Regis McKenna, noted marketing guru.

-- Narry Singh, vice president of Global Trading for RAPT Technology

-- David Snowden, European Director of the Institute of Knowledge Mangement

-- Mark Santacrose, president and CEO of Entrade

-- Tom Koulopoulos, president, Delphi Group.

May 8-10: the ebusiness Summit: Content, Community for eBusiness

The focus of this 6-track conference program is the ebusiness organization and the individuals designated to leverage current trends into value for their organization. Each track is designed to answer questions and build connections among individuals charged with moving their organizations to the e-conomy, building B2B communities, participating in a trading exchanges, or simply making sense of the B2B buzz.

B2B represents one of the fastest and most profound shifts in how organizations build interactions with suppliers, partners, and markets. The six tracks focus on these key components: e-markets, e-procurement, e-content, e-services, e-process, and e-communities, include over 40 case studies and 30 detailed solutions demonstrations.

Delphi Group has sized the B2B market at $5 billion dollars in 1999. "We see this doubling in size during each of the next two years, followed by an accelerated growth rate in the years beyond that," stated Delphi President Thomas Koulopoulos. "By 2002, B2B will be a $5 trillion USD space. The market for B2B tools alone is showing astounding potential," explained Koulopoulos. "Our conservative projection for 100% CAGR in the coming years can easily be exceeded if the number of new entrants into this space continues to climb."

Delphi ebusiness Summit sponsors and exhibitors include:

2Way Corporation, Autonomy, Inc., Brio Technology, Broadvision, Capita Technologies, Inc., Compaq Computer Corporation, Concentus Technology Corp., Corechange, Inc., Correlate Technologies, Inc., Dataware Technologies, Documentum, Inc., eBusiness Technologies, Enigma, Inc., ePresence, eturn.com, Excalibur Technologies Corporation, Exterprise, Inc., FileNET Corporation, Global Sight, Hummingbird, Hyperwave, iLux, inknowvator, inc., Intelligroup, Intraspect Software Inc., JetForm Corporation, Knowledge Track Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, Net Perceptions, nQuire Software, Inc., OpenConnect Systems, Inc., Orbital Software, Plumtree Software, Primus, Ptech, Inc., RWD Technologies, Inc., Saqqara Systems, Semio, Sequoia Software Corporation, SeraNova, ServiceWare, Inc., Staffware Corporation, Sterling Software, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Tacit Knowledge Systems, Inc., TDI, Inc., TopTier Software, Inc., Verity, Inc, Viador, Inc., Vigil Technologies, ViryaNet, Vitria Technology, Inc., WebXi, Inc.

Register Now

Don't miss the Tom Peters keynote Tuesday, May 9, 2000. His insights on business are legend. Hear what he has to say about B2B and the true benchmarks of the new economy in this two hour keynote. Visit http://www.delphigroup.com/events or call Client Services at [phone] to reserve a seat.

Press registrations are available through Mary Ann Kozlowski, email: [e-mail].

Publication Sponsors include:

@brint.com, Business 2.0, ebizChronicle.com, eAI Journal, eCommerce Business, Intelligent Enterprise, Knowledge Management Magazine, and MIT Technology Review.

About The Delphi Group

The Delphi Group (http://www.delphigroup.com) is the leading provider of advisory services, consulting, market research, education and community building seminars and conferences for B2B e-business, knowledge and content management. With offices established around the world, Delphi has assisted professionals across disciplines and industries at nearly every major national and global organization and branch of government. The Delphi Group has its headquarters at 100 City Hall Plaza, Boston, Massachusetts.

Note to Editors:

Press registrations to the Delphi eBusiness Summit are available through Mary Ann Kozlowski, email: [e-mail].