Business Week And Hewlett-Packard Company Present The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference On The Digital Economy.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1999--

Fiorina, Chambers, Bell, Schmidt,

Minor, among featured speakers.

Senior executives from top companies across America focused on the competitive implications of digital technologies and e-business will gather this December in San Francisco for The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy, Business Week announced today.

Carly Fiorina, President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard Company; John T. Chambers, President and CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc; George Bell, President, Excite@Home; Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Novell, Inc; and Halsey Minor, Chairman and CEO, CNET are just five of the business leaders scheduled to appear. The Conference will convene December 1-2, 1999 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. "The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy will focus on real world case studies -- business practices that are succeeding in the Digital Economy," said Dave Ferm, publisher of Business Week. "The conference will focus on three key components of e-business success -- balance, integration, and coordination. Participating business executives with company success stories share their lessons learned in the Digital Economy."

Presented by Business Week in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Company, and sponsored by CNET, Lawson Software, Legato Systems, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Inc., Novell, StorageTek, and USWeb/CKS, the day-and-a-half summit will be a tailored look inside companies with a clear-cut key Digital Economy plan. Keeping with Business Week tradition, the conference will feature major players from leading companies. Others to be featured at this one-day gathering include:

--Douglas Atkin, President and CEO, Instinet Corporation

--Carol Black, President and CEO, Lifetime Television Jonathan Bulkeley, CEO, barnesandnoble.com

--Michael L. Eskew, Executive Vice President, United Parcel Service of America, Inc.

--Charles S. Feld, CIO, Delta Air Lines, Inc.

--Carl E. Gustin, Jr., Chief Marketing Officer and Senior VP, Eastman Kodak Company

--Sateesh B. Lele, CIO, Avon Products, Inc.

--John B. McCoy, President and CEO, Bank One Corporation

--Christopher C. Milliken, President and CEO, Boise Cascade Office Products Corporation

--Thomas H. Murphy, CIO, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

--Clyde W. Ostler, President, Internet Service Group, Wells Fargo & Company

--Stephen Polley, Chairman and CEO, CompUSAnet.com Inc.

--Gideon Sasson, Enterprise President, Electronic Brokerage, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.

--William L. Schrader, Chairman and CEO, PSINet Inc.

--Paul Woeltje, Managing Director, Internet and eBusiness, Nike

--Don Tapscott, Chairman, Alliance for Converging Technologies

--David Ticoll, Managing Director and CEO, Alliance for Converging Technologies; among others.

For a complete list of speakers and a full program agenda, or to register for The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy, please consult the conference web site at http://conferences.businessweek.com/1999/digital/.

For press registration and other press inquiries, please contact Robert Pondiscio by phone at 212/512-6311 or by email at [e-mail]. For information on remaining sponsorship opportunities, contact Jim Richardson at 212/512-4435, or by email at [e-mail]. For information on the program and speaking opportunities at The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy, please contact Mary Holland at 212/512-3733 or by email at [e-mail].

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