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


NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 24, 1999--

Lawson Software (Lawson Software, St. Paul, MN, www.lawson.com) A software company that specializes in ERP for vertical markets including health care, retail, public sector, professional and financial services.  and StorageTek to host Executive Briefings

Senior executives from top companies across America focused on the competitive implications of digital technologies and e-business will gather next week in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  for The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy, Business Week announced today.

The Conference will convene December 1-2, 1999 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.

This year's event will feature Executive Briefing Breakfasts hosted by Lawson Software and StorageTek on Thursday morning, December 2nd. The briefings will feature top-tier executives including Jim Bartlett Jim Baker Bartlett (born May 27, 1932 in Verdun, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian former ice hockey left winger, principally for the New York Rangers. Playing career , Corporate Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, StorageTek; Dean Hager, Vice President, eBusiness Strategy, Lawson Software; Terry Diane Byers, Senior Vice President and CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. , American Floral Services, Inc.; and Rina Delmonico, Senior Vice President and CIO CIO: see American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations.


(Chief Information Officer) The executive officer in charge of information processing in an organization.
, Schwinn/GT Cycling and Fitness.

"The Fourth Annual Business Week Conference on the Digital Economy will focus on technical expertise that will revolutionize the way we do business," said Dave Ferm, president of Business Week. "The conference offers an array of innovative e-business strategies that can maximize a company's profit-making potential. Leaders in information technology will share their business models for success and the challenges they have overcome in the Digital Economy."

Presented by Business Week in partnership with Hewlett-Packard Company, sponsored by CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. , E.piphany, Lawson Software, Legato Systems, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Inc., Novell, StorageTek, and USWeb/CKS, and with the support of Wharton Executive Education, the intense day-and-a-half conference 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: Carly Fiorina Cara Carleton "Carly" Fiorina (born Cara Carleton Sneed; September 61954 in Austin, Texas) is an American business executive, best known as former CEO (1999–2005) and Chairman of the Board (2000–2005) of Hewlett-Packard (HP). , President and 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. , Hewlett-Packard Company, Lawrence J. Ellison, Chairman and CEO, Oracle Corporation, Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO, Novell, Inc. Douglas Atkin, President and CEO, Instinet Corporation, Jonathan Bulkeley, CEO, barnesandnoble.com Michael L. Eskew Michael L. Eskew is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer, United Parcel Service. He is currently on the Board of 3M and IBM. Education
  • Vincennes Rivet High School
  • Purdue University
, Executive Vice President, United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world.  of America, Inc. Charles S. Feld, CIO, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Carl E. Gustin, Jr., Chief Marketing Officer and Senior VP , Eastman Kodak Company, Ellen M. Hancock, President and CEO, Exodus Communications Exodus Communications was a high-flying internet hosting and service provider to dot-com businesses that went broke along with their customers. Exodus inception
Exodus was founded in 1992 as Fouress, Inc., and reincorporated in 1994 to Exodus Communications.
 Inc., Alan G. Lafley, President, Global Beauty Care Division, Procter & Gamble, and Interim CEO, Reflect.com, Sateesh B. Lele, Senior Vice President and CIO, Avon Products Avon Products, Inc. NYSE: AVP is a US cosmetics, perfume and toy seller with markets in over 135 countries across the world and sales of $8.1 billion worldwide as of 2005. , Inc., Jessica Marshall, Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Lifetime Online, Bud Mathaisel, CIO, Solectron Corporation, Halsey Minor Halsey Minor (born 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 (initial plans for the company began in 1992). He is currently investing in new companies via Minor Ventures. , Chairman and CEO, CNET, Inc., James Murdoch James Murdoch is the name of multiple people:
  • James Murdoch (media executive) (born 1972), CEO of British Sky Broadcasting and son of Rupert Murdoch
  • James Murdoch (Scottish journalist) (1856-1921), Scots journalist, and teacher in Japan, Australia and South America,
, Executive Vice President, News Corporation, Clyde W. Ostler, Group Executive Vice President, Wells Fargo Internet Services Group, David C. Peterschmidt, Chairman, President and CEO, Inktomi Inc., Stephen Polley, Chairman and CEO, cozone.com, Richard J. Rzasa, Executive Vice President and CIO, TD Waterhouse, Gideon Sasson, Enterprise President, Electronic Brokerage, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., William L. Schrader, Chairman and CEO, PSINet Inc., Don Tapscott, Chairman, Alliance for Converging Technologies, David Ticoll, Managing Director and CEO, Alliance for Converging Technologies, Linus Torvalds, Creator, Linux, 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 Judy Jorgensen by phone at 415/695-1847 or by email at jsjorgensen@worldnet.att.net. 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 mary_holland@businessweek.com.

About Business Week:

Business Week is the world's largest business magazine, with a worldwide circulation of 1,064,580 and nearly 5.8 million readers each week. Business Week has far more full-time correspondents, including technology and finance specialists, in more cities around the world, than any other business magazine. Business Week's editorial staff consists of 165 editorial employees at New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 headquarters, 51 correspondents in 14 news bureaus in the U.S., and 21 international correspondents in 13 bureaus.

Business Week is published weekly by The McGraw-Hill Companies in New York and is read in more than 130 countries. Nineteen ninety-nine marks the magazine's 70th anniversary: the first issue of Business Week was published on September 7, 1929. In 1994 and again in 1996, Business Week received the National Magazine Award for General Excellence (one million-plus circulation), the most prestigious award in the magazine industry. Business Week has won seven National Magazine Awards and has been a finalist 13 times in the last nine years.

Business Week's Executive Programs are private forums for invited senior executives. Held more than a dozen times each year in the United States, Asia and Europe, they have become premier business leadership events.

Business Week Online ( http://www.businessweek.com ), the magazine's award-winning interactive electronic service, was launched on America Online in 1994 (keyword: BW)and on the World Wide Web in 1996. Each week, Business Week Online provides complete access to the magazine's North America and international editions, before the magazine hits newsstands.

Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies today provides information and analysis in multiple media through its rich portfolio of valuable brands.

Sales in 1998 were $3.7 billion.

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