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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)--Aug. 12, 1999--

Fiorina, Chambers, Bell, Bulkeley, Feld among featured speakers

Senior executives from top companies across America with interest in the competitive implications of digital technologies and eBusiness will gather this December 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.

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, Delta Air Lines, Inc. are just five of the top 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 how and where companies are today in the maturing eBusiness age," 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 will explicate their business model and share their lessons learned 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. , 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. , Legato Systems, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Inc., StorageTek, and USWeb/CKS, the day and a half discussion 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. Top executives will discuss the Next e in the Digital Economy. What is the best e-Business strategy for your company? How do you balance, integrate, and coordinate your e-Business efforts?

Others to be featured at this one-day gathering include:

-- Douglas Atkin, President and CEO, Instinet Corporation

-- Carol Black, President and CEO, Lifetime Television

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

-- Frank Ianna, President, Network Services, AT&T

-- Gary King Gary King may be referring to:
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  • Gary King, New Mexico Attorney General
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, CIO, barnesandnoble.com

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

-- John B. McCoy John B. McCoy was Chairman from November 1999 and Chief Executive Officer from October 1998 of BANK ONE CORPORATION (commercial and consumer bank) until his retirement in December 1999, and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor, BANC ONE CORPORATION, from 1987 to , 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, The Charles Schwab Corporation

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

-- Don Tapscott, Chairman, Alliance for Converging Technologies

-- Madeline Weinstein, Senior VP, Merrill Lynch

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

About Business Week Executive Programs:

Business Week Executive Programs is the premier producer of elite business conferences and meetings in North America. BWEP BWEP Business Water Efficiency Program (Queensland, Australia)  produces more than a dozen conferences worldwide annually, from a private CEO Summit to the Digital Economy industry gathering each December. In addition, BWEP produces regional events in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

About Business Week:

With its worldwide editorial staff of more than 240, Business Week provides in-depth reporting on business situations not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered.  in other publications. Business Week's global circulation of more than one million translates into 6.3 million readers each week. Business Week's parent, The McGraw-Hill Companies, is a 109-year-old multimedia publishing company serving worldwide markets in education, business, industry, and government.

Press inquiries: Robert Pondiscio, 212/512-6311, robert_pondiscio@businessweek.com

Sponsorship information: Jim Richardson, 212/512/3733, jim_richardson@businessweek.com

Speaking opportunities: Jim Spiegelman, 212/512-2712, jspieg@ix.netcom.com

Advance registration: Julie Terranova, 212/512-2184, julie_terranova@businessweek.com

For information on the program and speaking opportunities, please contact Mary Holland at 212/512-3733 or visit the Summit web site at http://conferences.businessweek.com/1999/digital/.
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