MIT Sloan Club of Boston to host 'eLearning Symposium'; The three-track symposium will explore the future of corporate eLearning.

Business/Technology Editors & Education Writers

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 2, 2002

The MIT Sloan Club of Boston is hosting its Annual Spring Symposium, focusing on the exciting innovations in the eLearning market, on May 18, 2002 at the MIT Tang Center.

The Symposium will feature three keynote presentations highlighting real-world eLearning corporate success stories: Professor Andrew W. Lo of the MIT Sloan School of Management and Kathy Goldreich of Merrill Lynch (NYSE: MER); Jerry Nine, EVP of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at SkillSoft (Nasdaq: SKIL); and Tom Kelly, Vice President, Internet Learning Solutions Group at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO). In addition, Elliott Masie of The Masie Center will lead a special capstone session at the end of the Symposium.

This year's Symposium, "Meeting the Productivity Challenge: Exploring the Present and Future of Corporate eLearning," will also feature three discussion tracks. The three tracks, entitled, The eLearning Value Chain, eLearning to Improve Business Performance, and eLearning Innovation - Technology and Business Processes, will utilize presentations and case studies from industry leading companies and organizations to provoke dynamic, interactive discussions. The symposium will also highlight the newest innovations in eLearning in the DemoZone.

"Corporate eLearning initiatives can play a critical role in helping companies impact their bottom line," says Tom Kelly of Cisco Systems. "We hope the symposium will help industry leaders understand the business rationale, best practices, and critical success factors essential to making eLearning a strategic force in the corporate enterprise."

Participants in the Symposium include Thomson Learning, Gadsby Hannah LLP, Saba, EMC, X.HLP, FleetBoston, Athenium, Viant, IBM, Allegro Strategy, Sylvan Ventures, Arcadia Capital, JP Morgan, IBM MindSpan, Knowledge Impact, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, OutStart, InsightShare, cpSquare, and EduVentures. Other companies participating in the DemoZone include Dendrite, LifeFX, Click2Learn, Integrated Information Systems, and mGen.

"The MIT Sloan Club of Boston is committed to the life-long learning of our alumni in the Greater Boston area," said Perry Solomon, a Director of the MIT Sloan Club of Boston and an organizer of the eLearning Symposium. "We host many events, including these annual symposia, to provide a forum to address the issues of great interest to our alumni, such as the impact of eLearning on the corporate environment."

Merrill Lynch, The Boston E-Learning Association, SkillSoft, Monderer Design, Ripple Effect Communications and Gadsby Hannah LLP are sponsoring the symposium. For more information or to register for the symposium, please visit http://www.acteva.com/go/sloanboston.

The MIT Sloan Club of Boston is an alumni-led organization, providing a social and professional network to alumni of the MIT Sloan School of Management living and working in the greater New England area. For more information, please visit the MIT Sloan Club of Boston website at http://mitsloan.mit.edu/alum/index.html