The European Commission has
just announced six keynote speakers for strategic Plenary Sessions
at the eBusiness and eWork conference that is planned for October
2002. The plenary speakers were named as:
Simon Breakwell, Managing Director
and Vice President, Expedia
Sergio Giacoletto, Executive Vice President, Oracle
John Meyer, President, EDS
Eric Molyneux, Director, Video Arts
Geoff Sutton, Director, MSN.co.uk
Rosalie Zobel, Director, The European Commission
The e2002 conference is supported
by Key Action II of the European Commission's IST Programme.
Key Action II is an initiative focused on supporting research
and development in the area of New Methods of Work and Electronic
Commerce.
The eBusiness and eWork conference
series attracts the support of leading industrial companies,
and is main forum for publishing the results from Key Action
II projects and exchanging information on e-Business and all
Internet technologies. The conferences regularly attract well
over 500 delegates.
e2000 is expected to run over three-days and will have up to
six streams of technical sessions and there will be the usual
supporting exhibition of demonstrations and posters.
The European Commission has
also just published the call for papers for e2002. Abstracts
of up to 300 words have to be submitted by email before the end
of February. All the
chosen papers will be published in a quality book that will be
subsequently marketed globally.
It is still acknowledged that
the Internet is making a significant contribution to successful
globalisation and the restructuring of business. Last year's
e2001 event in Venice demonstrated that Europe is well placed
in the development of many leading edge technologies in this
field. e2001 attracted 540 delegates from 356 organisations from
36 countries.
The venue for the 2002 event
is the Corinthian Towers Hotel in Prague and the conference takes
place 16-18 October. The choice of Prague may be seen as a contribution
to the enlargement process of the European Union and the wish
to encourage the exchange of information on Information Society
Technologies, and related social and policy issues, with the
Newly Associated States.
The conference will take place
at a time when the EU's 6th Framework Programme for research
and technological development is getting underway. The event
will provide opportunities for Europe's eBusiness researchers
and industrialists to build networks for collaborative research
within the 6th Framework Programme.
The eBusiness and eWork events
are the conferences for RTD projects in Key Action II of the
IST Programme. Key Action II of the IST Programme is also the
primary sponsor of the eBusiness and eWork conference series.
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