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E-2001 takes place, by kind permission
of Telecom Italia, in the Future Centre, Venice-. This is the
eleventh in a series of Annual conferences supported by the European
Commission and covers topics in New Methods of Work and Electronic
Commerce, which is part of the Commission's Information Society
Technologies (IST) programme. The Conference provides a forum
for presentations and discussions of new highly innovative developments
in e-work, e-business and e-commerce and issues related to individuals,
organisations and markets in the emerging digital economy. The
programme combines strategic keynote presentations, technical
papers, an exhibition and social activities.
- Plenary sessions
- Keynote speakers already include:
Ingo Juraske a Director of Compaq on Change - the only constant
in eBusiness
Stefan Pilotti of Canon on E-business as a driver for change
towards pan-European organisation
Robert Lloyd of Cisco on Moving from email to a fully integrated
Internet Ecosystem
- Val Rahamani from IBM, Freddy Tengberg
from Buyonet and a speaker from Telecom Italia.
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- Technical sessions
- It is expected that there will be seven
parallel sessions of six streams. Typical sessions will cover
commercial applications, education and training, local government
use, security aspects, legal issues and so on.
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- Exhibition
- The exhibition will consist of posters
and demonstrations covering eBusiness and eWork project results,
software applications, services and publications. Posters must
describe potential industrial benefits and be mainly visual,
with any further details in handouts. The exhibition call will
appear with the advance programme.
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- Social activities
- The social programme will include excursions
the following weekend, two evening cocktail receptions and a
daily partners' programme during the conference. Delegates who
stay on for the following weekend should be able to obtain special
APEX fares.
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- Sponsors
- The advance programme will include a call
for sponsors. Major sponsors for e-2001 include The European
Commission and Telecom Italia, who have generously provided use
of their corporate premises in Venice. Sponsorship can cover
a range of attractive items and activities, such as: pens or
promotional gifts, an evening cocktail, other social activities
or support services like a Cyber Café. Prominent notice
will be given to sponsors in the publicity and at the conference.
Previous sponsors have included Daimler Benz, Gemplus, GMD, ITATEL,
Nokia, Philips, Thomson CSF and Thomson Multimedia. Major sponsors
have been ARM Ltd, Ericsson and Siemens and the major sponsors
for e-2000 were Infineon Technologies and Canon.
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- Submission of Abstracts
- Abstracts are invited for e2001. Papers
are welcome from all sources and not just Community Programmes.
The conference language is English and abstracts should be for
technical papers or for arranging complete sessions. Abstracts,
no more than 300 words, should be emailed by 28 February 2001
to:
- Paul T Kidd, abstracts@cheshirehenbury.com
(telephone: +44 1625 619313)
- The abstract heading should state the
title of the paper and the principal author's name and organisation,
address, telephone, fax and email. Please use econf followed
by your surname as the subject. In the case of joint authors,
communications will be with the first named author who will be
assumed to be the presenter unless we are informed otherwise.
Any number of abstracts may be submitted but normally an author
will not be invited to present more than one paper.
The Conference will follow a format of twenty minutes allowed
for technical presentations, including questions. The event takes
place in the attractive city of Venice and the author's registration
fee will be approximately 550 Euro. Papers cannot be presented
or published in the proceedings unless presenters have registered
and paid the participant's fee before the papers are sent to
the publisher. Authors, therefore, will need to have paid by
end of June
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- Publishing schedule
- Technical and plenary papers will be professionally
published in book form, which will be issued on the opening day
and later marketed throughout the industrial world. This requires
the following time scale:
- Abstracts submitted before end February
- Abstracts accepted by end March
- Draft papers submitted by end April
- The Programme Committee's comments returned
by end May
- Final papers to be delivered in camera-ready
format by end June
- Topics include, but are not restricted
to:
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