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***************** AT THE CENTER *****************
*********** The electronic newsletter of the **********
********** Silicon Valley World Internet Center ********
************* Wednesday, May 23, 2000 *************

The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Executive Sponsors --IBM, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett-Packard Company,and Amdocs, Inc.-- for their continuing support.

The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Executive Sponsors -- IBM, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Deutsche Telekom, Hewlett-Packard Company, and Amdocs, Inc.-- for their continuing support.

CHECK OUT OUR WEBSITE AT:  http://www.worldinternetcenter.com

***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2000
CENTER FELLOW DR. ROBERT COOPER, TO LECTURE ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Open to the public.  Pre-registration required.

***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:  SARA K. DEAN, CENTER'S NEW PROGRAM ASSISTANT
 
***PUB TALK:  THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2000
"FRANKFURT:  BUILDING THE TELECOM & INTERNET HUB OF EUROPE"
By Hartmut Schwesinger, CEO, Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH Open to the Public.

***INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION:  WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2000
"THE ROLE OF OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN STANDARDS IN THE EXPANDING  eBUSINESS ECONOMY"
Open to the Public.  Registration recommended. IBM and Microsoft on the panel.

***THINK TANK SESSION:  THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000
"BREAKING THE BARRIER: B2B MOBILE COMPUTING -- A DREAM OR A REALITY FOR THE NEXT 12-18 MONTH MARKETS?"
By Invitation Only.

***PUB TALK:  THURSDAY, June 1, 2000
"A VIEW INTO PERVASIVE COMPUTING AT IBM"

By Lori Peterson, Pervasive Computing Market Management, IBM
Open to the Public.

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***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2000
CENTER FELLOW DR. ROBERT COOPER, TO LECTURE ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Dr. Robert Cooper, a Fellow of the Center, will be in San Jose, June 5, offering a day-long dynamic session on emotional intelligence for leaders and managers in the corporate sector.  Members of the Center's staff and Advisory Board have attended and found this to be an extraordinary learning and inspirational event. We are pleased to offer a special discount to the Center's constituents. Please see the information below.

"Lessons In Leadership" is pleased to host Dr. Robert Cooper, author of "Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations", on June 5 at the Wyndham Hotel in San Jose. This full day program, "Emotional Intelligence: Excelling Under Pressure," will teach you and others from your organization how to increase effectiveness, vitality, and personal satisfaction in your work day. Dr. Cooper's techniques for combining science, philosophy, and leadership skills have produced positive results for many of the world's most successful companies such as 3M, Sun Microsystems, Ford, Hyatt, Arthur Andersen and Novartis. His books have been published in 19 languages and 45 countries and have been recognized as the leading voice in the practical business applications of the science of "emotional intelligence."

Save $60 per person by registering before May 22. By registering today, you and your coworkers can take advantage of the Early Bird Special of $239 per person versus the regular rate of $299. Ticket price includes all refreshments, materials, lunch, and Dr. Cooper's latest book, "Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations."

Spend the day with Dr. Cooper and learn how to combine the intelligence of your heart and head, and how to hold to integrity while flowing with problems instead of getting overwhelmed or derailed by them.

For more information concerning this event on June 5 in San Jose or to reserve space for you and your team today, please contact Wendy Gillespie at 1-800-760-0593, ext. 1029 or e-mail her at wgillespie@wyn.com.

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***SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT:
SARA K. DEAN CENTER'S NEW PROGRAM ASSISTANT

Join us in welcoming Sara K. Dean as the Center's new Program Assistant! Sara comes to the Center with a background in theater production, having prepared and coordinated the organizational logistics for productions at the Walt Disney Theatrical and Madison Square Garden in New York; and the San Jose Repertory Theatre and the San Jose Children's Musical Theatre in San Jose. Sara will be assisting with the coordination of the various programs at the Center.

Come by the Pub This Thursday to meet Sara!  She can be reached by email at sdean@worldinternetcenter.com.

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***MAY PUBS and PROGRAMS

Our main focus for our monthly Pubs, Think Tank Sessions, and other programs for May is on eBusiness and eServices for both B2B and B2C.

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***PUB TALK:  THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2000
"FRANKFURT:  BUILDING THE TELECOM & INTERNET HUB OF EUROP
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By Hartmut Schwesinger, CEO, Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Open to the Public with Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.

For all interested in opening up your company's activities in Germany, this is a key presentation for you.  Hartmut Schwesinger will discuss technical and business opportunities in the Frankfurt region for your company to take advantage of one of Europe's most dynamic and future oriented clusters for telecommunications and eBusinesses.  With major international telcos, such as MCIWorldCom, Deutsche Telekom, Colt Telecom, Level3, Metromedia Fiber Networks, Frankfurt offers plenty of opportunities for new market entrants. Adding to this excellent infrastructure is Continental Europe's largest Internet knot, the so-called "DE-CIX", which amounts to 85% of all German Internet traffic.

Frankfurt is considered the "heart" of the German Internet.

ABOUT FRANKFURT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GMBH

The Frankfurt/Rhine Main region is strategically located in the center of Europe.  As most major European cities are accessible within two hours by plane car or train, you can do business in almost every European market in "one" business day. Through the largest airport on the European continent with the most connections to North-America (280 per week), the concept of international business becomes more practical. San Francisco is just 10 hours away from Frankfurt.

Frankfurt is the No. 1 location for financial services in Europe. The European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bank are the largest of 375 banks located in this region.  This strong financial presence gives you fast access to capital for your investments. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange - one of the most important in Europe, with its Neuer Markt, offers going public as the perfect continuation of and conclusion to Venture Capital investments in young and growing companies.  The Neuer Markt is Europe's No.1 trading place for technology stocks.

ABOUT HARMUT SCHWESINGER

Dr. Hartmut Schwesinger has been Chief Executive of Frankfurt Economic Development GmbH since January 1, 1994.  Dr. Schwesinger was the first to introduce an Internet homepage for Frankfurt in 1994/95, picking up early trends from the Silicon Valley he called this platform "Frankfurt Digital Marketplace." (http://www.frankfurt-business.de).  Prior to this, he worked for Deutsche Shell AG of the Royal Dutch Shell Group.

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***INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION:  WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 2000
"THE ROLE OF OPEN SOURCE AND OPEN STANDARDS IN THE EXPANDING eBUSINESS ECONOMY"
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. at the Silicon Valley World Internet Center
Open to the Public.
Limit: 60 audience participants.
Fee $10.00 (Payable by cash or check at day of event. No fee to Sponsors.)
RSVP to Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs, (venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).

MODERATOR
Dr. Susan J. Duggan, Chief Executive Officer, Silicon Valley World Internet Center

PANEL OF EXPERTS
Mr. Scott Hebner, Program Director of e-Business Technology Marketing, IBM
Mr. Doug Miller, Group Product Manager for Competitive & Interoperability Strategies, Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Cliff Miller, Chief Executive Officer, Turbo Linux
Mr. Arno Puder, Project Manager, Deutsche Telekom
Representative from Sun Microsystems (TBA)

DESCRIPTION
Executive Sponsors of, and others associated with, the Center will discuss the Open Source Movement and its impact on the expanding eBusiness economy.  Is open source software creating a new vision for the software industry?  If so, will it succeed and where is it going?

The various essays in the controversial 1999 volume "Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution" clearly claim open development builds better software and emphasize that businesses can leverage freely available software for a competitive business advantage. The Open Source Movement has rocketed and divided the software industry. Is the widespread adoption of Linux, Perl, and Apache a trend or a revolution for the software industry? What about the corporate support given to the Open Source Movement by IBM, Netscape, and Oracle?  Is this a short-term phenomena or is it a larger issue, calling for new directions in the future of software development?

Come participate in our open dialogue with our panel on this fast-growing industry movement.

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***THINK TANK SESSION:  THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000
"BREAKING THE BARRIER: B2B MOBILE COMPUTING --
A DREAM OR A REALITY FOR THE NEXT 12-18 MONTH MARKETS?"
By Invitation Only.
8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

What mission-critical mobile applications will permeate the next 12-18 month B2B markets? What challenges will technologists face to arrive at these new applications?  What factors will define successful business implementation of  today's existing mobile applications?  And, which aspects of mobile business needs will call for new technologies and applications?

Twenty-five invitation only participants will contribute to defining the challenges, obstacles, and current and future solutions of real world case studies in the business realm of mobile computing.  During this Think Tank Session participants will create solutions around several real world case studies on transportation and financial markets (tba).  The objective of the Think Tank Session is to delineate key challenges to existing mobile business cases and to outline technological and business applications as possible solutions.

Guiding questions for the Think Tank Session:

*  Now that we live in a mobile workplace, what mobile applications and  scenarios will will permeate the next B2B 12-18 month markets?

*  More importantly, what B2B mobile computing applications need to be developed in order for them to become mainstream? Are there business scenarios we can anticipate?

*  What logistical or information problems can now be resolved in the New Economy's mobile marketplace through the development of these applications?

*  What new technology problems do we face in the mobile marketplace and which ones can we still not resolve?

*  How do we integrate and deliver information from traditional, centralized communications systems to mobile devices?  And to what extent does the centralized system need to be aware that users are mobile?

*  How can we better implemet existing mobile applications? What are the obstacles?

*  What challenges can we expect for the deployment of mobile applications and how can we prepare to meet and implement them?

For possible participation, contact the Center's Director of Programs, Venilde Jeronimo, by email (venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).

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***PUB TALK:  THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2000
"A VIEW INTO PERVASIVE COMPUTING AT IBM
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By Lori Peterson, Pervasive Computing Market Management, IBM Corporation

Open to the Public.
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Open to the Public with Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.

Lori Peterson will discuss IBM's initiatives in the area of pervasive computing and how your company can benefit from IBM's developments in this area.

ABOUT IBM CORPORATION

IBM is the world's largest information technology company, with 80 years of leadership in helping businesses innovate. IBM Software offers the widest range of applications, middleware and operating systems for all types of computing platforms, allowing customers to take full advantage of the new era of e-business. The fastest way to get more information about IBM software is through the IBM Software home page at http://www.software.ibm.com.

Further information in next week's newsletter.

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***JOIN US FOR OUR WEEKLY PUB

Come join us for our weekly pub, every Thursday from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

The Pub Talk begins at 6 p.m.  As always, the Pub is a great place to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and all over the world. Representatives from small start-ups to major companies join in the exchange at the Center Pub. It's...

   "The best reason to take off work early on Thursdays."

For directions, please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com and click on "directions" in the navigation bar.

The dress is casual and there is no fee. Just bring your good ideas!

Pub Talks are by invitation only, but companies with an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs, by email (venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).

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