****************** AT THE CENTER ******************
************* The electronic newsletter of the ***********
*********** Silicon Valley World Internet
Center **********
*************** Tuesday, January 16, 2001 ************
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for
their continuing support:
EXECUTIVE SPONSORS
* Amdocs, Inc http://www.Amdocs.com
* Deutsche Telekom http://www.dtag.de/english/index.htm
* Fujitsu http://www.Fujitsu.com
* IBM Corporation http://www.ibm.com
* SAP http://www.mysap.com
* Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com
AFFILIATE SPONSOR
* Metiom, Inc. http://www.metiom.com
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ALL PROGRAMS ARE HELD AT THE CENTER UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
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***LIVE WEBCAST INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
17, 2001
“WHAT’S COMING DOWN THE ROAD IN OPEN STANDARDS: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS
FOR THE NEW ECONOMY”
Open to the public. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Limit of 60 participants at
Center. No limit for online participation. Registration necessary.
To register to view the webcast visit: http://webevents.broadcast.com/worldinetctr/011701
Further information below.
***FIRST PUB TALK OF THE YEAR: THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2001
"INTERNET INVESTING IN THE HANGOVER YEAR: SHOULD WE ALL JUST GO
HOME?"
By Ms. Heidi K. Roizen, Managing Director, SOFTBANK Venture Capital
Open to the public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
***Pub Talk: January 25, 2001:
"Inclusion: Virtual Workplaces with Virtually No Limits"
By Inclusion, Speaker TBA Open to the public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Pub
Talk at 6:00 p.m.
***PUB TALK: FEBRUARY 1, 2001
"SAP Solutions for Emerging Enterprises".
By Ms. Rachel Parikh, Solution Manager, SAP Labs, Inc., Palo Alto
Open to the public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
***THINK TANK SESSION: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2001
"THE FUTURE OF COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS: BUILDING A BLUEPRINT FOR
eCOLLABORATIVE OPPORTUNTIES"
8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. By invitation only.
See information below for possible participation.
***SUMMARY: THINK TANK SESSION: JANUARY 10 & 11, 2001:
"THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY & CORPORATE eLEARNING: CURRENT & UPCOMING
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE U.S. MARKET"
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***LIVE WEBCAST INTERACTIVE PANEL DISCUSSION: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
17, 2001
“WHAT’S COMING DOWN THE ROAD IN OPEN STANDARDS: STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS
FOR THE NEW ECONOMY”
Open to the public. 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Limit of 60 participants at
Center. No limit for online participation. Registration necessary.
Further information below.
To register to view the webcast online: http://webevents.broadcast.com/worldinetctr/011701
In the eBusiness world, a multitude of businesses and marketplaces
are attempting to interact. Pivotal to this interaction is the existence
of a common infrastructure, including a mechanism to locate software
services and to share these services. Key eBusiness industry standards,
such as Extensible Markup Language (XML); Universal Description,
Discovery and Integration (UDDI); Simple Object Access Protocol
(SOAP), and other web-based industry standards are emerging. What
is the degree of importance of open standards in the expanding eBusiness
Economy? What challenges exist for common standards in this area?
Coopetition is seen as a hallmark of the New Economy. For instance,
SOAP, as an open standards-based interoperable protocol that uses
XML and provides a common messaging format to link together applications
and services anywhere via the Internet, is a result of IBM, Ariba,
Microsoft, and other industry leaders working together. What is
the future of industry leaders working together for common web-based
industry standards? Do proprietary solutions have a place in the
future of eBusiness and eMarketplaces? In what ways can large and
small companies as well as industry organizations assist in bringing
greater efficiency for the integration of technology across and
between enterprises? What milestones have been met for web-based
industry standards over the last year and which ones are still to
be achieved? And…now that the market is slowing down and re-stabilizing
with the collapse B2C and B2B companies, what impact does this have
on open standards?
PANEL OF EXPERTS
* Dr. Robert S. Sutor, Director of e-business Standards Strategy,
IBM CORPORATION http://www.ibm.com
* Mr. Allen Brown, President & CEO
The OPEN GROUP http://www.opengroup.org
* Mr. Simon Phipps, Chief Software Evangelist
SUN MICROSYSTEMS http://www.sun.com
* Mr. Gary Oliverio, Business Manager, Embedded Products,
RED HAT, INC. http://www.redhat.com
* Mr. David Turner, Senior Program Manager, Data Access and XML
Technologies MICROSOFT CORPORATION http://www.microsoft.com
Those who are not able to be ‘physically present’ at the Center
for this program, will be able to interact with the panelists and
the audience members by submitting questions via a “LIVE WEBCAST.”
REGISTRATION
To register to view the webcast online: http://webevents.broadcast.com/worldinetctr/011701
Those interested in attending the Panel at the Center, need to
register due to limited seating. Please send your name, title, company,
and email address to:
Sara K. Dean
Program Manager
mailto:sdean@worldinternetcenter.com
Tel: 650.462.9800
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***FIRST PUB TALK OF THE YEAR: THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2001
"INTERNET INVESTING IN THE HANGOVER YEAR: SHOULD WE ALL JUST GO
HOME?"
By Ms. Heidi K. Roizen, Managing Director, SOFTBANK Venture Capital
Each day the press brings us reports of dotcom failures, missed
earnings, and technology incubators closing their doors. So is the
Internet craze over? Should we venture folks just return our funds
and go home? Heidi K. Roizen of Softbank Venture Capital, a $1.5
billion fund focused on early stage investing in the technology/internet
sector, will discuss how the market correction has affected the
venture capitalist's role in their portfolio companies, how their
investment strategy has evolved, and what areas she feels will be
attractive to investors such as Softbank in 2001.
ABOUT HEIDI K. ROIZEN
Heidi K. Roizen (http://www.heidi.roizen.com)
is a Managing Director of SOFTBANK Venture Capital since May 1999.
She serves on the Boards of Directors of DoDots Inc., iPrint.com
(Nasdaq: IPRT), Great Plains Software (Nasdaq: GPSI), New Moon,
Preview Systems (Nasdaq: PRVW), and Trapezo. She is an advisory
board member of Time Domain Corporation and Garage.com. Ms. Roizen
is also a member of the Stanford Board of Trustees Nominating Committee.
Prior to this, she was Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations
for Apple Computer (Nasdaq: AAPL). Before joining Apple, she served
for 13 years as CEO of T/Maker Company, a successful software developer
and publisher. Ms. Roizen is a past President of the Software Publisher's
Association and has served as a Public Governor of the Pacific Exchange.
She has been recognized as one of the 100 most influential people
in the microcomputer industry by MicroTimes, Personal Computing
Magazine, and Upside Magazine. She has a BA and an MBA from Stanford
University.
ABOUT SOFTBANK VENTURE CAPITAL
SOFTBANK Venture Capital (http://www.sbvc.com)
is a $1.5 billion venture capital fund focused primarily on early-stage
Internet companies. SOFTBANK VC's managing directors are all experienced
technology leaders with prior operating experience as founders of
early-stage companies, senior managers of major technology corporations,
and leaders in investment banking. SOFTBANK VC's past and current
portfolios include public Internet companies such as Critical Path,
E*TRADE, E-LOAN, GeoCities, Interliant, MessageMedia, Net2Phone,
Support.com and Buy.com.
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***Pub Talk: January 25, 2001:
"inclusion: Virtual Workplaces with Virtually No Limits"
By Inclusion, Speaker TBA
Open to the public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
Inclusion's talk will focus on how it can provide your company
with simple to use, easy to manage services which integrate completely
with a company's communications infrastructure. Regardless of the
chosen forms of communication, Inclusion Workplaces and Marketplaces
will be designed to support the most demanded forms of communication
powerfully and intuitively.
ABOUT INCLUSION
Founded in 1997, Inclusion's (http://www.inclusion.net)
mission is to "Revolutionize work through collaboration". Inclusion's
founders, executives and board members have extensive startup experience.
They have been associated with Software Publishing, Yahoo, the Gap,
Businessland, Apple, CATS, America Online, Intel, Symantec, McKinsey,
Corporate Express, and Proctor & Gamble.
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***PUB TALK: FEBRUARY 1, 2001
"SAP Solutions for Emerging Enterprises"
By Rachel Parikh, Solution Manager, SAP Labs, Inc., Palo Alto
Open to the public. 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Pub Talk at 6:00 p.m.
In this talk, Rachel Parikh will outline SAP's solutions for the
emerging market. These include out-of-the-box eBusiness applications
designed specifically for startups, with an emphasis on affordability
and speed of implementation. Many new economy companies are coming
to the realization that they will not flourish with little more
than an attractive website, and that if they are to survive, they
will need robust and scalable e-business solutions to support their
company growth. They are learning an important fact of business
life: that the need to focus on core business requires a more bottom-up
management of the back office to front office processes. Come learn
about SAP's solutions which are in greater demand than ever by small
businesses.
ABOUT RACHEL PARIKH
Rachel Parikh has been with SAP since 1993, first at SAP's headquarters
in Walldorf, Germany, and since 1996 in the USA. Based at SAP Labs
in Palo Alto, she is currently working as the Solution Manager for
emerging markets, defining and developing an eBusiness solution
for Internet companies and technology start-ups. In the past, Ms.
Parikh has worked as the Product Manager for the mySAP High Tech
industry business unit as well as in consulting and training.
ABOUT mySAP
As the market leader of inter-enterprise software solutions, SAP
(http://www.mysap.com) is leveraging
its strength in industry-focused business software and the world's
largest enterprise software customer base to deliver mySAP.com.
mySAP.com provides an open collaborative business environment of
personalized solutions on demand. This enables companies of all
sizes and industries to fully engage their employees, customers
and partners to capitalize upon the new Internet economy. mySAP.com
allows people to harness the power of the Internet by optimizing
supply chains, managing strategic relationships, reducing time to
market, sharing virtual information, and increasing productivity
and shareholder value.
For further information please contact:
Ms. Rachel Parikh
mailto:rachel.parikh@sap.com
Tel: 650.849.4291
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***THINK TANK SESSION: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2001
"THE FUTURE OF COLLABORATIVE BUSINESS: BUILDING A BLUEPRINT FOR
eCOLLABORATIVE OPPORTUNTIES"
8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. By invitation only.
See information below for possible participation.
This invitation-only Think Tank Session will bring together 25-30
key leaders to brainstorm and discuss future 12 to 18 month market
opportunities for collaborative business, processes that transcend
the borders of individual businesses and support collaboration between
business partners over the Internet.
Current and upcoming market developments for collaborative business
will be explored in the following areas:
* Functional operations - supply chain management (SCM), customer
relationship management (CRM)
* For specific industries
* Business partnerships (suppliers, distribution, retailers)
* Collaboration mediums - corporate-driven (corporate networks),
channel-driven (value-chain hubs), and market-driven (eMarketplaces,
eXchanges)
Established companies, innovative smaller companies, suppliers,
and users will contribute to the discussion. Keynotes will be delivered,
followed by the opportunity to build and exchange knowledge together.
Benefits from participating include insight into upcoming market
developments and networking for business opportunities.
PARTICIPATION
Those interested in participating, send name, title, and company
name along with a short bio and company summary to:
Venilde Jeronimo
Director of Programs
mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com
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***SUMMARY: THINK TANK SESSION: JANUARY 10 & 11, 2001:
"THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY & CORPORATE eLEARNING: CURRENT & UPCOMING
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE U.S. MARKET"
Great Business Ideas for the next 12 to 18 months
The following are "Great Business Ideas for eLearning in the next
12 to 18 Months" as suggested and voted on by attendees of the eLearning
Think Tank Session held at the Center on January 10 and 11, 2001.
Each asterisk is a vote.
Delivery, front and back end
1) Digital Video as a means of sharing & communicating on work
learning situations like emails and Internet Web Sites.
2) Improvements of the platforms for Learning Management Systems
3) **Standards for Learning Management Systems
4) Learning Management Systems that can easily acco9modate "next
generation," blended approach of learning, including formal and
informal learning (knowledge management) and increasing granularization
of content.
5) ***Platform or application that can host all or most media &
monitor the use of the media.
6) Cost-effective access to rich media anywhere.
7) Performance portals for corporations for employees and Internet
service for individuals.
8) eCommerce portal to increase sales by providing an improved learning
experience.
9) *Ability to access the corporate knowledge pool on the road,
i.e., PDA, simple Internet.
10) *Enterprise portal; Catalog & simulation; Manual & simulation
11) Hand-held device for under $100 with a mobile-learning screen
that workers can type in questions about their jobs on one hand,
or get short training programs they want at home, on the road, or
at lunch, on the other hand.
12) Certification in fields such as management and sales.
13) Helping companies create new revenue channels. Content Development
14) Training Lite -- Turning the Iliad into an 8-minute affair,
and weave in game-based retention tool.
15) Exchange for expert-prepared content snippets with tools for
consolidation, use billing.
16) Content Modules that provide the training snippets you want
to customize your own courses and put them together or, we can help
you do it.
17) eLearning as a revenue channel training customers, suppliers,
resellers.
18) Content and didactical methods for self-paced instead of re-use
of classroom content.
19) Adaptive learning and personalization.
20) *Context-based personalization.
21) Design courses with different options to meet student learning
styles.
NEW Targeted Industries
22) Implementation consulting.
23) Learning - motivation consultants
24) Target industry segments such as disability organizations, 2nd
Language Users and Small to Medium Enterprises. Metatags/Objects
25) Meta tagging to allow re-use, qualified search and system support.
26) How do we role out the creation of learning objects?
27) Easy -to-use tools so subject matter experts can quickly & inexpensively
crate content. Tools must include easy ways to tag content for re-use.
28) Ability to pull the right information at the right time to the
right person.
29) ****Learning objects for re-use and customization.
30) ****Technology for easily-applied meta tags to any unit of knowledge.
31) *Better structuring for better re-use.
32) Facilitate digital asset re-use.
33) On-your-screen easy access to knowledge needed (not having to
search through a portal).
Collaboration
34) *Webtanks--Think tanks on the web for collaborative problem
solving.
35) *Holistic approach to eLearning, knowledge management & collaboration.
36) **Collaboration needs bandwidth.
37) ****Software for managing small learning groups effortlessly.
38) Collaboration systems.
39) Organization that focuses on social/community/personal solution.
How do you get people to enter and share knowledge?
40) eLearning as par of communities/web sites is just as important
as the eCommerce component.
41) Collaboration in employees co-designing and improving their
own just-in-time learning resources.
42) Customization and Assessment pairing on C/A links.
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Come join us for our weekly pub, every Thursday from 5:00 -
7:00 p.m. The Pub Talk begins at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 100-120
mid- to high-level executives every week and, as always, is a great
place to come and meet people from the Silicon Valley and all over
the world. Representatives from small start-ups and major companies
to venture capital and academic join in the exchange at the Center
Pub.
It's...
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The dress is casual and there is no fee to attend. Just bring your
good ideas!
Companies with an interest in giving a Pub Talk should contact
Venilde Jeronimo, the Center's Director of Programs (mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com).
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