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The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: EXECUTIVE
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NETWORK PARTNERS Check out the Center's Web site: http://www.worldinternetcenter.com Past copies of newsletters and directions to the Center are available on the Web site. All programs are held at the Center unless otherwise noted.
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center thanks its Sponsors for their continuing support: CABLE
& WIRELESS ANNOUNCEMENT: JANUARY 2002 CHALLENGE-THE-EXPERT:
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2002 WORKING
GROUP MEETING: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2002 NO
PUB: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2002 CENTER
ANNOUNCEMENT: WINTER 2002
Cable & Wireless, an Executive Sponsor of the Center, would like for your business to run more efficiently with eMessaging Solutions provided by Cable & Wireless. Communicate more effectively via eMail - keep in touch with customers, prospects, shareholders or any other community with Cable & Wireless eMessaging Solutions. Cable & Wireless has the capacity to handle your largest eMail broadcasts by providing personalization tools to create messages that build a one-to-one relationship with your audience as well as having the accountability of the industry's most comprehensive delivery reports, allowing maximum reach with minimum expense. FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION http://www.cw.com/th_03.asp?ID=ems_us
Cable & Wireless is using a combination of Extranets and Web services to deliver the Internet promise to companies. This entails changing the way we look at the way service is delivered and blended, as well as the new ways of managing business' expectations online. During the first hour, Mr. Deane McIntyre will explore some of these new business models and show the importance of Extranets for making the most from this new environment. An interactive discussion with the audience challenging Mr. McIntyre on his views will take place during the second hour. ABOUT
DEANE MCINTYRE ABOUT
CABLE & WIRELESS Cable & Wireless' Global focus for future growth is on IP (Internet Protocol) and data services and solutions for business customers. It is developing advanced IP networks and value-added services in the US, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region in support of this strategy. With the capability of its global IP infrastructure and its financial strength, Cable & Wireless holds a unique position in terms of global coverage and services to business customers. REGISTRATION Ms. Glenda Garcia
As a result of a series of programs last fall, the Center is hosting a Working Group this winter and spring on "Dynamic Information Integration: The Role of the Feedback Loop." A group of 12 invited participants will analyze and discuss various aspects of dynamic information integration over the next several months, including: • The
role and importance of explicit models FIRST
WORKING GROUP MEETING • How
can we integrate this feedback loop of results and impact of business
decisions into the systems to optimize future decision process? FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION Dr. Venilde
Jeronimo
The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is offering metaware-related companies (those with applications, tools, and frameworks that attack the complexity of enterprise information management) the opportunity to showcase themselves during Winter 2002 at the Center's Thursday Pub -- a serious, weekly networking event for mid- to high-level executives, technologists, and investors in the bay area. The fee of $1,500 includes promotional activities on behalf of the company and other benefits. This is a special, time-restricted offer, reduced from the normal Pub Talk fee of $2,500. There is LIMITED availability for a few companies to present their metaware. Companies with an interest should submit an executive summary with contact information to: Dr. Venilde
Jeronimo SHOWCASE
FOCUS For one thing, the velocity of information has increased with new software packages and business processes being implemented to offer realtime data availability. The challenge of maintaining such realtime information -- that is complete, current, and consistent across different IT systems -- is significant. It requires a major overhaul of an enterprise's information infrastructure. At the same time, the "walls" of enterprises are falling; that is, software-enabled intra-enterprise collaboration cuts across functional silos. Business partners, vendors, and customers are allowed selective access to and control over the enterprise's resources, linked by collaborative commerce, supply-chain optimization, and other applications. Furthermore, handheld and mobile devices are proliferating with most of us depending on cell phones, personal digital assistants, or other "smart" gadgets to keep us plugged in. Taken together, these developments add up to some major headaches for the IT department. • To manage this complexity, what infrastructure, applications, tools, and frameworks -- "metaware" -- exist that will restore order and remove some of the complexity? • What metaware needs to be developed? • "Simplicity" and "integration" are hot concepts for 2002. How are these concepts being incorporated with metaware? • Are Web Services and Extensible Markup Language (XML) enabling the distribution of intelligence across the network? Recent market developments are targeting such questions. Companies like Ipedo with its XML database and XML cache are achieving performance improvement over relational database approaches in achieving dynamic, personalized content across the network. KnowNow and Kenamea are creating "application routers" for a world in which Web services are the default mechanism for business-to-business (B2B) collaboration. Centerpost, a metaware company addressing the application layer by hiding the complexity involved in managing heterogeneous devices or transport layers, lets customers manage customer relationships easily across platforms by defining the interaction and the expected actions and letting Centerpost worry about the rest of it. Not surprising, Microsoft is trying to become a standard fixture of the XML Web services infrastructure through its .Net and HailStorm initiatives while Sun Microsystems is focusingon Sun ONE (Open Net Environment). SHOWCASE
BENEFITS & DELIVERABLES • Promote Pub Talk in the Center's eNewsletter for three weeks. Listing includes, title, summary, name and bio of presenter, and information on the company (including a link to the company's URL), and any company contact information. Newsletter goes out to 5,500+ individuals. • Promote of Pub Talk on Center's Website. Pub Talk will be posted for three weeks on the home page and from then on archived in the Programs section on the Center's Web site, accessible to anyone viewing Center past programs. • Promote company collaterals and materials, including powerpoint presentation delivered at the Pub Talk in PDF format, on Center's Website alongside the Pub Talk announcement. • Promote Pub Talk two weeks prior to the Pub date at the Center's weekly Pub. • Company presentation at the Center, delivered to 80-100 key executives, technologists, and investors from Silicon Valley (and from elsewhere). • Q&A with and feedback from those in attendance. • Marketing collaterals distributed during the evening. • Attendance by company representatives, networking the crowd during the two hours to generate leads for business opportunities. • Invitations from the Center to companies from the Pub company's database to attend, if appropriate. • Wine and non-alcoholic beverages as well as finger foods served during the evening. • Set-up and cleaning fees.
The Pub Talk
begins at 6 p.m. The Pub gathers 80-100 mid- to
For directions, please visit http://www.worldinternetcenter.com and click on directions. 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 For inquiries about upcoming Center programs, send an email to mailto:venilde@worldinternetcenter.com To unsubscribe from this eNewsletter, contact Ms. Glenda Garcia at mailto:garcia@worldinternetcenter.com
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