Electronic Commerce Symposium
Monday, October 1
Learn from successful electronic commerce
executives and analysts in these wide-ranging
discussions of their experiences selling online to
businesses and consumers and get an update on exciting
new trends like Web auctions, buyer-driven commerce and
the explosion of Internet commerce opportunities
internationally.
Forum Moderator: Tom Kuegler, General Partner,
Porthos Consulting
Sponsored by:
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Kate Sullivan, COO, e-Citi, Citigroup
11:15 AM - 12:30 PM
Multi-Channel Retailing: Making It Work
Multi-channel retailers - those with storefront,
online and/or mail order points of service - are
expected to dominate online consumer sales by next year.
Learn from successful practitioners how multi-channel
delivers what retailers, manufacturers and consumers
need, while achieving the goals of greater sales, cost
efficiencies and profits. See what it takes to sell more
products and services through all access and delivery
points and understand the necessity of combining online
sales, physical stores and existing brands.
Carl Loeb, CEO and Founder, Etera
Corporation
Ken Schneider, President, Etera
Networks
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Collaborative Commerce
Beyond the Web storefront, electronic commerce
enables a merchant to collaborate more effectively with
customers, employees, suppliers and trading partners,
rapidly increasing a company's responsiveness and
integrating the entire value chain online. Learn the
best practices in collaborative commerce and discuss the
latest trends that are transforming the process of
selling online.
Moderator: Mark McDonald, Director of the
Center for Process Excellence,
Accenture
Panelists: Cliff Stockley, Vice
President of Client Services, Framework
Technologies
Ramesh Balakrishnan, Co-Founder,
ePropose
Paul Gilmartin, Vice President of
Product Management, MatrixOne, Inc.
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
EC Visions
In this popular and wide-ranging exploration of the
near future, join a group of visionaries and experts in
a five- and ten-year perspective on new developments
including m-commerce, intelligent agents, XML standards,
collaborative commerce, biometrics, smart cards, 3D
storefronts and more.
Moderator: Michael Drapkin, Chair of the
E-Commerce Track, Advanced Information Technology
Management Program, Columbia University
Panelists:
David Kanstedt, Vice President, Internet Search
Group, AltaVista
Ray Dolan, President and CEO,
Flarion Technologies
John McEleney, COO,
SolidWorks Corporation
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