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Chief Executive Officer Carly Fiorina Addresses the New Era Miami Beach, Fla., Sept. 9, 1999 -- Here today at the E-servicesWorld Executive Conference, Carleton (Carly) S. Fiorina, recently appointed president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Company, delivered the opening keynote on how e-services will be the new era for Internet computing. Approximately 700 Fortune 500 senior executives have gathered for the two-day E-servicesWorld conference to learn how companies can capitalize on e-services to create new revenue streams, more effectively reach customers and drive efficiencies across their organizations. Fiorina described how the new era of the Internet will transform every aspect of our lives. "With the acceptance of the Internet and World Wide Web as surrogates for the enterprise backbone and because of the economic promise of electronic commerce, telephony and entertainment, we are perched on the brink of truly ubiquitous computing -- a pervasive technology," she said. Other featured speakers at the event include Fred Steingraber, chairman and chief executive officer, A.T. Kearney; William Coleman III, founder, chairman and chief executive officer, BEA Systems; Jacob Huberman, vice president, InterNetworking Marketing, Lucent Technologies, Inc.; Raymond J. Lane, president and chief operating officer, Oracle Corporation; and Lewis Wilks, president of Internet and Multi-Media, Qwest. The conference, set at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel, also features keynotes by a forum of the most influential business leaders and visionaries, including Buzz Aldrin, chairman of the National Space Society; John Perry Barlow, founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation; Michael Dertouzos, director, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science; and Danny Hillis, vice president of R&D, The Walt Disney Company. E-servicesWorld is sponsored by industry leaders including A.T. Kearney, Inc.; BEA Systems, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard Company; Lucent Technologies, Inc.; Oracle Corporation; and Qwest Communications. Other sponsors include Ariba, Inc.; BroadVision, Inc.; ClearCommerce Corporation; EAI; FreeMarkets; i2 Technologies, Inc.; Intelisys; InterWorld Corporation; Questra; and Security First Technologies. The organizer of the E-servicesWorld conference series, Hemisphere Information Services, Inc., is a full-service event-management company based in San Jose, Calif. The company provides event planning and management services to clients worldwide, for conferences and tradeshows held in the Americas, Europe and Asia. More information is available by contacting Hemisphere at (408) 557-8370. News and photos from the E-servicesWorld conference are available at www.eservicesworld.com/press. # # # EDITORIAL CONTACT: |
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