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DJ: Year 2000 Wire/IT Professionals Gather For SPG's "YEAR 2000 Conference &
Expo" In New York - The Largest Y2K Conference Ever
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 1998--
Next Stop: Orlando, April 20 - 22; Philadelphia Added To
First and Largest Series on Millennium Computing Challenge
SPG Conference & Expositions' YEAR 2000 Conference & Expo, the first,
largest, and most focused series for business and technology management
chartered with solving Year 2000 challenges, last week completed the largest
and most successful Y2K conference ever.
The next installment of the series takes place April 20-22,1998 in Orlando,
Fla. In addition, SPG officials announced they have added an eighth
conference to the series that will take place in Philadelphia on Nov. 17-19,
1998.
Under the theme "Stop Panicking, Start Solving," attendees gathered for
three days at the New York Hilton & Towers to kick off SPG's 1998 series and
hear a prestigious roster of experts, consultants, and peers discuss
technical and practical solutions, project management strategies, and the
risks and issues associated with the Year 2000 date change in information
systems.
Now in its fourth year, the conference/expo series explores strategies from
a management perspective on the business, legal, and financial consequences
that will affect computing infrastructures in the coming millennium. Unlike
many academic or commercially driven conferences, SPG's YEAR 2000 Conference
& Expo focuses on practical and tangible solutions and guidelines for
IT-reliant businesses and organizations. Representatives from companies such
as AT&T, NBC, Prudential, John Deere, and Kraft Foods were among the
speakers, panelists, and presenters.
The New York meeting was the first conference led by Leon Kappelman, Ph.D.,
SPG's new conference chairman and co-chair of the Society for Information
Management's Year 2000 Working Group. Along with SPG's 10-member Executive
Advisory Board of leading Year 2000 experts, Kappelman has reinvigorated the
conference with a sharpened focus on pragmatic solutions to meet the
date-change challenge head on.
"The goal of our conference series is to help attendees succeed with their
year 2000 projects," said Kappelman. "The focus is on pragmatic, practical
solutions and is rooted in the belief that savvy IT professionals don't have
time for posturing about doomsday scenarios. They're too busy gathering the
tools, talent, and strategies they need to successfully rise above this
daunting challenge. Our conference series continues to be the best because
it delivers these resources to a clientele that is focused on solutions, not
panic."
Analysts Share Insights and Strategies
Attendees crowded the Hilton's meeting rooms and ballrooms to
hear some of the industry's most knowledgeable experts, consultants,
analysts, and software executives share their valuable insights and
approaches to solving the challenges posed by the Year 2000 issue. The
conference featured more than 30 workshops, breakout sessions, keynote
speeches, and vendor/practitioner case histories aligned in three
tracks: technical and practical solutions, project management, and
enterprise issues and risks.
In addition, plenary keynotes from Peter de Jager, president of
de Jager & Company (www.year2000.com); Paul Strassmann, president and
publisher of the Information Economics Press; and Dr. Edward Yardeni,
chief economist and managing director for Deutsche Morgan Grenfell
drew large crowds each day of the conference.
The Expo portion of the program on March 19-20 featured nearly
50 Year 2000 solution providers, tool vendors, and system integrators,
including several conference co-sponsors that continue to support
SPG's YEAR 2000 Conference & Expo series. "SPG has once again
demonstrated that they are the number-one Y2K showcase in the U.S.,"
said David Reingold, senior vice president of Computer Horizons Corp.
Series Continues Next Month
The next installment of the SPG YEAR 2000 Conference & Expo
Series takes place April 20-22, 1998 at the Marriott Orlando World
Resort in Orlando, Fla. In addition, YEAR 2000 Conferences are
scheduled in Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, and
Philadelphia, the most recent addition to the series schedule. For
detailed information on the YEAR 2000 Conference & Expo series and
other events produced by SPG Conferences & Expositions, access their
Web site at www.spgnet.com/conf.
About SPG Conferences & Expositions
SPG Conferences & Expositions is a division of Ullo
International. Based in Natick, Mass., this division specializes in
bringing buyers and sellers together to learn to use advanced software
technologies in supporting business goals. In addition to SPG
Conferences & Expositions, Ullo International also serves the IT
marketplace through Application Development Trends, SPG Analyst
Services, and J.R. Schuman Associates.
CONTACT: SPG Conferences & Expositions
Natalie Zodda, 508/652-1257
nzodda@spgnet.com
OR
Slater Public Relations
Terri Slater, 508/650-3904
tslater@slaterpr.com
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