9:00 am Plenary

10:30 am Break

TRACK SESSIONS

11:00 am
Five Steps to Successful e-Fulfillment
Henry Bruce, Vice President of Marketing, Optum Inc.
e-Commerce has wreaked havoc on most companies' fulfillment systems. e-Commerce introduces new operational complexities, including: smaller orders, fragmented customer demand, last minute changes and frequent returns. Mastering the e-fulfillment best practices enables companies to address these challenges, and align supply and demand for the benefit of both the buyer and seller. This presentation reviews the essential best practices for effective, profitable e-fulfillment to manage the flow of goods and information from order to final delivery.

11:45 am
Migrating From Open Market To Virtual Distribution
Chad MacDonald, Chairman and Kenny Cossaboon, President, ebuyxpress.com
The easiest way today to provide an e-commerce electronic marketplace is to offer the electronic solution between existing buyers and suppliers. With the recent growth in e-marketplace exchanges the long-term differentiator is going to be controlling the supply chain. The question is how is that done? How can you build the integrated supply chain model for long-term sustainable e-business? This session illustrates some ideas.

12:30 pm Luncheon and Exposition

2:00 pm
Standard Electronic Business Interfaces
Mary Schoonmaker, RosettaNet
The lack of electronic business interfaces in the Electronic Components (EC) and Information Technology (IT) industries supply chains puts a huge burden on manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and end-users, ultimately creating tremendous inefficiencies and ultimately inhibiting our ability to leverage the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool. RosettaNet fills the existing gap by focusing on building a master dictionary to define properties for products, partners, and business transactions. This master dictionary, coupled within established implementation framework (exchange protocols), issued to support the e-business dialog know as the Partner Interface Process or PIP. RosettaNet PIPs create new areas of alignment within the overall EC and IT supply-chains e-business processes, allowing EC and IT supply-chain partners to scale e-business, and to fully leverage Ecom applications and the Internet as a business-to-business commerce tool. Learn how RosettaNet is working with partners to build business bridges using internet technology and standards.

2:45 pm
Mission Critical e-Business
John Mathon, CTO, Slam Dunk Networks
Today, e-business is not a toy or demonstration. e-Business is real business. Many of us plan to implement e-businesses or have implemented them without thinking about how to scale them to hundreds or more trading partners or without thinking of how to improve the Internet's reliability and performance. We expect our e-businesses to run pretty much trouble free, but we have no real way of tracking how well we are doing. And, when something goes wrong, fingers are pointing at everyone. What are the components of building a mission-critical e-business? Security, reliability, guaranteed delivery, service level agreements, redundant systems, multiple Internet backbones, transactional integrity, non-repudiation, automatic failover and synchronization, active management, tracking. These words and more are used to describe the components. What do they mean and how do you achieve them cost effectively? How can your e-business stand up and perform during stressful network and business conditions? This presentation describes the infrastructure for e-business of the future that helps define these components.

3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm
Security and e-Business
Alfred Nickles, President & CEO, CSTeBusiness, Inc.
An executive's view of e-business security issues is presented. Parameters that can be used to define required security levels, and therefore the level of investment required to secure an e-business solution; Technologies to invest in; Technologies to avoid; What you can do to catch and prosecute perpetrators; Key security do's and don'ts are all discussed in this session.

4:45 pm
What it Takes to Succeed in e-Business
Jay Mellman, VP of Marketing, iVendor
What it takes to succeed in e-business has yet to be molded and duplicated. If one is to begin a successful e-commerce endeavor he or she must learn from the past. Easy enough, however, many of the recently departed dot com companies had much promise based on what seemed at the time to be "sure thing" business models. Industry watchers have started seeing that for many companies to succeed on the Internet, it will take serious rethinking of many of the assumptions of the past few years. This session explores those issues and identifies ways companies can prevent disaster from striking.