Saturday, January 25, 2003

8:30-9:15 Continental Breakfast

9:15-9:30 Welcome to Middlebury College, Ronald Liebowitz, Provost

9:30-11:45 The Usable (Pervasive) Internet - An Internet that can actually be used by the masses?

Issues: Web services standards and interoperability. Is the Internet becoming accessible wherever you want to be? How do emerging Web services standards affect interoperability and support the pervasive Internet? What does ubiquity imply for the software business space? Can we ensure an orderly transition to a wireless world?

1. Wing Pepper '83 - V.P. Marketing Strategy - Modem Media
2. Jamie Gorman '92 - Vice President, Business Development and Finance-Digiterra Broadband
3. Ian Barkin '98 - Senior Research Analyst, Harbor Research
4. Molly Campbell Voorhees '98 - Account Analyst, AT&T Wireless, Telephia, Inc.

12:00-1:15 Lunch in the Great Hall of Bicentennial Hall

1:15-2:45 A New Digital Paradigm? - Revisited - Doing business in a pervasive Internet

Issues: What business models will evolve to support and foster a pervasive Internet? Do they exist today? What might and might not work? Does this imply profitless prosperity?

1. Aaron H. Abend '77 - Chief Technology Officer, CallBack Software
2. Elaine LeBlanc '77 - Co-Founder, Top Dog Solutions
3. George C. Lee, II '88 - Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
4. J. Brooks Fisher '96 - Vice President for Business Development, CenterStone Technologies, Inc.

2:45-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:30 Entrepreneurship and Growing Businesses
Issues: new opportunities/tools/challenges for leaders, and in this case women leaders, who have struggled with the challenges of launching, being part of and/or growing successful entrepreneurial enterprises or new areas of business.

1. Krista Lincoln '86 - Founder and former CEO, Cambridge Translation Resources (CTR)
2. Elisabeth Robert '78 - CEO, Vermont Teddy Bear Company
3. Katie Schiller Ward ' 89 - Director of Marketing - Fetco Home Decor
4. Ann Schott '92 - Microsoft - Microsoft.com Web business

6:00-7:15 Keynote Panel - Town Meeting -- Shall/Must we Embrace the Persuasive Internet?

Moderator: Charlie Kireker, Managing Director, Fresh Tracks Capital LLP
1. Rory Riggs '75 - Principal, Balfour LLC
2. Jeffrey Schutz '74 - Partner, Centennial Funds
3. Rich Silton '80 - Kaon Interactive, Inc
4. Jed Smith '88 - Managing Partner, Catamount Ventures, LLC

7:15-8:00 Reception in the Great Hall of Bicentennial Hall

8:00 Dinner in the Great Hall of Bicentennial Hall
VT Governor Jim Douglas '72- opening remarks - Encouraging emerging enterprise in VT

Sunday, January 26, 2003
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8:30-9:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast

9:15-10:45 a.m. IP Management-New Technologies Confront an Old Paradigm
1. Mark Friedman '84, Group Counsel, Intel Corporation
2. Tom Knox '84 , Partner, Shaw Pittman
3. Rich Silton '80, Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Kaon Interactive
4. Louise McCarren, President, Verizon Vermont

10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break

11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cyber Security? Who Really Owns My Desktop, My Proprietary Information and My Databases?
Randy Brock '65, Former Executive Vice President of Risk Oversight, Fidelity Investments
Howard C. McCausland, Director of Network Design and Operation, Information Technology
Services, Middlebury College
Jim Stuart, Director of Information Technology and Infrastructure, Daybreak ICS
Chris Wraight, Technology Consultant, Sophos

12:30 p.m. Lunch in the Great Hall of Bicentennial Hall