SATURDAY, JANUARY 22

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:45 Welcome to Middlebury College Bicentennial Hall 216
President John McCardell, Jr.
Introduction
Michael Claudon, Professor of Economics
Middlebury College

8:45-10:30 Dinosaurs and Other Big Game ñ Michael Porterís Last Stand?
Bicentennial Hall 216
Deconstructing the Traditional Business Proposition ñ Online Company Perspectives

Issues:
New channel or new paradigm?
What are the drivers of commercial success in the digital age?
E-commerce: business strategy or enabler?
Can/will pure online companies survive? Can they become profitable?
Business-to-business E-commerce: the current (and future?) dominant force in E-commerce.
Business-to-consumer E-commerce: acquiring and retaining customers - pure online vs. 'brick-and-mortar' companies ñ E-business vs. Me-business.
Redefining the supply chain in the era of the virtual factory
Manufacturing on demand: the sequel to just-in-time-inventory management?

Panelists:
Brian Napack '83, President & CEO, ThinkBox Media, LLC
Richard Sabot, Co-founder and Chairman Emeritus, Tripod.com; Founder, eZiba.com
Daniel Schulman '80, President and COO, Priceline.com
Jed Smith '88, Founder, drugstore.com

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 Growing eValuation and Equity at Digital Speed? Bicentennial Hall 216
Funding Growth and Owning Equity in the Digital Age

Issues:
Valuing companies in a digital age: The end of the price/earnings ratio?
Start-ups: what gets funded and why?
What is venture capitalís role in the age of the virtual factory?
The CMGI phenomenon ñ mutual-fund companies or Internet keiretsu?
Is speed to getting big critical to surging market valuations and burgeoning venture capital inflows?

Panelists:
Mark Dzialga, Partner, General Atlantic Partners
George Lee '88, Vice President & Head of Internet Investment Banking, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Pieter Schiller '60, General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures
Jeffrey Schutz '74, Partner, The Centennial Funds

12:00-1:30 Lunch The Great Hall in Bicentennial

1:30-2:45 Who Owns the Bitstream? Bicentennial Hall 216
Personal Privacy, Commercial Security, and Intellectual Property Rights ñ Challenges, Risks, and Emerging Solutions

Issues:
Online profiling: Redefining personal privacy for a digital age.
Reconciling personal and corporate privacy and security needs and the information requirements of the digital ageís growing openness-driven interactivity.
Who can/should have access to corporate knowledge in the emerging boundaryless E-business culture?
Communicating, information sharing and intellectual property rights in a digital age.
How do entertainment, publishing, and media companies capture and protect the value they create in a digital age?
Redefining consumer interests and government competition policy for a digital age.

Panelists:
Glenn Ochsenreiter, VP of Industry Relations and Marketing, iCopyright
Barbara Munder, Senior Vice President for E-Commerce, McGraw Hill
Daniel Schulman '80, President and COO, Priceline.com

2:45-3:00 Coffee Break

3:00-4:15 New Age Accounting? Bicentennial Hall 216
Impact of the Digital Revolution on Critical Know-how and the Value Proposition

Issues:
Redefining the value and branding proposition for a digital environment.
Redefining the profit engine: Will know-how replace labor and capital?
From vertical to virtual: redefining the value chain for a digital environment.
Competitive Strategy: Will the customer-led company supplant the management-led company in the digital age?
Redefining critical skills and the organization of work; new channels of knowledge diffusion.
Identifying the determinants and drivers of ìroad readinessî and personal success in the digital age; and their implications for the liberal arts paradigm.

Panelists:
Gary Gigot P'01, Gigot Brands, private investing, former head of marketing at Visio Corp and Microsoft Corporation
James Robinson '84, Principal, Independent Research Associates, Inc.
Pieter Schiller '60, General Partner, Advanced Technology Ventures
Jeffrey Schutz '74, Partner, The Centennial Funds

6:00-7:15 Keynote Panel Bicentennial 216
eVolution, not Revolution?
Deconstructing the Traditional Business Proposition ñ Traditional and Click-and-Mortar Company Perspectives

Issues:
Emerging electronic business model: Does becoming a competitive force on the Web necessarily mean blowing up the bricks and mortar?
Is this a new channel or the new business paradigm?
Must traditional companies transform themselves into online companies?
Can the E-business proposition be made sticky without bricks and mortar?
Business-to-business E-commerce and manufacturing on demand: the sequel to just-in-time-inventory management?
Have speed and agility replaced quality as 'job one'?

Panelists:
Ann Williams Jackson '74, Group Publisher, InStyle and Real Simple Magazines
Peter Holmes aí Court '90, Managing Director, Back Row Productions*
George Lee '88, Vice President & Head of Internet Investment Banking, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

7:15-8:00 Cocktails The Great Hall in Bicentennial

8:00 Dinner The Great Hall in Bicentennial

SUNDAY, JANUARY 23

8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast

8:30-10:30 eLiberalArts.com? Bicentennial Hall 216
Building Bridges to the Digital Society and the Emerging Boundaryless Learning Culture

Issues:
Creating and sustaining communities beyond the physical campus
Packaging and delivering programs without boundaries for all ages and across campuses
Strategies for developing global citizens and leaders for the 21st century
Preparing students for leadership roles in a digital society

Panelists:
Chair: John McCardell, Jr., President, Middlebury College
Carole Cavanaugh, Director, Center for Educational Technology, Middlebury College
Margery Weil Mayer '74, Executive Vice President, Scholastic.com
Jed Smith '88, Founder, drugstore.com
Clara Yu, Director, Project 2001 and C. V. Starr Professor of Linguistics, Middlebury College

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 Open Forum and Assessment ñ What have we learned? Where shall we take the Bridges initiative from here? Bicentennial Hall 216

Moderator:
Lisa Giuffra de Diaz '84, Vice President, International Equities, Goldman Sachs & Company

*Invited, but participation unconfirmed.