GIS Forum TOKYO #33

1. Summary
2. Greeting
3. Program
4. Membership fee

<Greetings>

People were hyped in 1996-1998 for Internet applying to B2C and start finding problems in 1999 and shifted hype escalation to B2B from 1999-2000 inflated with Y2K project.

Let's learn from Mr. Robert K. Young, Senior VP of SAIC. SAIC is a World Top SI and Internet company who had bought The Bell Core Lab. (now called Telecordia) in Nov. 1996, also made M&Aed Automotive Industry E-marketplace, ANX in 2000.

To Corporate Top Executives, Corporate Planning Executives, Business Development & Marketing Executives and CFO especially in Automotive, Steel, Pharmaceutical Industries, Public Utility, Service Industry, Information Equipment Manufacturing and Sales Industries, Retail, Distribution, Transportation Service, Hotel, Restaurant and Logistic Service, Welcome to join our forum and let's study together how to make eMarketplace, eProcurement and eSCM B2B Enterprise implementation overcoming major challenges of which it may not be that much in IT, but much more in business process reformation.

Now Japanese economy is still in serious recession recovery process and many companies which hoped eCommerce success in Dot Com had been struggling for their existence without looking at tomorrow's light.
Yet Internet is growing and eCommerce is gradually growing, not in the dog year speed but steadily growing their sales.

The theme of upcoming GIS Forum focuses on the re-overview of key success factors of eBusiness as e Marketplace, eProcurement, eSCM implementation scenario to regain the momentum of Japanese economy productivity and activate Japanese economy to turn the table towards eSociety, which will generate leadership in the next phase of Ubiquitous Computing Society.
We invite excellent opinion leaders from the world as main speakers:

Other than Mr. Robert K. Young-Senior VP of Science Application International Corporation (SAIC) and CEO of ANX, from USA, we will have top Japanese speakers starting from
Mr. Hideo Matsui, Deputy Director General of METI as opening address, we selected from Japanese B2B Users/Operators side speakers like Mr. H.Matsusaka-President of Japan E-Market,
Mr. Y.Amano-Director of Toyota Motor, Mr. F.Naramura-Senior Manager of P&G on B2B to retailers, Mr. R.Yamada-Chief Researcher of ECOM on B2B in Japan, as well as vendors such as Mr. Y.Yokomizo-President & CEO of i2Technologies Japan, and Mr. T.Sasa-Dupty Director of Marketing of Ariba Japan on eProcurement.

Panel speakers are expected to present their views in a way so that audiences could digest the Plenary speaker's opinions and also to present Japanese progress and its requirements to the participants from USA, if any.

The contents should be valuable and helpful for your business restructuring both in Japan and overseas to win the global competition. I am looking forward to your participation.

Junkyo Fujieda
President of CRM Association Japan
Representing & Chairman, The Open Group Japan
President & CEO, Research Environment for Global Information Society Inc. (ReGIS Inc.)