NOTE: By clicking on the presentation titles, you will automatically download an FTP file. Those presentations for which there is not an active link, are currently unavailable. Please check back.

ATTENDEES

OCTOBER 26, 1999

Keynote Address:
"The Secure Network Infrastructure Needed for e-Business"
Jeff Jaffe, General Manager, SecureWay Business Unit, IBM

Session 1: Cross-Sector Cooperation
Chair: John Vittal, GTE

Electronic commerce requires dependable, trustworthy service from an increasingly complex supporting infrastructure. Communications networks and distributed computing systems must support interoperable capabilities for critical services such as authentication, payments, privacy protection, and the information handling needed for commercial transactions. This session explores the requirements on the supporting infrastructure elements to achieve reliable and robust electronic commerce from the experienced perspectives of leading businesses successfully engaged in e-commerce.

Talks by:

"eBusiness Barriers and Solutions"
Leslie Lundquist, CommerceNet

"Transforming Transactions Into Relationships"
Charles Arrowsmith, NCR

"The CSP Revolution"
Ram Shanmugam, Global Crossing

Keynote Address:
"Making the Internet Safe, Reliable and Secure for E-Commerce"
Steve Kent, Chief Scientist- Information Security, BBN Technologies

Session 2: Secure and Robust Electronic Payment Systems:
Progress and Prospects
Chair: Dan Schutzer, CitiGroup

Electronic payment systems are a core component of e-commerce. Principals from leading industry coalitions, software developers and financial institutions examine in depth the progress of emerging and proposed technologies, systems and standards for payments. The focus is on insight into robustness, security, and suitability for different business models and consumer environments.

Panel:
Dan Schutzer, CitiGroup
Leslie Lundquist, CommerceNet
Paul Raines, Federal Reserve Board
Steve Crocker, Steve Crocker Associates
Tom Black, VeriFone

Session 3: Robust Communications, Networking, and Software Infrastructure
Chair: Ira Richer, CNRI

Improving the quality of service and reliability of the information infrastructure to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding e-commerce will require merging continually advancing technical capabilities with business models and environments that provide incentives for cross-sector, inter-industry cooperation. The suitability of technology and practices from the telephone, Internet, and applications services segments are examined by active service and technology providers.

Talks by:
"Robust Communications, Networking and Software Infrastructure"
Michael Watters, Visual Networks, Inc.

"IPDR.org"
Matthew Lucas, Telestrategies

"E-Commerce Security, Evolution and Issues"
Michael Angelo, Compaq

OCTOBER 27, 1999

Keynote Address:
"A Brave New e-World: Challenges and Changes for Today's Global Financial Institutions"
Joseph Eng, Chief Information Officer, S.W.I.F.T., Inc.

Session 4: Reducing Vulnerabilities
Chair: Jim Galvin, eList eXpress LLC

Electronic commerce systems are vulnerable to malicious attack and accidental disruption through any of the supporting infrastructure elements. Panelists will critically review what it takes to resist attacks and ameliorate service disruptions, focusing on conference presentations and discussions thus far as well as technology developments and private and public sector initiatives.

Talks/Panel:

Mark Greene, IBM

"Security for the Masses: Enabling the Second Wave of e-Business"
David Balenson, NAI

"New Protocols for Cooperative eBusiness"
Hillarie Orman, Novell

Keynote Address: "Assuring E-Commerce: What's Next?"
Bud Tribble, Chief Technology Officer, Sun-Netscape Alliance; Sun Microsystems

Session 5: Cooperation and Competition - What's Next?
Chair: Mike Nelson, IBM

Government/industry cooperation is essential to deal with failures of and attacks on the e-commerce infrastructure, and to steadily improve its robustness. Voluntary activities advance the needed technology and promote the attractive business environment. Regulatory frameworks that encourage cross-industry cooperation are needed to fit the networked world. Leadership to formulate an industry framework for robustness and to establish incentives for its acceptance is a critical requirement. Appropriate balances between security, privacy, business and law enforcement concerns are essential components for sustaining economic benefits of e-commerce for business and consumers alike. In this wrap-up session, business and government leaders consider ways to move forward as a community towards providing the needed robust and secure infrastructure for a trustworthy electronic commerce environment.

Panel:
Elliot Maxwell, US Department of Commerce
Beryl Howell, Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Bob Aiken, Cisco
Dan Schutzer, CitiGroup John Vittal, GTE Laboratories Jim Galvin, eList eXpress LLC Ira Richer, Corporation for National Research Initiatives

Back to Top