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 FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE INVESTORS,
ENTREPRENEURS AND TECHNOLOGY Final
agenda and speaker list for September technology
conference now available at www.futureforward.com BOSTON,
August 12, 2002 – Future Forward Events LLC, organizer
of the Future Forward and Nantucket Conferences, today
released the final agenda and speaker details for its
Future Forward 2002 conference. Future Forward, an
invitation-only event that brings together technology
executives, investors and entrepreneurs from throughout
New England for shared dialogue and networking, is being
held September 26-28, 2002 at the Cranwell Resort in
Lenox, MA. "Future
Forward was started to help raise the profile of New
England’s tech sector -- relative to our cohorts out in
Silicon Valley -- and forge connections between the
technology innovators in our area,” said Shayne Gilbert,
co-chair of Future Forward 2002. “Now, with the
region’s tech sector in a very slow growth phase, the
central focus of the event this year will be the ideas,
new developments, and strategies that can ‘reboot’ the
tech sector. We’re going to talk about what it will take
to restore momentum, get companies growing again, and
start creating new jobs.” Speakers
and moderators recently added to the agenda include:
Topics to
be explored include:
Conference
Preview Chat: At noon on Friday, September 6th,
conference speakers Doug Field of Segway LLC and futurist
Thornton May of Toffler Associates, along with program
chair Scott Kirsner, a technology columnist for the Boston
Globe, will participate in an online chat on Boston.com to
preview this year’s Future Forward agenda and answer
questions. Chat will be accessible from www.boston.com. The
complete Future Forward agenda and speaker list are
available online at http://www.futureforward.com/agenda.html.
All speaker and agenda items are subject to change. About
Future Forward Future
Forward is an invitation-only gathering where the
technology leaders of New England explore emerging
technologies and discuss the dynamics that affect
tech-oriented businesses. Created by the same group that
delivers the sold-out Nantucket Conference each year,
Future Forward exists to help make connections between
technology investors, executives, and innovators at
companies large and small. Members
of the Advisory Committee for Future Forward include
Elizabeth Altman, Vice President & Director of
Business Development at Motorola’s Personal
Communications Sector; Kristen Collins, Founder,
KMCpartners; Jesse Devitte, Chairman of Software
Association of New Hampshire and Managing Director of
Borealis Ventures; Stephen DiPietro, Partner at Deloitte
& Touche; Darryl Gehly, Vice President of Corporate
Development at Molecular; Matt Harris, Co-founder and CEO
of Village Ventures; Tom Hopcroft, President and Founder
of Mass eComm; Paul LeBlanc, President of Marlboro
College; Brenda Philips, Director of Commonwealth
Information Technology Initiative at UMASS; Alyssa
Gilbert, Vice President of Future Forward Events LLC;
Scott Kirsner, Contributing editor at Wired Magazine, Fast
Company, and the @large columnist for the Boston Globe;
and Shayne Gilbert, Founder of Silverweave and author of
90 Days to Launch. Conference
sponsors include Deloitte & Touche, Molecular,
Nixon/Peabody, Boston.com/DigitalMass, Technology Review,
CIO Magazine and Interface Tech News. More
information about the conference is available at http://www.futureforward.com. #
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