EFDPMA announce Engineering the NII Conference (fwd)

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                              CALL FOR ATTENDEES


         Data Processing Management Association Education Foundation


                                   ANNOUNCES


              Engineering the National Information Infrastructure
                       Washington, DC June 8-9, 1994


ENGINEERING THE NII


The Clinton administration's initiative to implement a national
information infrastructure (NII) is rapidly moving ahead. The
NII is the logical conclusion of today's convergence of
hardware, software, and networking technologies. The driving
force of this convergence is the increasing digitization of data,
within such disciplines as Agile Manufacturing, Aerospace,
Environment, Healthcare and Education. It is estimated that the
NII will create as much as $300 billion annually in new sales
across these and other industries.


In engineering the NII and its applications private industry
will be responsible for virtually every major facet and the
information marketplace it creates. Private industry will build
and manage the networks, provide the information tools and
much of the information that travels the networks, and develop
the many applications that use the networks.


How can your company take advantage of the NII? What are
the directions and initiatives?  Who are the leaders in
implementing the NII, and where will the funding come from?
What are the opportunities for getting your company and your
products on-line?  How can your organization become a
successful partner to obtain a strategic business advantage?


This outstanding two-day conference brings together leading
authorities in their fields who will address the directions, needs
and funding opportunities in NII backbone and application
development.


Many of the technologies and the players needed to construct
the national information infrastructure (NII) are already in
place.  Can you afford to sit on the sidelines?


C O N F E R E N C E   A G E N D A


           DAY ONE


NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE:
DIRECTIONS & INITIATIVES


THE INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT PROGRAM
Dr. Charles Rush
Chief Scientist, NTIA, Acting Associate Administrator of the
Office of Telecommunications & Infrastructure Applications


NSFnet: OPPORTUNITIES
Dr. Stephen Wolff
Director, Div. for Networking & Communications Research &
Infrastructure,National Science Foundation


INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE TASK FORCE TECHNOLOGY
POLICY WORKING GROUP- STATUS & DIRECTION
Mr. Howard Frank
Special Assistant to the Director, Information Infrastructure
Technology, ARPA


ECONOMIC RAMIFICATIONS OF THE NII
Dr. John Latta
President, 4th Wave, Inc.


STATUS & DIRECTION OF ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES


APPLICATION PORTABILITY PROFILE (APP)
Mr. Fritz Schulz
Manager, Distributed Engineering Systems, NIST


PERSPECTIVES ON THE NII: ENSURING INTEROPERABILITY
Ms. Fiona Branton
Technology Counsel, Computer Systems Policy Project


OPPORTUNITIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT


THE NIIT -AMERICA'S APPLICATION TESTBED: OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE
Mr. Dale Williams
Executive Director, National Information Infrastructure Testbed


CROSS INDUSTRYWORKINGTEAM (XIWT)
Dr. Charles Brownstein
Executive Director


REVIEW OF THE "R&D FOR THE NII: TECHNICAL CHALLENGES"
SYMPOSIUM
Ms. Sharon Lipp
Senior Manager, Digital Equipment Corp; Steering Committee for
NII Symposium


THE NECTAR TESTBED: APPLICATION OPPORTUNITIES
Dr. Peter Steenkiste
Senior Researcher, Carnegie-Mellon University


DAY TWO


FIELDING APPLICATIONS ON THE NII


SYSTEMS INTEGRATION FOR MANUFACTURING APPLICATIONS:
A STANDARDS PERSPECTIVE
Mr. Howard M. Bloom
Chief, Factory Automation Systems Division, NIST


DEVELOPING A HEALTH CARE SPECIFIC INFORMATION
INFRASTRUCTURE
COL John Silva, USAS, M.C.
Program Manager, Health Information Infrastructure Program,
Software & Intelligent System Technology  Office, ARPA; Co-
Chairman Information Systems Working Group - Health Reform
Task Force


ENGINEERING FINANCIAL APPLICATIONS FOR USE ON THE NII
Mr. Daniel Schutzer
Vice President, Director of Advanced Technology, Citibank


FIELDING APPLICATIONS ON THE NII
Ms. Dona L. Crawford
Director of Scientific Computing, Sandia National Laboratories


ASSESSING DELIVERY SYSTEMS


NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES ENABLING THE NORTH CAROLINA INFORMATION HIGHWAY (NCIH)
Mr. David A. Kettler
Executive Director of Science & Technology, Bell South
Telecommunications


CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES
Mr. Claude Bagget
Director of Consumer Electronic Systems, Cable Television
Laboratories, Inc.


IMPLEMENTING THE NII - A CARRIER'S PERSPECTIVE
Mr. Bob Collett
Director of Internet Services, SPRINT


PLANNED AND POTENTIAL INTERACTIVE DELIVERY SYSTEMS:
THE NEXT FIVE YEARS
Mr. Albert Winterbauer
Director , Broadband Initiatives, Southwestern Bell Technology
Resources, Inc.


Confernce Location:
The Tysons Westpark Hotel
8401 Westpark Drive
McLean, VA 22102
Ph (703) 734-2800




For More Information Contact:
Steven L. Silver
Data Processing Management Association Education Foundation
3420 Kashiwa St.
Torrance, CA 90510
Ph (310) 534-4871
Fax (310) 534-0743
E-Mail: EFDPMA () ACM ORG


About The Sponsor:
The Data Processing Management Association Education
Foundation, a non-profit organization, was established to meet
the changing educational requirements of the information
processing profession and industry.


The Education Foundation, as an independent body
representing practitioners, educatiors and researchers, seeks to
provide leadership identifying educational opportunities that
will advance the information systems profession. An immediate
Foundation objective is the dissemination of information among
technical societies and the entire information systems
community.


The membership of DPMA is comprised of all levels of
management personnel who have an interest in the field of
information processing.









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