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January 31 Joint ACCJ / ICA Special Lunch Event-
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Event: HOW WILL E-BUSINESS ON DEMAND CHANGE YOUR ENTERPRISE?

Speaker: Mr. Albert Bunshaft-Vice President,
Grid Computing Sales and Business Development,
IBM Corporation

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EVENT OVERVIEW:
Would you like the power to integrate your business processes companywide
and include key partners, suppliers, and customers? How about being able to
respond quickly to any customer demand, market opportunity, or external
threat?

That's the promise of IBM's new e-business strategy, known as "on-demand
business," which employs Grid computing--a collection of distributed
computing resources available over a local or wide area network that appear
to an end user or application as one large virtual computing system.

Albert J. Bunshaft, IBM's Vice President of Grid Computing Business
Development, will explain the Grid computing model, outline the key
technical requirements needed to fully realize the E-Business on-demand
vision, and discuss examples of Grid computing applications in a wide range
of settings. Al has assisted customers worldwide in deploying Grid computing
solutions, including initiating and overseeing IBM's Grid computing efforts
in the Asia-Pacific region.

** This event is jointly sponsored by the ICA & ACCJ E-Business Committee**

RSVP REQUIRED
If you would like to attend please RSVP on our sign up page at
http://www.icajapan.jp/signup.html
by Tues January 28, 2003.
There are two events in January so please make sure you enter the
correct event subject when you sign up.

MEETING DETAILS
Date: Friday January 31, 2003
Time: 12:00 noon - 14:00
Venue: The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ)
Media Room, 20 F (Tel: 03-3211-3161)
Yurakucho Denki Bldg. (North Wing)
Map: http://www.fccj.or.jp/contents/map.htm
Cost: Members: 5,000 yen, Non-members: 6,000 yen
No shows will be charged.
Lunch will be served
Sponsor: E-Business Committee (HF)
Note: This meeting is ON THE RECORD.
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