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The sixth annual HBS Cyberposium, held on February 19 and 20, drew many of the high-tech industry's best-known entrepreneurs and business leaders, as well as more than thirteen hundred participants from HBS and other business schools and colleges around the world. The event was a sold-out, standing-room-only, jam-packed marathon of discussion panels, keynote addresses, product demos, and networking opportunities.
Sponsored by the student-led High Tech and New Media Club, this year's Cyberposium, titled "Digital Junctions," focused on the ways the Internet is linking business and technology. Simulcast on the Web, the conference began with an evening keynote address by Guy Kawasaki, founder of Garage.com, who spoke about the challenges of identifying and building sustainable Internet and high-tech businesses.
The conference opened the next morning in Burden Auditorium with a talk by Carly Fiorina, group president of the global service provider business at Lucent Technologies. Her address was followed by "Attackers vs. Defenders: The New Media Wars," a panel featuring leaders of major Internet-related companies - such as @Home, AOL, Amazon.com, and Time Warner - in an intense and sometimes heated discussion of cyber-competition, rivalries, and alliances among traditional media companies and high-tech startups.
Twelve afternoon breakout sessions allowed participants to delve into a host of topics, including online marketing and education, "virtual" communities, and equalizing access and opportunities on the Internet. At the day's end, a networking session gave students, alumni, and representatives from participating companies the chance to discuss high-tech career opportunities.
Conference cochairs Susie Hwang (MBA '99) and Mark Freyman (MBA '99) managed a volunteer team of more than 140 MBA students drawn from HBS and thirty leading U.S. and international business schools to make the Cyberposium once again a notable success. For more information, visit the conference Web site at www.cyberposium.com.
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