Leading International Companies Discuss Internet

Strategy for Finnish Business At 'Internet Suomi '99', Hosted by First Conferences HELSINKI, Finland (PROTEXT) - The most innovative and forward thinking companies in Finland will head to Helsinki for the upcoming 'Internet Suomi '99' conference, hosted by First Conferences -- http://www.firstconf.com/internet-suomi -- to hear speakers from leading international companies discuss successful strategies for business in the digital era. Entire management teams from leading Finnish firms and subsidiaries including ABB, Andersen Consulting, Canon Oy, EUnet, Ford, Fortum, ICL, Kone Oy, Nokia, Novo Group, Outokumpu, and Unilever are among delegates already attending the conference at the Scandic Hotel Kalastajatorppa, September 22-24 1999. "The fact that several employees from single companies are attending Internet Suomi '99 underlines just how important the Internet has become to every sector of business today," says Warren Palk, Conference Director, of First Conferences. The event features more than 30 senior level speakers from renowned companies around the world. These include Tekes, DoubleClick, Ogilvy One, Bokus.com, Merita, Sun Microsystems, Dell Computer Corporation, GEIS, Diesel, Nokia, Kolumbus Internet, Sonera, Autobytel, Autonomy, Mobil Oil, SmithKline Beecham, Cisco Systems, The Boeing Company and Nortel Networks. They will reveal how to keep up with the latest trends, what companies need to do to stay one step ahead of the competition, and how to exploit the internet for their own commercial gain. The conference program is packed with case studies in which key industry figures show exactly how they have profited from the Internet. The two-day event will cover all aspects of Internet Strategy with dual conference streams. The first stream focuses on web development, marketing trends and business to consumer e- commerce, while the second focuses on corporate communications and business to business e-commerce. Practical workshops on the third day delve into hands-on detail in the areas of Web development, IP telephony, Jini and Java technologies and the all important topic of creating e- business. Internet Suomi, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Nortel Networks, Kolumbus Internet, Cisco Systems and Autonomy and headlined by Helsingin Sanomat is the latest in the series of world leading 'Internet for Business Strategy' events developed by international conference company First Conferences Ltd. It follows hot on the heels of similar successful events in Norway, South Africa and the UK. For further information, contact: Warren Palk, Event director, First Conferences Email: warren@firstconf.com Phone: +44-171-400-9534, Fax: +44-171-400-9511 Web site: http://www.firstconf.com/internet-suomi ots Original Text Service: First Conferences Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Warren Palk, Event director, of First Conferences, +44-171-400-9534, or fax, +44-171-400-9511, or http://www.firstconf.com/internet-suomi Web site: http://www.firstconf.com http://www.firstconf.com/internet-suomi Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT