Day 1 - November 9, 2001

• Registration (8:00 - 9:00 AM)

• Opening Remarks (9:00 - 9:30 AM)
  Conference Chair: Hwa-Nien Yu, Academia Sinica
  Rooms: Ballroom A-D

• Perspectives of Information Industry in Taiwan
  Chintay Shih, President, Industrial Technology Research Institute

• P1 - Plenary Session I: (9:30 - 10:50 AM)
  Emerging Information Technologies: Trends and Opportunities
  Chair: Jeane Chen, Kintera Inc.
  Organizer: Kevin Lu, Telcordia Technologies
  Rooms: Ballroom A-D

• Business Opportunity for the 3G Wireless and Mobile Internet Systems
     David Poticny, SVP, Lucent Technologies
• Emerging Optical Internet
     Nim Cheung, VP, Telcordia Technologies
• Atoms Þ Bits Þ Services: The New Ecosystem for Service Providers and the Technologies Required to Support It
     John Yin, President/CEO, PartnerCommunity, Inc.

------- Break (10 min.) -------

• P2 - Plenary Session II: (11:00 AM - 12:20 PM)
  Emerging Information Technologies: Trends and Opportunities
  Chair: Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Research China
  Organizer: Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University
  Rooms: Ballroom A-D


"Designing Security into the Core Hardware of Information Appliances and Servers"
    Ruby Lee, Professor, Princeton University

• Directions and Achievements of Networked Multimedia Technologies Research Activities in Taiwan
     Pao-Hsu Shih, Director, Multimedia Lab, Institute for Information Industry
• Silicon Technology Development in the New Millennium
     Tak H. Ning, IBM Fellow, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Luncheon (12:30 - 2:00 PM)
  Rooms: Ballroom E-H

• Parallel Sessions (2:00 - 3:45 PM)

• T1 - Technical Session I:
  Web Services and Collaborative Commerce
  Chair and Organizer: Hung-Yang (Henry) Chang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Organizer: Subrina Chang, Kintera Inc.
  Rooms: Lincoln/Holland
  
  - Natural User Interface for .NET
       Jian Wang, Microsoft Research China
  - Kintera Sphere -- Internet Marketing for Non profits
       Jeane Chen, kintera Inc.
  - Enhanced Web Services for Dynamic B2B Integration
       Liang-Jie Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  - A Framework for Model Specification and Coordination of Business Processes
       Ying Huang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• B1 - Business Session I: Partnering Opportunities
  Chair: Chih-Lin I, AT&T Labs
  Organizer: Hong Shi, Fashion River
  Rooms: Essex/Liberty
  
  - New Wireless Technologies and Products Center in Hangzhou
       David T. Sun, CTO, Eastern Company
  - 3G WCDMA Mobile Device Baseband & Total Solution
       Wen-Yi Kuo, CTO, Wiscom Technologies
  - Impact of Language-Computer-Interface on National Economy and Productivity
       Sing H. Lin, Technical Consultant
  - The Future of Chinese Information Technology (CIT) - Natural Language Processing
       Victor C. Yeh, President, AlphaGram System, Inc.

------- Break (30 min.) -------

• Parallel Sessions (4:15 - 6:00 PM)

• T2 - Technical Session II: 
  Component Technology (I)
  Chair: Yuan-Chi Chang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  Organizer: Lih Y. Lin, Tellium Inc.
  Rooms: Lincoln/Holland
  
  - MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Standard
       John R. Smith, Manager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  - BlueGene Project at IBM
       Lurng-Kuo Liu, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  - MEMS Technology and Its Application to Optical Cross Connects
     Sangtae Park, Tellium Inc.

• B2 - Business Session II:
  Venture Business Success Stories
  Chair: Russell Hsing, Telcordia Technologies
  Organizer: Dah-Weih Duan, InfoValue Computing, Inc.
  Rooms: Essex/Liberty
  
  David T. Sun, CTO, Eastern Communications Company
  - G.K. Chang, VP, OpNext
  - Kevin Whang, VP, Village Networks
  - Arun Kant, VP, Transtech Networks
  

DAY 2 - November 10, 2001

• Opening Remarks (9:00 - 9:30 AM)
  Conference Chair: Ya-Qin Zhang, Microsoft Research China
  Rooms: Ballroom A-D

• P3 - Plenary Session III (Panel): (9:30 - 10:50 AM)
  Entrepreneurship: How to Turn Ideas into Products, and Dreams into Companies
  Chair: Diana Liu, Cansbridge Capital Corp.
  Moderator: Chung-Sheng Li, IMB T.J. Watson Research Center
  Organizer: Lance Lan, Vista Incubation Technology Corp.
  Rooms: Ballroom A-D
  
  Panelists:

• Arding Hsu, President/CEO, Siemens Technology-To-Business Center
• Paul Sung, SVP, AccroLynch LLC
• Stephen M. Nagler, Esq., Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP
• Lie Hsu, Executive Director, Telcordia Technologies
• James Hwang, Professor/Director, Lehigh University

• P4 - Plenary Session IV (Panel): (11:00 AM - 12:20 PM)
  Legal Basics for IT Entrepreneurs and Investors: How to Protect Your Rights and Prevent Disputes
  Chair: Kent H. Cheng, Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavan
  Organizer: Albert H. Wang, Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP
  Rooms: Ballroom A-D
  
  Panelists:

• Myron Cohen, Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane
• Sung Chul Whang, Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP
• Kent H. Cheng, Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane
• Albert H. Wang, Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP