Contact
Ms. Vija Kasakovska, Birojs 2000 Ltd.
Phone: +371 7043619 or 7043602
Fax: +371 7043603
E-mail: vijak@mail.birojs2000.lv

Riga, 14 August 2001.

Since 14 August on-line registration for the Baltic Sea Region e-Business Forum is available on the Forum website http://www.birojs2000.lv. The on-line registration system is sponsored by Verdi, the Forum's technology sponsor.

The Baltic Sea Region e-Business will take place at Reval Hotel Latvia in Riga, Latvia, on 26 - 28 September 2001. The main objective of the Forum is to share experience on the development of an information society and a fertile environment for e-business in the Baltic region, thus creating the necessary pre-conditions for effective e-business, e-commerce, e-government and ICT development.

Despite summer holidays registration forms for the Forum have been received from all the countries of the Baltic Sea region as well as from Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. Active application for the Forum is expected in the end of August and beginning of September.

Apart from Prime Ministers and ministers of the Baltic Sea region countries we have already received more than 60 confirmations from such top level speakers as Erkki Liikanen, Member of the European Commission responsible for Enterprise and Information Society; Donald J. Johnston, Secretary General, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD); Carl Bildt, Secretary General's Special Envoy for the Balkans, United Nations; Former Prime Minister of Sweden; Sergio Giacoletto, Executive Vice President, EMEA, Member of the Executive Committee, Oracle; Werner Koepf, Chairman and CEO, EMEA, Compaq; Michel Lacombe, Chairman, EMEA, Microsoft; Marianne Nivert, President and CEO, Telia AB, Sweden; Lars H. Thunell, CEO, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Sweden; Julie Meyer, Co-founder, First Tuesday, UK; Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings, USA; Jonas Birgersson, CEO, Framfab Labs, Sweden, Sir Peter Jobs, CEO (retired), Reuters and many others.

The Forum is being organised by the project management company SIA Birojs 2000 in co-operation with the OECD as the international organisation partner of the Forum and First Tuesday as the host of the 11 case presentations and the Matchmaking event of the Forum.

The Forum's general sponsors are Hansabank, SIA Lattelekom and Visa; its international media partners are Northern Enterprise and Bonnier Business Press. The Forum is also supported by Alcatel, Intel, Microsoft, Apollo, ISP of Lattelekom, Riga City Council, Nordic Technology Park, Reval Hotel Latvija, the official hotel of the Forum, BIZPAK, the official courier of the Forum, airBaltic/SAS, the official airlines of the Forum, Verdi, the Forum's technology sponsor, XXL Digital, the sponsor of the Forum CD presentation, Labvakar, Delfi and Baltic IT & T Review, a journal.