Fifth International World Wide Web Conference

May 6-10, 1996, Paris, France

Business in Practice Sessions

Thursday 9 May

BP1: Business on the Web (14:30-16:30)

Chair: Michel Soubies - Counsellor - European Commission DGXXIII-SMEs - EUROPE

Business on the Web - Making it work for SMEs

• George Fischer, Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie de Paris, The network of the International Chambers of Commerce
• Michel Peereman, Fed. Nat. Chambre de Commerce Belgium, Global and Secure Identification
• Roberto Cencioni, European Commission, DGXIII, Multi-lingualism
• Alfredo Sarich, XCOM, G7 Initiative - reporting
• Gilles Polin, HP, European Smart Valleys
• Jean-Claude Delcroix, DECADE, G7 Initiative - reporting

Panel:

• Gérard Courtieux, Silogia
• Renate Mackay, ECRM
• Luc Vervenne, Netvision

BP2: Financial (14:30-16:30)

Financial - How SMEs can deal with payments, billing, taxation, accounting, financial risk, mangement, etc. when doing business on the Web.

• Singleton, Money Com, Where do we stand now?
• Charles Goldfinger, Global Electronic Finance Management S.A., Technology, Security, Standard War
• M. Keating, First Boston, Economics/Regulatory aspects of cybermoney

User Perspective Rountable:
Chair: Jean-Michel Billaut, Compagnie Bancaire

• Luc de Brabander, Paradigm S.A.
• M Cheshire, Sears PLC
• Tomas Carruthers, Electronic Share Int'l
• Claude Chiaramonti, EDI-France/EFFECT
• David Chaum, Digicash

BP3: Legal & Regulatory (14:30-16:30)

Chair: Ian Walden - University of London Queens Mary College
Tarlo Lyons - University of London Queens Mary College

The G7 Project: Legal & Regulatory Orientations
Legal & Regulatory - Which law is applicable, consumer protection, copyright protection, transfer of electronic rights, security and Internet, the validity of electronic transactions, etc. and what it means for SMEs

• Dag Saltness, Eurojuris, SMEs legal requirements for electronic commerce
• Alistair Kelman, Imprimatur, IPR issues in practice
• Terry Dosdale, Axiom, A secure environment for electronic commerce
• Hank Perrit, Villanova Law School, Commercial Law and Internet (invited)

Mail to the Organizers