The Standard Announces Details for Second Annual Internet Summit in Laguna Niguel, July 16-18

Business Wire, June 21, 2000

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

Internet Summit 2000

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2000

Steve Case, Meg Whitman, Martha Stewart and Scores of Prominent

Industry Visionaries and Leaders Gather To Explore

The Future of The Internet Economy at The Standard's

Most Exclusive Conference

Standard Media International ("The Standard") today revealed the details for Internet Summit 2000, its second annual gathering of CEOs and senior-level Internet executives to discuss the state of Internet business.

The invitation-only conference will be held at The Ritz Carlton in Laguna Niguel, Calif. from July 16-18, 2000, and will include formal keynote sessions, smaller roundtables, as well as numerous opportunities for networking and exchanging ideas.

Hosted by The Standard's Chairman, President and CEO John Battelle, the executive producers of Internet Summit are Bill Gurley, General Partner of Benchmark Capital, and Mary Meeker, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

"Like last year's milestone event, we expect this will be an invigorating experience, providing the Internet Economy's most influential business leaders and visionaries a forum in which to share their insights and strategies," said Battelle. "We are delighted to assemble in one place those leaders of the Internet Economy whose bold business models and marketing strategies have transformed our world."

Internet Summit will bring together more than 600 of the most senior executives in the Internet industry. Attendees will include a select group of CEOs, partners, presidents and vice presidents who run leading Internet companies, are in charge of financing Internet start-ups, or head up major Internet plays for traditional companies.

Participants will include Fabiola Arredondo, Managing Director/Europe, Yahoo!; Shelby Bonnie, CEO, CNET Networks; Steve Case, Chairman/CEO, AOL Time Warner; Jim Clark, chairman and founder, myCFO; George Conrades, Chairman and CEO, Akamai Technologies; Mark Cuban, Founder, Broadcast.com; John Doerr, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Joe Galli, President/COO, Amazon.com; Bill Gross, Chairman/CEO/Co-founder, idealab!; Bill Joy, Chief Scientist/Co-founder, Sun Microsystems; Richard Li, Chairman, Pacific Century Group; Halsey Minor, Chairman, CNET, Inc./Partner, 12 Entrepreneuring; Michael Robertson, CEO and Chairman, MP3.com; Daniel Schulman, President and CEO, Priceline.com; Martha Stewart, Chairman/CEO, Martha Stewart Living and Omnimedia; Meg Whitman, President/CEO, eBay, and many others.

Platinum sponsors of Internet Summit 2000 are AppNet, Inc., Arthur Andersen, Cisco Systems, Fenwick & West, LLP, Korn/Ferry International, Lexus and Vignette. Gold Sponsors include Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and LookSmart. Event Sponsors are Earthlink, Eprise Corporation, eBags, eCal, Imperial Bank and PeopleSupport.

Internet Summit 2000 is open to attendees by invitation only. For more information and to request an invitation, please visit http://www.thestandard.com/summit2000/ or call 800/559-4474. Cost of the Internet Summit is $4,300. Internet Summit is the flagship event in the Standard's series of elite conferences, which also includes: iB2B, the agenda-setting summit in business-to-business Internet commerce; i_deals, invitation-only forums for deal-making in the Internet economy; Net Returns, the benchmark conference on e-strategies for corporate America; and the Global Internet Summit, the premier international gathering of the leaders of the Internet economy; among others. Full details on these and other Standard events can be found at http://www.thestandard.com/events.> About The Standard

Headquartered in San Francisco and located on the Web at www.thestandard.com, The Standard is the essential source for business intelligence on the Internet Economy. Through The Industry Standard, its weekly newsmagazine; TheStandard.com, its daily news outlet and business intelligence resource; its conferences and events; and its online newsletter, research, recruiting and market-making offerings, The Standard provides a new breed of business leaders with the information and resources they need to succeed in the Internet Economy. The Standard has offices in New York, Washington, D.C., and London, and is owned by Standard Media International, a private company majority owned by IDG.

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