ADVISORY/MIT Entrepreneurship Center Sponsors Iranian-American Technology Forum

Business Wire, Sept 27, 2003

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Saturday (Sept 27)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

MIT Entrepreneurship Center Sponsors Iranian-American Technology Forum:

WHAT: The MIT Enterepreneurship Center will sponsor a forum hosted by
    SiliconIran, Inc., the premiere business and technology
    information source for the Iranian high-tech community. The
    Iranian-American Technology Forum (ITF2003) will bring together a
    diverse group of executives to help promote and connect different
    communities throughout the United States by holding the event at
    in the nation's top technical university. This will be the first
    time SiliconIran holds the annual forum outside of the Silicon
    Valley. The event is targeted at Iranian and non-Iranian
    executives, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, legal advisers,
    venture capitalists, policy makers, investment bankers and
    analysts.

WHO: Among the many speakers at the conference are:
    -Shaygan Kheradpir, CIO of Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ)
    -Raj Rajaratnam, Managing General Partner, The Galleon Group
    -Ron Yara, General Partner of Tallwood Venture Capital
    -Dr. Ahmad Bahaei CTO & Fellow at National Semiconductor
    -Ross Haghighat, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Triton Systems
    -Ali Sajassi, Chief architect of Cisco System (Nasdaq: CSCO)
    -Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini, Founder and CEO of YAS Broadband Ventures
    LLC.
    -Faraj Aalaei CEO & Co-Founder of Centillium Comm. (Nasdaq: CTLM)
    -Behrooz Abdi, VP & GM Radio Products Division at Motorola
    (NYSE: MOT) Semiconductor Products Sector
    -MC: Atefeh (Atti) Riazi, Sr. Partner and CIO for Ogilvy
    and Mather Worldwide

    -Ken Morse, Director of MIT Entrepreneurship Center

    For more:
    http://www.siliconiran.com/events/itf2003/speakers/index.shtml

WHEN: Saturday, September 27, 2003 - 8:45 a.m.- 6 p.m.

WHERE: 70 Memorial Drive, Tang Center, Building E51 (Directions call
    617-452-3810)