Dear Reader:

After closing CeBIT Hannover on an optimistic note despite the present economic scenario, it is now this editor's duty and pleasure to direct your attention to CeBIT America 2003 ( June 18 - June 20 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in downtown Manhattan, New York.)

CeBIT America 2003 is the first show in a sequence of annual events. In preparation, it’s organizers threw in decades of CeBIT Hannover know-how and expertise, aspiring their American offspring to set new standards for what an ICT trade show should be -- against a competition that had already considered the U.S. territory their home turf.

CeBIT America is the first U.S. trade show that emphasizes the entire spectrum of information and communications technology, products and services alike. It is a strictly business-to-business trade fair for industrial professionals seeking application-oriented solutions for their enterprises within three core product sectors:
Information Technology - - Communications & Networks - - and, Software, Internet Solutions and Services. It features a complete supporting program of trade exhibition, topical conference tracks, focused matchmaking events and special exhibitor-sponsored technology presentations. ( watch for details and breaking news in our e-papers !)

Decidely , CeBIT America does not take place in some desert location, but in New York, America's corporate center and the nation's number one technology buying market. And it is organized by Hannover Fairs, a company with resources to deliver a global audience and exhibitor base with the highest standards of support and services.

To ensure our exhibitors of an audience to match, all visitors to CeBIT America must present professional-only attendance qualifications in order to register and be admitted. Maybe, some of you might find such screening quite uncustomary for ICT shows, but you will be rewarded with a high-level business-like atmosphere: Kindly realize that despite our cyberspace age, we are all still tribesmen in one way or other, seeking the warmth of the herd and to rub shoulders with superiors and peers, undisturbed by outsiders. CeBIT America will be such extra-ordinary event, hence, these purposeful rules for access.

CeBIT America will host around 450 exhibitors. Out of them, no less than 21 nations have joined the CeBIT America's International Pavilion Program, including Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Korea, The Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. A separate European Pavilion will host companies of those countries that will not set up individual pavilions.

For all informations about CeBIT America please call www.CeBIT-America.com . Due to the complexity of this fast-paced three day event you will have to exercise patience to click yourself through many levels of information, but it is worthwhile. In addition, keep your eyes peeled for our next e-papers which explain all details of the many programs and their updates

And now for something completely different

Air travel to fairs is still cheap, at least if you shop around for those back seat no-frills super coach deals, where you'd better bring your own sandwiches.

But if you happen to live in Germany, there is something much better for less: Deutsche Messe AG, in cooperation with the U.S. embassy in Germany have worked out promotional door-to-door guided visitor group tours to CeBIT America, including flights, domestic transfer to and from the fair ground and preferential hotel rates for those staying more than one day. The price list starts at an unbelievable 200 ( two hundred ) Euro for a one-day tour.

For these all-inclusive guided tours, please inquire at CeBIT-America@messe.de

So, you see that we leave you no reason for not attending this unique event !

And keep watching your Inbox: The next e-paper is just around the corner !

Yours truly,

Dieter Neumann
U.I.P.R.E.
Senior Editor
Hannover Pacific Publications

Neumann@Taiwan-Technology.com
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