International Trade, Business and Commerce Leaders To Discuss Electronic Business for Small- To Medium-Size Companies

Small- to medium size companies will discuss how to conduct electronic business across the globe during the "E-Business and International Trade: Technical and Marketing Solutions for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises," symposium Sept. 24, between 8:30 a.m. and Noon, at Stevens Institute of Technology in the Bissinger Room of the Wesley J. Howe Center, fourth floor, on the university’s Hoboken campus. The media is invited to this event.

The conference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce/New Jersey District Export Council, Union County Economic Development Corporation and Stevens, will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn how to promote and leverage their transactional web site, or how to set up for electronic commerce. Topics will include: discovering technologies and solutions for increasing sales on the Internet; learning how your company can reach more consumers and conduct business with re-sellers and distributors; and learn about the new Electronic Commerce Resource Center, a new government funded E-Commerce consultation and technical support center.

Speakers include: Edmund Sarno, Architecture Manager, Intel Corporation; Dennis Stillwell, chairman and CEO, Imex Exchange; Neil Cooper, CISSP, Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP; and Charles Merrill of McCarter & English. Silvio Laccetti of Stevens Institute of Technology will give the opening remarks at 9:00 a.m. Axel Velden, director of International Development of Johnson & Johnson International and chairman of the New Jersey District Export Council will give the closing remarks at Noon.

For more information, or to register, please call Bob Jones at the U.S. Department of Commerce, N.J. District Export Council 973-645-4682 ext. 10.

WHAT: "E-Business and International Trade:Technical and Marketing Solutions for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises"

WHEN: Sept. 24, 19989:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

WHERE: Stevens Institute of TechnologyBissinger Room, Fourth Floor, Wesley J. Howe Center, Hoboken, NJ

CONTACT: Bob Jones, U.S. Department of Commerce, N.J. District Export Council
973-645-4682

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.

Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.  

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