Aside from learning what's what,
meet the who's who at Vortex2000.
As an invitation only affair, Vortex2000 seeks out the people who are creating the future, including senior executives from the Internet, telephone, television, equipment and service industries.

Brought to you by the people who
helped start the revolution.
And no wonder,the Vortex conferences were founded by someone who literally helped pioneer the networking industry.

At Xerox PARC, Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet that today connects over 100 million computers to the Internet. He went on to found 3Com Corporation, the $6 billion computer networking company. In 1992, Bob joined IDG first as Publisher/CEO of InfoWorld. Today, he serves as an IDG board member and Vice President, while writing columns, giving talks and working closely with IDG Executive Forums in producing conferences.

Recently, John Gallant, Executive Vice President and Editorial Director of NetworkWorld, Inc., was named as Associate Producer of Vortex. As the leader of one of the fastest growing media companies in the communications industry, John is well suited to the task of helping to shape the Vortex conference program as he's well aware of the critical happenings in the network convergence revolution. John has been recognized by Marketing Computers magazine as one of the 25 most influential people in computer journalism, and as one of the most visionary editors in chief by Press Access, a public relations trade organization.

The result is nothing short of amazing.
Vortex2000 generates a creatively charged atmosphere and throws off sparks that are blazing new trails in communications, government policies, e-commerce and more. The Vortex conferences are the original and still the only conferences that gather the leaders and innovators from these rapidly converging industries.