- Held October 8-9, 2003 in Dearborn, MI
- The conference will bring together Michigan’s top-level business and technology executives, as well as leaders from across the country to meet, learn and conduct business. The Conference will discuss the state of business in the Digital Drive region as well as throughout the global business community.
- "Accessibility — Performance — Results"
- Held October 20-23, 2003 in Montreal, Canada
- Thanks to high-performance networks, everyone working in research and knowledge production can communicate and collaborate more efficiently. At their disposal are unprecedented collaborative tools and immense resources: databases, skills and knowledge, and even computing power, which can be multiplied massively by the pooling of computing cycles among networked machines. Distance has become an antiquated concept. These networks allow their users to employ every facet of collective intelligence and so improve their competitiveness: they accelerate action, creation, production, and even thought by facilitating access, efficient processing, and the pooling of abilities. Thanks to the semantic Web, available resources can communicate with one another from machine to machine, and solve complex problems that, until recently, only supercomputers could handle. Such issues are core issues for the Conference.
Quote of the Day:
"Like almost everyone, I receive a lot of spam every day, much of it offering to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It's ridiculous." — Bill Gates
- "The Power of Fusion"
- Held October 14, 2003 in Fairfax, VA
- The P3 is the fusion of Private, Public, and Philanthropic forces coming together to solve today's social challenges by bringing together representatives from all three sectors for a one-day summit. Participants will break from "business as usual” and discuss new ways of collaborating. Representatives from the region's most influential companies, foundations, and public and nonprofit sector will join forces at the P3 Conference.