Federal Trade Commission's Public Workshop:
Competition Policy in The World of B2b Electronic Marketplaces Panel Participants And Agenda

Thursday, June 29, 2000

Opening Remarks - Chairman Robert Pitofsky (9:00-9:10 am)

Introduction to Workshop - Susan DeSanti, Director, Policy Planning (9:10-9:20 am)

Panel 1: How B2Bs Work - Models and Experience (9:20-11:40 am)

Stephen Attanasio
President & CEO
WIZNET, Inc.

 

Dale Boeth
Vice President of Strategic Development
PurchasePro.com, Inc.

 

Christopher G. Cogan
Founder, Chairman & CEO
GoCo-op

 

Gary Fromer
Vice President, New Business and Partner Solutions

SAP America, Inc.

 

Sam E. Kinney

Co-founder & Executive Vice President

FreeMarkets, Inc.

 

Patrick Stewart

President & CEO

MetalSite, L.P.

 

Robert Tarkoff

General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development

CommerceOne

 

Gretchen A. Teagarden

Director, B2B E-Commerce

Salomon Smith Barney, Inc.

Remarks - Commissioner Orson Swindle (11:40-11:50 am)

Lunch (11:50-1:20 pm)

Remarks - Commissioner Sheila Anthony (1:20-1:30 pm)

Panel 2: Buyer-Oriented Perspectives (1:20-3:20 pm)

John Allgaier

Director, Services & Supplies Purchasing

General Mills

Jon Arnold

CIO

Edison Electric Institute

 

David Y. Chen

Co-founder & CEO

GeoTrust

 

Rod Gray

CFO

Petrocosm Corporation

 

Captain Kurt Huff

Supply Corps

United States Navy

 

Angie Kim

President & Chief Customer Officer

EqualFooting.com, Inc.

 

Jay Knoll

Senior Staff Counsel

Detroit Diesel Corporation

 

Steven J. Kafka

Analyst, eBusiness Trade

Forrester Research, Inc.

 

Sam E. Kinney

Co-founder & Executive Vice President

FreeMarkets, Inc.

 

Lori Mirek

President & CEO

Currenex, Inc.

 

Kaushik Shridharani

Managing Director, Business E-commerce

Bear Stearns & Co, Inc.

 

Gerard van Breen

Executive Vice President

Royal Ahold

Break (3:20-3:40 pm)

Panel 3: Seller-Oriented Perspectives (3:40-5:30 pm)

Nailesh A. Bhatt

Founder & Director

BulkDrugs.com

 

Timothy Cooney

Co-founder & President

Ventures4Sale.com, Inc.

 

Andra P. (Andy) Dupont

Director, Electronic Market Channels

Dow Chemical Company

 

Leah Knight

Research Director, B2B Internet Marketplaces Worldwide

Gartner Group

 

Jay Knoll

Senior Staff Counsel

Detroit Diesel Corporation

 

Charles Libicki

Co-Principal

Interface Logic Systems, Inc.

 

Hal Loevy

Vice President Global Marketing & Partnerships

SGSonsite.com

 

Alex Mashinsky

Founder & Vice Chairman

Arbinet

 

Charles Phillips

Managing Directory, Enterprise and Internet Software

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter

 

Harpal S. Sandhu

President & CEO

Integral Development Corp.

 

Dwayne Spradlin

Vice President of Corporate Development

VerticalNet, Inc.

 

Michael Sullivan

Chief Operating Officer

HotOfftheWire.com

Friday, June 30, 2000

Remarks - Commissioner Mozelle Thompson (9:00-9:10 am)

Panel 4: Perspectives of Owners and Operators (9:10-10:40 am)

Tim Clark

Senior Analyst

Jupiter Communications

 

Rod Gray

CFO

Petrocosm Corporation

 

Gina Haines

Co-founder & Senior Vice President Operations

FacilityPro.com

 

Morgan C. Harting

E-Commerce Group, Manager

KPMG Consulting

 

Nicholas P. Heymann

Senior Vice President, Equity Research

Prudential Securities, Inc.

 

Roy S. Roberts

Co-founder, Chairman & CEO

M-Xchange.com

 

Joel E. Simkins

Vice President

energyLeader.com

 

Tim Stojka

Chairman & CEO Commerx, Inc.

Developer of PlasticsNet

 

Robert Verloop

Vice-President of Sales & Marketing

BuyProduce.com

 

Mark L. Walsh

President & CEO

VerticalNet, Inc.

Break (10:40-11:00 am)

Panel 5: Future Developments and Public Policy Implications (11:00-12:15 pm)

Jere Glover

Office of Advocacy

Small Business Administration

 

Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert

Principal

Economists Incorporated

 

David Lucking-Reiley

Assistant Professor of Economics

Vanderbilt University

 

Catherine L. Mann

Senior Fellow

Institute for International Economics

 

Shyam Sunder

James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance, School of Management

Yale University

 

Robert Parker

Vice-President, B2E Commerce Strategies

AMR Research, Inc.

 

Andrew B. Whinston

Director of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce, Red McCombs School of Business

The University of Texas at Austin

Lunch (12:15-1:45 pm)

Remarks - Commissioner Thomas Leary (1:45-1:55 pm)

Panel 6: Competition Policy Implications (1:55-3:45 pm)

William J. Baer

Arnold & Porter

 

Jonathan B. Baker

American University, Washington School of Law

 

Joseph Brodley

Boston University School of Law

 

Mark Cooper, Research Director

Consumer Federation of America

 

Edward Correia

Latham & Watkins

 

Harry First, Antiturst Bureau Chief

New York State Attorneys General Office

 

Albert A. Foer, President

American Antitrust Institute

 

Roxann E. Henry

Howrey, Simon , Arnold & White

 

Jerry J. Jasinowski, President & CEO

National Association of Manufacturers

 

Thomas Krattenmaker

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo

 

Joel M. Mitnick

Brown & Wood LLP

 

Timothy K. Muris

George Mason University

 

Scott P. Perlman

Mayer, Brown & Platt

 

Phillip A. Proger

Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

 

Charles F. (Rick) Rule

Covington & Burling

 

Steven Salop

Georgetown University Law Center

 

Rick Warren-Boulton

MICRA

 

Laura A. Wilkinson

Clifford Chance Rogers & Wells LLP