Doing Business On-line

Program

DAY TWO

27-28 November 1995, Golden Gate Hotel, Sydney

9.00 OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR:

Tom Worthington, Director Community Affairs Board, Australian Computer Society

9.20 VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT GOES ON-LINE

• Victoria 21 strategy and electronic service delivery
• Information about government goes on-line
• The VICNET initiative for information services
• Transactions with government; proposed development
  • individual citizens
  • business
  • visitors
  • health and education services

John Rimmer, Deputy Secretary, Department of Premier & Cabinet, Victoria

10.00 WHICH ON-LINE SERVICE IS APPROPRIATE FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

• Before the 'Superhighway' - a brief history
• Overview of the on-line world - in a connected world does it matter where you are?
• Different customers - browsers, shoppers or readers?
• Getting service - quality, accessibility and getting paid

Jeremy Horey, Computer Editor, The Australian

10.40 Morning Coffee

COMMERCIAL ON-LINE SERVICES

11.00 COMPARING ON-LINE SERVICES

• Local content and infrastructure issues - assisting productivity and efficiency
• Quality of content
• Price
• Ease of access - chat rooms, bulletin boards, forums

Facilitator: Graham Lynch, Managing Editor, Communications News & Analysis; Communications Day and Mobile News & Analysis
Panel: Michael Komoroski, Marketing Manager, Ozemail; Michael Fuller, Pacific Content Manager, Apple Online Services; Subra Venkaat, Manager, Compuserve Pacific; Angela Baster, Business Development Manager, On Australia

12.00 RETAILING, ON-LINE SERVICES - THE IMPACT

The impact on

• general retail
• shopping centres/landlords
• supplier relationships
• conventional media services

Tony Standley, Associate Director, Lowes Manhattan Menswear

12.40 Lunch

2.00 PUTTING TOGETHER THE PIECES FOR DOING BUSINESS ON-LINE

• Building a web site for commerce
• Providing security for internet connected sites
  • using proxy servers and firewall products
  • specifying and configuring firewalls and routers
• Becoming a merchant or publisher on the web
  • what tools do I need?
  • what skills must I have?
• Handling transactions and billing with Netscape products
  • what can banks do and who do I talk to?

Nathan Cher, Technical Director, Com Tech Communications

2.40 SECURITY PROBLEMS

• Attack scenarios
• Defence mechanisms
  • packet filters
  • proxy gateway firewall
  • crypto technology

Stephen Frede, Senior Technical Consultant, Softway Pty Ltd

3.20 Afternoon Tea

3.40 ELECTRONIC COMMERCE - THE CHALLENGES AHEAD

• Technological implications
• The emerging market
• Government policy
• Legal issues

Hugh Irvine, Managing Director, connect.com.au Pty Ltd

4.20 USING THE INTERNET FOR MORE THAN JUST TEXT

• Putting the "Australian Media Facilities Directory" On-Line
• The living directory
• Audio on demand and its applications
• The virtual radio magazine

Holger Brockmann, Development Director; and Colin Lee, Operations Director, hot broccoli

5.00 Close of Conference

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• Program
  • Day One
  • Day Three
• How to register

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