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Internet Reality Check

3pm Friday, 19 March 1999

Board Room, National Press Club, Canberra

Topic: Where is the Virtual Office?

Special Guest: Simon Hayward, Research Director, GartnerGroup UK


Simon Hayward is a Research Director based in GartnerGroup's Egham, Surrey, UK office. He is in Australia to give presentations on the Electronic Workplace for GartnerGroup's clients. Simon will be returning to the UK after this IRC.

Mr. Hayward has more than 15 years experience in IT. Starting as a systems analyst, and then researching advanced computing topics, more recently he has had responsibility in both technical and marketing positions for development of software products. Before joining GartnerGroup, he was CTO of TeamWARE Group, a unit of Fujitsu developing groupware, workflow and related products for collaborative office working. Within GartnerGroup, his research interests include Internet technologies and systems supporting the electronic workplace, in particular groupware for real-time collaboration, messaging and workflow. Mr. Hayward is a graduate of Oxford University and a member of the British Computer Society.

At GartnerGroup's Electronic Workplace event he has given two presentations:

Join Simon to discuss the topic "Where is the Virtual Office?" at the second IRC of the year.

IRCs are free (but you have to buy your own drinks and one for the special guest) and open to anyone interested: just turn up. Internet Reality Check (not to be confused with Internet Relay Chat) is designed so that members of the 'net community can meet and exchange the small amount of very important information which is not suitable for digital transmission. ;-)


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By Tom Worthington, Immediate Past President, Australian Computer Society.
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