January 25th, 2001

ForgeFinder.com President to Speak at eMetals Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

        Kyle E. Gillman, President of ForgeFinder.com, Inc., will be speaking about business-to-business site development at a conference entitled e-Business for the Metals Industry: Enabling the Value Chain. The event will be the first of its kind in Europe, focusing on using the Internet to benefit metals trade on a global scale.

        Mr. Gillman's speech, entitled CASE STUDY: ForgeFinder.com - Customization, Specialization, Neutrality and Marketplace Focus, will discuss the importance of following accepted industry practices for B2B site design when designing for a specific industry. The complete speech summary as it will appear in the conference program appears at the base of this page.

        The eMetals Conference will be held at the Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam on February 20th and 21st. Mr. Gillman is scheduled to speak at 4:15pm on the 21st. Following his speech, he will be a part of the closing panel discussion of the conference. The Panel discussion is entitled Impact of Trading Exchanges on the Metals Industry and will have seven panelists. In addition to Mr. Gillman, the panel will include:

Roy Lee
Europe Product Marketing Manager
GE Global eXchange Services
 
Philip Gross
Director of European Sales and Operations
Aluminum.com
 
Gianfranco Imperato
CEO
 
Steeltrading.com
 
Dicky Yu
Executive Director & CEO
Worldmetal
John Dembitz
Business Development Director
Steelscreen

The conference itself is being produced by TenLive, producers of industry specific e-business conferences across the world.


The following speech summary appears in the conference program
Available online at www.emetalsconference.com

The New Digital Economy operates in exactly the same fashion as economies have for centuries, with one significant difference: the new digital economy is a truly global economy. The real power of the Internet comes in it's ability to provide access to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. As such, marketplaces on the Internet need to cater to every possible user all over the world, and should be designed to take advantage of this multi-dimensional business model. Customisation, specialization, neutrality, and marketplace focus are fundamental requirements for every successful Internet business. Every buyer has their own specific set of purchasing requirements. Every country offers it's own trading culture. And every industry operates in its own matter. ForgeFinder.com was developed with these issues in mind. As such, the ForgeFinder experience is automatically customized to the individual user. Moreover, ForgeFinder is not beholden to any specific forging buyer, seller, or national forging association. ForgeFinder operates specifically and exclusively within the forged metals industry and seeks to service every facet of the industry.

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