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Monday, 7 October 1996 - DAY 1

13.00: Registration

14.15: Welcome by Ambassador Jacques Raeymaeckers, Secretary General of UAI

14.30: Introduction to Electronic Meeting Technology

14.45: UIA data on CD-ROM and Internet: activities on the system
Anthony JN Judge, Assistant Secretary General.

15.30: Coffee break

16.00: The Virtual World, presentation by ISP and Andersen Consulting.

17.00: Evolution of international meetings
Two guests speakers, secretary-generals from leading international associations will comment on their actual experiences

17.30: Consequences for the meeting industry

18.15: Organization of day 2 workshops

19.00: Get-together Cocktail reception

Tuesday, 8 October 1996 - DAY 2

09.00: Plenary session given by ISP and Dell Computer: What will meeting be in the future, what technology is needed, what will the role of the successful conference provider be, what can we do?

10.00: Workshops

12.30: Lunch

14.00: Plenary session : Feedback from workshops

15.00: Plenary discussion guided by an expert group, covering issues and findings from the workshops.

16.15: Final survey

16.45: Closing remarks

17.00: Optional session : how can Associate Members increase their business through the use of the technology which has been used during the two days. Discussion led by UIA and ISP.

Recent developments in specialised electronic meeting support software has created the potential for radically new approaches to Conferences. At appropriate stages in the agenda, delegates are now able to interact simultaneously and anonymously with each other through a network of notebook computers.

This approach to discussion encourages everyone to have an input while disempowering those who might otherwise dominate a normal meeting. The 'conversations' are captured and a report made available to all participants at the end of the meeting.

This innovative approach is already in use by many commercial and public sector bodies and will surely become a standard feature of conference activities.

We felt that the theme choosen for our annual meeting could not be better organized than by using these latest communication developments.

Independent Solution Providers Limited is a UK-based group that specialises in helping clients achieve organisational change through use of technology for teamworking and other forms of collaboration. Clients include many major public sector and commercial organisations as well as local and central governmental agencies in the UK and Scandinavia.

As leading practitioners in the emerging field of computer-aided collaboration, ISP have considerable experience of running of large-scale event using technology-supported interaction. Their services include conference design and facilitation together with provision of the necessary equipment end technical support.

We are convinced that thanks to the help of the experts of IPS the meeting will open new horizons for participants to find out, at the eve of a new millenium, what the future of meetings

Brussels, August 1996.