Waste News E-Strategies Conference Features Leading E-Commerce Authorities

Business Wire
August 7, 2000

AKRON, Ohio -- Waste News, the solid waste industry's foremost news publication, will hold a conference on e-commerce and its potential impact on the solid waste and recycling industries on Sept. 6-7, 2000.

The two-day conference, E-Strategies, will be held in Chicago at the O'Hare Four Points Sheraton and will include speakers from leading e-commerce innovators, as well as those setting the pace in the solid waste and recycling industries.

The conference will take a broad look at e-commerce in the waste and recycling industries; where it's at; where it might be going and what the opportunities are. Attendees also will interact with some of the most prominent e-commerce Web sites in the industry via computer, as well as the principals from those sites.

Programming features a keynote address by Edward R. Matheny, founder of Atlantic Systems, a management consulting firm that specializes in e-commerce. Also participating are: Robin K. Wiener, executive director of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries; George P. McGrath, senior vice president and chief information officer, Norcal Waste Systems, Inc.; William P. Moore, president of Moore & Associates, a leading paper recycling firm; Steve Edelson, Waste Management, Inc.; Stacy Gray, senior industrial services analyst at Deutsche Banc Alex Brown; J. Tracy Rooks, managing partner of Rooks Technologies, an Internet and software development company; Thomas Chaffee, principal of Chaffee Interactive, a division of Brukoff-Chaffee Marketing Communications; Patrick J. Whalen, attorney with Spencer Fane Britt & Browne LLP, which specializes in online commercial transactions; Leone T. Young, vice president and analyst covering the solid waste and pollution control industries for Salomon Smith Barney; Bob Cherrie, senior market manager, Global Midmarket Business, IBM Corp.; Harry Kletter, chief visionary officer, Industrial Services of America, Inc.; George Hudnet, vice president of marketing, WasteBid.com Inc. Carol Winfrey, vice president of marketing, Entrade Inc.; Vince Bankoski, president, eWaste, Inc.; and John McQuillan Jr., president and CEO, Analine.com.

``This conference will provide vital information to senior management and executives that will assist them in making e-commerce decisions for their companies that will help keep them competitive in today's changing business environment,'' Waste News Editor and Conference Chair Allan Gerlat said. ``Waste News is pleased to offer solid waste and recycling companies an opportunity to further their e-commerce development and facilitate introductions with our industry's e-commerce leaders.''

Register online at www.wastenews.com, or contact Nancy Rudy at (330) 865-6176. Hotel reservations should be made online or by calling the Chicago O'Hare Four Points Sheraton at (800) 323-1239 or (847) 671-6000.

Waste News, a Crain Communications weekly publication based in Akron, Ohio, delivers news and analysis to public- and private-sector professionals in the solid waste management business. Coverage includes collection, transportation, processing and disposal of solid waste at the local, state, regional, national and international levels. Other areas reported on include mergers, acquisitions and expansions; legislative and regulatory activity; market prices, public-sector contracts and negotiations; litigation and innovations. The newspaper's Web address is www.wastenews.com.

Contact: Waste News Allan Gerlat, 330/865-6167 agerlat@crain.com Register online at www.wastenews.com