DOING BUSINESS ONLINE:
ELECTRONIC MARKETING


Conference in Detail
Thursday • October 16, 2003

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8:30 Introduction and Overview
Steve Tapia, Esq.
Program Co-Chair
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA

Holly K. Towle, Esq.
Program Co-Chair
Preston Gates Ellis LLP
Seattle, WA
8:45 Application of Traditional Advertising and Consumer Protection Laws to Electronic Marketing
False advertising; sweepstakes and promotions
Linda A. Goldstein, Esq.
Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood
New York, NY
9:30 The Technical Side of Email Direct Marketing (aka SPAM) and Email Filtering
The mechanics of email and instant messaging, the effectiveness of existing SPAM filters, and the prospects for smarter technical solutions: To what extent can technology solve the problems?
Joshua I. Halpern
Vice President
ICG, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
10:30 Break
10:45 First Amendment Issues Meet SPAM; Vigilantism on the Net; Private Sector Regulation of Email Traffic
Who is doing what? What is legal? What are the public policy implications? What are the potential liabilities and remedies for interference with legal email traffic or wrongful blacklisting?
Joel Rothstein Wolfson, Esq.
Blank Rome LLP
Washington, DC
Tips for business people
Steve Tapia, Esq.
Program Co-Chair
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:15 Government Regulation of Email Traffic and Privacy: A Growing Web of State, Federal, and International Laws
Overview of state laws: What’s been enacted already and what might be coming federally?
Christopher M. Kelly, Esq.
Baker & McKenzie
Palo Alto, CA
Trends in international regulation: Will there be a global common ground? EU e-marketing
Douglas W. Kenyon, Esq.
Hunton & Williams LLP
Raleigh, NC
Tips for business people
William Ashworth, Esq.
Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
3:15 Break
3:30 Direct Email Campaigns that Stay Within the Law; Emerging Issues
Best practices and nuanced issues surrounding notice to, and consent of, a consumer to receive email
Bennie Smith
Chief Privacy Officer
DoubleClick
New York, NY
4:15 Targeting Users of Wireless Devices
Special issues arising from mobility; SMS (short message service) SPAM
Daniel M. Waggoner, Esq.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Seattle, WA
5:00 Reception for Faculty and Attendees


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