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Business Editors/High-tech Writers

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2000

Over 140 providers of technology to the education market are scheduled to meet in Foster City on June 5th to review the latest trends for success in the K-12 and higher education sectors.

Converge magazine, a publication of the Sacramento-based e.Republic corporation, has teamed up with Eduventures.com and Campus Computing to produce the event. Speakers include educators who are experts in technology for their field, as well as technical consultants and solution providers from around the country. Attendees are expected from as far away as New Delhi, India.

Entitled The Digital Education Marketplace 2000, the conference is designed for the marketing and sales executives of technology companies. Its purpose is to help attendees develop effective selling strategies and learn successful approaches to doing business with education executives as well as to review current market trends and opportunities in the fast moving education market.

"We are very happy to be converging with Eduventures.com and Campus Computing on this event," said Sherese Graves, publisher of Converge magazine. "Our goal is to give the tools and know-how to the digital education industry to become successful in working in the education market."

Event speakers include: Bernard Percy, Editor in Chief, Converge magazine: Thomas Dretler, CEO, Eduventures.com, Inc.; Peter Stokes, Executive Vice President, Eduventures.com, Inc.; Casey Green, Director, The Campus Computing Project, Lev Gonick, CIO, California State University, Monterey Bay; Barbara Grohe, Superintendent, Kent School District, Washington; Steve Johnson, Provost, St. Petersburg Community College; Susie Lange, Deputy Superintendent, California Department of Education, Finance Technology and Administration and Jeanne Hayes, President, Quality Education Data, Inc., and David Longanecker, Executive Director Of WICHE, among others.

The Digital Education Marketplace 2000 is being produced by Converge magazine, the award-winning digital education magazine, with an audience of all levels, from pre-K to 12 through higher education, corporate education and lifelong learning (www.convergemag.com); Eduventures.com, the digital marketplace for news, research and professional services related to the education industry. The company's Web-based resources are designed to help education businesses develop strategy, raise capital and acquire talent (www.eduventures.com) and Campus Computing, the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus officials and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities. (www.campuscomputing.net).