SAN MATEO, California — October 20, 2003 — As every enterprise company today faces the important challenge of efficiently and cost-effectively managing extremely complex Web-based applications, leading e-business executives in the IT world representing the Fortune 1000 and industry analysts will gather in New York City at the annual Keynote Global Internet Performance Conference (GIPC) to discuss how to optimize the customer experience. The conference will be held in Manhattan October 26 – 27 at the new Westin New York at Times Square.
Those wishing to attend may click on the following URL for detailed information: http://www.keynote-gipc.com/home.html.
Keynote’s annual GIPC is the premier conference for business and IT executives dedicated to Web performance management to meet, network, and discuss the issues, challenges and solutions. This year’s conference theme, “Performance Matters: Play to Win,” underscores much of the session content that focuses on the ‘how to’ aspects for building winning Web performance through best practices monitoring, management and testing strategies and techniques. The GIPC is the ideal networking and learning event of the year for Keynote customers and professionals interested in the technical and business issues related to Web performance management and testing.
Keynote has built an action-packed agenda that provides multiple opportunities for conference attendees to hear directly from top executives at leading companies in their field with a strong Web presence. Executives from Akamai, Barnes & Noble, Cisco, Columbia House, Ebay, Federal Reserve, KBtoys.com, Palm, PBS, Pershing, QVC, SBC, Shareholder.com, Siebel, Slimfast, Sprint, State Farm, Sungard, Sun Microsystems, Tribune Media, Viacom, and Wells Fargo will discuss how they successfully handle daily a myriad of business and technical issues and challenges related to optimizing online customer experience and Web performance management and testing.
As the market leader and standard-bearer in Web performance management and testing services, Keynote’s Global Internet Performance Conferences are the premier events for industry thought leaders to discuss innovative strategies for managing e-business performance. Many Fortune 1000 companies already subscribe to Keynote’s growing array of benchmarking, testing and application performance services. The conference is therefore the ideal venue for Keynote customers and IT leaders to meet together to share ideas, strategies and solutions and hear directly from colleagues and analysts grappling with similar Web performance issues and challenges.
The Keynote GIPC will also provide the stage for the launch of several new Keynote Web performance management services.
The Keynote GIPC is targeted at CIOs, CTOs, VPs or directors of technology, information systems or quality assurance, engineers, marketing or Web managers, application development managers and operations management personnel.
Conference attendance is priced at $495.00. A special two for one discount is available this week.
For additional conference information and to register, visit Keynotes GIPC Web site at http://www.keynote-gipc.com/home.html or contact Abigail Yao at ayao@keynote.com or 1 (650) 403-3464.
Members of the media can register for the conference free of charge by contacting the Keynote public relations contacts on this press release.
About Keynote
Founded in 1995, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the worldwide leader in Web performance measurement, testing and management services that improve the quality of e-business. Keynote’s services enable corporate enterprises to benchmark, diagnose, test and manage their e-business systems both inside and outside the firewall. Approximately 2,300 corporate IT departments and 15,400 individual subscribers rely on the company's easy-to-use and cost-effective services to optimize revenues and reduce downtime costs without requiring additional complex and costly software implementations.
Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California and can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400.
Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority and Perspective are registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2003 Keynote Systems, Inc.
Public Relations Contacts:
Dan Berkowitz, Keynote Systems, Inc., (650) 403-3305, (415) 518-7870, dberkowitz@keynote.com
Della Lowe, Keynote Systems, Inc., (650) 403-3233, dlowe@keynote.com