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    6th Interactive Publishing Europe Conference '99

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Norbert Specker, Switzerland

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Bio:
Norbert Specker is a "networker" and thrives on unsolved riddles and intriguing questions. In the early web days, this led him to initiate and create the Interactive Publishing Europe Conference. The pioneering conference will be held for the 7th time this year.

Norbert firmly believes that bringing people, ideas and products together, is the best way to solve riddles and answer questions.

Out of this belief, grew the ambition to gather the most relevant events of the "Content Industry" and create the Content Summit. This first European marketplace, catering to the various players in this market, will surround Interactive Publishing this year and, without doubt, add many dimensions to the Interactive Publishing Conference.

Norbert holds interests in a couple of Internet startups where he is engaged as a knowledge investor. For exampleOvivo.

He is also convinced that the Europe online publishing industry
can only contribute substantially to the evolution of a networked economy, if the flow of information between the diverse markets is ensured. Out of this conviction, he initiated and co-founded London-based europemedia.com--a free weekly newsletter reporting on the online media developments across Europe. Norbert serves as chairman to europemedia.com.

Norbert is the owner of CATCHUP! Communications AG, a small and efficient interactive media consultancy which was founded, in 1992, with offices in Zurich and Victoria/BC.

In previous years, Norbert was involved in local and interactive TV projects, corporate video production, audiotex, interactive teletext and fax services. He also ran a film and photo production services company, -Loco Location.

He studied art history and journalism at the University of Zurich. With his Canadian wife, Liz Nokes, he was involved for four years in managing "The Stage Company." The modern dance, music and theatre company had a true vision of convergence-without even being aware of the meaning of the word!

Norbert writes regularly for the trade press, speaks and moderates at conferences and is the author of a book on audiotex and interactive media. In 1998, he was included in the ´50 international new media names to know´ list of the "Online Journalism Revue" (Annenberg School of Communication/USC). Norbert is a long-time judge for the Eppy
Awards for Online Newspapers and serves on the advisory board of the Media Center of the American Press Institute (API).