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Advance Registration Ends December 20 -- Register Now to Save -- The GlobusWORLD conference scheduled for January 20-23, 2004 at the Westin-St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco is shaping up as a premier event. Sponsors include Grid computing industry leaders--Intel, HP, IBM, Platform Computing, inSORS, Sun, DataSynapse, Enigmatec, Optena, Nortel Networks and Qwest. Learn how these companies are using the Globus Toolkit(R) to implement Grid strategies worldwide, and how these initiatives can help your organization. New to GlobusWORLD: "Meet the Developers" sessions (http://www.globusworld.org/program/developer.asp). These sessions, to be held in our Intel sponsored Internet Cafe / Programming Lab, are an opportunity for unprecedented access to the Globus Toolkit (GT) Development team. Discuss your Grid integration projects one-on-one with the experts. Each day of the conference, leading GT developers will be available to discuss different aspects of the toolkit. Be sure to check the GlobusWORLD web site frequently (http://www.globusworld.org). We've added a bunch of new program information about the main conference sessions, the poster session, and the workshops. You'll find impressive speaker bios and session abstracts. The world leaders in Grid Computing are all well represented. This is truly a unique chance to see first hand what your colleagues and industry competitors have planned for the coming year. The Westin-St. Francis Hotel is still offering GlobusWORLD registrants a discounted rate for room reservations made before December 20. The GlobusWORLD 2004 advance registration rate ends January 2, after which onsite registration fees will apply. For more details about the conference see our December issue of GlobusWORLD Reports (http://www.globusworld.org/news/GWReports3.pdf).