OPA Publishes Full Speaker Lineup for First-of-its-Kind Event; Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman of Ogivly Worldwide, Announced as New Keynote Speaker

NEW YORK, NY -- January 11, 2006 -- The Online Publishers Association (OPA) and OPA Europe announced today that new speakers have been added to OPA '06 London: Forum for the Future, which has already attracted some of the top names in media and advertising. The full lineup of speakers has now been published at: www.online-publishers.org/globalforum.

Forum for the Future will feature dozens of thought leaders from around the globe. Highlighting the new additions are keynote speakers Steve Hayden, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy Worldwide, and Eudald Domenech, Delegated Advisor with Techfoundries. They will be joining keynoters Jeffrey Cole, Director, Center for the Digital Future, Univ. of Southern California, Tom Glocer, Chief Executive of Reuters Group PLC, and Ken Lowe, CEO of E.W. Scripps Company.

The OPA today also announced many new speakers who will participate in panel discussions, including:

• Pierre Bellanger, Founder, President and CEO of SkyRocket.com
• Mark Clifford, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Standard
• Bernard Gershon, Senior Vice-President and General Manager with ABC News Digital Media Group
• Euntaek Hong, Editor-in-Chief of OhmyNews International
• David Klein, Publishing and Editorial Director with The Ad Age Group
• Zachary Leonard with Accenture UK Publishing
• Simon Levene, Managing Director, Corporate Development of Europe Yahoo!
• Olli-Pekka Lintula, Director, Strategic Marketing with Nokia
• Lara Logan, 60 Minutes, Correspondent with CBS News
• Bill Murray, Managing Director, Group Business Information Strategy with Haymarket Publishing Group Limited
• Daniel Pacthod, Partner with McKinsey & Company
• Elizabeth Palmer, Correspondent with CBS News
• Bruno Patino, Publisher & Chairman of Le Monde interactif
• Hamish Pringle, Director General of IPA
• Danny Rimer, General Partner with Index Ventures
• Mauro Sentinelli, Managing Director & Board member with Telecom Italia Mobile International MV
• Andrew Walmsley, Co-Founder of i-Level
• Koichi Yamamoto, Senior Manager with Dentsu Institute for Human Studies

"The lineup for OPA's first-ever global event is unprecedented in its worldwide reach," said OPA President Michael Zimbalist. "From London, to Hong Kong to Silicon Valley, leading executives are coming together to discuss issues affecting the worldwide media business. Every segment of the Industry, including front-line reporters, publishers, marketers, and agency executives, will be represented at The Forum for the Future."

A full list of speakers and registration information for the conference, which will take place from March 1-3, 2006 at The Landmark London hotel, can be found at: www.online-publishers.org/globalforum. The OPA also announced today that early bird registration has been extended to January 31, 2006.

Featured topics to be addressed at the conference include:

• The Business Model for Media Companies;
• Global Outlook for Advertising and Marketing Services;
• Scalability and Distribution Considerations;
• Mobility and the Consumer; and
• The Future of Content Creation: Emerging Models for the 21st Century Media Company.

About the Online Publishers Association

Founded in June 2001, the Online Publishers Association (OPA) is an industry trade organization whose mission is to advance the interests of high-quality online publishers before the advertising community, the press, the government and the public. Members of OPA represent the standards in Internet publishing with respect to editorial quality and integrity, credibility and accountability. OPA member sites have a combined, unduplicated reach of 109.5 million visitors, or 65 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience (Source: comScore Media Metrix, July 2005 combined home/work/university data). For more information about the Online Publishers Association, visit www.online-publishers.org.

In March 2003, several leading European publishers came together to form OPA Europe, an extension of the association to the European community. For more information about OPA Europe, visit www.opa-europe.org.

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