Club Med in Sahoro, Hokkaido, Japan is to be the get-away-from-it-all venue for around 150 executives from top US and Japanese computer companies in late May. A conference dubbed the Asian Technology Roundtable Exhibition by its organisers DASAR of California aims to provide a partnership forum for all participants, providing information on strategy and technology issues such as how to access Japan, how to find the right partner, how to finance the venture, and recent trends such as the merger of consumer electronics and computers. The first time DASAR has held the conference in Asia (although a similar European Roundtable conference has already been running for two years), the opportunity has already attracted a distinguished list of chief executives and top management, from companies such as 3Com Corp, ACSII Corp, Auspex Systems Inc, Borland International Inc, Chorus Systemes SA, Fujitsu Ltd, IBM Japan Ltd, III of Taiwan, IntelliCorp Inc, Just Systems Inc, NEC Corp, Neuron Data Inc, MIPS Computer Systems Inc, Novell Inc, a lone Australian participant OzWare Pty Ltd, and PanaSequent. It is dubbed wishfully perhaps as the PC Summit by supporter Masayoshi Son, the president of successful Japanese software distributor SoftBank Corp, but the participant list contains so many companies not necessarily personal computer-related that the presentations and round table discussions are bound to be more wide-ranging. Currently European (and Australasian) participants are vastly unrepresented.
