enron research and ebs engineering and operations group technical forum joe , i would like to invite you to an off - site meeting of john griebling ' s organization and the research group . date : april 27 - april 29 location : breckenridge , colorado as you know , john griebling is managing the network design and construction project currently under way in ebs . the research group is actively involved in this effort which requires advanced quantitative skills in the area of stochastic optimization and stochastic processes ( for modeling and forecasting internet traffic flows ) . the objective of this meeting is to develop common language and accomplish transfer of skills between the two groups , to facilitate cooperation on this project in the future . we are inviting ken rice and kevin hannon to this meeting . we would appreciate if you could speak , together with kevin and ken , on strategic directions of ebs . it is important for a group of technical people , with relatively specialized technical skills , to understand the big picture . i am attaching the preliminary agenda for this meeting . vince kaminski