newsbytes@clarinet.com (02/04/90)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA, 1990 JAN 31 (NB) -- Canada will become the sixth country to host a MacWorld Expo this October. Laurentian Technomedia of Toronto has announced plans to produce a three-day MacWorld show here with Mitch Hall Associates of Dedham, Mass. The three-day show will take place at Toronto's Better Living Centre October 23-25. Roland Klassen, show manager for Laurentian, said some 400 exhibitors are expected at the first show, and the organizers hope for about 10,000 visitors. A conference will be held alongside the show. Klassen said no speakers could be named yet, but he noted that John Sculley, president of Apple, has given a keynote speech at all past MacWorld shows in North America. Laurentian Technomedia publishes two data processing magazines, ComputerData and Direct Access, and is affiliated with IDG Communications, the U.S.-based computer periodical publisher that puts out MacWorld magazine, sponsor of the MacWorld shows. MacWorld shows are held in the United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia and Japan, as well as in San Francisco and Boston in the United States. (Grant Buckler/19900131/Press Contact: Roland Klassen, Laurentian Technomedia, 416-746-7360)