The Wall Street Journal asked Opts to help create an event to acknowledge the beginning of a new millennium of business and provide a forum for clients, executives and industry thought leaders.

Opts created a series of 3 CEO forums that took place over the course of 2000 in the US, Europe and Asia. Opts helped to create and manage a strategic partnership between Microsoft, Harvard Business School, Forrester and The Wall Street Journal.

The series kicked off at Harvard Business School with a keynote by Dean Kim B. Clark. Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, George Colony of Forrester and Peter Kann of The WSJ all participated along with an audience of peers, 50 Fortune 500 CEO's and 50 Dot.com CEO's. NBC's Brian Williams moderated a technology panel that was aired globally on CNBC.

As the Journal later reported, "We took a select group of the world's leading e-business pioneers, venture capitalists and CEO's. We brought them together at the world's most international business school. And then we got them talking. The results exceeded even our expectations."

The event in Europe, at INSEAD, and in Hong Kong, in collaboration with Harvard Business School, were equally groundbreaking. A post-conference report was distributed to over 4000 CEO's. Microsoft has used this series as the standard by which all their executive events are measured.