BMO Welcomed as a New Speaker for the 2005 e-Financial WorldExpo

Toronto, Canada, September 28, 2005 --(PR.com)-- Established in 1817 as Bank of Montreal, BMO Financial Group (TSX, NYSE: BMO) is a highly diversified financial services organization. With total assets of $265 billion at October 31, 2004 and more than 34,000 employees, BMO provides a broad range of retail banking, wealth management and investment banking products and solutions.

It serves Canadian clients through BMO Bank of Montreal, its personal and commercial banking business, and BMO Nesbitt Burns, one of Canada’s leading full-service investment and wealth management firms.

In the United States, clients are served through Harris, a major U.S. Midwest financial services organization with a network of community banks in the Chicago area and wealth management offices across the United States, as well as Harris Nesbitt, a leading mid-market investment and corporate bank. It helps its customers manage their financial affairs by delivering the broadest range of financial services through a single point of contact. Its financial service professionals provide access to any services our customers require across the entire enterprise.

The 2005 e-Financial WorldExpo will feature enterprise applications and financial solutions, provided by many top companies, which include Adobe Systems, SafeHarbor, Avamar, DoubleClick, Genesys Labs, IDS Sheer Canada, KANA, Laserfiche, Pertech Technologies, Policy Technology, Sarvega, RDM Corp., Progtegra Technology Solutions, EMC Corp., Tripwire, Talisma, Texas Instruments, VisionMAX, and Xaware.

New speakers recently added to our conference agenda include:

- Jeffery L. Green, Director of Compliance for Financial Services, Laserfiche
- Bruce Miller, e-Records Strategy & Business Development Executive, IBM
- Steve Orrin, CTO, Sarvega
- Andrea S. Klein, Vice President, Financial Services Industry Strategy & Marketing, Oracle
- Vivek Khindria, Senior Manager, Information Security Practice. BMO

For a full list of the speakers and their topics please refer to our website or simply call us for a faxed version.

This is a great opportunity for the attendees to network with hundreds of private industry executives and their colleagues from all sectors of the financial industry.

To arrange interviews with our organizing team, any of the conference speakers, or to get more information about the e-Financial WorldExpo, please do not hesitate to call us or drop us an email. We also provide prepared media articles for release.

We offer the members of the media free access to all our events. To obtain your media pass for the e-Financial WorldExpo and fulfill your organization’s media needs, please contact Jung Park at 1-416-292-0038 ext. 824 or jungwonp@wowgao.com for more details.

About WowGao Inc.

WowGao Inc. is a leading Canadian event management company, that produces high quality, internationally renowned conferences and expositions that address the latest innovations and developments in the information technology industry. WowGao successfully hosts annual events, which include: The Ultimate Leading Edge IT Conferences & Expos, Wireless & Mobile WorldExpo, Government & Health Technologies Forum, China International Multimedia Technology and Application Expo & Symposium and the e-Financial WorldExpo, all of which remain highly acclaimed in the industry.

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