Office Depot, Inc., the world's largest seller of office supplies and products, today announced the "live" webcast of keynote presentations featured at its third annual Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference:

The Power of Visions and Values,
February 23-25.

The Keynote presentations that will be webcast include:

• Alexis M. Herman, 23rd Secretary of Labor (1997-2001)

• Ann W. Richards, 45th Governor of Texas

• Susan L. Taylor, Editorial Director, Essence Magazine and Chief Content Officer, Essence Communications.

• Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chairwoman of the National Women's Business Council and Chairwoman and CEO of Carlson Companies

• Hector Barreto, Administrator for the United States Small Business Administration

• Geraldine Laybourne, Chairman and CEO for Oxygen Media

• Dr. Sally Ride, former NASA Astronaut

• Billy Jean King, Co-Founder World Team Tennis and Winner of 20 Wimbledon Titles

Women in business, both large and small continue to have a significant presence in today's marketplace and their influence continues to grow year after year. Recognizing that many women business owners may not be able to attend this year's conference, the Company wanted to provide "live" access to the Conference's keynote presentations.

Those interested should visit http://www.officedepot.com/promo/webcafe  where participants will be prompted to click on Office Depot's Web cast button. Participants will need to register in order to view the Web cast and may do so beginning, Friday, February 21, 2003.

Office Depot's annual conference, now in its third year, is one of the most significant women's business conferences ever developed with registration open to the public.