Lowell Gray, the internet visionary who helped introduce Lynn to the Cyber Age and the head of one of the city's newest and largest computer firms, will showcase the city's accomplishments at "Take Stock in Massachusetts".

Launched a year ago by Gov. Paul Cellucci, the conference and its sponsoring organization, the Dot.commonwealth Coalition, is part of an effort to highlight Massachusetts' high-tech accomplishments, including the transformation of Lynn's aging downtown into cyber office space.

The morning portion of the conference will be held in the Goldblock building on Munroe Street where a public and private-effort partnership has created office space for small internet providers.

Shore.net founder Gray will speak along with Pam Reeve, the chief executive officer of Lightbridge, a major computer firm preparing to move into the former Phillips Lighting building on the Lynnway.

Key people involved in bringing Lightbridge to the former Lynnway manufacturing plant said the firm will employee between 200 and 400 workers.

U.S. Rep. John Tierney, D-Salem, proposed Lynn as a prospective site for Lightbridge after meeting the firm's top executives.

He said they were impressed by Mayor Patrick McManus' interest in attracting the company.

"The mayor immediatley picked up the ball on this," Tierney said.

Conference organizers are billing the Lynn leg of the event as the "city of 1.4 trillion possibilities." The title is a reference to the volume of information carried by a high-speed fiber optic line that makes landfall in Lynn after crossing the Atlantic.

The high-speed line is capable of carrying huge volumes of electronic information while ensuring customers who send and receive the information confidentiality in their transmissions.

The speed, volume and security offered by fiber optic cable are premiums to businesses that rely on the rapid exchange of large amounts of information.

That attraction has spurred development interest in 90 Exchange Street and the former bank building at the corner of Spring and Exchange streets.

The afternoon leg of Dec. 8 conference will be held in Beverly and feature Tierney as well as North Shore Community College President Wayne Burton.

The former Salem State College business dean is committed to linking North Shore's campuses to growing computer businesses in Lynn and other communities.