Sentences with phrase «as a conference organizer»

As conference organizer and Mass Audubon Director of Important Bird Areas Wayne Petersen put it, «Whether you're just learning about birds and how they can help you connect with nature, or an experienced birder seeking to refine one's understanding of these remarkable creatures, Birders Meeting offers plenty of resources and attractions.

As a conference organizer, she has been organizing education events in all parts of the world.

Each of you, as a conference organizer, speaker or attendee, can help eliminate bias in science.

He also has served as a conference organizer, panelist, discussion moderator and lecturer, on subjects ranging from American history to land use and natural - resources policy.

As the conference organizers remind us, «There is an alternative.

From PC World: Vista, MacBook Out — Only Linux Left in Hacking Contest... The MacBook Air went first; a tiny Fujitsu laptop running Vista was hacked on the last day of the contest; but it was Linux, running on a Sony Vaio, that remained undefeated as conference organizers ended a three - way computer hacking challenge -LSB-...]

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And to address this nascent and still as of yet largely misunderstood category of startup finance, the organizers of the Nashville - based startup conference, 3686 South, gathered a group of all - star experts to discuss these new rule changes.

Liz Elam, founder of Link Coworking in Austin and an organizer of the upcoming Global Coworking Uncoference Conference, who also wrote the CNBC piece, expanded on the networking benefits of spaces like hers when we got in touch, noting that interactions with fellow coworking members often go beyond what we traditionally think of as networking to encompass emotional «support.»

On May 28, during a TEDWomen conference in Monterrey, California, designed to celebrate the achievements of women and girls as creators and change - makers, the organizers turned away a woman who had arrived with her five - month old baby.

As in the case of Mars Hill publishers, conference organizers and even those leading the very Acts 29 Network Driscoll co-founded concluded thatit was bad business to associate with him anymore — the blowback wasn't worth whatever buzz and bucks he could deliver.

However, I will mention that in addition to his extensive corpus in philosophical theology and his vast work as organizer of conferences and editor of the writings of others, he has become the leading spokesperson for the 9/11 truth movement.

He had also widely traveled to several countries to participate in conferences as speaker on invitation by the organizers.

«As one of the world's most successful trade fair organizers responsible for more than 20 of the world's number one trade exhibitions and conferences, we are excited to partner with Singapore Exhibition Services to bring ProWine ASIA to Southeast Asia for the very first time.

In a city like Milwaukee, the organizers of this week's conference hope to inform participants and begin to break what Tough refers to as a cycle of trauma.

In keeping with this theme, the conference organizers decided to create a community building exercise as one of the activities for the event.

Instead, in this case, the message asks recipients to send a note of support to a Democratic local organizer, using a national party field staff conference as a hook.

My favorite response: on a Convio customer conference call yesterday, one online organizer apparently prefaced a question for Convio's Gene Austin with, «As someone who just signed a contract with Convio because it WAS N'T Blackbaud....»

Louisiana Republican Party chairman Roger Villere, one of the event's organizers, described the conference as «the jump start for the 2012 presidential cycle.»

Organizers of what is being billed as the first national Tea Party Convention are expected to announce the principles at a news conference Friday afternoon at the event, which is being held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center in Nashville.

First, CPAC's organizer, the American Conservative Union, rescinded its invitation to him as a conference speaker.

The group supports only «rock solid» conservatives, organizers told supporters on a conference call last night as election results came in.

This challenge is just one symptom of what organizers and speakers at a conference held in November by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine described as a growing disconnect between academe and those other sectors of society.

Conference organizer Anil Agarwal, a mechanical engineer and director of the Center for Science and Environment, praised Norphel's «simple but elegant technology,» and Indian President K. R. Narayanan hailed him as the «invisible rural engineer.»

He is an editor for Tissue Engineering Journal Parts A, B, C and BioMed Research International Orthopedics as well as a scientific editor for eCM Journal and an organizer for their yearly conference.

A number of this year's films sought to draw specific attention to climate change, a move organizers» hoped would help the festival «serve as a signpost» on the route to the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference, which will be held later this year in Paris, France.

It was a large sum for him, but the organizers promised to publish his work as part of the conference proceedings in a journal that was indexed by Thomson Reuters.

Yesterday, as dozens of journalists, scientists, and government officials crammed into a press conference in Washington, D.C., to hear the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory's (LIGO's) official announcement of the discovery of gravitational waves, organizers reserved a place in the front row of the audience for astronomer Virginia Trimble.

Bainbridge says he and the organizers plan to use the transcript of the conference as the basis of an academic report.

«The jets must be supersonic, with Mach numbers of two or greater, but because of cooling of the water vapor in the eruption throat, the actual velocity may not be as high as we thought previously,» said Larry Esposito, a conference organizer and a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences in the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

In January 2011 Lewis attended an anti-vaccine conference in Montego Bay, Jamaica, as a guest of the organizers, and struck up a collaboration over canapes and coconuts with disgraced «MMR ex-doctor» Andrew Wakefield.

To the credit of conference organizers, attendees really did dine on soy foods, rather than salmon and shrimp as in previous conferences.

Big Boost is committed to helping authors as well as executives, businesses, nonprofits, retailers, conference organizers and others unleash the unrealized power of eBooks to engage readers through multimedia channels that open up an amazing range of branding, cross marketing, fund raising and sales opportunities.

Whitney Tilson the organizer of the conference had an interesting presentation in which he pitched Spark Networks Inc (NYSEMKT: LOV) as the next Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX).

I could work as a negotiator and organizer, I took part in the UNICEF's action in raising money for charity, for Christmas gifts for children from orphanages, we organized a conferences on human rights in or country and abroad.

Around 1990, the Administration for Children and Families decided it would commit substantial funds to hold a biennial conference promoting research for the Head Start Program, and it recruited as organizers John Fantuzzo, professor of human relations at University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education; Catherine Tamis - LeMonda, a professor of applied psychology at New York University's Steinhardt School; and Faith Lamb - Parker, an assistant clinical professor of Population and Family Health at Columbia.

Instead of traditional conferences, where organizers usually serve as gatekeepers and must approve which kind of knowledge can be provided by whom, Edcamps work differently.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

According to Professor Fernando Reimers, faculty director of IEP and the organizer of the conference, he had envisioned the event as a way for alumni to reconnect, but also to have «honest conversation about what it means to expand educational opportunity.»

Kathy Meis, founder of Bublish and one of the organizers of April's PubSmart Conference in Charleston, says the digital filtering of search and discovery online will play a role in future evocations of literary work, as well.

Info Today / Plexus Publishing is the publisher of Information Today, as well as other periodicals, books, directories, and online products; and is the organizer of Computers in Libraries, Streaming Media, Enterprise Search Summit, and other prestigious conferences and exhibitions for the library, information & knowledge management communities.

Many conference organizers are realizing that as authors become initiators in the publishing process, letting them in on the study data and market appraisals means smarter heads doing the driving.

Well thought of by her peers, she has achieved international success as an author and marketing expert but she is also a busy work - at - home mother, organizer of Promo Day, the world - wide marketing conference day for writers, freelance writer and teacher.

As much as event attendees benefit from Stephanie Chandler's The Conference Catcher, event organizers can benefit even morAs much as event attendees benefit from Stephanie Chandler's The Conference Catcher, event organizers can benefit even moras event attendees benefit from Stephanie Chandler's The Conference Catcher, event organizers can benefit even more!

As the two days of DBW have unfolded their sessions» scope (we even heard DRM debated in a breakout session late Thursday), the skill of the presenters and conference organizers have come to reveal, as one longtime observer put it, that statistics at this point «start to seem to mean nothing anymore.&raquAs the two days of DBW have unfolded their sessions» scope (we even heard DRM debated in a breakout session late Thursday), the skill of the presenters and conference organizers have come to reveal, as one longtime observer put it, that statistics at this point «start to seem to mean nothing anymore.&raquas one longtime observer put it, that statistics at this point «start to seem to mean nothing anymore.»

Bill Roper, the former Blizzard executive who now serves as chief creative officer for MMO developer Cryptic Studios, will deliver a keynote address at the 2010 Game Developers Conference China in Shanghai this December, event organizers announced today.

As the Game Developers Conference 2010 pre-show registration deadline approaches, organizers have confirmed talks from Spore's Chris Hecker and The Beatles: Rock Band's UI director, as well as a premiere of Civilization V's engine tecAs the Game Developers Conference 2010 pre-show registration deadline approaches, organizers have confirmed talks from Spore's Chris Hecker and The Beatles: Rock Band's UI director, as well as a premiere of Civilization V's engine tecas well as a premiere of Civilization V's engine tecas a premiere of Civilization V's engine tech.

As one community organizer from the Queens Museum of Art pointed out — maybe these will serve as the basis for next year's conferencAs one community organizer from the Queens Museum of Art pointed out — maybe these will serve as the basis for next year's conferencas the basis for next year's conference.

As part of the all - day conference at Artists Space Books & Talks, presented by Common Practice New York and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, W.A.G.E. (represented by Lise Soskolne, core organizer, and Andrea Fraser, board member) presented W.A.G.E. Certification as conceived at the 2014 W.A.G.E. Summit in January, and prior to its launch in October of that yeaAs part of the all - day conference at Artists Space Books & Talks, presented by Common Practice New York and the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, W.A.G.E. (represented by Lise Soskolne, core organizer, and Andrea Fraser, board member) presented W.A.G.E. Certification as conceived at the 2014 W.A.G.E. Summit in January, and prior to its launch in October of that yeaas conceived at the 2014 W.A.G.E. Summit in January, and prior to its launch in October of that year.

At least that's what organizers of the first Tiny House Conference will be hoping as they gather in Charlotte, NC in just over a weeks time.