Sentences with phrase «big conferences like»

New iterations of long - running series are the backbone of big conferences like E3, but among the sequels it's easy for new games to get lost.

We're not all Michael Jordans, and we need to pace ourselves at big conferences like ISTE.

«Normally, at a big conference like Rio +20, we would have used more than 20 million sheets of paper,» said Magnus Olafsson, who heads a new United Nations» initiative known as PaperSmart.

Not exact matches

Speaking at the New York Times DealBook conference, Cuban said that his family is a huge factor in why he hasn't officially announced plans to run for president, and it sounds like his wife might be his biggest opposition.

It's a conference about big ideas, and the most popular talks of all time cover topics like creativity in schools, body language, and the power of introverts.

From a marketing perspective, this meant Pardot needed to go big at events like Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference.

Axalta uses me for leadership conferences, annual meetings, internal groups, big customers... and I've done engagements for companies like PayPal.

In addition to this course, we've launched an online conference, Influence Summit 2017, which has attracted over 60 experts to participate, including big names like Chris Brogan, Chris Ducker, Dorie Clark, Adam Grant, Mari Smith, and Jonah Berg.

Asked about Democrats having enough leeway on polarizing issues like gun rights and opposition to abortion, House Democratic Caucus chair Joe Crowley said in a press conference on Wednesday that the party «always has been» a big tent.

If you're hosting a larger event like a conference, focus on bigger, more general groups like «Coffee Shop Owners of Facebook».

And then you get to the press conference opening statement and it's almost like a big bombshell,» said Emanuella Enenajor, Canada economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Yunqi, a small town near Hangzhou, made its reputation as the home to Alibaba's annual tech event, the Yunqi Conference, which usually involves big names in the Chinese tech scene like Jack Ma and Robin Li.

«It feels like the big rig is just starting to move along the track now,» Linton told analysts on a conference call Wednesday.

How media companies can think more like startups One of the central themes of the RoadMap conference we just finished doing in San Francisco earlier this week was the importance of design, and how companies both big and small need to think about design in an age of ubiquitous connectivity — and not just design in the sense of how something looks or feels, but how it works and the relationship users have with it.

At the center of the conference is the program featuring big name speakers like Gary Vaynerchuck, Guy Kawasaki and Mari Smith.

At Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference this past week there were a number of hot topics like cloud computing, social media marketing management (a.k.a. the marketing cloud), and big data.

Usually the idea of modesty was presented innocuously enough, often at big concerts and conferences led by eloquent, attractive young artists and writers like Joshua Harris and Rebecca St. James with largely good intentions.

Post something critical about Obama's socks or point out that the Big East had more teams in the tournament than anyone else because there are, like, thirty - seven teams in the conference, and someone out there will curse the day you were born.

If you're like me, you are tired of attending conferences where only big - name speakers with dozens of books do all the speaking.

I recall an instance at a big conference here some years ago where a Christian musician I respected (although we have some pretty different views on some issues) refused to be cornered by a line of questions (framed more like an interrogation) which would have made him espouse the party line on spirituality as defined by those running the event.

After hearing so many of the recaps of the big food conferences that happened last weekend, I feel like I'm struggling even more with how I feel about the whole food blogging world.

With speakers who are some of the industry's biggest names like Jean - Marie Arnaud, General Director OIV; David Richardson; Regulatory & Commercial Affairs Director, The Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA); Andrew Catchpole, Editor, Harpers Wine & Spirit Magazine and The Drinks Wholesaler; Andrew Shaw, Group Wine Buying Director, Conviviality PLC; Florian Ceschi, Director, Ciatti Europe, and many other prominent industry representatives, this is not a conference worth missing.

At the Conservative Party conference last week, David Cameron said obesity was on the verge of overtaking smoking and drinking as the biggest health challenge facing Britain, and refused to rule out a «fat tax» like the one recently introduced in Denmark.

Pro: This allows for the further maintenance of conference - affiliated bowl games (which assures buy - in from big bowls like the Rose) and technically allows for more than four teams to have a shot at the title if things play out just right.

«I'm not sure if that offense survives in the ACC or another big - time conference [where] its quarterback is going to get hit like that,» North Carolina coach John Bunting said after the Tar Heels» loss to Utah last season.

(Despite having heavyweights like Boise State and TCU and soon - to - be heavyweights like Baylor and UCF, the Big 12 is probably no longer a power conference when the BCS era ends and that status becomes entirely about politics.

It's not that a day of games topped by Michigan State and Ohio State clashing in Urban Meyer's first taste of conference play as a Big Ten coach is boring; it's just that that game and Baylor's trip to West Virginia represent the only two games between ranked teams on Saturday, and it feels like this week may have cashed its This Game Will Be Better Than You Think chit on Washington's upset of Stanford on Thursday night.

«There's never been anyone from the Big Island to make the type of impact he's made in a conference like the SEC,» says Mahelona's coach at Kealakehe High, Sam Papalii, who spent 18 years as an assistant at such schools as Hawaii, UNLV, Iowa State and Arizona.

It was initially assumed that the conference would move to 14 or 16 teams for purposes of expanding the Big Ten Network's footprint, but it appears that might not be in the cards unless a heavyweight like Notre Dame or Texas is involved, at least not in the near future.

There was optimism regarding their upcoming contract, and they were reasonably confident that they may soon be adding Big 12 teams like Kansas and Kansas State once that conference officially fell apart.

Throw in Syracuse's passing game and UConn's defense (led by the best player you should probably have heard of by now, sophomore linebacker Yawin Smallwood), and you've got quite a few things to like about Big East football, especially considering it just lost its conference champion (West Virginia) and a seemingly elite prospective member (TCU) to the Big 12.

And leaving AZ obviously had nothing to do with going to a better program and UCLA is still the biggest name of the conference FYI like it or not.

Biggest strength: Like conference mate TCU, Texas returns a level of returning production that all but guarantees solid improvement.

Like Ohio State, Iowa went 8 - 0 in the Big Ten and claimed the conference title, but the Hawkeyes» lone loss came to a 7 - 6 Iowa State.

This looked like it might be Kansas» most difficult road to a Big 12 title from the very start of conference season.

The conference was zeroing in on a happy, lucrative new television contract and positioning itself to take the likes of Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and / or Missouri if or when the Big 12 officially fell to pieces.

As long as Maryland is in a major conference like the Big 10 or ACC, we can be successful in basketball.

He can look like an All - NBA center one night and a Big Sky Conference fifth - year senior the next.

The Kings earned the second wild card slot in the Western Conference after an up and down season, but are spearheaded by some big names, like Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty.

Like a lot of teams in the Big East, Seton Hall did not play a very hard non conference schedule besides getting swept by Colorado who just entered the top 25 this week.

If I put myself in a similar position, if I knew a vaccine manufacturer like Merck was a big sponsor of any conference, I probably would have major hesitation and would like to think I would not even think about attending.

I would like to write you a big fat juicy BlogHer review, but I was off line all weekend (the irony of truly crappy web access at a BlogHer conference) and now my computer's malfunctioning.

Furthermore, like we were told at the conference, this is a big issue that parents are concerned about, so it needed addressing.

His loss would be a win for Senate Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson, who has pledged to support all incumbents — even Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., and tried — albeit unsuccessfully — to convince some big LGBT stakeholders like the Empire State Pride Agenda not to endorse Nunes against Huntley.

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He's an outspoken advocate for suburban interests like property relief — a big focus for his conference this year — and charter schools, which has put him at odds with some fellow Democrats.

Charles Kennedy:... a big lift after a bi-election win like that, that's quite understandable, and we had a very good conference on the back of it.

They may not always understand why we are in lab at 3 a.m., or why we can't visit as often as we / they would like, or why papers, research talks, qualifiers, and conferences are such a big deal, but it doesn't mean they can't.

Those three groups formed a key alliance during the Durban conference that forced the United States and major emerging economies like India and China to commit to negotiating a future broad climate deal that binds all big emitters to cut carbon.

In March, researchers working with BICEP2, a specialized telescope at the South Pole, reported at a press conference that they had seen pinwheel - like swirls in the polarization of the afterglow of the big bang — the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- that came from gravitational waves rippling through the infant universe.