Sentences with phrase «big focus of the event»

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Fortune broke down some of the highlights of this year's festival, including a variety of virtual reality - focused panels and the premiere screening of Netflix's (NFLX) Pee - Wee Herman film reboot, while corporate sponsors such as McDonald's (MCD) and Samsung will also be on hand with big events.

This year's event, convened by scholars Luigi Zingales and Guy Rolnik, focused on the threat of concentration of Big Tech, otherwise known as the Big Five: Facebook, Amazon (amzn), Apple (aapl), Netflix (nflx), and Google (googl).

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

One of the biggest mistakes I see brands make is posting too much content focused on current events, from viral videos and sporting events to breaking news.

So often, exhibitors miss the tremendous potential in these events by focusing on how big and flashy their booth looks and what giveaway will lure in the largest number of people.

Smart IoT Hong Kong is simply the biggest, focused and best - connected Internet of Things event in North Asia.

The companies surveyed - the biggest or most internationally - focused banks, insurers, asset managers, private equity firms and exchanges in Britain - were responding to questions about their plans in the event of a so - called «hard» Brexit, where the UK would leave not only the EU but also the single market and Customs Union.

Those who venture to the Big Apple for this year's festival can expect a new pizza event called Sunday Slices and the inaugural launch of Octoberfest with Andrew Zimmer, which will be focused on great beers and sausages.

«Our focus from the outset was to make this a truly global event, bringing in the biggest names in the wine industry from all over the world,» said Sid Patel of the Beverage Trade Network, the organizers of the event.

«Our focus from the outset was to make this a truly global event, bringing in the biggest names in the wine industry from all over the world,» said Sid Patel of the

Launched in 2004 as the nation's first trade show focused on local and sustainably produced food, the Good Food EXPO is the biggest regional event of its type in America.

This year, it will be the biggest show to date: With a record number of exhibitors, a 4 - day conference programme focused on thought leadership and new sections and initiatives, organiser UBM EMEA expects the event to attract more visitors than ever before, and is ensuring they are senior professionals with considerable purchasing power.

And then PGATour.com, this being their biggest event of the year, will also offer a featured groups stream and a featured hole stream, focused on the island 17th.

This event focuses less on the nuts and bolts of advocacy and politics and more on the Big Picture questions, and I'll be moderating a panel on Hashtag Activism on the second afternoon.

This event focuses less on the nuts and bolts of advocacy and politics and more on the Big Picture questions, and...

Hunger is a huge obstacle not only for those people requiring focus in sporting events or at work, but it is without a doubt, the biggest speed hump to those of us struggling to lose body fat.

A lot of times when we're planning for a big event, like say... birth, we're not always focused on what happens...

We publish a very wide variety of paintball content, focusing on events, teams, players, the industry, the gear, scenarios, big games, mil - sim etc... Frequency - about 6 posts per week

Starting with a community - centric panel discussion that focused on career sustainability in the entertainment industry (in collaboration with One United Bank); to an intimate dinner at the home of Emmy Award - winning casting agent, Robi Reed; leading up to the association's premiere event: its annual awards show that showcased some of the biggest names in the industry.

These events are unlikely, and Homeland falters when it focuses on the contrivances of its big - picture plotting, but they lead «New Normal» to a powerful ending, as Carrie and Saul (Mandy Patinkin) sit silently beside one another in the hospital, watching Quinn's intubated body.

While the more serious - minded «Moneyball» focused on the true story of how sabermetrics changed the way baseball teams assess players, the fictional «Draft Day» ultimately is about the way in which character can prevail over combine figures during one of the biggest events on the National Football League's calendar.

For the first time in the five - year history of Deadline's annual big awards - season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline, I got to host an all - female panel thanks to Focus Features, which spotlighted two contenders: The Danish Girl and Suffragette.

One thing I truly adore about this event is how, from the beginning, Johnson and her primarily female team focused on promoting works made by and centering on women while not making a big deal out of it.

Undertaking to make World Trade Center just five years after the shattering events of 11th September 2001, Oliver Stone has angered many who feel it is too early to dramatise that time, and yet he has succeeded in making an effective film that, instead of focussing on the big picture, details the impact of that day on two young families.

Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding was expected to leave a big impression at PlayStation E3 2017 press conference, but few days before the event Hideo Kojima announced that Death Stranding will not make an appearance at E3 2017 as the focus right now is the development of the game.

The reason Hideo Kojima provided for skipping the biggest gaming event of the year was: the development team is fully focused on the development.

«Balance of Performance especially comes into focus at Daytona and Le Mans as they're such long races and the effect is magnified over the 24 hours, so in 2017 we come back with a similar package, albeit with slightly varying tyre compounds, so we will have to wait and see how it all plays out in the big events.»

DETROIT — With victories in two of sports car racing's biggest events already in 2015, Corvette Racing turns its focus across the Atlantic Ocean for the focal point of the season.

This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.

The Big Read encourages communities to rediscover the joy of reading by selecting one annual work of literature to read citywide and on which to focus cultural events and activities.

We knew they'd make a big deal out of that considering faster Android updates was a focus of Motorola's at the official RAZR HD event back in early September.

When it comes to summer events, it's kind of an unstated rule that there's going to be a bigger focus on spectacle...

In our rush of daily life, we often forget how the little things add up to big events, and just focussing on the big things in life rarely helps.

The tours to the battlefields of the Somme may include a visit to the Thiepval Visitor Centre, which focuses on the events during the actual Battle of the Somme - one of the biggest battles of the entire war, which lasted 141 days and, with over 1,000,000 men killed or wounded, was the bloodiest battle in human conflict.

«Gamescom is a huge event for us and for players, and this year's show promises to be one of our biggest and most fan - focused ever,» said Alain Corre, EMEA Executive Director, Ubisoft.

USG: As Animal Crossing has evolved in the past, it's been by making bigger worlds, giving people more options, more freedom, more events, more little tasks to do; with these two games, you've really taken the opposite approach and focused in on just a very specific facet of the Animal Crossing experience.

Leading up to this big event, YouTube filmmakers from all over the country were asked to create short films focusing on the unique game play of Wii U and the Wii U GamePad controller.

Using a limited array of editing options you can focus on up to four specific racers and / or specific events («big hits,» «drifting,» etc.), and if you find a clip of 60 seconds or less that you like you can even upload it to your YouTube account.

Ubisoft's European Executive Director, Alain Corre is quoted as saying: «Gamescom is a huge event for us and for players, and this year's show promises to be one of our biggest and most fan - focused ever.

The fact that this hardware is completely absent from the biggest Microsoft event of the year, is perhaps bad news for motion control enthusiasts, but is good news for disabled gamers since Microsoft seems to shifting its focus away from inaccessible motion control gimmicks.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

As part of Ojih Odutola's residency, she is participating in a host of campus events, some big and public — like her January 31st dialogue about Art & Equity with South African artist Mary Sibande, and a talk about her new book, The Treatment — and others more focused on students of the visual arts — such an intensive two - week drawing course, a studio visit for visual - arts majors, and a senior studio critique.

While much of the enthusiasm at the American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA's) WINDPOWER 2017 annual event in Anaheim, Calif., was focused on onshore wind technology and development, a number of industry experts noted that over the past year, the offshore wind sector has seen a surge that can be pegged on dramatic cost declines, policy initiatives, and a big leap in technical advancements.

And it's downright deceitful to focus on this minucia while ignoring the bigger picture of a warming globe and increasingly stressful extreme weather events that will continue inflicting greater damage on a complex society that seems to be committed to ignoring the consequences of increasing our planet's atmosphere's insulating medium (GHGs) by a third.

Protect your biggest asset by making sure you'll be able to keep up with the mortgage repayments in the event of illness or injury, so you can focus on what's most important — your recovery.

Summit focuses on current events and disruptive trends, Launch is the self - described «world's greatest startup competition,» the Entrepreneur Expo highlights the big names that sponsor the Launch competition, Founders House has VIP invite - only talks with creators and leaders, and Awards is, of course, awards.

The power outage was caused by heavy rainfall, disrupting one of this year's biggest and most important technology - focused events.

The primary focus of Amazon's big event in Seattle yesterday may have been on the new home technology, but the company also announced that its Alexa voice control systems will be integrated into BMWs and select models of the Mini.

The Xenoblade - focused Nintendo Direct will likely be the last time the game is shown off before it launches We will be streaming the event right here in this post, so join us to learn more about the last big Switch game of the year.

Photography has never really been one of Google's focuses when it comes to hardware, so the pint - size camera was one of the biggest shockers of the event.