Sentences with phrase «by big conferences»

Many hostels also provide a last resort when cities are saturated by big conferences.

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The big takeaway discussed throughout the conference by the security community was innovation.
Case in point: Koblasa's latest start - up Ming.ly, a personal relationship manager, got a big boost by participating in the Twiistup conference.
Plus it must be the only conference in the world where you can go to a panel on Big Data and then, at night, go see a performance by a band called Big Data.
«I think this [crypto] is going to be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes by a longshot,» he said at the CoinDesk Consensus: Invest conference in New York.
«I think this [crypto] is going to be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes by a long shot,» the former Fortress hedge fund manager said at a CoinDesk bitcoin conference.
He had initiated discussions with investors in the same week he did back - t0 - back keynote speeches at two big tech conferences, in two different cities, one of them sponsored by his own company.
Don't force collaboration by creating large conference rooms and demanding big group meetings.
** Paris - ECB Executive Board Member Benoit Coeure opening remarks at conference «Economic and Financial Regulation in the Era of Big Data» organized by Banque de France in Paris, France - 1815 GMT.
On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company's biggest event of the year, its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, by wasting no time addressing the elephant in the room: the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The big city with a small town vibe is known for its music scene, and for being home to the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and as well as the Whole Foods HQ, but where it really shines is in its culinary scene, which ranges from barbecue that people wait hours in line for to all kinds of tacos.
«We are convinced that yesterday's decision by the United States to leave the Paris agreement is a big mistake,» Tusk, who chairs EU summits as the head of the European Council, told a news conference with Li and the EU's chief executive Jean - Claude Juncker.
Documents obtained exclusively by theBreaker, under the freedom of information law, show that Deputy Minister Richard Fyfe gave approval Oct. 2, 2017 for the Court Services Branch to hold its second annual leadership conference at B.C.'s biggest casino.
Founded in 2003 by Missy Ward and Shawn Collins, Affiliate Summit West and East (which will take place in New York City later on in the year) are considered the biggest conferences for affiliate marketers in the
The Big Picture conference hosted by investment adviser and financial blogger Barry Ritholtz (pictured above) gets under way Tuesday morning.
The GPS goes further by also incorporating big data insights, from Internet searches and corporate conference call transcripts to traffic patterns.
Innovate Celebrate, co-hosted by Consumer Technology Association (CTA) ™ & Startup of the Year, is the premiere global conference celebrating corporate innovation and entrepreneurship, where the biggest names in tech intersect with the world's most cutting - edge startups.
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.
Noah Toly opens his reply to my recent Q conference review by stating that my piece contained one big weakness.
I recently attended a small conference in Washington, DC, co-sponsored by the New America Foundation (NAF), a think tank that describes itself as «dedicated to the renewal of American politics, prosperity, and purpose in the digital age, through big ideas, technological innovation, next generation politics, and creative engagement with broad audiences.»
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.
While in the area he dropped in on one of his biggest local fans, California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. for a private dinner, then for two days sat in on a big conference on Small Is Beautiful held by the extension department of the University of California at Davis.
What do you do when you learn you could win a ticket to this year's Food Blogger's of Canada's (FBC) conference sponsored by Mushrooms Canada??? You pull out the big guns and invite all your mushroom loving friends over for some taste testing.
I adapted this recipe, which I tasted at the blogging conference Big Traveling Potluck 2, created by Pam Anderson.
Whilst the conference was focused around alleviating food loss and food waste, the actual breadth of topics discussed, both formally by seminar presenters and more informally during networking opportunities in coffee and lunch breaks, allowed me to develop a «big picture» perspective.
Wrapping up a big four weeks of events was the Produce Marketing Association conference in Melbourne, which featured an all day session on organics partly presented by Australian Organic and Australian Certified Organic.
Fonterra's chief executive, Theo Spierings, told a press conference in Beijing on Monday that products containing the whey protein sold by Coca - Cola and the Chinese firm Wahaha — one of the country's biggest food producers — were safe.
The Big 12 might not have been amazing — per both S&P + and your own eyeballs, it graded out as the worst power conference — but they still beat seven top - 50 teams by an average of 16.4 points following the Ohio State loss.
With four teams in the top 13 of Week 5's simulated BCS standings, led by Kansas State at No. 8, the left - for - dead Big 12 has emerged as perhaps the best conference in college football's young 2012 season.
For a change, though, our next opponents Liverpool have an even bigger problem on the injury front and their new manager Jurgen Klopp is starting to wonder what he let himself in for when deciding to come to the Premier League, as his press conference reported by The Mirror suggests.
Three teams from this table joined Cincinnati in seeing their runs at conference perfection ended on Thursday night — the ASUN's Florida Gulf Coast (upset at home by Kennesaw State), Big Sky leader Montana (a nine - point loser at Eastern Washington) and, most interestingly for the at - large picture, New Mexico State, topped by Utah Valley in Orem.
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.
Penn State won the Big Ten title, considered by many to be the best football conference this year (hate to say it, but I have to agree) while playing in what is also considered the toughest division in this country this year (again, I have to agree).
(Of course, it doesn't take a stodgy old person to find his or her mind blown by San Diego State getting ready to move to a conference called the «Big East.»)
While the Big 12 went through a will - it - or - won't - it dance last summer over expanding beyond 10 teams (and ultimately didn't), the conference discussed a «scheduling alliance» with the Pac - 12, according to a report by CBS» Dennis Dodd.
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.
Drifting through the Southland conference, three years in the Big West (despite being west of very little), two stays as an independent, and more than a decade as a Sun Belt also - ran, the Ragin» Cajuns had never been to a bowl game and never threatened to get noticed by the college football world.
Over the last five years, that would have resulted in 649.5 points for teams in the six basketball power conferences (160 for the ACC, 136 for the Big Ten, 97 for the SEC, 88 for the Big East, 87.5 for the Pac - 12, and 81 for the Big 12) and 259 for the others (led by 45.5 for the A10, 42 for the West Coast, 38 for the AAC, 28 for the MVC, 20.5 for Conference USA, and 15.5 for the Mountain West).
But by the Saturday tournament finale the conference's alleged chalk, Villanova, was gone; the league's most dominant center, Georgetown's Patrick Ewing, was long gone; and only the underrated overachievers from Boston College, who had tied St. John's and Villanova for the regular - season Big East title, were left to challenge the drums and the war paint and the non-home team.
Last Sunday the NCAA selection committee confirmed the league's high standing by naming five Big East teams — the only conference besides the Big Ten so honored — to the 1983 tournament field.
Kansas Statesliced Missouri's conference lead to a game and a half by defeating Colorado65 - 58, as Ed Nealy pulled down 16 rebounds and Tyrone Adams scored 20 points.In their earlier victory over Nebraska, the Wildcats established a Big Eightrecord for field - goal accuracy (77.1 %) by sinking 27 of 35 shots.
So it's possible that some of the Big 12's teams will get poached by other conferences once the grant of rights nears its expiration.
Big East Quarterfinals Connecticut will look to further help its case by ending top - seeded Syracuse's conference tournament stay for the second consecutive year (12 p.m. ET, ESPN), while an Orange win would keep them in the hunt for the overall No. 1 spot in the NCAA bracket.
The Big 12 is the toughest conference in the country by a wide margin, according to KenPom.
The Big West Conference Offensive Player of the Year was drafted in the second round (No. 31 overall) by the Jets in the 1996 NFL Draft.
By his senior year, he had the numbers: a Big South Conference - record 35 career pass break - ups, 13 career interceptions,, fifth on the NCAA's career passes defended list (48), sixth in pass breaks.
The Pac - 12, which was always an offense - friendly league, has retained that status and has been joined by the Big XII as conferences where games played in the 30s and 40s are the norm.
Everyone already thought that they would come to north London and try to park a big red bus, even before Rodgers suggested the same in his pre-match press conference, as reported by The Mirror.
As was once advocated by Matt Hinton, a 10 - team playoff could absolutely include automatic bids for conference champions, though since we kind of have a «big five» instead of a «big six» now, we'll change his original idea to «big five champions and highest - ranked mid-major champion» instead.
Notre Dame is still likely to stay independent, BYU hasn't figured out how to make it work with the Big 12 to date (which suggests there's a chance they never will), Clemson might not actually be interested in leaving a conference it helped to establish, and at the end of the day, Florida State might decide it is no more attractive to leave a conference dominated by North Carolina and Duke for a conference dominated by Texas and, well, Texas.
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