Sentences with phrase «conference chair this year»

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I also had the privilege of chairing the annual conference for the Australian Institute of Company Directors for about 6 - 7 years and putting that conference together was a fascinating exercise and has taken me to different parts of the world and the Asia pacific area such as Beijing, Shanghai, Christchurch and Singapore.

So Kara Swisher and I are delighted that Stephenson will be joining us at this year's Code Conference, where he'll be sitting down for one of our candid, unscripted Red Chair interviews.

A press conference by the FED Chair will also take place four times a year at 11:30 am]

It would appear that Chair Yellen's press conference yesterday set the stage for a Fed Funds rate increase in June or September of this year.

As chair of this year's conference it gave me great pride to welcome attendees to Gatineau, Quebec for the third annual Canadian Employee Ownership Cconference it gave me great pride to welcome attendees to Gatineau, Quebec for the third annual Canadian Employee Ownership ConferenceConference.

This crude image of John Paul as a Polish Lear raging impotently on the heath underlies what is perhaps Bernstein and Politi's most egregious passage: an eight - page account of the March 1994 meeting between the Pope and Mrs. Nafis Sadik, the UN bureaucrat who was to chair the Cairo world population conference in September of that year.

A childbirth educator, author, and researcher for over 25 years, she has presented on cesarean and VBAC issues at national conferences and in advanced doula trainings across the U.S. Jukelevics served as Chair of the ICEA's Cesarean Options Committee and the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services.

I've been doing more work with [SNA]-- I'm going to be the legislative chair for our county this year, and last year as [Richmond County SNA] president I went to our GSNA and LAC conferences.

Heastie joked during my last interview with him that pretty much every member of the conference wanted the job, though Assembly Health Committee Chair Dick Gottfried, the longest - serving member of the Assembly, insisted that he's perfectly happy where he has been for the past 30 years.

«Last year was kind of a unique and challenging year on a lot of different levels including looking at and reviewing the Regents,» said Senate education committee chair John Flanagan, a Long Island Republican and prominent member of his conference.

Digital consultations on policy already exist, in the form of the Your Britain website, with policy - making decisions confined to Party Conference each year, and the National Policy Forum, which has been conspicuous in its obscurity this year — failing to meet a single time since Jeremy Corbyn's election, and currently chaired by Angela Eagle.

Sen. Ken LaValle, chair of the Senate Higher Ed Committee, said at a budget conference committee yesterday that the SUNY Board of Trustees is set to pass a resolution today to establish a five - year tuition plan at its meeting in Binghamton this morning.

The conference consensus, chaired by Chief Bisi Akande (represented by Chief Sola Akinwunmi), was that the result, of the last two years, was a mixed bag.

Extending tax, due to expire at the end of the year, is backed by Sen. Jeff Klein, the Bronx Democrat who chairs the Independent Democratic Conference.

LG Kathy Hochul is in Western New York, where she'll spend some time with GOP Sen. Cathy Young, who also chairs her conference's political arm (interesting in advance of a political year in which there will be yet another fight for control of the majority).

The Senate's Independent Democratic Conference, which Klein chairs, last year issued a blistering report titled «School Lunch Flunks,» which exposed disgustingly dirty conditions at dozens of public schools.

The President shall chair the Arctic Science Conference to be held during the year in which he / she is president.

MRO spent four years mapping the region for rocks as small as 1.5 yards across that might damage the craft, Ray Arvidson, chair of the Phoenix landing site working group at Washington University in St. Louis's Earth and Planetary Remote Sensing Laboratory, said at the news conference.

Nancy Sutley, who chairs the task force and the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said at a press conference yesterday that all the regional bodies should have the planning process in place within 5 years.

«The International Conference on High Energy Physics will be the scientific event of the year in Chicago,» said Young - Kee Kim, chair of the conference's organizing committee and the Louis Block Professor in Physics at the University oConference on High Energy Physics will be the scientific event of the year in Chicago,» said Young - Kee Kim, chair of the conference's organizing committee and the Louis Block Professor in Physics at the University oconference's organizing committee and the Louis Block Professor in Physics at the University of Chicago.

This year's 29th Annual Symposium on Nonhuman Primate (NHP) Models for AIDS, which takes place from October 25 - 28 in Seattle, has about 50 % more registrants than last year, and the number of international registrants has doubled, said David Anderson, conference chair and director of the Washington National Primate Research Center.

After hearing the chair of the Global Wellness Institute's Wellness Architecture Initiative's industry forecasts at a conference earlier this year, where wellness kitchens were identified as a trend, we caught up with her to learn more about how the homes of the future will be better for us and better for the planet.

Last week at the ASU+GSV conference — an enormous education innovation Summit held each year in Phoenix — Evan Marwell, founder of Education Superhighway, gave a lecture in a tiny crowded room with a low ceiling and not enough chairs to accommodate an eager audience.

An important year for disaster risk reduction, an important year for climate and an important year for water,» said the UN-Water Chair, Michel Jarraud in his welcome video message to the 300 participants at the UN-Water Annual International Zaragoza Conference.

During spring cleaning earlier this year, IEL got new chairs for the office's conference rooms, but didn't want the old ones to go into the trash.

He has been in teacher education for 20 years, and has served on the executive committee of the National Council of Teachers of English and as Chair of the Conference on English Education.

Jim Reese, Education Chair of the Project Zero Perspectives conferences and Director of the Professional Development Collaborative at Washington International School, has been involved in international and U.S public education for over 25 years.

She got involved in RMFW after attending her first conference and has served on the RMFW board since as Technology Co-Chair, Conference Chair, and Retreat Chair, as well as helping out in various roles over conference and has served on the RMFW board since as Technology Co-Chair, Conference Chair, and Retreat Chair, as well as helping out in various roles over Conference Chair, and Retreat Chair, as well as helping out in various roles over the years.

«We've identified some compelling topics we want to cover as of today, but as always, our goal for the conference is to be as practical, flexible and as current as possible, so as the industry evolves this year, so will our program,» said Conference Council Chair Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company and partner in Publishers Launch Coconference is to be as practical, flexible and as current as possible, so as the industry evolves this year, so will our program,» said Conference Council Chair Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company and partner in Publishers Launch CoConference Council Chair Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO of the Idea Logical Company and partner in Publishers Launch Conferences.

Speaking of Amazon, earlier this year Argir spoke at the Digital Book World conference in New York and stated «My win percentage on predicting what Amazon is going to do is very low,» he said in a Q&A with conference chair Mike Shatzkin.

Due to writing projects, Microsoft exams, chairing a writing conference, job, home renovations, and general life issues, it took me nearly two years to complete, but complete it is as of today!

I am delighted to have been asked to chair this year's FutureBook Conference, and look forward to working with the team to curate a...

She's also been active with the Investment Company Institute, including chairing the annual Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference for the past two years.»

VALENCIA, Spain, Aug. 5, 2015 — Dr. Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane Association, which for 138 years has led the way in developing protections for children, pets, and farm animals, is the keynote speaker and session chair at the Third International Conference on Epidemiology and Public Health in Valencia, Spain today.

This year's faculty members include conference chair and editor extraordinaire Don George; Outside magazine founding editor Tim Cahill; «An Irreverent Curiosity» author David Farley; San Francisco Chronicle Travel Editor Spud Hilton; Los Angeles Times Travel Editor Catherine Hamm; Afar magazine Executive Editor Julia Cosgrove; Travelers» Tales co-founder Larry Habegger; veteran photographer Robert Holmes; photographer and World Hum contributor Jeff Pflueger; and many, many others.

I really can't complain — blogging's been pretty good to me (I got to be on a panel at SXSW this year, editor of the Media Hub for Corante, made it to a bunch of conferences, met a lot of great people, chairing at another upcoming conference.)

«The only way to succeed in Paris is by having a strong outcome here in Lima,» said Peru's minister of environment Manuel Pulgar - Vidal, a green activist for 30 years who will chair the conference and has led his country's outreach preparations.

Referring to the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21) from 30 November — 11 December 2015, Ismail El Gizouli, Acting Chair of the IPCC said, «The (IPCC AR5) Synthesis Report, distilling the work of hundreds of experts, is an invaluable tool and resource for policymakers as the world prepares to finalize a global agreement on climate change later this year.»

Part of the duty of the ALEC state chairs is to solicit funds from corporations for the ALEC «scholarship fund,» which raises more than $ 600,000 per year and which enables legislators to travel for free to ALEC conferences, where they meet with lobbyists from corporations like Peabody Energy, Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries.

In the same year, 1992, that he chaired the Rio Conference, Strong was appointed Chairman of Ontario Hydro.

But in the latest episode of the podcast Law Technology Now, I speak with Adriana Linares, the chair of Techshow 2017, about what to expect at this year's conference, which is next week, March 15 - 18, in Chicago.

This was a year in which one of the largest legal technology conferences, ABA Techshow, was chaired by a woman, tech consultant Adriana Linares (although not for the first time).

Andrew Ritchie QC will chair the speaker panel at this year's Butterworths» Personal Injury Conference on Thursday 26 April.

BOSTON, MA — Andrew C. Meyer, Jr., founding attorney with Lubin & Meyer, PC, will chair the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) 9th Annual Personal Injury Law Conference 2006 for the ninth consecutive year on April 27, in Boston.

After several years on the organizing committee, and as Chair of ABA TECHSHOW 2007, it could easily be claimed that I am a tad biased about this conference.

According to Justice David Wake, who chaired the Secretariat from 1999 to 2005, it has faced a number of challenges over the years, including: continuing uncertainty about the different roles of the Conference and the Office of the Chief Justice; concern about possible erosion to the core programs; lack of coordination between the different programs; and the ongoing worry of the family law judges that their unique programming needs might be lost as their numbers declined with the expansion of the Unified Family Court.

In prior years he was Treasurer, Co-Chair of the Annual Conference and Founding Chair of the Sponsor Relations Committee.

Criminal Bar chair, Nigel Lithman QC has also indicated he will call on senior members of the Bar to boycott Grayling's flagship Magna Carta conference next year — which would be a serious embarrassment for the government.

Over the last three years, I have had the privilege of chairing the Conference of Chief Justices» Civil Justice Improvements Committee, whose recommendations were adopted last week by the Conference of Chief Justices and released today.

I am pleased to chair this year's Criminal Law conference for the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia.