«If you can't go to conferences, you can still look at the agendas.
I'll look at the event roster and at social media to see who else will be there - plus companies who have a nearby office but aren't going to the conference.
I don't go to their conferences and workshops, nor do I listen to their advice without a pinch of salt.
Now we're down to the brass tacks: I don't go to conferences because I can not afford to go to conferences.
«I can tell you I'm
not going to conference with downstate Democrats.
The organization is sending another researcher to present the findings in their stead but Lasry says that
not going to the conference is a shame because «it's one of the places you meet a lot of people you work with or will work with and it's a central meeting hub.»
I haven't gone to a conference in a few years so..
With the being there of Web on the internet adult personals ads internet relationship, if
not go to a conference due to lack of your time and effort or bashfulness, you can have an gratifying conference.
One of the best parts about self - publishing your book is that you no longer have to attend conferences to pitch agents and publishers, so there's a huge savings if you don't go to conferences.
But I want to share some of the highlights from those workshops because I know even most RWA16 attendees didn't get to see them (much less those that didn't go to the conference).
I don't go to their conferences and workshops, nor do I listen to their advice without a pinch of salt.
Several years ago, you couldn't go to a conference without encountering a seminar on «alternative fees,» and law bloggers were writing about alternative fees constantly (I'm as guilty as anyone).
Not exact matches
In his subsequent press
conference, Draghi avoided answering directly whether the ECB would
go from $ 30 billion
to zero, saying «we don't stop suddenly,» but also stressing that the ECB will continue buying new bonds as its old holdings mature.
«If you do a little research ahead of time on what companies are
going to be there and then you
go in with specific questions, it shows them that you're
not just the average
conference attendee.
«Ultimately, I think we realize that it's
not in anybody's interest for this
to escalate into a trade war so while we believe there's
going to be a lot of rhetoric... I think sanity is
going to prevail,» he told CNBC at the Credit Suisse Asian Investment
Conference in Hong Kong.
Years ago at a marketing
conference, my friend Jonathan Long from Market Domination Media told me that «You're never
going to please everyone, so don't try
to be everything
to everyone.
«I don't believe that bitcoin is
going to be a currency today or in the future,» Schultz said, during a post-earnings
conference call Thursday after the closing bell on Wall Street.
Are you just signing up for
conferences because you think you should
go but then
not talking
to anyone?
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, asked in a
conference call with reporters if the deal would
go ahead if Moscow did
not agree
to joint production, said: «Contacts and negotiations at an expert level in the context of this deal are ongoing.
That throngs of uber - wealthy
conference goers and their entourages were trying
to push their way toward Davos did
not help.
Because the last time that I
went to the
conference, I didn't see that.
Groups of black men can be... intimidating, he says — then laughs: «There's
not going to be a Most Powerful Men of Color
conference [at Fortune].
Federal Reserve officials
go out of their way
to assure financial markets that they could make a policy move at any meeting,
not just the four of eight meetings per year that are accompanied by a press
conference from the Fed chairman.
But opting out of superficial chat isn't really an option if you're ever planning on
going to a
conference, or a cocktail party, or really any place where there are other human beings you don't know that well.
Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said at a
conference in New York in November that the company's Asia operations were
not going to be «profitable any time soon,» particularly because of how heavily Uber was subsidizing rides there.
The company has said Building 8 is
not going away, but it will be interesting
to see how much stage time — if any — the group gets at this year's F8
conference.
Maybe don't
go to as many
conferences.
The only difference is that the Feds have begun
to refine their talking points in such a way as
not to cause a stir, as happened almost a year ago at a New America Foundation
conference on cybersecurity, in which Alex Stamos, Facebook's security chief (then Yahoo's chief information security officer),
went toe
to toe with the admiral.
Whenever — my wife is with me, and — I'm at a
conference where somebody says, «And where is the stock market
going to be next year,» she manages
to interject, «He's
not very good at that.»
The thing about it that was so devastating is a year earlier,
not a year, but
not long earlier, I can't remember exactly the timing, but I had taken her with me
to Fortune Most Powerful Women
Conference, and she said
to me on the train ride down there, «What is this thing we're
going to?»
«Frankly, we weren't sure [Airbnb's model] was
going to work here,» said Airbnb co-founder and chief strategy officer Nathan Blecharczyk at Fortune's Brainstorm Tech International
Conference in Guangzhou, China on Tuesday.
I'm
going home from the
conference to clear my wall and redo my plan around a business model,
not a product.»
«Since I wasn't able
to go out and physically sell the jewelry, I started having
conference calls twice a week with potential team members,» she said.
«The great concern is they're
not going to leave, and that's
not paranoia,» Gen. Tony Thomas, the head of the United States Special Operations Command, told a national security
conference in Aspen, Colo., in July.
However in a follow up
conference call with journalists Zuckerberg made some carefully worded remarks that seem
to further fog the issue — saying: «We intend
to make all the same controls available everywhere,
not just in Europe» yet
going on
to caveat that statement with: «Is it
going to be exactly the same format?
Reportedly, Dimon further told the
conference of investors that bitcoin «won't end well,» that it's «worse than tulip bulbs,» and that «someone's
going to get killed.»
At a press
conference Thursday afternoon, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke fielded a number of questions from reporters about the open - ended nature of monetary easing, saying, «We're
not going to be premature in removing policy accommodation... We're
going to give it some time
to make the sure the recovery is well established.»
But this year, half a dozen developers who had previously attended the
conference told The Times that they did
not plan
to go because they objected
to Facebook's policy changes.
«We're just
going to start doing it —
not wait for the others
to do it,» Trudeau told reporters at an open - air news
conference disrupted by student protesters with links
to the Conservative party.
«We are never
going to do something that is bad for CBS shareholders,» he told investors at a Bank of America Merrill Lynch investor
conference earlier this month, adding that the two companies were
not «in active discussions.»
«We're
not going to go down the road that British Columbia has
gone down,» Wynne said at a press
conference.
These are great things
to go by even if you aren't a noob at
conferences.
Explained Fogo de Chao CEO Larry Johnson in an interview at the ICR
Conference Monday, «We serve a higher - income customer in Brazil — it's
not that they are fully insulated from the economic downturn, but in the grand scheme of things they are still
going to go out
to business and family events — yes, we'll have some dip in results but we can deal with that.»
I quickly learned that the level targeting option was
not going to be discussed at the
conference, and the only explanation I got was from a bank official that I managed
to buttonhole by the coffee station.
President Trump, 7,000 miles away from the action but never out of frame, summed up the dynamic in one line during a Tuesday
conference call with Senate Democrats — a Trumpian slip, perhaps
not quite unintentionally revealing, that the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday: «You're
going to like it a whole lot more,» the president said of the forthcoming Senate version.
In March, Harker said that the right number for interest rates could be 1.5 %, but that balance sheet reduction is
not going to be dependent on a trigger or a target and that it will also depend on the «momentum» of the economy — a position similar
to Chair Yellen's at the March FOMC press
conference.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated during the F8
conference: «This is
going to be for building real, long - term relationships —
not just for hookups.»
Sen. Kamala Harris (D - CA) said on Thursday that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is
not going to silence her after NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre name - checked her during his Conservative Political Action
Conference (CPAC) address, saying Harris is a member of the «new wave of European - style socialists» that has «infested» the Democrats.
I certainly did
not expect that type of feedback but it just
goes to show the types of learnings attendees can attain at a great
conference.
«We
go to the investment
conferences and people come up
to us and ask why we have only one manager, and why we don't have a consultant,» he says.