The guide is an integral part
of the conference experience, designed as a value - added resource reference for our attendees and as a way to increase your booth traffic during the conference.
With so much to do and see, we've rounded up five highlights to help you get the most out
of your conference experience.
In this edition of CONFlUENCE we share elements
of the conference experience with our readers around the world.
Not exact matches
In his press
conference today, Bank governor Stephen Poloz refused to use the term «recession,» saying only that Canada has
experienced what is almost certain to be two consecutive quarters
of economic contraction, but declined to attach a label to it.
We learned a major pain point at this life stage is the lack
of funding for those critical out -
of - classroom
experiences (i.e., study abroad and attending
conferences / seminars) that can change lives.
In my
experience of speaking at hundreds
of conferences, the most tweeted nuggets, after facts and figures, are product or service shout - outs.
On a sunny October day the Palais is humming with thousands
of people who have come for Microsoft
Experiences, the company's annual customer
conference in France.
He took every communications
experience seriously as the head
of Apple, Decker says, embracing each
conference call and meeting as a chance to deliver his vision.
You want them to have a great
experience with your company from the first moment
of contact — whether that's getting a cold call from your sales team, meeting a representative at a
conference, or even just seeing a tweet.
While you can still get this «fluff»
experience in a lot
of conferences, the people who target user related problems and key actions to help them solve those problems, are already on the right track.
The Lean Startup
Conference has been teaming
experienced Lean Startup advisors with aspiring entrepreneurs at growing startups and large organizations since the inception
of its popular Office Hours mentoring program in 2013.
From farm to table food
experiences showcasing Saskatchewan ingredients to touring unique venues,
conference delegates were treated to a glimpse
of the sights, sounds, and attractions
of the region.
This
conference will focus on the relatively overlooked second issue by engaging key Canadian and U.S. economists to explore the reasons for the lack
of job growth in the United States, to contrast the U.S.
experience with that
of Canada, and to offer potential lessons from these
experiences.
The Asia Pacific Foundation
of Canada (APF Canada) hosted a national
conference in 2014 on building Canada's «Asia competence» — the knowledge, skills, and
experiences young Canadians will need to be effective working with their counterparts across...
I was privileged to
experience the latter kind
of meeting recently, just after our last International Living
conference in Panama.
Unique spaces to host business meetings, events, and
conferences and to
experience the true soul
of FICO Eataly World through themed tours, team buildings, food and wine tasting, and cooking shows.
Instead
of a traditional format, this year's
conference included a number
of unique
experiences for attendees, including rapid - fire sessions and fishbowl networking.
Watch a video interview with Lauren Aitch
of Our Own Apparel about her
experience at last year's National
Conference & Business Fair as a newly certified WBE, and what she is looking forward to this year in her home state
of Michigan.
A unique
experience for a
conference of this type!
At the conclusion
of my
conference yesterday, I did a number
of interviews and then made my way a few miles home, collapsed into my favorite chair, and thought back over the myriad
of ideas, the whirlwind
of friends, and the just general all - around fabulous time I had
experienced over the past four days.
See how successful
of our third annual CCTG reunion
conference was and listen to past graduates and lenders talk about their
experiences at the
conference.
2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Sees Chocolate Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Larry Coats, President & CEO, co-manager Oak Value Topic: «Haystacks Full
of Needles: Finding Good Businesses» 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Tom Russo, Partner, Gardner Russo & Gardner [USA] Topic: «Global Value» 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Optional Tour: Take the Controls on NetJets Flight
Experience Day A chance for our Value Investor
Conference attendees to find out what it's like to be a pilot during an evening reception day at flight training facility
of FlightSafety ® International.
For this event, we dispatched two
of our
experienced English — Chinese
Conference Interpreters to provide their services on - site to around 100 people.
For this event, we dispatched 2
of our
experienced English — Chinese
Conference Interpreters to provide their services on - site to around 160 people.
CEO Timothy Sloan said on the
conference call with analysts, in a recounting
of digital efforts, that in the first quarter «we rolled out our digital mortgage application, which combines the power
of Wells Fargo's data with a You Know Me customer
experience.
Bitcoin
Conference Kiev - a meeting place
of the best experts
of cryptocurrency industry from around the world to share
experiences and knowledge about Bitcoin operation and to discuss why this virtual «coin» stands a good...
The chief
of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) warned a
conference last week the oil market had already
experienced 35 «flash events» since the start
of the year.
During a press
conference today in Beijing, Alibaba Group President
of China Retail Marketplaces Jeff Zhang said the company hopes to use the 11.11 festival — the largest online shopping sale in the world — to encourage brands and retailers make the transition from traditional to omnichannel retailing by combining the strengths
of the online and offline shopping
experiences.
Texas Roadhouse signaled in its first - quarter report and
conference call that it plans on investing significantly in the customer
experience, as evidenced by an «unheard
of shift» from three table wait stations to two, Ivankoe said in a downgrade note.
In the United States, where the Church
experienced a particular problem with clerical abuse scandals during the 90s and early 00s, their Bishops
Conference commissioned a Report on the causes and nature
of clerical abuse by the John Jay Institute, an independent legal research group, called the John Jay Report.
The
Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes
of expression, its contribution to deepening religious
experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture
of the three faith traditions.
The
experience of so many priestsconcelebrating at
conferences has itself helped to inspire men to consider the priesthood.
What if we didn't just look for a balanced photo op to keep Twitter off our back but instead really and truly welcomed and promoted and amplified the voices and
experiences of women, minorities, immigrants, refugees, or those less formally educated right into valuable positions
of power and influence at our
conferences?
It worked because, in a way that far surpassed any previous
conference experience of mine, our speakers were for one another, literally cheering each other on from the choir loft.
Secondly, the press
conference was enlarged through the presence
of a giant screen linked to the internet thus permitting thousands
of interested people to
experience the event live.
Though Murdock's critique resonated with many
of my own reservations about how we frame Christian engagement with culture (including
conference - culture), my
experience of Q is completely vicarious, so modesty requires me to withhold or temper my own evaluation
of the
conference.
Just as the original text is imbued with Scripture, so Bishop Gilbert's approach in these
conferences is full
of insights from his own personal
experience of lectio divina.
«We wanted to feature a woman's voice,» a well - meaning
conference planner will inform me with excitement, as if mine is sufficient to capture the
experiences of 3.5 billion human beings.
In addition, three procedures on the leader's part reduce the risk
of serious problems — working with a co-leader, having regular supervisory
conferences with a more
experienced growth facilitator, and continuing in one's own growth group.
I bear witness only to my own
experience, but this I must declare: I have attended scores
of pastor's
conferences, most
of them in connection with our most prestigious theological schools; yet I can not think
of a single one that was as directly helpful to me as a parish minister as this one.
Regularly attending a larger Faith
conference that draws young people from all over the UK gives a young person an
experience of the world outside his or her parish, gives encouragement, and offers speakers
of a quality that a local parish might not be able to provide.
First, the author ties her
experience of attending a religious youth
conference to the rape at Steubenville.
From my
experience of leading literally scores
of ministers»
conferences, however, I have become convinced that most American ministers — scholars though they may be — are functionalists at heart.
but part
of me doesn't like
conferences — not as a model, not as an
experience, let alone as a method for real and lasting change.
Frequent exposure to the
experiences of ecumenical
conferences is an antidote to dogmatism.
The tension between dominant older paradigms and the increasingly impatient voices
of those who had been marginalised for generations were
experienced, and listened to, at the eleventh ecumenical
conference on world mission and evangelism, which took place in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil in late 1996.
Out
of the
experience of that struggle there emerged the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference founded in 1957, and Martin Luther King became its first president.
But it is possible to remedy that ignorance, if not with the depth
of personal
experience, then at least through communication such as the written word and the
conference — at which, incidentally, victims
of double oppression may speak for themselves.
One
of More's colleagues, a Swedish philosopher named Nick Bostrom, took to the podium at the same
conference to predict «orgasms and aesthetic - contemplative pleasures whose blissfulness vastly exceeds what any human has yet
experienced,» as well as «love that is stronger, purer and more secure than any human has yet harbored» and «values that will strike us as being
of a far higher order than those we can realize as unenhanced biological humans.»
There he drew on what he had learned in Egypt and his own
experience to compose two works that have become classics, The Institutes, a kind
of introduction to the religious life, and The
Conferences, a fuller and more mature exposition offering richer fare for the advanced.