Sentences with phrase «of industry meetings»

Program Description: Designed to support distinctive new voices in world cinema working in both fiction narrative and documentary, the Open Borders Fellowship includes a development grant as well as a trip to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City to receive the award and attend a curated slate of industry meetings, networking opportunities, panels, and screenings.

Considered the gold standard in health and fitness, NCCA accreditation ensures programs for a wide range of industries meet defined standards of excellence for performing a specific job.

Whether it's publishers, booksellers, agents, film producers or authors - the movers of the industry meet at Frankfurter Buchmesse.

Key Highlights: • Coordinated with management in staff meeting requests for launch campaigns, data review, technical interchange meetings, and teleconferences in support of industries meeting requests.

RECPAC will discuss the issue in detail during its next meeting on January 24, 2018 in Washington DC in conjunction with The Roundtable's all - member State of the Industry meeting.

Not exact matches

The Cannabis Cultivation Summit met at the Marriot in March of this year, and the most recent National Cannabis Industry Association conference has emerged as a foundational event in cannabis space.

Bernier said the decision was reversed following meetings of federal and provincial tourism ministers and industry representatives.

Crime Inc. goes inside the entertainment industry to meet some of the people losing their livelihood to piracy and also follows law enforcement trying to crack down on this seemingly victimless crime.

According to a survey by Industry Week, 2,000 managers shared that at least 30 % of their time spent in meetings were a waste of time.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

Such factors include, among others, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current and future exploration activities; the actual results of reclamation activities; conclusions of economic evaluations; meeting various expected cost estimates; changes in project parameters and / or economic assessments as plans continue to be refined; future prices of metals; possible variations of mineral grade or recovery rates; the risk that actual costs may exceed estimated costs; failure of plant, equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the mining industry; political instability; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of development or construction activities, as well as those factors discussed in the section entitled «Risk Factors» in the Company's Annual Information Form for the year ended December 31, 2017 dated March 15, 2018.

We bring a very customer - centric focus to smart home and we looked at the smart home industry and realized that a lot of the products out there weren't meeting customer needs.

No two businesses or industries are alike, but experts say if an e-mail meets any of the following criteria it's a business record and should be saved:

Since critics, including the private insurance industry, shot down his idea of a Canada Supplementary Pension Plan, Ambachtsheer has thrown his support behind changing the law to allow the private sector to offer essentially the same thing: portable plans that meet certain criteria for governance, performance and low management fees.

«By purchasing local solar power to meet some of our local electricity needs, we're not only meeting our goals but also supporting the growth of local clean energy industries,» Bernard said.

«I went through my Rolodex of seven years» worth of meeting people in the industry.

As far as the financial services industry and virtually all the exhaustive research is concerned, meeting retirement needs means replacing a percentage — the most commonly cited figure is 70 % — of earnings during your working life.

OPEC was meeting with rival U.S. shale producers on the sidelines of the annual CERAWeek energy conference for a second year in a row, in an effort to learn what the industry can do to avoid the type of painful downturn faced in 2015.

Once you've filled your plastic cup — this affair is more backyard barbecue than society event — there's the meet and greet, an opportunity to check out the credentials of those around you: an aerospace industry executive, the economic development chief for a western U.S. state, a dean of engineering for a prestigious American university, several D.C. think tankers, lobbyists, lawyers.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

So as the idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.

Any aspiring musician can attest to the value of reaching out to music writers, agents and label execs after they've met at a concert or other industry event.

Some news leaked out of Intel last week by a side channel when industry consultant Patrick Moorhead posted about a recent meeting he'd had with execs at the chip giant.

Though such whimsical names are often met with an eye roll, if the company or product is sound and timely, its name can become part of industry or popular lexicon.

In an early staff meeting, when we first decided to start this project, I explained to the team that we wanted to build our tribe, because we truly believed that the world of books was falling behind the overall virtualization that publishing and other industries were going through.

«Based on the current challenges in the power industry and a significant decline in orders, GE Power continues to transform our new, combined business to better meet the needs of our customers,» GE's statement said in flawless corporate speak: «As we have said, we are working to reduce costs and simplify our structure to better align our product solutions, and these steps will include layoffs.»

Then I met Jean Oelwang, an executive with a long track record in the mobile phone industry and in working with non-profits of all kinds.

She meets with a diversity of small - business owners — some well - known and others just starting out — who specialize in lifestyle and creative industries.

On Nov. 15 — the release date of its latest hit — Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Ubisoft co-founder and CEO Yves Guillemot spoke to Canadian Business staff writer Jeff Beer about how the industry has changed in the past 25 years, where games and movies will meet and Canada's potential as a video - game powerhouse.

«I schedule time outside the office, whether it's to meet with a new potential partner, a chat over lunch with an old client, or an out - of - town industry convention for a few days.

Trump hosted a series of meetings with advocates for the corn and oil industries at the White House since late last year aimed at reforming biofuels regulations in a way that cuts costs for refiners without reducing overall biofuels demand.

You even communicate in a lot of different ways: during meetings; via email, phone calls, and group messaging; through thought leadership content published online and on social media; and at industry events.

While the financial services industry has quite a bit of work to do in bringing more transparency to the titles used to describe different financial professionals, it is the responsibility of investors to ask the right questions to determine whether the financial professional they work with meets their requirements.

Check out Meet or Die, where you can enter your industry, the length of your meeting, and the number of participants and their jobs.

I met with a much older industry leader who was selling a piece of land in Charlotte.

A business plan can also be used by any business — no matter what industry, location, or size — to formalize a set of business goals and outline the operational and financial strategy for meeting those goals.

Make a list of current issues within the industry to determine whether there are certain business needs that aren't yet being met.

This year, the industry group expects sales of one million drones that meet the minimum weight requirements for registration, or 145 % more than in 2015, the association said.

Bair held a series of meetings with mortgage industry executives.

Earlier this week, reports surfaced noting that Google hardware boss Rick Osterloh had said in a recent meeting with journalists at Mobile World Congress — an annual mobile industry conference held in Barcelona — that the search giant was pumping the brakes on its line of «Pixel» - branded Chromebooks.

Of course, like most inventors of breakthrough technologies, Perlman was met mostly with doubt when he pitched the idea to his colleagues in the industrOf course, like most inventors of breakthrough technologies, Perlman was met mostly with doubt when he pitched the idea to his colleagues in the industrof breakthrough technologies, Perlman was met mostly with doubt when he pitched the idea to his colleagues in the industry.

Despite this growth, innovation in events has been stagnant, and the industry has only recently begun to engage with new technologies to help meet the demand of a more tech savvy event goer.

I've met twenty - somethings who are worth millions of dollars, investing in VC, starting tech companies and disrupting industries.

A spokeswoman for Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry appeared similarly open to the U.S. rejoining, noting that the TPP was «designed to be an inclusive agreement, which is open to like - minded countries willing and able to meet its high standards.»

This might be easier in a major metropolitan area with lots of networking opportunities and industry meetings.

And, when she decided to get into fashion, she didn't just do some research, she met with «people in the industry who had created or worked at companies I respected — Tory Burch, Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Calvin Klein, of the established players.»

Unlike previous NASA programs, in which NASA handled all of the work and the funding, the Commercial Crew program entails a partnership between government and industry in which NASA set the final safety and functionality requirements for the transportation system, but left it to the companies themselves to figure out the best way to meet those requirements.

Secretary General of OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo (R) and Saudi Arabia's Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources, Khalid Al - Falih (L) hold a joint press conference during the 173rd Ordinary Meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria on November 30, 2017.

While deciding where to put our energy on the next product, we met a number of industry professionals who gave us insight on what kinds of brands and associations to look for.

Late on Tuesday night, China's official news agency tweeted a photo of the Tesla chief chatting with Vice Premier Wang Yang, one of the country's top officials in charge of the economy, in what a close watcher of China's automotive industry says may go down as a breakthrough meeting.