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Conventions: Feb 11, 2008

ENTECH 2008

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre Sydney, New South Wales Australia

ENTECH is Australia's launch pad of cutting edge equipment and technology for professional entertainment technology users. With hundreds of brands on display and thousands of visitors, ENTECH is the only event in Australia where you can see, touch and hear the latest gear in action.

Mix with the industries key players and learn about new products and developments over 3 days dedicated to the pro audio, broadcast, lighting, vision and staging industries.

SAMPE Asia 2008

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok Thailand

After nearly two decades of successful conferences in Japan, China, and Europe, The Society for the Advancement of Material and Processing Engineering (SAMPE) announces a new event, SAMPE Asia, to be held in Bangkok, Thailand, February 2008. This event will provide a forum for the advanced materials community by bringing technical sessions, tutorials, and exhibits to this rapidly expanding region.

To compliment the technical program, SAMPE Asia will also feature a combination of tabletop and exhibit booths. While the conference programming will span over three days, the exhibits will be featured on two of those three days.

ARA Rental Show

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada United States

The Rental Show is the largest rental trade show in the world and the only show dedicated exclusively to the supporting the growth of the $32.8 billion U.S. rental industry by connecting rental businesses with the latest products and strategies for success. Virtual booths for 2007 exhibitors will remain online through September.

CRT 2008 (Cardiovascular Revascularization Therapies 2008)

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Omni Shoreham Hotel 2500 Calvert Street, NW Washington, Distr. Columbia United States 20008

CRT 2008 will include 14 Concurrent Meetings, including Live Case Demonstrations and over 200 Faculty from Around the World.

Meetings will include: ACS & AMI Management,
Angiomyogenesis & Cell Therapy, Carotid Stenting, Complex Coronary Interventions, Critical Limb Ischemia Intervention, CTO Forum, Drug Eluting Stents In-Depth, Emerging Devices & Innovative Therapies, Nurse & Tech Symposium, Peripheral Interventions, Practical Cardiac CTA, Valve & Structural Heart Intervention, Vulnerable Plaque Summit, and Workshop with the FDA

Live Cases from Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY; San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy; University of Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany; and Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC.

Long Range Planning and Water Policy

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 11, 2008,
Ontario Convention Center, Ontario, California United States

Major Gift Fundraising

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Denver, Colorado United States

Whether a newcomer or a seasoned professional, you will gain insight and learn practical strategies to increase your success in raising major gifts.

Neurology: A Primary Care Approach

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 15, 2008,
Hyatt Sarasota Sarasota, Florida United States

NEEDS STATEMENT: There is a great need to maintain and improve the clinical diagnostic skills of the Primary Care Practitioner in the field of Neurology in view of the fact that as America ages, diseases such as CVA's, Dementia, and Parkinson's, etc. will increasingly be seen by the Primary Care Practitioner. This CME activity addresses these issues and satisfies the need to improve the abilities of practitioners to diagnose neurological conditions through greater reliance on clinical skills and knowledge and less reliance on specialty referral.

Day 1 The Nuts and Bolts of Performing a Neurological Examination. Interpreting the Neurological Examination: A Case-Based Approach. Cranial Neuropathies: Vertigo, Bell's Palsy and Trigeminal Neuralgia. Visual Loss and Double Vision: Neuro-Ophthalmology for the Primary Care Physician.

Day 2 Neurodiagnostics Tests: How Can They Help You Make the Diagnosis? Neuroradiology: Interpreting the Interpretations of CAT Scan and MRI. An Effective Approach to Gait Abnormalities. The Clinician's Approach to Peripheral Neuropathy.

Day 3 Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias. Essential Tremor and Parkinson's Disease. Multiple Sclerosis in the 21st Century. Migraine and Other Headaches: A Diagnostic Approach Leading to Rational Therapy.

Day 4 Brain Attack! Acute Treatment of Stroke and TIA. How to Minimize Your Patient's Risk of Stroke. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuropathic Pain, Parts 1 and 2.

Day 5 Diagnosis and Treatment of Epilepsy. Syncope: A Review of Fits, Faints, and Funny Spells. To Sleep, Perchance to Dream: Common Sleep Disorders. Myasthenia Gravis and Myopathy.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES: The overall objective is to provide the participant with practical and clinically relevant information. Upon completion of this CME activity, the physician or healthcare provider should be able to describe the current approach to formulating differential diagnoses, diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventive management of the various disciplines presented.

eTail DC 2008

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort & Spa, Palm Desert, California United States

eTail is keyed into the pulse of the retail industry, delivering innovative content and tactical take-away’s for you to take back to the office. The agenda is created from year-round research with top-level Retail executives. Now in its 10th year, eTail continues to deliver actionable strategies to optimize all of your sales channels, ranging from acquisition and customer experience marketing to data management and back-end logistics.

We’ve listened to your feedback, and are working hard to ensure that eTail 2008 is targeted to your needs as a multi-channel innovator. Join the other 1200+ attendees in Palm Desert this February for the industry’s leading multi-channel event, eTail 2008.

3rd Annual Joint Meeting Of OESE Comprehensive

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Academy for Educational Development, Washington, Distr. Columbia United States

The Office of Special Education Programs and the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Leveraging Resources Meeting!

This joint event will be held all day on Wednesday, February 13th and the first half of Thursday, February 14th, for all OESE Comprehensive and Equity Assistance Centers and OSEP TA&D Projects.

Financial Back Office Functions

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Improved overall quality of financial services and increased customer satisfaction leads to successful back office operations. Today’s banking and financial institutions must be prepared to move with the market demands in a changing competitive environment. Trade confirmations can come from a variety of sources. New back office applications need to be implemented and quicker services are demanded from legacy systems.

By successfully integrating processes and applications with existing systems the overall quality of the services can be improved. Communication infrastructure is one of the way’s that institutions have been able to gain a competitive edge and best leverage today’s resources.

This conference is aimed at analysing the status of current issues in Operational Risk, STP, Outsourcing and other relevant concerns with respect to the Australian market, and the predicted advancements in our back office operations that simplify the whole process.

The 27th IASTED International Conference on Modelling, Identification, and Control

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Innsbruck Austria

This Conference provides an opportunity for prominent International specialist, researchers, and engineers to present and to observed the latest research, result and ideas in the areas of Modelling Indentification, control.

1st International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Four Points by Sheraton Quebec , 7900 Rue du Marigot, Quebec City, Quebec Canada

Ambient media and systems culminate from the emergence of mobile communication, sensor-actuator technology, virtual environments, and interactive computing. They represent the vision of an all-encompassing multimedia networking environment with human interaction at its core. Advances in computer and communication technologies have the potential to offer people an unprecedented level of convenience and flexibility for living and working. Such technologies need to be closely integrated with human interactions and activity, allowing greater support for smart solutions that improve quality of life, productivity, understanding and intelligence within their situated environment. Ambi-sys focuses on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric intelligent ambient environments.

1st Workshop on Software Organisation and MonIToring of Ambient Systems

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Quebec, Quebec Canada

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

* Software specification, engineering and evaluation methodology for ambient media and systems
* Monitoring of ambient systems: state-of-the-art
* Monitoring of ambient systems: experiments
* Monitoring of ambient media/systems: works giving solid references to existing monitoring tools and problems of distributed/wireless systems
* Frameworks, middleware and architectures for ambient media/systems
* Approaches to support the evolution of ambient media/ systems
* Software engineering techniques for multimodal interactive systems
* Methodology to create and validate ergonomic criteria for ambient media/systems
* Adaptive user interfaces, context-aware interactive systems
* High-level sensor network management
* Interaction among modules developed independently (e.g. web services)
* Context modeling for context-aware applications
* Discovery, retrieval and orchestration of services in pervasive environments
* Deployment infrastructures and support for ambient systems

International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Quebec City, Quebec Canada

The International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television aims at fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects related to the data management challenges associated with the design of ambient media delivery and user aware interactive television systems.

Haptic User Interfaces in Ambient Media Systems

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Quebec, Quebec Canada

The role of haptics as a non-intrusive communication modality is a relatively rich yet unexplored research area. However, the advent of sophisticated haptic interfaces and tangible interfaces makes it possible to employ haptics in facilitating ubiquitous and veridical interactions between man and machine. This facet of the haptic user interfaces uniquely suits ambient media systems that allow levels of ease and access previously never achieved by user interfaces. This workshop will explore the design, development and evaluation of haptic user interfaces for ambient media systems.

The IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Innsbruck, Austria

This conference is an international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the advances in, and applications of, signal processing and pattern recognition. It is an opportunity to present and observe the latest research, results, and ideas in these areas.

Florida Linux Show 2008

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 11, 2008,
University of North Florida, University Center Jacksonville, Florida United States

he Florida Linux Show 2008 is specifically for the 2nd largest number of Linux SIGs in the United States. Since Florida has a large number of national ISPs, Fortune 1000 companies, and a large Internet and technology presence in the United States Linux community, it is only fitting that this state has its own Linux Conference to serve this unique group of information technology professionals.

The Florida Linux Show 2008 allows Linux administrator, users, and the open source community, along with other commercial technology stakeholders to meet and exchange information about needed technology skills, current and future job or project opportunities, new and evolving technologies, trends and qualifying market directions, and the Internet infrastructure that affects all users and hardware and software administrators, to include, ISPs, state and local government entities, large, medium, and small businesses, and non-profit groups and associations.

The Florida Linux Show 2008 is both an exhibition and a conference to serve the needs of the Florida Linux Community and associated integrated technology developers and users.

A portion of the show also welcomes the Windows user community to share ideas and information that help each part of the Information Technology industry to meet and network (no pun intended) with each other.

2008 Community College National Legislative Summit

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washigton, Distr. Columbia United States

The 2008 Community College National Legislative Summit comes at a time when Congress and the Administration are exerting considerable effort working on higher education issues. Your attendance at the 2007 NLS resulted in the largest meeting ever and helped shape this year’s congressional debate on higher education and workforce development. Most importantly, with your help Congress and the Administration are expected to enact substantial funding increases for higher education. We need your continued support at the 2008 NLS — February 11–13 — to ensure that these gains are consolidated. As always, the 2008 NLS will provide you with the latest information and tools to advocate effectively with members of Congress and the Administration.

The European Budget

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Wilton Park, West Sussex, England, United Kingdom

How large should the EU's next financial perspective be? Is the balance of expenditure on major policies such as the Common Agricultural Policy and Structural Funds appropriate in light of growing demands in areas such as foreign and home affairs and R&D to assist Europe's global competitiveness? Should some policy areas be co-financed or even re-nationalised? What impact might future enlargements have?

Derivatives, Hedging and IAS 39

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
The Wanderers Club, Illovo, Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Learning Objectives
• To learn hedging technique using financial derivatives
• How to account for derivatives
• Understand IAS 39 and its implementation procedure

Destination Design Management 2008

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Hyatt at Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco, California United States

Discover how Kimberly-Clark meets the differing needs of the business, customers and consumers. Also, how Johnson & Johnson started their acclaimed creative initiative. Walmart proves the need to invest in design in order to deliver ROI. Nickelodeon finds the time and resources to constantly innovate. Unilever navigates the challenge of inter-departmental communication and Kodak organizes, builds and maintains the best and most efficient team.

36th International Symposium on Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 15, 2008,
Grand Hotel Adriatic, Opatija, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Croatia

Symposium "Actual Tasks on Agricultural Engineering" has been organised for 36 years that shows its tradition and importance. During last years the Symposium achieved more international meaning thanks to co-sponsoring of EurAgEng, CIGR, AAAE and AAESEE. Papers from Symposium's proceedings are indexed into world's famous databases as ISI Proceedings (part of the ISI's Web of Knowledge), ISI - Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings, CABI Agricultural Engineering Abstracts, InterDok and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts - Conference Papers Index.

Direct to Docs

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
Hyatt Tampa, Florida United States

When we sat down and began researching how we could deliver the best physician marketing event on the market we were surprised to learn that our audience was just as adamant about what they did not want to hear as they were about what they did. “Enough of the doom and gloom!” they said. “We know why we can’t reach docs anymore! Do we really need more data about this?!” We agreed that the answer is a resounding NO.

That is why this agenda is a collection of proactive case studies that focus on the solutions, not the problem. This Forum will assume that the delegates know why there is a problem, and instead will present a host of solutions about how they can reach today’s busy doctors. The Forum will have a faculty comprised of 75% Pharma who will present on their best practices for running sales and marketing teams.

This conference is designed for Direct to Physician marketing professionals who want the most cutting edge information on how they can do their jobs more effectively.

The Evidence Based Medicine Summit

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
The Westine Alexandria Alexandria, Virginia United States

The Evidence Based Medicine Summit will convene senior level executives from health plans, health systems, hospitals, government agencies and academia to discuss the utilization of evidence based medicine to develop a clinical guideline policy.

Thought leaders will share best practices in using the guidelines to improve coast and quality of care and the tools and techniques required to assess the validity of the data.

The issues of coverage and reimbursement models will also be discussed as healthcare moved towards value based medicine.

Conference on Crimes Against Women

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 13, 2008,
Hilton Lincoln Centre Dallas, Texas United States

FEATURED PRESENTATIONS
The Porn Star Serial Rapist – Beginning with little more than unidentified DNA evidence, Boulder Detective Chuck Heidel tracked down Bradford Thomas Wagner, an actor in homosexual adult films who raped women in Texas and Colorado. Detective Heidel’s investigative techniques and sheer persistence will inspire you.

Murder on Cape Cod: The Christa Worthington Case Study – After Christa Worthington was found dead by a neighbor with her 2 1/2 year-old daughter clinging to her body, law enforcement investigated several plausible suspects. The case involves a former fashion journalist, several suspects with varying motives and a fascinating police investigation.
Questions of Ancestry in the Mammoth Lakes Homicide and its Role in Victim Identification - On May 25, 2003 a hiker and his dog discovered a human skull just outside the town of Mammoth Lakes, California. Law enforcement efforts to identify the victim’s remains and the cause of her death produced indeterminate results. The victim’s profile changed radically when DNA testing using an innovative technology that describes the ancestry of a sample was used in the case.

Serial Sexual Assault & Offender Characteristics – Craig Ackley from the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit - 2;
Victim and Suspect Interview and Interrogation – John Martin, Texas Ranger;
Protecting Yourself and Your Family on the Internet: A training to keep families of law enforcement, prosecutors and advocates safe – Jim Tanner;
SANE Nursing Track, faculty featuring leading national experts.
And More.

Arabian World Construction Summit

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

The Arabian World Construction Summit (AWCS) is being launched by MEED in response to industry demand for a business platform that enables real industry debate and interaction.

This year the theme is ‘Risk versus Opportunity: Understand, Debate, Resolve’ and examines the implications and sustainability of the region’s fast pace of development, and its implications for the construction industry. Researched and designed by MEED in co-operation with the Advisory Board the summit addresses the key issues faced by a $1.6 trillion industry - infrastructure planning and government support, overheating and ways to avoid it, inward and outward investment risks – all illustrated by major regional and international projects.

WSDM 2008 - First ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
Stanford University, Stanford, California United States

WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a brand new ACM conference intended to be complementary to the World Wide Web Conference tracks in search and data mining. The pace of innovation in these areas has reached a level that requires more than one premier annual venue. WSDM invites original, high quality submissions related to search and data mining on the Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models, algorithm design and analysis, economics implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance. The goal is to make WSDM a focused meeting with a single research paper session through 2-3 days. WSDM will also invite keynote talks from some of the best minds from industrial and academic research.

1st ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2008)

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
Stanford University Stanford, California United States

WSDM (pronounced "wisdom") is a brand new ACM conference intended to be complementary to the World Wide Web Conference tracks in search and data mining. The pace of innovation in these areas has reached a level that requires more than one premier annual venue. WSDM invites original, high quality submissions related to search and data mining on the Web, with an emphasis on practical but principled novel models, algorithm design and analysis, economics implications, and in-depth experimental analysis of accuracy and performance. The goal is to make WSDM a focused meeting with a single research paper session through 2-3 days. WSDM will also invite keynote talks from some of the best minds from industrial and academic research.

Lean Six Sigma for Pharmaceutical R&D

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 12, 2008,
Hyatt Regency Tampa Tampa Bay, Florida United States

Lean Six Sigma is a business efficiency tool proven to reduce costs and increase performance. Over the past few years, research and development subdivisions of pharmaceutical companies have had success applying Lean & Six Sigma methodology to specific R&D projects, but they have also found division specific roadblocks with implementation. The goals to eliminate defects and create faster cycles of experimentation sound simplistic enough, but when Lean Six Sigma methodology is applied within the innovative and scientific area of drug development, the different variables and factors found in the clinical setting can cause difficulties with adaptating such changes.

This program will feature case-study examples from pharmaceutical and cross industry organizations that use Lean Six Sigma to better achieve organizational goals. Presentations from industry leaders will cover all areas of DMAIC methodology: Defining Opportunities, Measuring Performance, Analyzing Opportunities, Improving Performance, and Controlling Performance, allowing participants to better equip their organizations for smooth implementation of their Lean Six Sigma program.

International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television (AMDIT 2008)

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Canada

The International Workshop on Ambient Media Delivery and Interactive Television aims at fostering interdisciplinary discussions and research in all aspects related to the data management challenges associated with the design of ambient media delivery and user aware interactive television systems

1st International Conference on Ambient Media and Systems (Ambi-sys 2008)

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 14, 2008,
Four Points by Sheraton Quebec , Quebec City, Quebec Canada

Ambient media and systems culminate from the emergence of mobile communication, sensor-actuator technology, virtual environments, and interactive computing. They represent the vision of an all-encompassing multimedia networking environment with human interaction at its core. Advances in computer and communication technologies have the potential to offer people an unprecedented level of convenience and flexibility for living and working. Such technologies need to be closely integrated with human interactions and activity, allowing greater support for smart solutions that improve quality of life, productivity, understanding and intelligence within their situated environment. Ambi-sys focuses on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric intelligent ambient environments.

1st Eurasia Veterinary Conference

Feb 11, 2008 - Feb 15, 2008,
Century Park Hotel Bangkok Thailand

This new training program and small animal continuing educationon in internal medicine is designed for veterinarians who wish to broaden their knowledge in internal medicine of companion animals.