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Conventions: Aug 04, 2008

28th ESRI International User Conference

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
San Diego Convention Center San Diego, California United States

The ESRI UC is unlike any other event. As the largest GIS conference in the world, this annual gathering offers innovation at its best. Users from more than 120 countries come to learn new skills, share information, and discover best practices, tips, and tricks that they can use instantly. Be part of this extraordinary experience August 4–8, 2008, in San Diego, California.

13th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XIII)

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
University of Leeds, Leeds, England United Kingdom

Methods in Dialectology conferences have been taking place every three years since 1972, at venues generally alternating between Europe and Canada. Beginning as a forum for the discussion of methodological issues in dialect research, they have steadily expanded their scope and now encompass the entire range of matters of regional, historical, and social language variation. Any and all languages are included within the compass of the Methods series.

ICSC 2008 Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
Santa Clara Marriot Hotel, Santa Clara, California United States

The second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2008) builds on the success of ICSC2007 as an international interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying the emerging research topics and defining the future of Semantic Computing. The conference particularly welcomes interdisciplinary research that facilitates the ultimate success of Semantic Computing.

The field of Semantic Computing (SC) brings together those disciplines concerned with connecting the (often vaguely-formulated) intentions of humans with computational content. This connection can go both ways: retrieving, using and manipulating existing content according to user's goals ("do what the user means"); and creating, rearranging, and managing content that matches the author's intentions ("do what the author means").

IEEE-ICSC 2008. Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing.

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 15, 2008,
Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg Germany

The main focus of ESSLLI is on the interface between linguistics, logic and computation. ESSLLI offers foundational, introductory and advanced courses, as well as workshops, covering a wide variety of topics within the three areas of interest: Language and Computation, Language and Logic, and Logic and Computation.

The 6th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts United States

The 6th Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Healthcare Quality convenes the nation's top visionaries and thought leaders to address the next stage of healthcare quality by exploring the evolution of such topics like pay-for-performance, value-based purchasing, the personalized medical home, high performance networks, public reporting and data exchange to achieve optimal care. This conference agenda is designed to assemble over 400 representatives from all sectors of healthcare, including hospital/health system/group practice providers; health plan/payer executives; government officials; society and coalition leaders; and employer/purchaser decision-makers who strive to drive quality improvement initiatives and innovations across the industry.

Linux World Conference & Expo 2008

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
The Moscone Center, San Francisco, California United States

Linux and open source community gather for the umbrella industry event; emerging trends, innovative product launches and robust educational content take center stage.

The largest gathering of Linux and open source professionals in the world is coming to San Francisco August 4 – 7, 2008. Do you have something to contribute to this unique gathering of IT professionals? Please fill out this online form to ensure we send you email reminders of submission instructions and deadlines.

There are several ways to participate:
*Conference Sessions (one hour regular sessions, Tuesday – Thursday)
*Tutorials (three hour, in-depth technical training, Monday)
*Keynotes
*Birds-of-a-feather sessions (evening community sessions)

The Call for Papers goes live on December 19, 2007

The Call for Papers deadline is February 22, 2008

5th International Workshop on Constraints and Language Processing (CSLP2008)

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 15, 2008,
Frei und Hansestadt Hamburg, Hamburg Germany

The CSLP 2008 workshop addresses the question of constraints and language processing from an interdisciplinary perspective. Constraints are widely used in linguistics, computer science, and psychology. How they are used, however, varies widely according to the research domain: natural language processing, knowledge representation, cognitive modelling, problem solving mechanisms, etc. The purpose is to pursue a paradigm, unifying the different approaches into a common framework capable of explaining how constraints play a role in representing, processing and acquiring linguistic information, and this from a formal, technical, and cognitive perspective. The topics include, but are not limited to, constraint-based linguistic theories, constraints in human language comprehension and production, context modelling and discourse interpretation, acquisition of constraints, probabilistic constraint-based reasoning, constraint satisfaction technologies and constraint logic programming.

Alternative Investment Summit Australia 2008

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 6, 2008,
Hilton Hotel, Sydney, New South Wales Australia

Evaluate leading Alternative investment strategies with the best investment minds

The 3rd Annual Alternative Investment Summit Australia is the event where investors will:

* Gain an exclusive insight into the evolving world of alternative investments
* Evaluate the latest product offerings across the hottest asset classes
• Analyse the most innovative strategies and how they can apply them to their portfolios
• Access new managers and new sources of returns
• Network with current investors and the world’s leading providers
• Maximise their portfolio’s return through the application of alternative investments

MHST 2008 : South East European Conference on Medicine, Health Sciences and Technologies

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 6, 2008,
Prishtina, Kosovo, Serbia and Montenegro

The South East European Conference on Medicine, Health Sciences and Technologies (MHST 2008) aims to bring together medicine & health scientists, researchers, computer scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Medicine, Health Sciences and Technologies, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
MHST 2008 will provide a scientific forum for disseminating the latest research in medicine, health sciences and technologies. It is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together academic and industrial scientists from medicine, health sciences, computer science, biology, chemistry, mathematics and statistics.
It will exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of medicine, health sciences and technologies and provide a forum for the presentation of work in clinical medicine, databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling, simulation, ontology and other computational methods, as applied to life science problems, with emphasis on applications in medicine, health sciences and technologies. MHST 2008 intends to attract a balanced combination of medicine and health scientists, computer scientists, biologists, biomedical engineers, chemists, data analyzers, mathematicians & statisticians.

Maritime Safety and Security 2008 ***Cancelled Event***

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 6, 2008,
Champagne Sport Resot Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

The Maritime Safety and Security 2007 conference delivered practical case studies of successful maritime safety and security operations in Africa from countries like KENYA, GHANA, NAMIBIA, TANZANIA, MOZAMBIQUE, ANGOLA AND SOUTH AFRICA. This created an opportunity for all the major role players, including Fisheries to discuss and debate their responsibilities and involvement in order to find possible solutions for the future. Due to the great success of this event and at the request of our delegates IQPC will be hosting this event again from 04 – 06 August 2008. Do not miss our on this unique knowledge sharing platform that provides stakeholders with the opportunity to gain key insights from highly acclaimed senior level -speakers.

IBC's 13th Annual "Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics" (DDT) World Congress

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
World Trade Center Boston & Seaport Hotel Boston, Massachusetts United States

IBC's 13th Annual "Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics" (DDT) World Congress, taking place on August 4-7, 2008 in Boston, will emphasize themes related to the application of translational research and technologies across therapeutic areas, to help move drugs to clinical proof-of-concept (POC) as quickly as possible. The program will also feature special in-depth concentration sessions on strategic applications and transforming technologies in discovery and development that are cross-functional regardless of disease areas. Sessions on pipeline strategy and partnering will complement the scientific sessions to provide a well-rounded perspective on both scientific and business approaches to accelerate drug discovery and development.

This year's event will provide in-depth content by therapeutic areas, with case studies of companies that are successfully transitioning projects from discovery through to clinical proof-of-concept. An emphasis will also be placed on "transforming technologies" which are helping to speed projects through discovery and into the clinic. Launching in 2008 will be an online partnering tool that allows attendees to pre-schedule meetings with other attendees prior to the conference. Over 3,000 attendees are expected to participate.

Resource Management at the Functional and Enterprise Levels

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
DIA, 800 Enterprise Rd., Horsham, Pennsylvania United States

Learn how to build, implement, and maintain a Resource Management business system, as well as accommodate the reverberations of the cultural change and how to get buy-in from all the key stakeholders.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

· The Resource Management Business System
· Linking the Resource Management System with Portfolio, Functional and Project Management Systems
· Building and Implementing a Resource Management System
· Sustaining a Resource Management System after Implementation
· Roles and Responsibilities
· Handling Cultural Changes

11th VTS Symposium 2008: Vessel Traffic Services

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
Grieg Hall Bergen Norway

In cooperation with IALA the Norwegian Coastal Administration welcomes you to the International Symposium on Vessel Traffic Services in 2008. The 11th VTS Symposium will take place in the city of Bergen situated on the southwest coast of Norway.

The selected themes for the VTS Symposium in 2008 is well-suited with the current VTS development in Europe, as there is a lot of interest to achieve a common standard for VTS services. On behalf of Norway, the Norwegian Coastal Administration has come a long way towards standardising VTS operations in Norway with the rest of Europe.

The VTS Symposium 2008 will be a forum where IALA member countries can discuss challenges and opportunities in the field of Vessel Traffic Services. The themes in 2008 will be VTS from a global perspective, focusing on areas such as recent technological advancement, professional competencies, e-navigation, legal aspects, and VTS in the Arctic region.

eTail 2008 East

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
The Hilton, Washington, Distr. Columbia United States

eTail this August is dedicated to help every retailer reach new online heights – from holiday 2008 through 2009. We will focus on tactical content to help you refine your eCommerce business, and examine how to integrate these tactics into your multi-channel strategy. Our mission is to LEAVE NO BRAND BEHIND in the future of online retail.

Lifecycle Management of the eCTD

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
Regus Victoria, London, England, United Kingdom

This 2-day training course gives you a clear understanding of how to run a comprehensive and robust lifecycle management system for your eCTD submissions.

Packed with practical advice and industry case studies, you will learn about the importance of lifecycle management as a process, document granularity and its impact on the eCTD, pitfalls that occur and how to overcome them, and the critical step of selecting the correct software and supplier.

17th Symposium of the International Association of Astacology (IAA)

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
TietoTeknia, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Itä-Suomen lääni Finland

The conference will consist of a five-day scientific program, to be held on the campus of the University of Kuopio, with presenters welcome to submit papers on all aspects of freshwater crayfish. We will focus lukewarmly on conservation, diseases and genetics as they are hot topics in Europe at the moment but will encourage delegates to consider presenting papers on all relevant crayfish topics including physiology, behavior,ecology and all the other beautiful matters discussed and well-loved in IAA symposiums.

In addition to scientific program we will cater a lively but not too exhausting social program. There will be several opportunities for accompanying persons as well as for delegates sneaking out of the lecture rooms to experience lively and natural Savo culture and wonders of the Kuopio lakeside nature.

32nd Annual Larval Fish Conference

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
Auditorium Maximum, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Schleswig Holstein Germany

The Early Life History Section (ELHS) is an interest-discipline subunit of the American Fisheries Society with an international membership of over 400 scientists. It is the only organisation of this kind devoted to interests in the early life history of freshwater, estuarine, and marine fishes, and related matters. Through its newsletter, Stages, and now its web page, the AFS’s ELHS encourages and facilitates exchange of knowledge and ideas, updates members on current research, publications, meetings and other events, provides feature articles and reviews and communicates Section and pertinent AFS business and concerns.

2008 National Autism Conference

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel State College, Pennsylvania United States

This conference provides comprehensive, evidence-based information to assist educators, other professionals, and families in developing effective educational programming for all students with autism spectrum disorders.

Family History Week, Victoria

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 15, 2008,
Village Roadshow Theatrette, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria Australia

A day of free information sessions at the State Library for family history researchers, including the annual Victorian Association of Family History Organisations (VAFHO) Don Grant Lecture. The event is organised jointly by National Archives of Australia (Victorian Office), Public Record Office Victoria, Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages and the State Library of Victoria.

Enterprise-Wide LIMS for Pharmaceutical/Biotech Manufacturing

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 4, 2008,
The Westin Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

Pharmaceutical laboratories must manage a huge amount of data, meet regulatory requirements, track schedules, assess QA/QC guidelines and manage complex batches. In the lab, they have to manage diversified lab work flows, such as: combinatorial chemistry, screening, pre-clinical and clinical bioanalysis, analytical chemistry, manufacturing R&D and production quality control. Laboratory Information System (LIMS) build a paperless environment for pharmaceutical labs, allowing for greater integration with other existing data systems and sustenance of the demands of a global enterprise
This one-day LIMS Summit, targeted specifically for the life sciences industry, will be co-located with the 4th Annual Pharma/Biotech MES Conference, which attracts 200 executives. Attendees hear industry case studies of enterprise-wide LIMS implementations and validation strategies.

Internal Branding

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
The Allerton Hotel Chicago Chicago, Illinois United States

Attend this conference to learn how to create brand champions and advance
your organizational goals by:

* Encouraging employees to "live the brand" and removing traditions and obstacles that are hindering delivery of the brand promise
* Using blogs and other web 2.0 technologies to enhance and improve your internal branding efforts
* Measuring the effectiveness of your internal branding strategy and maximizing the ROI on your internal branding initiatives
* Engaging senior leadership to ensure they are modeling focused brand messages and leading the charge
* Aligning your external and internal branding strategies for a united message in fast-changing environments
* Developing a global identity to grow your brand on a worldwide basis
* Cultivating employee behavior that represents your values, mission, brand and business strategy
* Rewarding employees for demonstrating their brand loyalty
* Launching an internal branding campaign to become an employer of choice
* Communicating your brand during radical change or after an M&A
* Implementing the brand as a business asset to positively affect the bottom line
* Bringing your brand to life, encouraging employees at all levels to contribute to and deliver the brand promise
* Building the business case and demonstrating the ROI of your internal branding program
* Accelerating the brand building process internally by harnessing your organization's creative energy
* Involving the right partners -- communications, HR, marketing, line operations, etc. -- to ensure an integrated approach across your entire organization
* Branding for the future to strengthen your organization's morale

Winning Strategies in Maintenance Planning, Estimating & Scheduling, Indonesia

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
Jakarta, Indonesia

The Nuts and Bolts Of The Planning Process – From Maintenance Management to Work Request To Work-Performance Reporting

This two day workshop is designed to meet the needs of maintenance and operations personnel who are responsible for delivering cost effective reliability and availability of plant and equipment. The course emphasizes maintenance planning, estimating and scheduling as they are amongst the most important elements in modern maintenance management. The underlying principles of effective modern world class maintenance/Asset CARE are covered in some detail to ensure that they are properly understood, because without this knowledge maintenance planning, estimating and scheduling will not be as effective as it should be.

The sessions will focus on modern maintenance methods and techniques, with particular emphasis on selecting the right maintenance work and undertaking it at the right time, organizing maintenance resources, analyzing and understanding actual and potential failures and how to deal with them, estimating and controlling maintenance costs, measuring results and ensuring continuous improvement.

2008 Grants Management for Results

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
Council for Nonprofit Innovation’s training center Arlington, Virginia United States

Performance Budgeting Week 2008

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
The Performance Institute’s Training Center Arlington, Virginia United States

One of the most arduous requirements of running a public agency is navigating the budget process and ensuring that your priorities are funded within it. While public budgeting
processes are complex and difficult to master, that complexity also provides an opportunity. Performance Budgeting Week 2008 is dedicated to providing attendees with the tools and the knowledge to deftly maneuver their agencies through the budget process and to rely on innovative techniques for making budgetary decisions in order to maximize the value of every dollar.

NAVIGATE THE BUDGET PROCESS
Budgetary success in the government can only be achieved through strict adherence to public budgeting principles and an ability to shepherd your budget request through your
agency and decision makers. Performance Budgeting Week 2008 will equip you with an understanding of the process and the dynamics of each step. This comprehensive training
will enable you to achieve more within the public budget proces.

One-Page Management (OPPM)

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
JW Marriott Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Facilitator Profile

The trainer is a Senior Technical Advisor (Project Management) and he has been providing Project Management training and consulting throughout SE Asia, Middle East and Europe for over 15 years. He is also active in the Global Project Management Community, serving as an Advocate and Missionary for and on behalf of the profession in the region. He also plays an active professional role in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE); Construction Specifications Institute (CSI); Construction Management Association of America, (CMAA) as well as serving on the Board of Directors for the Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards (GAPPS)

Event Highlights

• Training is conducted by a highly sought after trainer with very good testimonials from all his past trainings
• High fear and greed factor – a continuous learning for PMs
• This training is a HEAVY hands-on workshop to illustrate the course concepts, in providing practical skills and managing people on project to structure a project and plan for success
• Professional Development Units (PDU) can be earned at this training (14 PDUs) – PMPs need to earn 60 PDUs once every three years to retain PMP certification. PMPs must submit their PDUs (one PDU for one hour of any PM experience) as and when they earn either on their project through seminars, training pr course attended related to Project management. Those who intend to sit for PMP exam needs up to 35 units to qualify.
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Next Generation Data Center Conference

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
The Moscone Center, San Francisco, California United States

Next Generation Data Center is the only strategic IT event focused on the complete end-to-end solution for the 21st Century Data Center and the new technologies from which they are being built.

NGDC focuses on new technologies and their impact on the data center, covering mission-critical applications and the technology supporting those applications including storage, servers, networking and communications. Targeted to many types of data center professionals, ranging from IT architects, to system administrators, to application and information administrators, NGDC will help IT Pros identify the right products and services to add to their end-to-end solutions as they adapt to ever-increasing needs for flexibility, scalability and performance with reduced risk and complexity.

Get the knowledge you need to make your data center more dynamic, virtual, and power-aware than ever. More than 100 sessions by industry insiders, experts, and IT innovators provide proven techniques for the topics that matter most to your enterprise. Tracks include:

• Applications
• Virtualization
• Networking Services and Data Center Optimization
• Adaptive Facilities Management and Planning
• Data Center Security
• Data Center Storage, sponsored by SNIA

First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008)

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 6, 2008,
University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic

The First IEEE International Conference on the Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies (ICADIWT 2008) (Co-sponsored by IEEE) will include presentations of contributed papers and state-of-the-art lectures by invited keynote speakers. This conference welcomes papers focusing on, but not limited to, the following research topics:

* Information Retrieval
* Wireless network
* Signal processing, pattern recognition and applications
* Digital image processing
* Speech processing
* Parallel and distributed computing and networks
* Information retrieval and internet applications
* Software engineering
* E-technology
* Artificial intelligence and applications
* Databases and applications
* Genetic algorithms
* Data mining
* Real time systems
* Computer and network security
* E-commerce and E-applications
* Programming languages
* Multi-Agent systems

Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs Asia 2008

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore

The first & only dedicated Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs Summit in Asia!

Critical issues to be discussed include:

• Recent Regulatory Developments in the Asian Region
• Country Specific Market Updates including China and India
• ASEAN Harmonisation Efforts and Implementation
• Strategies to Cope with Key Regulatory Issues:
– New Drug Applications (NDAs)
– Product Registration in Asia
– Quality Assurance
– Good Regulatory Practice (GRP)
– Clinical Trials in Asia
– Post-Market Surveillance
– Risk Management
– Change Management

Agile 2008 Conference

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
Toronto, Ontario Canada

Agile 2008 will be an exciting international industry conference that presents the latest techniques, technologies, attitudes and first-hand experience, from both a management and development perspective, for successful Agile software development.

13th IEEE Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 6, 2008,
Lakeshore Hotel Hsinchu, Taiwan

Computer systems are becoming ubiquitous and provide enormous computational potential for science, engineering, medicine, finance, and entertainment. The ACSAC conference provides a forum for presenting research on most aspects of computer system architecture, with a focus on parallel architectures, computation models, reconfigurable systems, high performance architectures, compilers, power aware techniques, ubiquitous computing architectures and next-generation computing technologies. ACSAC has been held annually since 1996 to allow leading research groups to present their current research activities and their latest results.

Family History Week, South Australia

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 10, 2008,
State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia Australia

Tours of the family history collection

Monday 4 August 10.30 - 11.30

Tuesday 5 August 10.30 - 11.30

Wednesday 6 August 10.30 - 11.30

Saturday 9 August10.30 am - 12 midday

Useful websites for family history– Marie Maddocks

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SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences (LS08)

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 7, 2008,
Hyatt Regency Montreal Montreal, Quebec Canada

The life sciences have become increasingly quantitative as new technologies facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of data ranging from complete genomic sequences of organisms to satellite imagery of forest landscapes on continental scales. As a consequence, mathematics and computational science have become crucial technologies for the study of complex models of biological processes.

The SIAM Activity Group on Life Sciences brings together researchers who seek to develop and apply mathematical and computational methods in all areas of the life sciences. This conference of the activity group will provide a cross-disciplinary forum for catalyzing mathematical research relevant to the life sciences. It will facilitate rapid diffusion of new mathematical and computational methods in the life sciences, and may stimulate more researchers to work in these important areas. Mathematicians, life scientists, computational biologists, bioengineers and others interested in mathematical and computational analysis of biological systems are encouraged to attend.

Conference on Computational Group Theory and Cohomology

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 8, 2008,
Harlaxton College Lincolnshire,, England, United Kingdom

SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition

Aug 4, 2008 - Aug 6, 2008,
Abuja, Nigeria

The SPE Nigeria Annual International Conference and Exhibition attracts global participation of stakeholders in the oil and gas and other industries. 2008 is no exception, and will explore some key industry issues:

* Looking for sustainable solutions to the ever increasing energy demand worldwide
* Stimulating the development of cutting-edge technologies that will result in more efficient hydrocarbon production at affordable costs
* Generating new energy portfolios and the most economic ways of developing them in full alignment with other sectors of the economy