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Conventions: Aug 19, 2008

Markex & World of Events Cape 2008

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape town, Western Cape, South Africa

The only marketing, promotions & special events exhibition you need to attend Markex Gauteng has been recognised as South Africa's premier marketing and promotions exhibition, offering visitors a comprehensive and dynamic showcase of leading suppliers to the industry. Collocated with Markex since 2003, World of Events showcases parallel suppliers to the special events and associated industries.

ICEC 2008. International Conference on Electronic Commerce

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008,
Conference Center Innsbruck, Innsbruck Austria

The International Conference on Electronic Commerce brings together the top of the scientific research community in e-commerce and e-business from all over the world. The theme of this conference is semantic technology moving towards interoperability.

9th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC 2008)

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 24, 2008,
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

The Ninth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC) will be held at the University of Calgary, Canada, on 19-24 August, 2008.

Scope of the conference:

* Quantum Cryptography and Quantum Communications
* Quantum Measurement and Quantum Metrology
* Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Theory
* Implementations of Quantum Information Processing
* Quantum Control

Wichita Aviation Technology Conference

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Century II Convention Cener, Wichita, Kansas United States

The biennial SAE Wichita Aviation Technology Conference formerly known as the General Aviation Technology Conference will be held at the Century 2 Convention Center in Wichita Kansas, August 19-21, 2008. This conference will highlight Aviation technology in transition, focusing on past successes, ongoing efforts and existing or perceived future impediments to fielding new technologies from the user perspective. The focus of the conference and the theme of the senior management panel discussions is the integration of glass cockpits into all forms of civil aircraft including rotorcraft. The conference planning committee intends to provide a forum that not only addresses the most recent technical achievements, but will also provide a mechanism for the technology and user communities to work together to ease the process of bringing these technologies to fruition. In order to provide more opportunities for technology transition and networking, the planning committee has assembled a diverse group of government and industry leaders to organize the technical program.

11th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2008)

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Concordia University Montreal, Quebec Canada

We are pleased to announce the new ICFHR established from IWFHR as a natural promotion after ten intensive and productive editions held around the world: Montréal, Chateau de Bonas, Taipei, Colchester, Taejon, Amsterdam, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Tokyo and La Baule. ICFHR 2008 will take place on August 19-21, 2008 in Montréal, Québec. The ICFHR/IWFHR series of conferences/workshops provide a forum for researchers in the areas of on-line and off-line recognition of handwriting, pen-based interface systems for the processing of multilingual handwritten documents and forms. The program committee invites the submission of papers for inclusion in the Conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings, and the authors of accepted papers will be invited to present their work in the form of oral presentations or posters. All papers and presentations will be in English.

11th Annual Shared Services Asia Summit 2008

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 20, 2008,
Raffles City Convetion Centre, Singapore

* The future of SSCs in Asia
* Compelling arguments to add maximum value to shared services
* Focusing on the SS employee and what can be done to enhance their performance and contribution to the SSC
* Specially designed break-rooms to get your questions answered
* Brand new case-studies to benchmark against
* Region-specific information to structure your strategies in a global marketplace
* Targeted streams to match your needs (whether you are a mature or new SSC)

CPhI South America

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Centro de Convencoes Sulamerica Rio de Janeiro Brazil

The eagerly awaited addition to the CPhI calendar CPhI South America 2008, will undoubtedly bring a wealth of opportunities to the pharmaceutical industry. With a rapidly emerging market second only to China and a growth rate exceeding that of the global average, South America continues to promote an attractive business arena to many Western firms.

Whether you are seeking new innovations and developments or looking to promote your company in a new environment, CPhI South America 2008 provides the chance to expand your business and discover a multitude of networking possibilities within this diverse pharmaceutical climate.

P-MEC South America

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Centro de Convencoes Sulamerica Rio de Janeiro Brazil

In 2008, P-MEC will make its South American debut in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For suppliers it will be the opportunity to showcase their products and advancements in a region that is booming.

South America's USD 12 billion pharmaceutical market has been growing by 8% annually in recent years; in Brazil alone 692 pharmaceutical plant invest USD 1 billion per year in new equipment and product development.

Enabling Point-of-Care Diagnostics

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 20, 2008,
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Washington, Distr. Columbia United States

DHS customers comprise a diverse group having wide ranging requirements. Low cost and low probability of false alarms are particularly challenging for detection platforms and will require innovative solutions. Understanding how best to address novel engineered and emerging threats effectively also will require overcoming numerous technical hurdles.

Semiconductor Reliability Short Course

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Semiconductor reliability is at a crossroads. In the past, reliability meant discovering, characterizing and modeling failure mechanisms and determining their impact on the reliability of the circuit. Today, reliability can involve tradeoffs between performance and reliability, assessing the impact of new materials, dealing with limited margins, etc. Analysis and experimentation is now performed at the wafer level instead of the packaging level. This requires knowledge of subjects such as: design of experiments, testing, technology, processing, materials science, chemistry, and customer expectations. While reliability levels are at an all-time high level in the industry, rapid changes may quickly cause reliability to deteriorate. Your company needs competent engineers and scientists to help solve these problems.

Semiconductor Reliability is a 3 day course that offers detailed instruction on a variety of subjects pertaining to semiconductor reliability. This course is designed for every manager, engineer, and technician concerned with reliability in the semiconductor field, using semiconductor components, or supplying tools to the industry.

Private Military Companies: Challenges and Opportunities

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 20, 2008,
Brindabella Conference Centre Canberra, Australia Capital Territory Australia

This Conference aims to:

* Contribute to the development of the defence white paper and national security strategy by identifying the role and implications of PMCs
* Identify the extent to which outsourcing of traditional military and government tasks has occurred to PMCs and the degree of dependence on PMC services for global security
* Identify the trends of PMC growth with implications for the structure and training of conventional armed forces
* Identify trends in the use of PMCs by industry, NGOs and government agencies
* Define the legal framework and regulation of Australian-related PMCs operating in foreign countries
* Identify the key initiatives and players in enhancing standards and regulations relevant to PMCs
* Determine if there is a need for an Australian association of PMCs to advance the interests of PMCs, government and clients

2008 Australian Geothermal Energy Conference

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008,
Rydges Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria Australia

The Australian Geothermal Energy Association (the industry representative body for Australian geothermal companies) and the Australian Geothermal Energy Group (representing the Australian geothermal energy community encompassing industry, academia and both State and Federal Government) jointly present the 2008 Australian Geothermal Energy Conference.

Interest in Australia’s geothermal energy potential has increased markedly over the last two years. The industry is growing rapidly with numerous private and publicly listed companies forming, increasing numbers of projects, and technological developments being made. Climate change and energy security are now recognised as key issues facing Australian society. Geothermal energy has the potential to provide Australia with low-emission base-load electricity for thousands of years.

Understanding Conflicts -- Cross-Cultural Perspectives

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008,
University of Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark

An international, interdisciplinary research conference on the diversity of conceptions and cultural images of conflicts.

Cross-cultural perspectives on methods of conflict analysis, forms of conflict transformation, and the role of culture and religious worldviews for and in conflicts.

22nd National Symposium of OCCA South African Division

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Champagne Sports Resort, Central Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

This symposium is open to anyone in the coatings industry who is interested. The main focus of this event will be technical papers including an industry expo, networking, entertainment and socialising. The management of both OCCA and SAPMA would especially like to see learners of the SAPMA Paint Technology Course being sponsored by their employers and that SAPMA members extend this notice to their respective branches in Africa.

Destination CRM 2008

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 20, 2008,
Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York, New York United States

destinationCRM returns to New York City with its third annual conference in August 2008. Organized by CRM magazine, destinationCRM is quickly gaining recognition as both a valuable networking opportunity for top CRM executives and an excellent learning experience for top-level professionals involved in CRM purchasing decisions.

Leading decision makers and managers will gather to learn how to optimally apply sales, marketing, and customer service tools and techniques by utilizing the right mix of people, processes, and technologies.

Molecular Biology of Archaea

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
University of St Andrews St. Andrews, Scotland United Kingdom

The archaea constitute a separate domain of life, distinct from bacteria, with many aspects of their biology closer to eukaryotes. Archaea have been adopted as a model system for studies on eukaryotes as well as being of very considerable interest in their own right. Many archaea inhabit extreme environments, and the mechanisms of adaptation are uniquely fascinating and important, with many biotechnological and industrial applications. Increasingly, archaea are recognised as an important and abundant component of the biosphere. This meeting will focus on archaeal DNA replication, recombination and repair, genetics and gene regulation. It will highlight recent advances in the field with implications for our understanding of archaeal molecular biology and the evolution of eukaryotic information processing pathways.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 20, 2008,
Royal Hyatt Regency, Sahar Airport Road, Mumbai, Maharashtra India 400 099

From planning to implementation: A Complete Guide

As the Indian market rises to be a dominant power in the Asia Pacific region, there have been rapid advancement and intense competition in businesses. But for these changes to take place, businesses need the right technology in place to take their business performance to a new level. SOA has helped many organisations get ahead by moving the focus from merely running the businesses to maximising the performance of their business. SAO will help businesses respond quickly, cost effectively and flexibly to changing market conditions.

What you will GAIN from this workshop:

Maximising the benefits the SOA
Latest tools and technologies
Proven implementation techniques
Walk through real world implementation and successful case studies
Insights into SOA Governance

Course Facilitator:

Cristian Sturek
Founder & Principal SOA
Architect
XWeb Services Inc.,USA

Aboriginal Literacy: Bridging the Distance to Learning • A Snapshot from Canada

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 19, 2008,
United States

The Sioux Hudson Literacy Council is making groundbreaking strides to reach adult Aboriginal learners who reside in remote, isolated communities of Northwestern Ontario, Canada. This literacy organization services learners within the community and surrounding area. The 35 communities, which have a total population of approximately 35,000 people, are often only accessible by plane in the summer months and ice roads during the winter. The Aboriginal community members have not had the privilege of strong, structured educational backgrounds and have not had the opportunity to improve their existing literacy and employability skills. There are currently programs in these communities offered to high school and college students via video- and audio-conferencing. It appears however, that individuals who would benefit the most, the people who need assistance to attain the literacy levels required to achieve success at the high school and college levels are those who have had few educational opportunities.

European eLearning Summit

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

The European eLearning Summit (EeLS) is Europe's premier conference and training event for all things eLearning. EeLS was born out of the highly popular EuroTAAC eLearning conference and is organised by the EuroTAAC team. Building on that history EeLS will continue to offer the best value conference and networking event in Europe for eLearning professionals and consumers alike.

This year the European eLearning Summit (EeLS) will take place over the period 19th to 21st August and will be held in Nottingham, UK. The summit venue is the East Midlands Conference Centre, located at Nottingham University.

The East Midlands Conference Centre is a purpose-built venue set in 330 acres of landscaped parkland, close to Nottingham city centre and all major road, rail and air links.

Market Liquidity & Implications On Our World Economy

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 19, 2008,
St. Regis Hotel Singapore

Asia's most high profile business forum for financial executives is back for the second year. RAM's Globalisation Chapters presents The Second Annual Conference on Market Liquidity and Implications On Our World Economy. As the global economy grapples with the credit crisis and the threat posed by inflation, economies and governments are struggling to find an answer to tackle this challenge. The most renowned and influential names in the financial industry and investors will be addressing questions relating to the US Sub-Prime Crisis, Restoring Market Liquidity, The Outlook For Defaults and Distressed Debts, Will Existing Liquidity Providers Be Able To Ease The Credit Crunch?

The conference will also serve as a platform for investors and liquidity providers to examine the opportunities and pitfalls in the current market environment.

National Clean Energy Summit

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 19, 2008,
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Cox Pavilion Las Vegas, Nevada United States

Industry leaders, scientists, policy experts, citizens, and the media will gather in Nevada at the national summit hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, U.S. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), and University of Nevada, Las Vegas, to chart a course for our nation's clean energy future. This is a pivotal opportunity to focus on defining a policy agenda that accelerates the development of renewable energy, energy-efficiency technologies, and robust clean energy markets in Nevada, the nation, and the world.

Conference in Honour of Peter Orlik

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008,
Fields Institute, University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada

Peter Orlik's work has been influential for a particularly broad mathematical community: his seventy-some publications to date include five books, and his focus has included Seifert manifolds, singularities, reflection groups and invariant theory, braids, hyperplane arrangements, and hypergeometric integrals. The theory of hyperplane arrangements should receive special mention since, together with Hiroaki Terao and Louis Solomon, Peter Orlik pioneered the area and established many of the foundational results. In doing so, they constructed a fertile meeting point for algebra, topology, and combinatorics.
The aim of this conference is to bring together individuals in some of the various areas interconnected by Peter’s legacy. This is both to facilitate ongoing collaborations in some of the most exciting areas spawned by his work, and also to encourage new relationships between specialists with hitherto undiscovered common ground. In particular, we hope to attract a good number of graduate students and recent PhDs both from Ontario and further afield.

Clinical Scenario Planning Webinar

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 19, 2008,
(Online) United States

You Will Learn:

• What is Clinical Scenario Planning?
• How is Clinical Scenario Planning used:
• As an effective predictor tool
• To predict worst case scenarios
• To develop contingency plans
• Strategies for incorporating modeling and simulation technologies into scenario plannnig
• To utilize scenario planning to determine the minimum/maximum numer of treatment arms
• Directly from several case study examples

19th International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2008)

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 22, 2008,
University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario Canada

The purpose of the CONCUR conferences is to bring together researchers, developers, and students in order to advance the theory of concurrency, and promote its applications (in a broad sense).

Rifts Renaissance

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 21, 2008,
Museum of Natural Sciences IMAX Theater Houston, Texas United States

The Petroleum Group of the Geological Society of London and the Society for Sedimentary Geology are privileged to collaborate with the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences and acknowledge the support of co-sponsors to present this world-class 3-day international technical conference.

The conference “Rift renaissance: stretching the crust and extending exploration frontiers” provides an important technical forum to challenge rift model paradigms. These paradigms underpin the fundamental understanding and exploration of, pre-cursor rift basins and continental rift basins. Numerous aspects of crustal evolution and lithospheric extension models remain contentious and new sub-surface datasets have highlighted important apparent paradoxes. Heat flow, subsidence and passive margin formation are subject to both temporal and spatial anomalies related to rift processes. The technical program is uniquely constructed to share the most recent observations, interpretations and models from leading industry and academic contributors. The meeting will address the understanding of rift basins and constrain our comprehension of rift-related petroleum geology.

Incentive Works - Canada's

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 20, 2008,
Metro Toronto COnvention Centre, Toronto, Ontario Canada

Canada's largest trade show for the meetings, incentive travel, special events and promotions industries.

Top 3 reasons to attend:

1. CONNECT - with over 700 companies from around the world servicing the meetings, incentives & promotions industries
2. LEARN - Professional education by industry experts for only $55, plus GST
3. EXPERIENCE - FREE trade show

Building & Streamlining Your Epilepsy Center of Excellence

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 19, 2008,
United States

An Epilepsy Center can be a vital part of a neuroscience center, especially given the high prevalence of epilepsy in the population and its impact on the lives of those affected. The highly specialized nature of an Epilepsy Center, however, demands significant commitments of resources and caregivers to produce a successful program. In this webinar, Dr. Sanjay Singh, Director of The Nebraska Epilepsy Center, presents the business case as well as the essential steps for establishing and expanding an Epilepsy Center of Excellence and also explains the potential of emerging technologies like MEG.

The formal presentation will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A to answer your most pressing questions pertaining epilepsy programs within a neuroscience center.

The 2nd Annual Conference on Market Liquidity and Implications On Our World Economy

Aug 19, 2008 - Aug 19, 2008,
Hotel Imperial Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Asia's most high profile business forum for financial executives is back for the second year.

RAM's Globalisation Chapters presents "The Second Annual Conference on Market Liquidity and Implications On Our World Economy".

As the global economy grapples with the credit crisis and the threat posed by inflation, economies and governments are struggling to find an answer to tackle this challenge.

The most renowned and influential names in the financial industry and investors will be addressing questions relating to the US Sub-Prime Crisis, Restoring Market Liquidity, The Outlook For Defaults and Distressed Debts, Will Existing Liquidity Providers Be Able To Ease The Credit Crunch?

The conference will also serve as a platform for investors and liquidity providers to examine the opportunities and pitfalls in the current market environment.