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Conventions: Sep 04, 2008

Cardiac Assist Devices

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008,
IMechE, 1 Birdcage Walk, London, England United Kingdom

Multi-disciplinary and networking Conference that will increase the awareness of surgeons, clinicians and nurses on the engineering challenges and aspects of producing Cardiac Assist Devices.

Surgeons will share their experiences with different devices giving indications to others of the appropriate way of usage. Engineers will also share their design and testing techniques, which will be available for others to benefit from.

Carrying out Batch Record Review and Product Release

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008,
Regus Dublin Harcourt Center Dublin Ireland

This in depth training course presents a thorough overview of the fundamentals of sampling. The course acts as a practical guide to overcome the barriers that you face when carrying out sampling in your plant. The instructor will ensure that the participant is able to surmount the organisational issues encountered when implementing an improved programme. There will be a thorough review of the main guidelines governing sampling including FDA and the ISO guidelines. In addition, there will be a focus on bringing the regulations to life by covering case studies of inspections and the challenges companies have experienced in this very specific area.

Construction Show Manila 2008

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 7, 2008,
SMX Convention Center SM Bay Central Pasay, Manila Philippines

Your Business-to-Business Building and Construction Trade Exhibit in the Philippines

Highlights

Seminars & Workshops for Dealers & Distributors
Technology Update for Trade Professionals (Seminars, Workshops & Product Presentation)
Meet & Update Cocktails for Industry Movers & Shakers
Product Watch Pavillion

Dr. John Roebuck: Acid,Steam,Coal and Iron

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 4, 2008,
Scottish Railway Preservation Society Bo'ness, Scotland United Kingdom

Presaging the 250th anniversary of the founding of Carron Ironworks Falkirk, Andrew Ainsworth will tell the story of a local hero who made a significant contribution to the Industrial revolution and to Chemical processing in particular. The event will be held in the exhibition area, Scottish Railway Preservation Society, Bo'ness .It will be preceded by guided tours of the exhibition and a light buffet. Please wear sensible footwear if taking the tour.

9th European Conference on Knowledge Management

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008,
Southampton Solent University Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Southampton Solent University is the latest name for a highly vocational higher education institution that can trace its history back over 150 years as a focus for education in the South of England. Situated in the centre of the bustling city of Southampton, adjacent to green parkland and the full range of urban entertainments, the University is dedicated to providing its students with the best range of practical scholarship available anywhere. We take pride in our friendly environment, where our academic stars work closely with the students to develop their skills and learning.

Attracting, Retaining and Advancing Women in IT

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 4, 2008,
Sydney, New South Wales Australia

The information technology industry has historically been stereotyped as consisting of male-driven and dominated organisations where women continually struggle to obtain opportunities for career advancement and succession. Females are insufficiently represented within all levels of IT positions, particularly in senior and leadership roles.

However, leading organisations within the Australian IT industry are beginning to understand the importance and critical need to address the issues surrounding the barriers that women face in development and progression within technical lines of business. Through implementing a network for women within the organisation, undeniable benefits will be realised not only in enhancing the careers of female professionals, but also in benefiting the organisation’s business processes and bottom-line.

This one-day conference will allow you to hear practical and innovative case studies from leading organisations within the IT industry. You will learn how to implement women’s initiatives to retain a diverse workforce and secure a competitive advantage for your organisation.

The following critical issues will be explored:

* Developing a strategic plan for female career progression
* Exploiting the areas in which females naturally excel
* Integrating flexible work practices and creating a work/life balance
* Constructing a support network and developing mentoring relationships
* Evaluating the attraction model: increasing the entry-level statistic
* Offering feasible solutions and planning for the future

12th International Conference on Rethinking Education

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 8, 2008,
Westin Park Central, 12720 Merit Drive, Dallas, Texas United States

Join hundreds of unschooling families from around the globe as we rethink the meanings of education, learning, parenting...and life! Rethinking Education supports attachment parenting, unconditional love, support for each person's unique journey of life experience, freedom with responsibility, unschooling and you. YOU are the vital ingredient at this conference, as we come together and revel in the magic and mystery of kindred spirits and each other's rich diversity, as we challenge ourselves to trust the extraordinary process of living and learning, the wondrous ability to improve the ways we communicate, discovering new ways of listening to one another, giving full support to our dreams, no matter how wild or ordinary, large or small.

Unschooling is vital to the profoundly intelligent development of our children. And yes, as adults we can even unschool ourselves... as you will discover.

Symposium on New Directions in the History of Crime

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008,
Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds, England, United Kingdom

The Symposium has been organised by a newly formed network of British Crime Historians working across universities in the United Kingdom.

The programme will include panels relating to the following themes:

* Race and Empire
* Violence
* Social Policy
* History and Criminology
* Micro-history
* Criminal Justice History

15th Century Conference 2008

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
University of Wales Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

This is the latest in the established series of conferences on England and its neighbours during the ‘long fifteenth century’. As in previous years, the 2008 conference will bring together both well-established scholars and those near the start of their academic careers.

Chasing Eden

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008,
University of Exeter Cornwall, England, United Kingdom

Altough post-1960 modern environmentalism seemed to promise an increased level of political activism in relation to the environment, an awkward tension between policy and politics persisted. An increasingly urbanized, fast-paced global political economy has struggled to appreciate the complexities and different temporal dimensions of ‘nature’s economy’. Moreover, the rise of technocratic, professional government has alienated the necessary ‘mass movement’ from environmental policy, which is deemed the preserve of specialist scientists. Similarly, the historical study of the environment and environmental ideas has become increasingly intellectually urgent, but it has engaged little with political history.

A number of important historical works on the environmental history of various countries, on colonialism and the natural world, and on environmental ideas have appeared. But the history of environmental politics as a popular or electoral phenomenon remains neglected. In part this reflects the failure of environmental history to filter its methods and interests into political history. On the other hand, political historians (especially British) remain largely bound to the study of traditional topics - radicalism, liberalism, conservatism, popular politics – with little appreciation for the role of nature and the environment. This two-day conference seeks to encourage a conversation between historians of politics and historians of science, medicine, and environment on the topic of environmental politics in the modern era (particularly the nineteenth and twentieth centuries).

ISA Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy, RC19

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden

The RC 19 annual conference draws together leading international scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies and encompasses a range of disciplines including sociology, social policy and political science. As is our practice, RC 19 conference sessions will be a mix of those that reflect the conference theme and those that bring together commonly-themed papers reporting on the ongoing research projects of RC 19 members.

The theme of the conference is the Future of Social Citizenship: Politics, Institutions and Outcomes. We hope this will encourage a broad set of papers on the current challenges of a rights based approach to social policy. We wish to build on the global perspectives of the 2007 meeting in Florence and warmly invite papers from both the South and the North. The globalisation of the economy with its deregulation of financial markets has tilted the power in favour of capital with important consequences for the politics of the welfare state.

10th ANZHNS Annual Scientific Meeting of the Head and Neck Society

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria Australia

As the tenth meeting of the ANZHNS, it will be a time to reflect on how far we have come as a multidisciplinary group, and where we want to head in the future. We will be inviting all our previous Presidents to attend this meeting, and to share their collective ANZHNS memories.

The meeting will be in the centre of Melbourne, a vibrant multicultural city with lots to see and do, an abundance of gourmet delights, and many wonderful day trips for attending partners.

European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress 2008

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 7, 2008,
Novotel London West, Hotel and Convention Centre London, England United Kingdom

We are honoured to chair the first joint bi-annual congress of the Migraine Trust and the European Headache Federation. The European Headache and Migraine Trust International Congress (EHMTIC) 2008 is a united effort which reflects our wish to provide all participants with a unique opportunity to enjoy a 4 day programme covering new therapies, developments and research and our interest in the on-going education of both sufferers and professionals in the headache and migraine field. We will be delivering a joint programme of lectures which will provide a truly first class congress.

Katzir Conference on Life and Death in the Nervous System

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 8, 2008,
Pastoral Kfar Blum Hotel Upper Galilee Israel

The international NGF meetings are an intermittent series of conferences on neurotrophic factors and neuronal survival and repair, held in alternating years to the Gordon Conference on Neurotrophic Factors. The next international NGF meeting will be held as a Katzir Conference on Life and Death in the Nervous System, at Kfar Blum, Upper Galilee, Israel, between September 4 to September 8, 2008. Speakers will be selected based on scientific excellence in topics within the broad theme of life and death in the nervous system. In order to open up the meeting as much as possible to new and cutting edge research, approximately 50% of the talks will be selected from submitted abstracts.

FRA 46th Annual Conference - Florida Reading Association

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 7, 2008,
Shingle Creek Resort, 9939 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, Florida United States

The Florida Reading Association represents over 6,900 members who are actively interested in reading and writing instruction. It is composed of local chapters and special interest groups including

* the Council for Early Literacy,
* the Council for Adult and Family Literacy,
* Reading Supervisors of Florida,
* Florida Organization of Teacher Educators in Reading,
* Secondary Reading Council, and
* student reading councils.

FRA is excited about our upcoming 2008 Conference. We will be at a beautiful new location in Orlando for the next 5 years, the Shingle Creek Resort. Conference dates are Sept 4-7, 2008. Set-up will begin at 10:00 am on Thursday, September 4th. We encourage you to contact Shingle Creek to arrange for some type of “munchie” at your booth. There will be prizes awarded to conference attendees present in the exhibit hall throughout the evening. This new facility allows for this function to work more smoothly.

Physics Higher Education Conference 2008

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 5, 2008,
University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom

The Physics Higher Education Conference (PHEC) provides opportunities to share approaches that enhance the student learning experience.

This conference provides a forum for the exchange of ideas related to the learning of physics at degree level, the sharing of good practice and innovation, and the dissemination of the outcomes of pedagogic research as they relate to physics at university level.

Second leading a digital school: A conference for school leaders

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
Novotel Brighton, Sydney, New South Wales Australia

This is a great opportunity for school leaders to acquire an in depth understanding of what it takes to lead schools in the digital age. Current and future school leaders will gain the skills and understanding to lead a digital school - a school where the teaching resources and administration and communications are predominantly digital. The conference will look to the future and also address the everyday realities, the forces inhibiting educational progress and strategies that might be used to move ahead.

The conference program will address all of a school’s operations with sessions covering such diverse topics as:

• Leading a Digital School
• Case Study - a developing digital school
• The Change Process – developing a supportive culture
• Planning – involve every operation in the school
• Digital Integration – comprehensive and efficient
• Optimal Use of Digital Technology in the Classroom

Scenario-Based Strategic Planning : How to Add Strategic Flexibility to Growth Strategies

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 4, 2008,
United States

A persistent challenge to business executives is the need to balance strategic certainty with strategic flexibility. Indeed, in his book The Strategy Paradox, Michael Raynor notes that managers must make choices with far-reaching consequences today, but must base those choices on assumptions about a future they cannot predict. If the future does not turn out as expected, these strategies can fail horribly. Effective growth strategies must identify future uncertainties and develop strategic options to successfully exploit growth opportunities. One such tool for doing so is scenario-based strategic planning, a method that bases strategies on several different plausible futures as a means to manage uncertainty.

5th Conference on Actuarial Science and Finance on Samos

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 7, 2008,
Karlovassi, Samos island, Greece

This event, jointly organized with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , the Université Catholique de Louvain and the Københavns Universitet, provides the opportunity for presentation of the latest results in the area of actuarial science and finance. The meeting is open to people from Universities, Insurance Companies, Banks, Consulting Firms or Regulatory Authorities, interested in actuarial-financial mathematics.

Sector Venues European Client/Supplier Business Workshop

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
International Convention Center, Broad Street Birmingham,, England, United Kingdom

A minimum of 10 and maximum 15 ICCA venue members each invite a client to the Workshop to discuss their specific meeting requirements. Clients must conform to strict selection criteria, so ensuring that participating venues can promote their company and services to senior decision-makers who are actively looking for destinations. No other event offers the same opportunity for client and supplier to meet face-to-face and discuss future co-operation in a tailor-made Workshop environment.

During the workshop, the participating clients get the opportunity to meet people from a minimum of nine or a maximum of fourteen other venues. They make initial contact with the sales team as well as learn the suitability (or otherwise) of the destinations in a way that would otherwise have been time consuming and would have involved a great deal of travel.

Living Fully With and Beyond Cancer

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
Houston Marriott Westchase Houston, Texas United States

“Living Fully With and Beyond Cancer” is an annual conference presented by the Anderson Network, where cancer patients, their family and caregivers can share hope, support and understanding with others like themselves, regardless of where they received treatment.

10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference (CHEMPOR 2008)

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
University's Campus of Gualtar Braga, Minho Portugal

CHEMPOR traditionally gathers academics, scientists, engineers, manufacturers and end users to discuss recent developments in different areas of Chemical and Biological Engineering. One of the major topics of the conference program is Life Quality, due to the importance that Chemical and Biological Engineering plays in this area. This is complemented with additional topics including Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals, Industrial Processes and Process Systems Engineering.

CHEMPOR 2008 will provide an excellent opportunity for presenting new results and to discuss the latest research and developments in the field of chemical and biological engineering.

14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS'2008)

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
Hyatt Harborside at Logan Int'l Airport Boston, Massachusetts United States

The DMS conference is an international conference series, which covers a wide spectrum of paper presentations, technical discussions and demonstrations in the fields of distributed multimedia computing.

The themes of this year's conference and workshops take advantage of the rich cultural history and artistic tradition of the great city of Boston, and also reflect the emphases of DMS and the co-locating workshops.

EKO-LAS - Fair of Forestry, Wood Industry and Environmental Protection

Sep 4, 2008 - Sep 6, 2008,
Golabek fores grounds, Tuchola, Pomeranian Voivodeship Poland

On September 4-6, 2008, the forest grounds Gołąbek near Tuchola (Poland - Kujawsko-Pomorskie Voivodeship) will be hosting the 11th Fair of Forest Management, Wood Industry and Environmental Protection "EKO-LAS," organized by the Bydgoszcz Fair SAWO in cooperation with the Regional Directorate of State Forests in Toruń and the Association of Forest Entrepreneurs. Co-organizers of the Fair include Europe’s well-known forestry trade fair organizers, including Elmia – Sweden, KWF – Germany, and the Poznań International Fair. Honorary sponsors of the Fair include the Minister of Environment and the General Director of State Forests.