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April 11-13, 2013. ACP is for American College of Physicians, and their show is all about Excellence in Medical Education. ACP’s goal is to provide clinicians with recommendations based on the best available evidence; to inform clinicians of when there is no evidence; and to help clinicians deliver the best health care possible. ACP develops three different types of clinical recommendations: Clinical Practice Guidelines, Clinical Guidance Statements, and Best Practice Advice. The guidelines and guidance statements are based on a systematic review of current discipline-specific literature, while best practice advice is developed through a review of available evidence and guidelines, evaluating the value of diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions. A specialist section provides physicians with team-based practices for screening, diagnosis, and management of depression in primary care settings. So cheer up…
April 3-6, 2013. AudiologyNOW! claims to be the world’s largest gathering of audiologists. A number of developmental changes occur within the first year of life that may be missed for an infant with severe-to-profound hearing loss. In order for a child with hearing loss to ultimately reach age-appropriate milestones for speech and language development, there is a need to provide consistent auditory access to spoken language as early and consistently as possible. This meeting provided participants the opportunity to attend four days of educational sessions, explore the latest in hearing technology, and network with colleagues from around the world. There were ed sessions, hands-on opportunities and special events for all career stages, which enabled delegates to enhance their knowledge of cutting-edge audiology and share discoveries from leading researchers within various specialties. The event was designed to provide attendees with a range of opportunities, including scientific enrichment, career development, and professional learning. Now listen up…!
March 23-26, 2013. NDA ? Nope, not Notre Dame Academy. This NDA is the National Demolition Association. The running joke on these guys is that, for people involved in the “construction business”, they’re awfully destructive… and that they never saw a building their wrecking balls didn’t like. Actually they are a little-understood fraternity. Their penchant for blowing stuff up? Actually controlled explosions (or any other kind) account for only 1% of their operations. Destroyers of heritage sites? Actually they work awfully hard to make sure that condemned buildings topple the other way, so as to minimize damage to viable structures next to them. Landfill-hogs? Nope, these days it’s all about recycling. Unsophisticated brutes? Not so much; “A safe and successful demolition project requires an extensive working knowledge of both construction and the law”. And speaking of demolition, there are a whole lot of other misconceptions that this industry would like to “demolish”…
March 17-20, 2013. The National Postal Forum, we were told, is “Where knowledge and Innovation connect”. NPF attracts topside of 4,000 attendees. The delegates represent a cross-section of the entire mailing industry. More than 95% of the attendees are from the United States, and there are a number of participants from Canada. The Forum also attracted attendees from Mexico, the U.K., France, and Argentina, and from as far away as Singapore and Australia.
Aside from US Postal Service attendees, speakers and exhibitors, the average mailing industry attendee was typically middle to upper management, involved in buying decisions for mailing-related products. These attendees represented a cross-section of companies from the smallest to the largest. Sort of like the mail ranging from tiny envelopes to great big cardboard flatpack boxes…
March 22, 2013. Each spring, the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) holds a four-day conference devoted to planned programs of scholarly papers, roundtable discussions, workshops, and panel sessions on a wide range of issues in research and teaching, and on Asian affairs in general. Keynoter Dr. Aoki Tamotsu, Director General of The National Art Center, Tokyo, was a Former Commissioner of the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan, and was awarded a Medal with Purple Ribbon in 2000 by the Government of Japan. A cultural anthropologist, Dr. Aoki taught at Osaka University, The University of Tokyo, and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. He conducted extended anthropological fieldwork in Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. He was once ordained as a Thai Buddhist monk in Bangkok. So his view of Asian Studies was from a pretty high elevation…
March 18-22, 2013. Global economic challenges drive operational change in metrology, or so said the theming materials at the Measurement Science Conference. MSC was founded in 1970 to promote education and professionalism in measurement science and related disciplines. The conference featured topics of interest to the testing, metrology & calibration and precision measurement communities. Technical and managerial experts in the measurement sciences came together to lead sessions, conduct panel discussions, and present papers or workshops on topics of importance to the global measurement community. Participants were typically from government, aerospace, medical, and environmental backgrounds, all there to share their most up-to-date information. All that talk about measurement was a “measure” of the conferences success…
March 19-21, 2013. The future of optical communication is here, said the banner over the registration desk. The Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC) featured more than 800 presentations, 550 exhibitors and 12,000 attendees from around the world. Hot topics covered in technical sessions and show floor panels included software-defined networks, silicon photonics, 100G/400G network design, cloud and data center networking. In his keynote, ADVA Optical Networking CEO Brian Protiva gave a comprehensive look at the coming transformation of the network – from growth drivers and state of the industry to specific solutions needed to meet future challenges. The Service Provider Summit addressed What Cloudonomics Means for the Network. Panels included Monetizing the Network, examining issues such as whether big data can help service providers in today’s economy. This was no “optical illusion”…
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