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A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject, or to bring together people who have a common interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, is the primary purpose of conferences. The term derives from the word confer .
An annual conference is a regional decision-making body within various Methodist denominations. Conferences are a key characteristic of the connexional (connectional) system of government in Methodism. Annual conferences are composed primarily of the clergy members and a lay member or members from each charge (a charge is one or more churches ...
The Federal Reserve 's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium is a three-day annual international conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City at Jackson Hole in the United States attended by central bank leaders from around the world. Central bankers discuss world events and financial trends and the discussions at Jackson Hole are ...
WikiConference North America, formerly WikiConference USA, is an annual conference organized by the Wikipedia community in North America . The first two events were held at New York Law School and Washington, D.C.'s National Archives Building in 2014 and 2015, respectively. The third annual conference, rebranded WikiConference North America ...
Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers, IT professionals and partners, hosted by Microsoft. The first conference, then known as TechEd, happened in 1993 in Orlando, Florida, United States. After the TechEd conference held in Barcelona, 2014, Microsoft changed its conference schedule and introduced the name Microsoft Ignite ...
General Conference (LDS Church) General Conference is a gathering of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), held biannually every April and October at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. During each conference, church members gather in a series of two-hour sessions to listen to the faith's leaders.
The Conference on World Affairs ( CWA) is an annual conference, featuring panel discussions among experts in international affairs and other areas, founded by sociologist Howard Higman and hosted by the University of Colorado Boulder since 1948. [1] Long-running events include Cinema Interruptus, an analysis of a movie with audience, founded ...
The Labour Party Conference is the annual conference of the British Labour Party, at which senior Labour figures promote party policy. It is formally the supreme decision-making body of the party and is traditionally held in the final week of September, during the party conference season when the House of Commons is in recess, after each year's ...