Padmasree Warrior

You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.

Indian Businesswoman

Nelson Algren

I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write.

American Novelist

Emily Mortimer

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

British Actress

Indra Nooyi

BlogHer is an incredibly important conference because it really taps into the power of women. It gives women an ability to do what they do - take care of the home, go to work - and, at the same time, spread their power through the power of the digital world.

Jason Fried

Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.

American Businessman

Hugh Newell Jacobsen

Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.

Roger Moore

I said I did not know enough about UNICEF to handle a press conference and she said they would not want to talk about it they would only want to talk about films.

English Actor

Hubert H. Humphrey

Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

American Politician

Jenna Bush

My dad saw my husband's boss at a conference, and he said to stop paying my husband until we produce children.

American Celebrity

Gustav Krupp

May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!

German Businessman

Conferences often facilitate networking, allowing you to meet new people in your field.

Networking Opportunity

Conferences are formal events, so professional attire is typically expected.

Professional Atmosphere

Speakers at conferences are usually experts presenting their latest work or findings.

Expert Presentations

Sports conferences have teams that compete regularly within the same geographic or skill level group.

Regular Competitions

Conferences are part of the structure that determines how a sports season progresses.

Season Structure

Rivalries between teams in a sports conference can be deeply significant and historic.

Rivalry Importance

Conferences can be tailored to specific purposes like resolving issues or planning strategies.

Purpose Specific

Some conferences are private, so attendees need an invitation or registration to participate.

Invitation Only

Participants in conferences often have varied backgrounds, providing diverse perspectives.

Diverse Perspectives

Telecommunication conferences allow participation from any location, ideal for remote teams.

Remote Utility

Familiarity with technology is important for joining video or telephone conferences.

Tech Savvy

Conference calls should be concise and well-planned to respect all participants' time.

Time Management

 should I talk about he said don't worry about it just just be profound it's the impression you get of just this huge diversity of expertise and passion and I've never been to a conference before where people are actually pushing people decide to get into the room it's a normally the other way around you know people are scrambling to get out

A taste of TED

 the microphone in the car, and listening in on the car while tracking it via GPS on a map, and so that's something that the drivers of the car would never know was happening. Am I scaring you yet? I've got a few more of these interesting ones. These are ones where I went to a conference, and my mind was just blown, and I said,

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 with only one suitcase of clothes. One day, I was invited to an important event, and I wanted to wear something special and new for it. So I looked through my suitcase and I couldn't find anything to wear. I was lucky to be at the technology conference on that day, and I had access to 3D printers.

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 to become a conference interpreter. To get used to the unnatural task of speaking while they listen, students shadow speakers and repeat their every word exactly as heard in the same language. In time, they begin to paraphrase what is said, making stylistic adjustments as they go.

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 few people here are afraid to fail and that's what this conference to me is about it's about solving the problems of the world and using really creative solutions to do so the conversations that I've had the ways that I've been pushed and challenged I'm definitely thinking more

A Taste of TED2012

 said I try and I made it and that became the rallying cry of the conference frankly well so here we are ten years on you know Williams actually here and I don't know I think we should probably invite him and see if anything happened today homework come on

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 Tomlinson a self-described space activist one of Congress's go-to guys for space related matters he recently put on the new worlds conference an event for the people who he believes will be the next generation pioneers what we're doing is an

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 often talk about how their illness has yielded them a new perspective. The main question that I've been asked since I arrived at this conference when I said I would talk about infidelity is, for or against? I said, "Yes."

Rethinking infidelity...

 a few people around the world um welcome to vancouver welcome to ted 22 you're joining us on the last day of our conference here in a packed theater we've been hearing all week from people with dreams about what the next

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 and the need to take action has never been more urgent this year the world will gather in glasgow for the united nations climate change conference

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