The Game Developers Conference^® (GDC) is the world’s largest professionals-only game industry event. Presented every spring in San Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and online games.

The GDC attracts over 17,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. The GDC is produced by the Think Services Game Group , a division of United Business Media .

This market defining conference features over 400 lectures, panels, tutorials and round-table discussions on a comprehensive selection of game development topics taught by leading industry experts. In addition, the GDC expo showcases all of the most relevant game development tools, platforms and services helping to drive the industry forward. The conference also features the twelfth annual Independent Games Festival , where new, unpublished games compete for the attention of the publishing community, and the tenth annual Game Developers Choice Awards , the premier accolades for peer-recognition in the digital games industry.

International commercial arbitration in the Asia-Pacific region is riddled with complex
challenges.   How does one reconcile the parties’  competing and conflicting views on
discovery and  evidence?  How does one navigate an arbitral proceeding involving multiple
parties from a myriad of jurisdictions?   How do you level the playing field when the
opposing party is a state entity?   The global economic crisis looms large over all these
questions and is giving rise to an increasing number of high-stakes disputes throughout the
region.  Join scholars, practitioners and corporate counsel from both sides of the Pacific for a
lively discussion of these developments and the issues currently unfolding in the international
commercial arbitration community.

Enterprise Data World is the business world’s most comprehensive vendor-neutral educational event about data and information management. This year’s program will be bigger than ever before, with more sessions, more case studies, and more can’t-miss content. Join us for in-depth tutorials, hands-on workshops, practical sessions and insightful keynotes to take you to the forefront of your industry.

This is the high-value, one-stop event for executives learning how to exploit enterprise data for strategic, financial and operational success. The conference will draw  IT and business professionals from over 20 countries to be educated about industry innovations and emerging solutions.

Topics include:

Data Management in the Cloud
Open source data management tools
Integration issues
SOA , Metadata , Enterprise Information Management (EIM)

Erlang Architects, Programmers, Project Managers, Software and Platform Innovators and existing Erlang users as well as Erlang newbies and anyone interested in Erlang are all invited to the 2nd Erlang Factory conference to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area.

At the Erlang Factory  there will be over 35 talks in 6 separate tracks. Delegates can choose which talks they want to attend and move freely among the following tracks:

• Erlang and Test-Driven Development - this track covers test-driven development ranging from hands-on practical industrial experience to the latest news from the research front.
  

• Case Studies - in this track we get to listen to the experiences of users better known for their association with other technologies rather than Erlang.
  

• Cool Tools and Gadgets explores the latest tools, academic research projects and library applications for the Erlang Developers and Testers.
  

• Erlang and the VM - in this track, we take a closer look at some of Erlang-based web frameworks and exciting Erlang-based web applications.
  

• Erlang in the Clouds - this track will update you on exciting new developments in the Cloud.
  

• Give me a break - this track lets you widen your horizons and delve into things non-Erlang.
  

Erlang University:

In addition to the conference, there will be a three day  Erlang University , allowing you to learn Erlang from the experts. You can attend the following courses:

• Erlang Express   taught by O’Reilly Erlang Programming author Simon Thompson

• Erlang OTP Express   taught by Erlang Solutions’ Training Manager Henry Nystrom

• QuickCheck for Erlang developers   taught by  John Hughes and Thomas Arts of QuviQ

• Web Programming with Erlang taught by Kevin Smith from Basho Technologies

The continued improvements in our ability to synthesize and fabricate nanostructures over the past decades have fueled tremendous growth in the area of nanoscience and nanoengineering. A variety of well developed ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up/self-assembly’ techniques are now available to the researcher to create a wide range of nanoscale materials, with often unique and technologically appealing properties. In many cases, practical applications of nanostructures require the ability to pattern nanoscale electrical contacts and interconnects. Low resistance Ohmic contacts and low RC interconnect delay, for example, are essential for optimum performance of traditional (Si based) nanocircuits. Similar requirements hold true for optoelectronics, energy scavenging, or chem/bio sensor devices based on emerging nanomaterials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, and nanowires. Schottky or rectifying contacts form the basis for a range of rf detector/mixer and high current rectifier devices. As device dimensions shrink below 45 nm, and as new materials with novel composition and geometry are explored for `next generation` s applications, the underlying physics of contact and interconnect formation and carrier transport needs to be re-examined. Single wall carbon nanotubes, for example, have a quasi-one-dimensional density of states and a relatively inert surface which results in less Fermi level pinning and a strong dependence of the contact barrier height on the metal workfunction. In addition, to assess the new properties of nanocontacts, a detailed experimental determination of structural and electronic properties of these interfaces is needed, which is often complicated by the buried nature of these interfaces. This workshop will address both theoretical and experimental approaches to understanding formation, carrier transport, reliability, and applications of metal/semiconductor nanocontacts and nanointerconnects.

Specific topics include: contact formation and transport at metal contacts to nanotubes, nanowires, graphene, quantum dots, and other nanomaterials; microstructure and morphology of nanointerfaces; reliability and stability of nanointerconnects and nanocontacts; applications of interconnects and nanocontacts in electronics, photonics, sensors, and energy scavenging; novel and established characterization methods applied to nanocontacts; theory and modeling of contact formation and transport at nanointerfaces; integration issues for practical interconnect and contact/metallization schemes for large arrays of nanostructures.

The 2010 MRS (Materials Research Society) Spring Meeting will feature 42 technical symposia in four topical clusters, an international exhibit highlighting products and services of interest to the materials community, and much more.

The scientific sessions will include many new and developing areas of materials research as well as some well-established and popular topics:

Functional Materials includes symposia with focus on electronic materials and devices, plasmonics, sensing, semiconductor processing, superconductors and perovskites. Nanomaterials contains the production and characterization of oxides, nanowires, particles, sheets, and tubes, along with their applications in photovoltaic, optical, or electronic devices. Energy Materials is diverse in symposia dealing with energy production in nuclear materials, thermoelectrics, fuel cell membranes, and organic and inorganic photovoltaics. Energy storage in batteries as well as fundamental energy material issues such as defects and charge transport in photovoltaic materials, new computational and characterization approaches will also be covered. Soft/Biomaterials has a strong emphasis in materials construction via molecular assembly mechanisms with a variety of molecules (such as peptides, DNA, and polymers), spanning the nanoscale through the micro- and macroscale, using a variety of techniques such as evaporative and directive assembly vs self-assembly, for a variety of technologies such as biomedicine, energy, and electronics.

This is your chance to talk to engineers working on real products at some of the largest CE companies in the world, describing how they solved real issues in their own development projects.  Also, meet leading developers from the embedded Linux community, and learn about the latest changes in Linux.  The Embedded Linux Conference is one of the leading events where you can learn directly from the experts.  Just take a look at past conferences to see the technical depth of this event!

This year we will again be co-located with the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, so attendees will be able to participate in both events while minimizing long-distance travel.

Imagine a world where you can take your One Big Idea™ and tap over 100 other participating conference attendee and experts and each of their One Big Ideas. All in a structured, fast-paced and highly interactive one-day program under the direction of Chris Brogan and the team from New Marketing Labs.

New Marketing EXPERIENCE is that world. Through six key discussion sessions this program will help you analyze and draw the best of what you need from these Big Ideas. Learn how to turbo-boost your marketing and business planning – this is the ultimate Business Ideas That Work conference.

Bring your One Big Idea – and submit it to us on the exclusive New Marketing Labs’ My Big Idea™ website. We will package the ideas and create the six dynamic sessions where many of our limited audience will get to present their idea. Participants get the full set of ideas in e-book format – an excellent way to draw on the marketplace’s collective thinking. This is the Power of Many coming to help augment your One Big Idea in to several big ideas…

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only summit gathering core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations for plenary sessions and workgroup meetings to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today.

This event is co-located with the CE Linux Forum Embedded Linux Conference

The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only gathering of the brightest minds in Linux, including core kernel developers, distribution maintainers, ISVs, end users, system vendors and other community organizations.  It is the only conference designed to accelerate collaboration and encourage solutions by bringing together a true cross-section of leaders to meet face-to-face to tackle and solve the most pressing issues facing Linux today.

The conference schedule:

day 1 - Conference

• OAuth
• Streaming
• Geolocation
• Business strategies
• Mobile integration
• Roadmap + Loads more!

Export and import controls on encryption are some of the most complex and difficult to apply of all of international trade controls. Is Your Company Ready for Rising Enforcement?

With a focus on practical and compliance-oriented topics specific to encryption controls, ACI`s Global Encryption Controls will also feature speakers from the government agencies with enforcement authority in this area, including the BIS and NSA.

For more than ten years, ad:tech has provided media, marketing and technology professionals with the tools and techniques they need to succeed in a changing digital world. With 10 shows in 7 countries, ad:tech’s globally respected roster of speakers, workshops and exhibitors continues to make it the preferred resource and destination for digital marketers everywhere.

As the digitization of media continually redefines the business of marketing, it is ad:tech’s mission to provide brand advertisers, agencies, portals, online publishers and technology providers an unparalleled forum – one that supports the exchange of ideas, experiences, new practices, emerging models and expert opinion.  That’s why every ad:tech conference features a balanced blend of:

• Keynote speakers sharing frontline experiences and an executive level perspective
• Panel discussions focusing on best practices and economic opportunities
• Hands-on workshops delivering immediate, take-away value

Panel discussions cover topics from interactive television and social marketing, to the dynamics of the client-agency relationship and the future of marketing. Workshops deliver actionable instruction ranging from Website and search optimization to e-mail campaign and database management.

Free to the public, ad:tech’s vendor exhibition hall offers attendees a highly efficient  “one-stop” opportunity to reach out and touch every type of technology employed in digital marketing today, including; search marketing and optimization technology, metrics/analytics software, ad serving technology and networks, mobile marketing, research, affiliate programs, campaign management, data analytics, and much, much, more.

Learn new and evolving concepts in trauma and fracture management through didactic lectures, case presentations, and hands-on practice with the latest implants from international leaders in the field of orthopaedic traumatology.

Welcome to the 9th eDiscovery event

A special thanks to those that attended the eDiscovery conference in April in San Francisco, CA.  The conference was an overwhelming success!

Exploring current opportunities while minimizing risks and challenges with eDiscovery.

Discussions at the San Francisco conference included:

• Exploring eDiscovery solutions while minimizing costs
• Strategic approaches to record management
• Document review outsourcing
• eDiscovery readiness planning: How corporate law departments are dealing with ediscovery
• Comparing in-house vs. outsourced ediscovery management
• The judicial perspective
• Protecting the attorney-client privilege: Federal Rule of Evidence 502
• Best practices for systemized keyword searches
• Dealing with data security and privacy laws when conducting eDiscovery
• eDiscovery in large, complex litigation
• The future of eDiscovery

Ten years ago, companies like AOL, Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Earthlink, and eBay battled to define the ways we would use the Web. The winners drew millions of customers, but more importantly, they spawned ecosystems that created huge opportunities for partners, vendors and competitors. Today, new wars with new players like Facebook, Twitter, and Bing are emerging on the Web—wars that create hard questions for businesses that must decide their own roles in our increasingly mobile, social, and real-time world. Web 2.0 Expo highlights the important debates, handicaps the key players, and helps you pick the winning platforms for growth in a web-fueled world.

Web 2.0 Expo will have 75+ sessions, workshops, and intensives for designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and investors, covering 10 topic areas:

• Business model strategies
• Design & UX best practices
• Social media success
• Cutting edge development
• The mobile tsunami
• Performance challenges
• Practical analytics
• Real-time opportunities
• Enterprise tools
• Creating Community

GEST is the world’s first, largest, and most renowned meeting that focuses on all aspects of embolization. In Paris, GEST 2009 attracted thousands of attendees from over 70 countries. Held in partnership with the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR), and co-sponsored by numerous other international societies, this is the first year GEST visits the U.S.

Join us for two days of deep technical content featuring Android, Google Chrome, Google APIs, GWT, App Engine, open web technologies, and more.

Google I/O features 80 sessions, more than 3,000 developers, and over 100 demonstrations from developers showcasing their technologies. Talk shop with engineers building the next generation of web, mobile, and enterprise applications.

Master the fundamentals of pricing for government payor programs

Finding expert information on government pricing can often prove more difficult than pricing itself. To fill this void, ACI has created Rx Drug Pricing Boot Camp. Now in its fourth year, this program provides drug manufacturers, PBMs, plans, and pharmacies with the critical information they need to effectively and efficiently manage government pricing. ACI’s Boot Camp is the training program you need to ensure that your pricing group and other related departments are well-versed in critical pricing concepts and methodologies. No other conference breaks down the fundamentals of prescription drug pricing in such an easy-to-understand and comprehensive format.

With health care reform a top priority for the new administration, it is more important than ever to have a strong grasp of pricing fundamentals so you can understand how proposed changes will affect your daily operations and overall pricing strategy. This comprehensive course will enhance your understanding of complicated pricing calculations and will bring you up to speed on the latest in government pharmaceutical pricing.

In addition to intensive training in core pricing methodologies and concepts, ACI’s Rx Drug Pricing Boot Camp, also provides the opportunity to network with fellow pricing colleagues. With 80% of attendees coming from drug manufacturers, PBMs, plans and pharmacies, this is the perfect opportunity to find out what other companies are struggling with and how they are overcoming those struggles.

Please note that the 1st World Congress of Pediatric Urology will be held at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel, 55 Fourth Street, San Francisco from Thursday, May 27 through Saturday, May 28. The program then moves across the street to the Moscone Convention Center and concludes on Sunday, May 30.

Topics included:

• BASIC SCIENCE: KIDNEY, BLADDER AND PENIS
• EVALUATION OF URINARY INCONTINENCE
• HYPOSPADIAS
• TESTICULAR MALDESCENT
• TREATMENT OF ENURESIS
• STONES AND STONE MANAGEMENT
• URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS/VUR
• IMAGING IN PEDIATRIC UROLOGY
• RECONSTRUCTION
• ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF LOWER URINARY TRACT DYSFUNCTION
• REFLUX SURGERY
• TRAUMA AND PEDIATRIC UROLOGY
• POINT/COUNTERPOINT: VARICOCELES

The American Urological Association would like to extend a special invitation to urology professionals from around the world to join us in San Francisco, CA for the 2010 AUA Annual Meeting. In keeping with the AUA`s long-standing tradition of promoting the highest standards of urologic clinical care through education, research and the formulation of healthcare policy, this year`s Meeting is sure to be the best yet—rich with old favorites and exciting new courses and sessions. With all the AUA has to offer, it`s no wonder Annual Meeting attendees unanimously report that the knowledge they take from the meeting positively impacts their practices

This annual course addresses a wide range of topics in anatomic pathology and explores new and evolving areas in the diagnosis and analysis of disease. It aims to provide the latest practical and theoretical information that will aid the practicing pathologist in solving those problems most often encountered in the anatomic pathology laboratory.

Presented by the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, this course stresses antepartum and intrapartum assessment and clinical management in obstetrics. On the first day, various aspects of prenatal diagnosis, genetics, antepartum conditions and maternal complications of pregnancy are covered. The second day is largely devoted to fetal heart rate interpretation, and management of fetal heart rate patterns. The third day continues with discussions of potential complications of pregnancy and their management. The course is appropriate for physicians, midwives, obstetrical nurses and trainees. The faculty instructors are internationally known through their clinical and basic research, scholarly articles and texts. The faculty are highly qualified, certified by their respective specialties, and the majority are qualified or eligible for the subspecialty division of Maternal Fetal Medicine of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

The 19^th SEDE Conference is interested in gathering researchers and professionals in the domains of Software Engineering and Data Engineering to present and discuss high-quality research results and outcomes in their fields. SEDE 2010 aims at facilitating cross-fertilization of ideas in Software and Data Engineering, and hence especially encourages high-quality research integrating both domains.
 
Recent trends in computing have shown a growing need for the development of distributed, decentralized computing systems that are resilient and self-healing. This year, SEDE will put a special emphasis on pervasive, adaptive computing.  Hence we encourage research papers dealing with the process definition, requirements specification, modeling, design, and management of distributed, adaptive, data-intensive systems. Applied case studies will report on exemplary solutions deployed in industries such as aerospace, telecommunications, and military.

The annual SemTech Conference represents virtually the entire spectrum of business, government, and consumer activity taking place within the emerging field of semantic technologies. It is the most extensive event ever assembled on the topic.

Advertising and marketing, Healthcare and life sciences (HCLS), Financial, Hear the product developers and start-ups at over two dozen Semantic Solutions presentations on applications ranging from social networking and contextual awareness, through to personal knowledge management and mobile semantics and more...

The JavaOne conference is the kind of event where the declaration "Classpath is dead!"* causes hundreds of people to applaud soundly and hoot their approval. We`re talking hardcore, middleware-loving, certified-geeky Javaheads coming together to share their love of -- and frustrations over -- the Java programming language and platform, and the extended technology that it informs.

Highlighting Solutions That Improve the Semiconductor Manufacturing Process

 

For over 20 years, the Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Conference (ASMC) has filled a critical need in our industry by providing a venue for industry professionals to network, learn and share knowledge on new and best-method semiconductor manufacturing practices and concepts.

The conference synergy leads to understandings and relationships which can benefit participating companies in a variety of ways, including accelerating innovation, promoting successes, and getting a more thorough understanding of standards and benchmarks.

In 2010, ASMC moves to San Francisco, opening up greater opportunities. For industry professionals to meet and discuss critical issues in semiconductor manufacturing. By co-locating with SEMICON West , ASMC will continue a long tradition of unveiling breakthroughs in semiconductor manufacturing—from fab productivity to advanced process controls and device yield.

SEMICON West is the flagship annual event for the global microelectronics industry. It is the premier event for the display of new products and technologies for microelectronics design and manufacturing, featuring technologies from across the microelectronics supply chain, from electronic design automation, to device fabrication (wafer processing), to final manufacturing (assembly, packaging, and test). More than semiconductors, SEMICON West is also showcase for emerging markets and technologies born from the microelectronics industry, including micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), photovoltaics (PV), flexible electronics and displays, nano-electronics, solid state lighting (LEDs), and related technologies.

Major technologies served

Semiconductors
Photovoltaics/solar cells
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS)
Solid State Lighting and Displays (LEDs)
Nano-electronics
Flexible electronics and displays

Technology/product segments include

Device Fabrication/Wafer Processing Equipment and Materials
Deposition (CVD, PVD, ALD)
Etch
Ion implant
Lithography
Masks/reticles and mask-making equipment
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) equipment and materials
Silicon and non-silicon based wafers and substrates
Process chemicals and gases
Chemical handling systems
Vacuum systems, components, and parts
Robotic systems and components
Valves, actuators, gear systems, and other components
Factory automation systems, software, and components
Assembly and packaging equipment and materials
Wire bonding
Bump/flip chip/wafer-level packaging
Automated semiconductor test equipment (ATE)
Test handlers
Probe cards and test materials

VMware has enabled the IT industry to be freed from the limitations of conventional computers and has given back the power to innovate. From desktop to mobile, datacenter to cloud, geek to chic--virtualization is liberating the minds and spirits of IT engineers.

. With more then 1,800 sessions, 400 partner exhibits, and hundreds of demos to explore, you`re sure to discover new ways to optimize your systems, new solutions that will help you take your business to the next level, and new database and applications practices that will make you more successful in your job and in your industry.

SiPS is a major international forum for discussion of new technology progress and innovations in the design and implementation of digital signal processing systems. The workshop program will include keynote speeches; contributed papers; and oral and poster sessions. Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to:

• Optimization of Signal Processing Algorithms and Architectures
• Software Based Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
• VLSI Based Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems
• Signal Processing Application Systems

In 2010, SiPS’s special theme is on “Bio-medical Signal Processing Systems.” In-depth understanding of biological systems requires both to quantify in a robust and systematic manner their spatiotemporal characteristics and to model the complex signaling networks that regulate the cellular interplay of proteins and gene expression. We will feature a special session on “Bioimaging and Bioinformatics,” which will present some recent advances in the fields of bioimaging and bioinformatics that have provided new methods and insights into the inner working of cells.

The ICCST is directed toward the research and development aspects of electronic security technology, including the operational testing of the technology.  It establishes a forum for the exchange of ideas and dissemination of information on both new and existing technology. Conference participants are stimulated to consider the impact of their work on society. The Conference is an interchange of knowledge through the presentation of learned papers that have been selected by the ICCST organizing committee. It is where engineers, physicists, scientists, security professionals and social scientists share with each other the results of their research and development on crime countermeasures. The Carnahan Conference also provides a basis for long range support and assistance to authorities and agencies responsible for security, safety and law enforcement in the use of available and future technology. A conscientious effort will be made to communicate the significance of developments to other interested groups. Liaison is maintained with professional societies and information media not especially related to engineering.

The ICCST has existed for longer than any other conference, anywhere in the world, on this subject. In addition, it has
continuously documented the advances in security technology through its proceedings, published since the 1968 conference.

The conference is a full day of in-depth discussions and networking focused on the top business issues impacting digital media companies, including online video, social media, investments, online advertising, mobile entertainment, mobile apps, the future of news media and the relationship between Hollywood and Silicon Valley.  We bring together a great mix of digital media industry leaders for this event!  The event includes two tracks, keynotes, panels, breakfast, networking breaks, lunch and reception. This is a "must-attend" event for individuals and companies working at the intersection of content, technology and commerce.

Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting

New opportunities to learn and earn CME Credit From Adult Reconstruction: Hip and Sports Injuries to Maintenance of CertificationTM and Retirement Planning, Kappa Delta Award papers, and AAOS/Orthopaedic Research Society combined sessions; we’ve planned an exciting selection of educational opportunities. The traditional Tuesday offerings – such as the Practice Management Symposium and Coding Course for Orthopaedic Residents, the Practice Management Symposium for Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the playground build – will continue.you’ll be able to view the technical exhibits, the posters and scientific exhibits, visit the Resource Center Bookstore and Job Placement Center, and take in the Multimedia Education Center.

The conference topics include:

• Adult Recon/Hip
• Adult Recon/Knee
• Basic Research
• Foot & Ankle
• Hand & Wrist
• Pediatrics
• Practice/Non-Clinical
• Shoulder/Elbow
• Spine
• Sports Med/Arthroscopy
• Trauma
• Tumors/Metabolic Disease

The International Conference on Sensor Networks and Applications (SNA-2009) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on sensor networks and their applications. The SNA-2009 conference will feature contributed as well as invited papers concerned with practice and applications. The conference also includes a Best Paper Award given for a paper presented at the conference. Papers will be accepted into chaired presentation sessions.
The topics will include, but not limited to, the following areas:
On Sensor Network theories, models, and protocols: There have been deep research activities on sensor network theories and models. Their goal is to enable a sensor data query from hundreds of (even more) tiny, resource-constrained sensors. Interesting topics include:
Information acquisition from sensor networks , Data fusion / aggregation from sensor networks , Network protocols and self-organization , Congestion control and traffic models ,Mobile sensor and actor networks , Underwater/acoustic sensor networks , Security, Reliability, Fault-tolerance in sensor networks , Other research on theories, models and protocols
On Sensor Network Applications: Sensor networks are envisioned to enable a series of applications such as environmental surveillance, healthcare, plant/building automation, homeland security, multimedia acquisition, and so on. Although sensor networks have been in active research for many years, realistic deployments have not yet seen widely adoption. The lessons and experiences from sensor network testbeds and real-world applications could greatly advance this technology. Topics of interests on applications include:
Healthcare /patient monitoring /body sensor networks , Environmental monitoring , Chemical / gas leak detection , Pollution /air quality monitoring , Building automation / visitors' guiding system , Plant / farm monitoring , Disaster recovery , Vehicle automation , other novel applications

Obesity has become a global epidemic, which has reached frightening proportions.  As a consequence, diabetes, hypertension and lipid disorders are progressively accelerating. We are now witnessing a reversal in the decline of cardiovascular disease that has been observed in the 20th Century.

Numerous researchers and scientists notably, Dr. Gerald Reaven – professor of Medicine, Stanford, CA – have shown that these metabolic abnormalities specifically diabetes and cardiovascular consequences are mediated by insulin resistance. The relationship between insulin resistance, obesity, dyslipidemia and hypertension was initially introduced by Dr.Reaven in 1988 as Syndrome X, now referred to as the insulin resistance, metabolic or cardio-metabolic syndrome

Multiple definitions of the Syndrome have evolved addressing the obesity epidemic, insulin resistance and their contribution to the development of CVD, diabetes, PCOS, liver disease, cancer and sleep disorders. It is also proposed complications of insulin resistance are driven by the accompanying hyperinsulinemia.

In recent years, we have become aware of the contribution of other systems to energy metabolism notably, incretins, gut hormones and bile acids.  Of particular interest is the complicated relationship of the brain, the gut, fat cell and its metabolites, insulin, leptin and their respective resistance states.

The World Congress on Insulin Resistance (WCIR) has become a very important platform where the interaction of these multiple metabolic systems and their relation ship to insulin resistance are evaluated in a clinical, multi disciplinary environment.  The congress has become a home to clinical and basic scientists, researchers and practicing clinicians. The highly distinguished expert faculty and the bedside to bench approach have created a state-of-the-art platform. The faculty promotes new understanding of metabolic diseases, facilitates the development of future therapeutic modalities and has been the cornerstone of the success of the congress.

This unique and exciting program has allowed the participants to personally interact with the world’s eminent leaders in insulin resistance, fat cell metabolism, the brain, incretin and gut hormones. Indeed, the program highlights tomorrow’s clinical science– today.

COVERAGE INCLUDES

COMPOUND/siRNA SCREENING • PATHWAY ANALYSIS • DATA MANAGEMENT
IMAGE ANALYSIS • HCA FOR STEM CELLS • LIVE-CELL IMAGING
FLOW CYTOMETRY • NEURONAL SCREENING
NEW BIOLOGICAL MODELS fOR HCA • NOVEL PROBES aND BIOSENSORS

Biotech Showcase, which is focused on biotechnology, will provide private and public presenting companies an opportunity to present to an audience of investors and biopharmaceutical business development executives during the course of the largest annual healthcare investor conference.

New Products. New Ideas. New Momentum. That`s what you need to Move Ahead in this economy.
And the 35th Winter Fancy Food Show--the West Coast`s largest specialty food and beverage event--is the only place you`ll find everything you need under one roof.

 

The Newest Products: The Show brings 80,000 specialty foods & beverages together – everything from cheese to chocolate, spices to sorbets, pastas to pastries.  Plus, the What’s New, What’s Hot! Showcase has the latest in Gift & Holiday and Natural & Organic.

 

Ideas from Around the Corner & Around the Globe: More than 1,300 exhibitors  from 35 countries will display their finest products. Check out Special Pavilions for U.S. states and dozens of countries.

 

The Hottest Trends:  Natural and organic products will continue to dominate the exhibit floor with 600+ companies featuring items in these categories. The “lifestyle” category is on the rise, with more healthful, vegan and allergen-free items than ever before on display.

 

Our Industry’s Finest: The sofi™ Awards honor excellence in specialty food. A special showcase highlights Gold Winners in 33 categories

Commercial Exhibition on Optics, Lasers, Biomedical Optics, Optoelectronic Components, and Imaging Technologies

The conference delas with photonics, laser, and biomedical optics.

It is composed of 4 different conferences:

• BiOS-Biomedical Optics
• LASE-Lasers and Applications
• MOEMS-MEMS-Micro- and Nanofabrication
• OPTO-Integrated Optoelectronic Devices

Increase the profitability of channel partner programs through best practices in partner selection, management and collaboration strategies

The 2nd Annual Channel Management Summit is a business executive driven forum for vendor companies in every stage of development – from designing a comprehensive partner program through scaling up for product growth to innovating marketing and lead generation campaigns.

Join channel management executives from vendor communities to discuss best practices, strategies and solutions surrounding:

• Incentive Management – track and analyze your MDF and Coop programs, administer performance driven reward programs and rebates
• Opportunity Management – minimize channel conflict; achieve channel pipeline visibility and direct leads to most qualified partners
• Partner Marketing – leverage emerging technology and strategies in social media to reach your target markets and connect with your partners
• Partner Program Optimization – establish an environment when you and your partner invest in continuous improvement

In today’s economic decline companies are being prompted to take more decisive action in creating more formalized wellness programs. With healthcare costs increasing faster than inflation or wages, wellness programs have become viewed as a critical lever to control financial impact of healthcare costs on the bottom line and to counteract the effects of employee illness, injury and absenteeism on the workplace productivity.

Attend this event to hear best practices on how to protect the business from today’s rising healthcare costs and how to:

• Improve program design by integrating disparate wellness initiatives into a full-scale, cohesive program reinforced by industry best practices
• Minimize risk using carrot-and-stick models to incite behavioral change across the employee population
• Reduce medical spend with innovative programs that enhance a seamless user experience
• Increase engagement levels with advanced employer-driven communications efforts, technology and social networks
• Ensure sustainable policies and practices by streamlining efforts across internal services and aligning best practices

Dear Colleague,

I am pleased to invite you to our first Annual SANS AppSec 2010 Conference in San Francisco January 29-February 3. If you are a developer, you need the knowledge and skills to prevent attacks that come through the application layer. Secure coding courses can prepare programmers and developers for certifications and return them to work with the skills to immediately impact current and new projects so jobs will be done right the first time. This will save your organization and your customers time and money! We are bringing you this first conference with What Works in Application Security Summit 2010 (February 4-5). These two SANS events offered together will provide an unprecedented amount of training and information that you don`t want to miss.

This educational activity is specifically designed for hematologists/oncologists, internists, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals with an interest and/or involvement in hematologic malignancies.

 

Objectives
After successful completion of this course, attendees should be able to:

• Discuss the most clinically relevant data presented at the 51st Annual Hematology Meeting
  
• Analyze emerging data on multiple hematologic malignancies and benign abnormalities in order to improve patient outcomes
  
• Explain the limitations and benefits of new and emerging therapies for the treatment of patients with benign and malignant hematologic conditions
  
• Incorporate emerging data into the clinical management of patients with benign and malignant hematologic conditions
  
• Discuss ways in which current clinical practice should be modified based on the latest advances in hematology

The conference topics include:

• Molecular diagnostics
• Personalized diagnostics
• Cancer molecular markets
• Mastering medicinal chemistry
• Adopting R&D informatics systems
• Cancer profiling and pathways
• Stem cells, RNA interface, Cancer biologics and Delivery of biologics
• Translational medicine

The fifth official Highlights of ASH^® will feature leading hematology experts who will present unbiased analysis of the annual meeting abstracts and sessions, evolving therapies, and the latest treatment options and their clinical applications.

Program Topics

• Acute Myeloid Leukemia: New Therapeutic Targets
• Myelodysplastic Syndromes
• Chronic Myeloid Leukemia and other Myeloproliferative diseases
• Chronic Lymphocytic Leuekemia: Novel Therapies
• B-Cell Lymphomas: New Molecular Targets
• Hodgkin Lymphoma: Clinical Challenges and New Approaches
• Pathophysiology of Hemorrhage and thrombosis
• Novel Treatments for Relapsed/Refractory Chronic Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
• Management of Thrombotic Disease
• Anemia: Hemoglobin, Iron and Beyond
• Myeloma
• Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Now owned and managed by Urban Expositions, the San Francisco International Gift Fair is undergoing some exciting changes that promise new business opportunities for you.  Already known as a style-setting marketplace where some of the hottest design trends and movements start and evolve, the show’s 2010 edition will bring together even more resources and up-and-coming product lines for you to explore.

To maximize your buying schedule, all exhibitors will be featured in easy-to-work categories on the show floor.  From General Gift, Accent on Design ®  and Handmade ® to Home & Garden, Museum Source ®, and more, you’ll find a convenient floorplan designed with your buying needs in mind.

To help you fine tune your business strategies and boost your profit potential, the San Francisco International Gift Fair will also feature a full-scale educational program packed with free seminars led by industry experts and trend forecasters.

The International Solid-State Circuits Conference is the foremost forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design and use to maintain technical currency, and to network with leading experts.

Macworld 2010 is a five day celebration that will educate, entertain, and immerse you in the Mac community. Macworld offers access to hundreds of Mac products and services, paired with expert advice, demonstrations and instruction. Macworld conference programs feature industry leading minds, presenting cutting edge product training on the topics you most want to see. Whether you are a creative professional or a Mac IT pro, Macworld has the conference content, special presentations, exhibit hall highlights and experiences that meet your specific Mac needs.

Planning a quick migration to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010? Attend the SharePoint Technology Conference in San Francisco, where you’ll take workshops and technical classes – taught by Microsoft engineers and Microsoft MVPs – that will cover the new features, present migration strategies, and much much more. At SPTechCon, we’ll have the best information available about Microsoft’s latest SharePoint technology.

 Remaining on SharePoint Server 2007 for the time being? Many technical classes and workshops at SPTechCon 2010 San Francisco will help you get the most out of SharePoint Server 2007 – and even SharePoint Server 2003. Sessions created for SharePoint administrators, software developers, information architects and knowledge workers will ensure that you become the undisputed Master of SharePoint.

Getting started with SharePoint? SPTechCon 2010 San Francisco begins with a full-day pre-conference workshop of “SharePoint 101” training, which will get you up to speed quickly with what SharePoint can do. After that, move into the general SharePoint conference with confidence and come away with the techniques necessary to get your implementation off the ground.

This meeting is designed for the practicing neurologist and provides a review of clinical neurology, with emphasis on areas of recentneurological advances and progress in patient management. Both current concepts and new advances in neurologic disorders will be covered.

This course has been coordinated through the University of California, San Francisco Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and the Penn Sleep Center at the University of Pennsylvania. The program is designed to provide a comprehensive review and update on recent advances in sleep apnea and snoring. New approaches and controversies in the management of patients with sleep disordered breathing will be highlighted. Leaders in the field of sleep science from Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery will share their medical and surgical expertise in didactic sessions, case presentations and workshops. There will be ample opportunity for interaction with participating faculty. An electronic course syllabus, complete with program outline and up-to-date references will be provided to each participant. Please bring your laptop if you would like to view the syllabus during the didactic sessions.

TARGET AUDIENCE
This continuing medical education program is intended for the physician in Sleep Medicine, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Pulmonary Medicine, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Family Practice, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Cardiology, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Geriatrics. Sleep respiratory therapy technologists and nurses are also invited to attend this program.

Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve:

• Bigger wins: Strengthen the impact of predictive analytics deployment


• Broader capabilities: Establish new opportunities with predictive analytics

Predictive Analytics World focuses on concrete examples of deployed predictive analytics. Hear from the horse`s mouth precisely how Fortune 500 analytics competitors and other top practitioners deploy predictive modeling, and what kind of business impact it delivers.

Informex is the only trade show in the US dedicated to the fine & speciality chemical markets, with a particular focus on custom chemical manufacturing. The US event brings together over 500 exhibitors and 4000 attendees, and is filled with opportunities to meet new partners and suppliers. The marketing sectors represented at Informex are fine & specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, paints & coatings, biotech, cosmetics, plastics/polymers, flavors & fragrances, adhesives, electronics, dyes, food & beverages, personal care and electronics.

Using Remote Strategies to Increase Revenue Streams, Cut Costs and Maximize Product Lifecycles in a Down Economy

Progress has been made in workforce management and mobile automation; however the economic climate has increased the demand for service organizations to lower operational costs. C-level executives are directing service and support business units to capture recurring revenue that will impact the bottom line. With all of the potential for remote services to be developed, this timely summit will review how to meet these new challenges.

The 4th Remote Services Implementation is the only North American cross-industry remote diagnostics and smart services event for service executives. This is your only opportunity to network with industry thought leaders in prognostics, data analytics, services marketing and remote tools

In information security, you’re trained to expect the unexpected. Changes occur in a nanosecond. As the information security field continues to grow in importance and influence in public and private industry, RSA® Conference plays an integral role in educating and connecting security professionals across the globe. Stay on top by staying one step ahead – attend RSA Conference!

RSA Conference is the most comprehensive forum in information security offering enterprise and technical professionals one-stop learning. Learn about the latest trends and technologies, get access to new best practices, and gain insight into the practical and pragmatic perspectives on the most critical technical and business issues facing you today.

Connect and collaborate. Build your professional network. And mingle with the industry’s best and brightest.

Engage with world-class experts – Choose from more than 250 sessions that match your information and learning needs.

Gain the latest industry perspective – Discover emerging trends through world-class keynote addresses.

Connect and collaborate – Join your colleagues at popular RSA Conference networking events, Special Interest Groups, the Welcome Reception and much more.

Hands-on information and demonstrations - Discover and evaluate products and services offered by our sponsors and exhibitors.

Attend RSA Conference and you’ll return to the office armed with the knowledge you need to remain on the forefront of the information security business.

Conference topics include:

Prostate Cancer
Renal Cancer
Cancers of the Urothelium
Rare Tumors of the GU Tract
How the Epigenome Changes in Cancer
Testis, Bladder, Renal and Other GU Neoplasms