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Conventions: Jul 01, 2008

17th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA)

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 3, 2008,
Sebel Albert Park Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria Australia

The biennial Asian Studies Association of Australia conference is the largest gathering of expertise on Asia in the southern hemisphere. The theme for 2008 invites you to assess how the regions and issues on which you are interested are faring. The ASAA conference is multi-disciplinary and covers Central, South, South-East and North East Asia and the relationship of all of these with the rest of the world.

The 17th biennial conference on 1-3 July 2008 will bring together specialists to assess trends in Asian law, medicine and health, science, ethics/human rights, politics, regional security, economics, culture, religion, environment, media, the performing arts and many other fields.

International Conference on Image and Signal Processing

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 3, 2008,
Cherbourg Institute of Technology Cherbourg-Octeville, Basse Normandie France

The International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP) aims to provide researchers and practitioners from academia and industry with a forum to report on the latest developments in image and signal processing, multimedia and computer graphics. ICISP 2008, the 3th in the series that has been held since 2001, will bring together leading engineers and scientists in image, signal and video processing from around the world. Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Image and video processing: image filtering, restoration and enhancement, image segmentation, video segmentation and tracking, morphological processing, feature extraction and analysis, interpolation and super-resolution, motion detection and estimation, computer vision, pattern recognition, content-based image retrieval.
* Signal Processing: spectral analysis, time-frequency and time-scale representation, statistical signal processing, filtering, detection and estimation, nonlinear signal processing, radar, antennas, telecommunications systems, acoustics.
* Computer graphics: algorithms, visualization, animation, virtual reality.
* Applications: biomedical sciences, biometry, document image processing and authentication, other applications.

The 4th Biennial Psychology Learning and Teaching Conference

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 3, 2008,
University of Bath, Bath, England, United Kingdom

This international conference provides an exciting forum for the discussion and exchange of knowledge, practice and expertise on all aspects of psychology teaching, learning and assessment, at both the undergraduate and the postgraduate level. A full social programme for those wishing to explore Bath and its surroundings will also be made available in due course.

Submissions are invited that contribute to:

* good practice in psychology teaching, learning or assessment;
* theoretical debate relevant to psychology teaching and learning;
* facilitation of interchange between teaching staff, educational developers, researchers or policy makers.

3rd International Conference ISSEP (Informatics on Secondary Schools Evolution and Perspective)

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 4, 2008,
Nicolaus Copernicus University Torun, Poland

* Informatics Curriculum and Fundamentals
* Didactics of Informatics
* Integration of Informatics with other Subjects
* Teacher Education
* New Media in Informatics Education and other Subjects

Strategic Procurement 2008

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
Citigate Central Hotel, Sydney, New South Wales Australia

Strategic Procurement 2008 promises to deliver an exclusive forum aimed specifically at establishing best practices to understand the challenges not only for the procurement function but for the whole organisation.
Practical & real life case studies will be discussed, providing a unique opportunity for procurement professionals to discuss all the increasingly important issues on how to achieve a more holistic strategic procurement function to leveraging people, processes and systems.

Lean Project Portfolios Getting More Done By Improving Project Flow

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
IMechE, 1 Birdcage Walk, London, England, United Kingdom

You’ve learned the basics of Project Management. You’ve applied it to some of your projects and seen some improvement. But your results aren’t that much better. Projects are still late, resources get overloaded and it still takes heroic action to get things done. The problem is not with your Project Management. It's with your system. This course will teach engineering managers how to manage a portfolio of projects and a finite pool of resources at an operational or tactical level by applying Lean Principles to increase project throughput and to stop wasting time and resources on low value projects. Through a series of lectures, hands-on exercises, simulations and case studies, participants will be able to develop an action plan for creating Lean Project Portfolios in their organization and have the information needed to implement that plan.

Engineering and the Law - Unit 2: Advanced Statement and Report Writing, Witness Familiarisation and Courtroom Skills

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
IMechE, London, England, United Kingdom

Accident reports or witness statements provide vital evidence in the event of litigation. Good written evidence promotes early settlement of civil cases and success at trial in criminal cases. Accident reports assist with future risk management.

Individuals can find themselves in the witness box presenting evidence. Doubt may be cast on the practices and procedures followed by their organisation. On Day 2 the process of giving evidence will be explained with advice on how to provide a confident, clear and honest testimony.

**Event no longer Available* *Conceptual Development and Costing of Projects for Engineers

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
IMechE, London, England, United Kingdom

You want a better understanding of how to conceptualise projects and to develop and optimise accurate and timely cost estimates for engineering projects in the process industries.

This course is directed at all plant and project engineers, project managers, plant maintenance personnel, and engineering management involved with projects in the process industries, including chemical, pharmaceutical, biological, petrochemical, materials, petroleum, and gas.

Engineering and the Law - Unit 2: Advanced Statement and Report Writing, Witness Familiarisation and Courtroom Skills

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
IMechE, 1 Birdcage Walk, London, England, United Kingdom

Accident reports or witness statements provide vital evidence in the event of litigation. Good written evidence promotes early settlement of civil cases and success at trial in criminal cases. Accident reports assist with future risk management.

Individuals can find themselves in the witness box presenting evidence. Doubt may be cast on the practices and procedures followed by their organisation. On Day 2 the process of giving evidence will be explained with advice on how to provide a confident, clear and honest testimony.

Fraud Prevention and Revenue Assurance Middle East and North Africa

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
Dusit Thani, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

ViB events’ Fraud Prevention and Revenue Assurance MENA will bring together telecoms operators and industry experts to discuss the critical issues which are faced by revenue assurance and fraud personnel today.

This event is a spin off from our European event which has been a huge success and is now in its eighth year. The number of Middle East and North African delegates has increased significantly over the past few years and our MENA event aims to deliver a detailed, case study driven conference that will focus specifically on this geographical area, giving decision-makers the opportunity to hear key industry players discussing their approach to fraud and revenue assurance.
From discussing the challenges surrounding interconnection and ensuring transparency in CDR, to the introduction of 3G networks and fraud prevention strategies across the service portfolio, this event will provide the audience with practical information on revenue assurance and fraud issues facing telecoms operators today.

Making Whistleblowing Truly Effective

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 1, 2008,
Dexter House Whistleblowing Effective London, England, United Kingdom

This Course will Enable you to:

· Establish and “sell” truly effective, positive, campaigns of “Assertive Integrity” that go well beyond compliance
· Detect frauds quickly through multi-channelled reporting processes
· Evaluate suspicions professionally
· Resolve suspicions effectively: clearing innocent people absolutely while leaving criminals no room for maneuver
· Recover past losses and minimise others in the future
· Deter criminals and minimise losses
· Support honest people

The Fundamentals of Business Continuity

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 4, 2008,
The Hatton, London, England, United Kingdom

This course will provide in-depth guidance into all the steps required to put a business continuity plan in place in your organisation. It will enable you to gain an understanding of how to approach each of the steps within your own organisation and implement levels of protection to meet your needs.

Optimising IP Revenue

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
Terass Hotel, Paris, Ile de France France 75018

If you are tasked with managing your corporation’s patent portfolio, overseeing the IP revenue development or managing corporate trademark and patent license agreements and litigation strategy, then C5’s Advanced Forum on Optimising IP Revenue is a must-attend event. Designed to maximise the financial performance of intellectual assets and minimise the risks of, among others, infringement, litigation, and licensing, the program features case studies and highlights practical solutions on how to get the most out of your intellectual property.

Discover how to improve your licensing strategies to capitalise on your intellectual property and how to use patent consortiums, defensive suspension, defensive publication, and the new developments in patent pooling. Learn how to add trademark licensing as a tool in your arsenal, how to strategically negotiate royalties, and the key developments that are shaping open source licensing.

Syndicated Lending in the CEE, CIS & Russia 2008

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 4, 2008,
Radisson SAS Hotel Kiev Ukraine

With the financial turmoil caused by the credit crisis looking set to continue, CEE, Russia & the CIS are facing a new range of challenges and questions for 2008/09.

1. How far will the region be affected by global financial troubles?

2. What will the effect be on pricing, tenor and deal flow?

3. What are borrower and lender priorities in the current climate?

4. How are successful deals getting done?

IBC’s 21st Annual Syndicated Lending in CEE, CIS & Russia conference is the only international conference to address all of these issues. Featuring corporate borrowers, top international arrangers and brand new add-on days this conference will provide you with the tools to make successful deals and drive your business forward into 2009.

European Marketing Codes and Compliance

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
Harrington Hall, London, England, United Kingdom

A mixture of regulation and self-regulation governs the promotion of pharmaceuticals worldwide and the balance between the two differs from country to country. The detailed rules regarding promotional practices is often contained within the national self-regulatory codes of conduct of the pharmaceutical industry associations, which also vary across the world. This makes global, international or pan European marketing of medicines extremely complex. This two-day seminar, has been designed to increase the knowledge and understanding of the rules governing the promotion of medicines in these different markets, with a particular focus on Europe. It will contain highly interactive workshops, with practical exercises aimed at equipping participants to meet business objectives of global or pan European marketing by raising awareness of local variability in compliance requirements.

The 4th ICT Security Forum

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
Four Seasons Hotel, Damascus Syria

Under the patronage of Dr. Imad Al-Sabouni- The Syrian Minister of Communications & Technology

Information and Communication sector one of the most important vital sectors. This sector impresses itself with the new start of information technology era in all life uses and different working sectors, and information bases and network techniques. All that compels us to insure its protection against the passive actions and destructing effects.

The 2-days Forum discussions will cover the following areas:
• Information and communication security technology
• Internet and website security
• Wireless and Cell communication security
• E-business security
• Network and Information system security
• Banking systems security, according to present needs
• Hacking and attacking, and way of protection
• E-crimes
• Encryption
• International and local pioneer experiences in ICT Security sector
• E-Government

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Linkages And Feedbacks In Highly Dynamic, Alpine, Fluvial Systems

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 3, 2008,
Cornino (Friuli) Italy

The workshop addresses linked physical and ecological modelling of bar-braided, island-braided, wandering and transition reaches of European alpine rivers. A legacy of management has severely restricted extent and functioning of this ecologically-important reach type continuum. Models should elaborate spatio-temporal interactions between ecological and physical factors at different scales to identify sensitivity and responses to environmental and management change. This fast-breaking area in river morphodynamics demands a multidisciplinary, European approach.

Gartner 5th Annual Outsourcing Summit

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
WTC Hotel Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brazil

The dynamics of outsourcing success are changing rapidly. Vendor performance, managing multiple providers, rising costs, the need to quickly adapt to new delivery models. The challenges grow, but the goals remain the same: agility, profitability, and competitive advantage. So how do you reach them in such a demanding business environment? By outsourcing smarter.

Learn how to outsource smarter and...

* Integrate sourcing actions with evolving business needs
* Eliminate redundancy, higher costs and service disruption
* Seamlessly manage internally and externally sourced services
* Unlock outsourcing's real potential -- powerful "value add"

Locating the Power of In-between Conference

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 2, 2008,
Centurion Lake Hotel Pretoria, Gauteng South Africa

This conference will shine a spotlight on the role of research brokers, knowledge and information intermediaries and info-mediaries, and the contribution they can make to supporting and enabling evidence based pro poor policy and practice.

Political Culture in Three Spheres: Byzantium, Islam & the west, c. 711 - c. 1453

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 3, 2008,
Aberystwyth University Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom

This meeting emerges out of a series of sessions held at the Leeds International Medieval Congress since 2004, and is aimed at exploring commonalities and differences in the theory and practice of politics between the medieval cultures surrounding a Mediterranean broadly defined as including Northern Europe, Rus, as well as Persia. It will adopt a workshop like structure, centring on a series of questions. These, in turn, are meant to help elaborate further (and, if required, amend, revise etc.), a working definition of political culture.

There will be no conference fees, and participants will have to arrange their own accommodation. We will book local restaurants, but at the expense of participants.

2008 Chairman's Series on Growth

Jul 1, 2008 - Jul 1, 2008,
United States

A recent survey revealed that fully 93 percent of CEO’s consider growth their number-one priority for the next five years – and yet 80 percent have no confidence in their direct reports’ abilities to support their growth objectives. Put another way, 80 percent of CEO’s believe that their peopleare their biggest barrier to growth. In spite of this CEO-stated dissatisfaction, Frost & Sullivan believes that with the right resources, the Growth Team can be the conduit, rather than the barrier, to growth.

To that end, we have developed a wide range of resources to prepare you to execute the CEO’s growth strategy. In particular, we have launched a monthly growth series as part of our annual Growth Team Membership program. This series will teach you how to turn ideas into action and how to further your own career through a singular focus on growth, innovation, and leadership.