On Wednesday the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, the event's closing speaker, pulled out, citing Mr. Rushdie's involvement.
As the closing speaker, the President used his platform to deliver a kind of sermon to the many hundreds of journalists who were in the hall.
The annual meeting of the Investment Company Institute is scheduled for the first three days of May in Washington; traditionally, the head of the S.E.C. is the closing speaker at that event.
She'd already received an invitation from the county health department to return for its annual conference in May, as the closing speaker, addressing the topic of "combatting distrust in the community".
WASHINGTON — Glenn Beck, a hero of the political right and the closing speaker at a conference of political conservatives here, offered a sweeping denunciation of progressivism on Saturday, calling it a cancer that must be cut out of the nation's political system.
As it turned out, the day after the AP announcement, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was the closing speaker at the Newspaper Association of America's annual meeting.
Those actual words were stated by John Oliver, Daily Show correspondent, who happened to be the closing speaker for the conference which took place May 7th-9th at the Raymond Avenue campus.
Millicent Atieno Orondo, 15, a youth delegate from Kenya, was the closing speaker at today's session.
Most systems enable you to change volume levels, and many allow you to delay the sound from closer speakers so that all will sound as if they are the same distance away.
This year's GES includes opening keynote speaker Brian Bordainick, founder of the 9th Ward Field of Dreams, and closing keynote speaker Leila Chirayath Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.
