Qumra, for first- and second-time directors, was due to take place next month and promised to be a livelier affair.
Xstrata's non-executive directors were due to decide whether to accept a £56bn merger proposal from commodities trader Glencore by Monday.
While directors are due to discuss the issue at a board meeting on Wednesday, Les Echos reported, no decision will be made until the next board meeting, which will happen before final results are released on 15 February.
In a letter marked "urgent" and sent from the firm's Rochdale factory to MP's office at the House of Commons, they made arrangements to meet him ahead of a select committee hearing where Yorkshire TV directors were due to give evidence and attached a number of questions they deemed "suitable" as "thought starters" for the committee.
The 82-year-old director is due in court on 30 October, which might lead to extradition, if the new ruling party's comments are to be believed.
In 2008 the original radio cast of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, along with myself as director, were due to give a 30th-anniversary script reading at the annual Douglas Adams memorial lecture.
Tim Davie, the acting director general, is due to take up his new job as BBC Worldwide chief executive and director of global after Lord Tonyy) Hall joins the corporation on 2 April.
Prisoners/Enemy director Denis Villeneuve is due to direct it next summer, and Ford says the script is "the best thing he's ever read".
Suburban sprawl, notes the Sierra Club's energy programme director, Dave Hamilton, is "due to economic development without land use controls, not necessarily immigration".
Warcraft, an adaptation of the hugely popular World of Warcraft multiplayer online video game from Source Code director Duncan Jones, is due in March 2016.
