Indeed, many speakers at the two day gathering focused on the importance of a skilled and educated workforce.
Organizers billed the event as the largest gathering focused on climate change since 2009, when tens of thousands gathered in Copenhagen in a sometime raucous demonstration that resulted in the detention of 2,000 protesters.
Sometimes the advertising meetings where a show's producers gather with their marketing team and publicists the day after an opening is a dismal, desperate gathering focused on combing bad reviews for a few positive, exploitable quotations.
The governor "could speak to thousands of people and bring down the house, but he intensely disliked personal attention, especially any gathering focused on him," the former aide said.
Last month at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit, an industry gathering focused on sustainability, I caught up with apparel industry executives and their critics to see how much progress the industry group has made – and opinions are mixed.
Were there any doubt that the days when a funeral consisted of a dour and brief gathering focused on a gilt-handled, highly-varnished coffin were over, then the rise of the distinctly unconventional celebrity send-off is proof of a distinct shift in British attitudes to the final journey of the dead.
I talked with O'Reilly at last week's Personal Democracy Forum in New York, a don't-miss annual gathering focused on the intersection between government and technology.
It's of such pressing concern that last week in Chicago, leaders from government, business and the nonprofit worlds, along with civically-engaged young leaders, explored solutions to our disconnection crisis at the third meeting of Clinton Global Initiative America, a yearly gathering focused on accelerating economic recovery.
"Science, that's what mattered to Ruth," says Maxine Singer, a younger member of Kirschstein's generation who is herself a noted researcher, the former president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and another of the handful of distinguished regulars at the gatherings focused on young scientists.
