Last month's Buttonwood conference in New York featured some of the leading speakers from the worlds of finance, business and economics.
For example, one of the leading speakers will be Mimi Turner, marketing director of the Lad Bible group.
A year ago, writing his inaugural Character Study column, Corey Kilgannon profiled Ed Shevlin, a New York City sanitation worker from the Rockaways who is one of the city's leading speakers of Irish, the Gaelic language.
Join us to hear from leading speakers including Facebook co-founder and New Republic editor-in-chief, Chris Hughes; Tumblr founder and CEO, David Carp; Save the Children International CEO, Jasmine Whitbread, and many more.
A similar situation exists in the US, where a survey of the country's seven leading speakers' agencies found women made up just 20% of people on their books.
These, along with 11 Nobel laureates, are some of the leading speakers at the third Starmus festival at the Pirámide de Arona, an island of vaulting intellectual aspiration surrounded by tourist hotels with armies of sunbathers fastened to their poolside loungers as if by superglue.
From October 23rd to 26th the show will pack in 60 leading speakers, tracks on enterprise virtual worlds and the consumer perspective, workshops, networking opportunities (and parties).
Four hundred plus individuals came together to hear stories of innovation from nearly 20 leading speakers, and to build lasting relationships within the regional and national community to move entrepreneurship forward.
Mr Blair was hit by a purple flour bomb thrown from the Commons galleries, leading the Speaker to restrict access and launch a review of security.
