We've covered how HackFwd works before in this interview with Hinrichs but it's clear now that their HackFwd "Build" events, held four times a year, are becoming mini conferences, with several key European players attending and a few international 'stars' of the tech scene, including most recently Om Malik of GigaOm.
CrunchUps are highly participatory mini conferences hosted by TechCrunch where we focus in on important "now" themes in non-traditional formats.
"I've gone from being a manager of billions of dollars of high-yield bonds to the manager of a mini conference center, a museum, a three-star restaurant and a staff of 13," says Tolson, who left behind a longtime job with the Capital Group Companies, a money management firm.
We will also be holding a mini conference before the meetup – a roundtable discussion with Erick Schonfeld (details will be announced soon), just as we did at August Capital.
We even had a little taste of Silicon Valley in the shape of the Bubble over MWC mini conference, just opposite the MWC official venue.
My company puts on a mini conference every month called Catalyst week as a part of a not-so-mini project called the Downtown Project, where Tony Hsieh is successful creating the most community-focused city in the world with the tag line, "Downtown Vegas makes you smarter".
And the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College is helping to support the mini-conference surrounding a staged reading of Sanjit De Silva's play "Grace" on May 25.
The announcement occurred during a session titled, "Opting in to Do Not Track: A morning mini-conference on privacy, tracking and more".
To Manchester, in fact, where he held his own mini-conference on the Monday of the Tories' gathering, trying to mop up more Conservative support.
While we waited, our daughter tested out some virtually soundproof glass-fronted mini-conference rooms by screeching at us from the other side, and our personal assistant worked on getting us better seats toward the front of the plane.
He had planned to host a mini-conference of nonaligned nations focused on the issue this month in the West Bank, but was thwarted when Israel refused to allow the delegations from several countries to attend.
