It could maybe work as office space, but we need conference and educational facilities".
"Do the rivalries and hierarchies in higher education undermine our ability to collaborate in the way this sector needs?" conference chair Sue Littlemore asked the audience.
At first you might think, who needs conference and speaker matching service Speakergram, and then you look at the list of people and companies who hustler founder Sam Rosen has gotten to sign up: Foursquare, Hipmunk, Eventbrite and LeWeb's Geraldine LeMeur.
In the age of Twitter and Facebook, do we need conferences to exchange best practices?
Utah State needed a conference for its football team, an independent since the Big West Conference dropped football after the 2000 season.
Last year, coming off his record-setting 70-homer season, McGwire needed a conference room for his arrival.
Miami, which had been an independent, needed a conference that it could dominate in football and that would nurture its long neglected basketball program.
If needed, a conference call would be arranged for sometime in August, and then a proposal would be sent to the Pac-10 Council, which is made up of athletic directors, senior women's administrators and faculty representatives.
It was only when I got to the offices, that I was told I needed a conference visa, which was going to take three days and wouldn't be completed that week due to a public holiday in India.
The business of college football is different now than it was in 1999, when Notre Dame was its own conference and didn't need a conference for support.
