Medley was a presenter at the Restoring the Urban Oyster conference, on Governors Island, where, earlier this summer, politicians, environmentalists, artists, and other mollusk enthusiasts came together for a series of panels, lunch, and some informal bivalve-themed networking.
You can even bring in professionals to host panels or "lunch and learns" about various health and wellness topics.
We then had a judging panel at lunch, and the entire company got to watch the engineers present some amazing new features.
But there was significance in the very fact that the forum -- known to its regulars as Davos, after the Swiss resort where it has always been held before -- focused several of its workshops, panels and lunches on the rising opposition to the globalization of business.
In total, there were 223 official panels, workshops, lunches and dinners.
Robert Pate Vice President for Cyber Security for SAIC discussed with me before he joined the panel before lunch called Mobile Security in an Increasingly Insecure World, during a chat early in the day.
The panels cut their lunch breaks, and though they were scheduled to adjourn at 5 p.m., the last case was just beginning at 7. As the day wore on, defense attorneys acknowledged the horror of the crimes, and repeatedly offered their sympathies to the victims' relatives, who sometimes left the room in tears when testimony grew graphic.
Attendees will enjoy an action-packed agenda, including pitches, panels, working breakfasts, lunch sessions, and after-parties at the beautiful San Francisco Design Center Concourse, with 125,000 square feet of networking space.
The Guardian witnessed a tense standoff at Bolivia's electoral body as opposition supporters shouted "fraud" at vote counters who continued working while the overseeing panel went to lunch.
At a lunch panel hosted by the Hollywood Radio & Television Society on Tuesday, NBC's president for late night and alternative (read: reality) programming, Paul Telegdy, took credit for much of Donald Trump's political success.
The lunch panel, moderated by Brian Williams, brought together the mayors of Jacksonville, Augusta and Houston who shared specific local stories of outside the box public-private partnerships that are making a difference in the lives of veterans and families.
