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"confab" Definitions
  1. an informal private discussion or conversation
  2. (North American English) a meeting or conference of the members of a profession or group

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Did the actress get her ink while at the art confab?
Then Hirschbeck smiled and waved him in to the mound confab.
Donald Trump is going to Argentina for a big international confab.
Ohanian even attended the ad industry confab in Cannes last week.
Silver's closed-door session was part of a two-day confab, held Sept.
After the Trump-Putin confab, it was the Russians who first controlled the narrative.
In recent years, videogame companies announcing they're skipping the gaming confab has become commonplace.
He led me swiftly past a confab of postdocs and into his windowed office.
It's unlikely this Washington DC confab, like its predecessors, will result in any dramatic surprises.
The participants of that confab would later form a group called the Open Music Initiative.
" Wasserman said the political climate at the Sun Valley confab is "probably a little mixed.
It's also notable that we're heading into Mobile World Congress, the mobile confab in Barcelona.
That same Tuesday morning, I was in Las Vegas for the tech industry confab CES.
But this year's confab is playing out in a changed and charged Washington political environment.
This Democratic grassroots fundraising confab is 15 years old and raises funds for county democratic committees.
The confab with the Khal continued along the same trajectory until Khaleesi had finally had enough.
For the second year, President Donald Trump skipped the annual confab, dubbed "Nerd Prom" by attendees.
Despite his recent struggles, Ackman was one of the stars of the four-day industry confab.
The results were announced Saturday afternoon towards the end of the three-day annual conservative confab.
HOUSTON -- The big energy confab CERAWeek by IHS Markit gets underway today in America's oil capitol.
The guest list to the closely-watched confab at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif.
But there were plenty of moments from the annual conservative confab to keep the attendees' attention.
At last year's confab, in Dallas, Mike Pence made headlines by giving a jarringly self-congratulatory speech.
The annual San Diego confab is typically a bellwether of everything coming to screens big and small.
As world leaders gather this week for the yearly diplomatic confab, two New York institutions are converging.
CONFAB (Him) We usually meet up at some point during the day and talk about our work.
Postmates, a food delivery start-up that confidentially filed to go public in February, attended the confab.
Capital and authoritarianism—as historian Quinn Slobodian pointed out during last year's Swiss confab—are old partners.
A writing confab doesn't require steady stepping and would put them on equal footing — two brilliant bookworms.
Samsung is getting ready to unpack some shiny new high end smartphones at the world's biggest mobile confab.
"We discussed substantive issues at the meeting," insisted one person at the recent tech leaders' confab with Trump.
It's KubeCon/CloudNativeCon this week, the world's largest confab for all things cloud-native, containers, Kubernetes and DevOps.
"We discussed substantive issues at the meeting," said one person at the recent tech leaders' confab with Trump.
Here are the big stories—and the big absences—from the last 24 hours at gaming's biggest confab.
Carson is widely expected to announce the end of his presidential campaign at the conservative confab on Friday.
Ahead of the confab, its Swiss rival Nestlé earmarked $2 billion to push the development of sustainable packaging.
The influential confab focuses on film, music, technology and innovation, and is a draw for upwardly mobile millennials.
The president is no friend to the global trade body, which is hunkering down for its biennial confab.
Washington (CNN)Donald Trump will no longer speak at the annual conservative confab CPAC this weekend, he announced Friday.
Many Fed loyalists at the Stanford monetary policy confab judged it an aggressive attempt to politicize the central bank.
Google revealed a vision for artificial intelligence that was simultaneously exciting and controversial at its developer confab on Tuesday.
Cornyn added that Kelly told him there were "no agreements" during the White House confab between Trump and Schumer.
Those gathered at the conservative confab largely agreed with Trump's message, according to results from other straw poll questions.
Art Review WASHINGTON — There's an engrossing confab of a show in session at the National Gallery of Art here.
It does not look promising, based on the disappointing outcome of a United Nations climate-change confab in December.
Twitter was pointedly left out of the confab at Trump Tower, which included high ranking executive delegations from Apple, Amazon.
The June 21 confab will be the highest-profile but hardly the first effort by Trump's campaign to court evangelicals.
The Cruz campaign tried to get back on offense on Friday after Rubio missed a conservative confab the night before.
In a normal year, this would serve as a Republican unity confab before the convention: party bonding in the mountains.
Warren's campaign admitted as much in a memo on Sunday that any path runs through the summer confab in Milwaukee.
Greg Walden — the chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee — backed Trump Thursday shortly after the Ryan-Trump confab ended.
After all it is MWC16 and carriers want to be able to dream of golden gooses at their annual Mediterranean confab.
Literally: Until a few years ago, this Iowa Democratic confab — the Liberty and Justice Celebration — was called the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.
We recorded live from the first floor of TechCrunch's Disrupt SF confab, putting us right in the middle of the action.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - The U.S. president heads to the Swiss Alps confab that's the antithesis of his "America First" ideology.
So the historic confab will take place in the Republic of Singapore — not a truly representative democracy, not a "pure" dictatorship.
NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - CEO Mike Corbat pledged a huge earnings boost at the bank's first investor confab in nine years.
This is a major blow less than a week before hundreds of thousands descend into Austin for the annual SXSW confab.
Facing unprecedented drug gang–related violence, Mexico, Colombia, and Guatemala had insisted the global confab be moved up by two years.
The company's CEO apparently only heard about the confab on Monday and Tuesday from reporters, and he wasn't pleased about it.
"America needs better patient access to data and interoperability now," Kushner said in a 2018 speech before a health industry confab.
And that determines who gets to go to the four-day power confab in the Swiss Alps every year, organizers say.
As for Yeshua, the believed Messiah, he's a smiling cipher given to dematerializing mid-confab, leaving behind enigmatic pronouncements and baffled followers.
Oracle is kicking off a big customer confab in San Francisco this week, and to mark the event, it's announced an acquisition.
Next month, however, he will go to Brussels for a NATO meeting and to Italy for a Group of 7 confab. 4.
As the industry gathers in Detroit for its annual confab, carmakers are revving up their plans for the next generation of vehicles.
National party conventions typically turn out to be a windfall for host cities and the confab is expected to benefit Charlotte financially.
There is scant optimism the G7 confab will yield the kind of solidarity against menacing forces it has produced in the past.
Enterprises ranging from Russian aluminium smelters to Dutch ice cream makers are high on stewardship and sustainability - themes of this year's confab.
Then, the group used the hourlong, closed-to-the-press meeting to review some tape, according to several sources who attended the confab.
The move more than doubled bitcoin's gains for 2019 ahead of Consensus Week — the crypto industry's annual confab — kicking off on May 13.
And it is not uncommon for candidates to skip the quadrennial confab in favor of campaigning in their home state, as Missouri Sen.
If, as Trump suggests, the confab takes place, it will be the first time a U.S. president met with a North Korean leader.
Weather had also decimated Summer Jam, the annual confab thrown by the leading New York hip-hop station, Hot 97 (WQHT 97.1 FM).
Just before that year's confab, organizers pleaded with Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, for a $6 million cash infusion.
Instead, this week's confab of world leaders in New York is taking place with Tillerson's hold on his job looking shakier than ever.
The blowout private-equity confab, SuperReturn, is underway in Berlin, Germany, and Business Insider was on the ground to document the opening day.
Trump traveled to Switzerland for the annual confab of business leaders even as his impeachment trial in the Senate was about to commence.
Last year, then-President-elect Trump spurned the event, reportedly because he thought the elitist confab would betray his populist message and supporters.
The comment also took on more significance since it was made at the Davos confab, dubbed the 'epicenter of globalization' by one strategist.
This time around, developers who can't make it to San Francisco for the confab because of President Trump's travel ban won't get that chance.
Rio de Janeiro-based Confab is a shareholder of Brazilian steelmaker Usinas Siderúrgicas de Minas Gerais and part of Italian industrial conglomerate Techint Group.
Speaking to a Washington business confab today, Trump explained his baby-snatching policy is needed to deter immigrants who are "infesting" the United States.
The confab was set for Wednesday afternoon, with the store making an ideal meeting place, given its rough proximity to the conference and airport.
"We want to have a powwow or a confab, and we are trying to see what we can do to help them," he said.
CNBC, which was present for several of these sessions, compiled a sample of some of the more buzz-worthy reveals at this year's confab.
At Tuesday's confab at JPMorgan's headquarters in New York, Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon and other top executives mingled with investors, analysts and reporters.
The report comes one year after last year's confab, known as I/O, where Google CEO Sundar Pichai unveiled a big push into hardware.
Next week, Merkel will meet with Trump at the G20 summit, an annual confab for leaders of some of the world's most significant economies.
President Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the premier confab of the global elite, was highly anticipated in the political press.
Meanwhile, Samsung lifted the curtain on an entire suite of smart products at the tech confab, including a talking refrigerator and a custom-fitted television.
Indeed, the spirit of '274 -- 1976, that is -- looms large behind Sanders' determination to keep fighting Clinton all the way to Democratic confab in Philadelphia.
The deal comes in the same week as Cannes Lions, the ad industry's big confab, and speaks to the evolving relationship between marketing and journalism.
Read MoreJPMorgan's big health-care confab: What to expect Apple closed up 1.62 percent after news the firm's Apple Music service surpassed 10 million subscribers.
The episode put a damper on the quadrennial confab and confirmed, to some Sanders supporters, the idea that the race had been rigged against them.
Many of those are located in Austin, which has become a destination for all things hip and cultured, including the annual South by Southwest confab.
Congress was on recess this week, but the Trump administration kept a busy pace, capped off with the president's address at the conservative confab CPAC.
At least eight Democratic candidates will not attend this year's confab of pro-Israel activists and political bigwigs, including top-tier contenders such as Sens.
But the tech and media confab, hosted in Munich, also includes artists and humanitarians and lovely weirdos who do not make a living off software.
He founded his hedge fund firm SkyBridge Capital in 2005 and later launched a lavish annual hedge-fund confab in Las Vegas known as SALT.
"Kim Jong Un has been, you know, pretty straight with me, I think," Trump said in yet another confab with reporters before boarding Marine One.
The next day, Canham rushed Szady in for a pre-meeting confab and tried to bargain her into settling for something less than the block 'M'.
The group, one of dozens currently planning demonstrations, is hoping to replicate and amplify its Washington, D.C., efforts with plans to disrupt the Democrats' quadrennial confab.
OPEC members played a good game, over the past several months, stringing along the market with unceasing rhetoric and various impromptu meetings, ahead of Wednesday's confab.
Tenaris officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but Confab said it has no evidence its employees paid bribes and is collaborating with authorities.
The world's biggest companies often establish receiving rooms at the world's biggest elite confab, but this year Facebook's pavilion wasn't the usual scene of airy bonhomie.
Blurred lines were most blatant at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) — the annual confab where the world's elite fete the former president and discuss world events.
Both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are still scheduled to attend the three-day confab for House Democrats in Baltimore that begins Wednesday.
She's nervous about it, she says, and later she'll corner a top newspaper executive at a media confab to try to convince him to print it.
It's easy to get lost among the 15,000 attendees at AIPAC's Policy Conference, the pro-Israel lobby group's massive annual confab held in Washington's Convention Center.
Apple Music has the exclusive rights to "Clive Davis: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives, " which airs in New York City this week at the annual artistic confab.
On Day Two of the four-day confab, dedicated to the economy, Tiffany Trump, Donald Trump's 22-year-old daughter, seems a less obvious choice of speaker.
The five-day confab will reportedly see the likes of technology experts and big-name CEOs like Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Oracle's Safra Catz, and Apple's Tim Cook.
Many will also have just been sifting through the news from this month's other major market confab in Las Vegas, the techno-palooza known as CES 2019.
TC: What about direct listings, which seem to be top of mind, thanks to a confab organized earlier this week by VCs Bill Gurley and Mike Moritz.
AIPAC announced Tuesday that the former New York City mayor, one of two Jewish candidates running in the Democratic primary, will speak live at its annual confab.
The San Francisco-based confab will host nearly 8,000 institutional investors and 300 companies, said Gill, who runs J.P. Morgan's health-care technology and distribution equity research teams.
Much of the confab focused on concerns that economic growth may slow, that volatility will pick up and that the stock market boom will come to an end.
Gore said he wasn't concerned that an Australian government official spoke in support of the Trump administration's event earlier this week at the confab backing cleaner fossil fuels.
Silicon Valley culture showcased itself at Bloomberg's recent technology confab in San Francisco as much as the companies, products, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on the dais and sidelines.
Multiple meetings The progress came after House GOP members spent two hours behind closed doors huddling Thursday morning, a rare full-party confab on the issue of immigration.
At this Douglas and Tito go into a private confab, so I strike up a conversation with Pam, the lovely ex-librarian across from me at the restaurant.
The weekend before, at the G7 summit, a confab for leaders of seven wealthy democracies, Trump got into a fight with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over trade.
It is no accident that CPAC has become a stomping ground for those with presidential ambitions: Many believe the confab helped to catapult Trump to the White House.
One participant (a Wall Street liberal) told me Mr. Guedes's speech, outlining Mr. Bolsonaro's free-market plans, was "the most inspiring" she had ever heard at this confab.
Ms. Everson was there to extol the potential of video advertising on Facebook site and its apps during the annual industry confab known as Advertising Week New York.
LAS VEGAS — Sin City's 10th Annual Skybridge Alternatives Conference, known as SALT, is your standard rich-meet-powerful confab, the kind of thing you'd find in Davos or Aspen.
And he has big-league plans for his Sunshine Summit: a Florida version of CPAC, the annual national conservatives confab that has been mutating into a pro-Trump bacchanal.
This year's confab in the Big Apple will feature both entertainment and literary guests like Carrie Fisher of Star Wars and Keegan Michael of Key & Peele and R.L. Stine.
This cosmic confab reminds us to cherish things that are more eternal than ephemeral, like the bonds we share with the people in our family and our romantic partners.
The emerging confab, now in its fifth year, is intended to celebrate, market and critically examine an exponentially expanding medium whose extraordinary creative fertility is now taken for granted.
None of the questions focused on her emails, despite the confab coming just days after the FBI released notes from its investigation into Clinton's use of a private server.
Begun as a showcase for hardware gadgets, the annual confab transformed, in recent years, into a compulsory destination for the media world, which tech was transforming, largely via destruction.
The year before that, President Donald Trump attended the white tie confab, where he joked about the prospect of impeachment and his efforts at nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
Trump aides want the four-day convention to be a smooth-running infomercial for the president's reelection devoid of the chaos and infighting that defined the party's 2016 confab.
Of all the major conferences that kicked off 2018 — from the ICR confab to the tech-laden CES — the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference was the most important for Cramer.
Speaking to "Mad Money " host Jim Cramer on Friday after United Technologies' annual investor meeting, Hayes said that the potential split was a hot topic at the shareholder confab.
Many of the estimated 130,000 fanboys and girls assembled at the annual comic book confab are decked out in elaborate home-made costumes (better known among the faithful as cosplay).
The closed door gathering between the two world leaders came after Gore led a panel on Tuesday at the annual confab titled "Safeguarding Our Planet," which focused on climate change.
Santorum, himself, endorsed Rubio and has been talking about his support for the senator at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a major Republican political confab held near Washington this week.
It was the first appearance at a party confab by anyone in his family since his father, a trombonist, accompanied Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday, Mr President" in 1962.
"I think oil will wilt going into the confab and it might have a tough week given that none of these countries want to cut back on production," Cramer said.
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The confab comes at a time when Trump is juggling several foreign policy challenges, including Iran tensions, back-and-forth letters with North Korea's leader and trade negotiations with China.
They were discussing the highlights of Cannes Lions, the annual advertising industry confab that brought thousands of marketers, armed with expense accounts, to the south of France for the week.
Even though the Recode invite to the Goldman confab seems to have gotten lost in the mail, we still managed to wangle the rundown of speakers, courtesy of numerous attendees.
But despite all the hype around Trump's volatile rhetoric, open-carry demonstrations, and possible social unrest over recent police shootings in America, the GOP confab turned out to be pretty uneventful.
KATOWICE, Poland — Al Gore sat down with Axios for an exclusive interview at the annual United Nations climate confab, which this year is being held in this old coal-mining city.
"The future is built by the people who believe it can be better," Zuckerberg told more than 2,000 developers gathered for the company's annual VR confab in San Jose on Wednesday.
Investors interested in China shouldn't be too distracted by who is elevated to the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party during the ongoing leadership confab, warns a leading China scholar.
During a recent confab for the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity political advocacy group, it was announced that the Kochs would no longer solely support Republican candidates in this fall's midterms.
It was the third annual installment of this CIA-sponsored confab, which was held at George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and featured a buffet of intelligence insiders.
Of all the major conferences that kicked off 2018 — from the ICR confab to the tech-laden CES — the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference was the most important for CNBC's Jim Cramer.
In July the intelligence chiefs of the "Five Eyes"—the Western intelligence alliance of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand—gathered in Nova Scotia for a semiregular private confab.
Usually, this roundup covers bits and pieces from all over the spectrum, but last weekend was pretty much dominated by Comic Con Experience (aka CCXP), the massive fan confab in Brazil.
The intrigue: Katowice, a small city in the heart of Poland's coal-mining region, is hosting the big annual United Nations confab that's seeking to make progress on the 2015 Paris Agreement.
Sources familiar with the matter told Politico that the iPhone maker will not contribute technology or cash to the GOP confab in Cleveland, despite having donated to both parties in the past.
But with polls tightening after last week's GOP convention, Team Hillary is hoping for a winning speech that will give her a big bounce coming out of the four-day Democratic confab.
Here are some of the erstwhile leaders that Obama won't have to worry about during his final UN appearance, and why they're no longer making an appearance at the New York confab.
Now, as Zuckerberg prepares to deliver his keynote address at the company's annual developer conference Tuesday morning, he'll look out onto a world -- and a competitive landscape -- transformed from last year's confab.
Now, the foundation is releasing some of its learnings from that confab, which it will host again in 2018, with the hope that such takeaways can begin to form a road map.
Washington (CNN)The highly anticipated confab in the White House Situation Room had just commenced Wednesday when it became clear President Donald Trump and congressional leaders would not emerge with a deal.
In a Cylance poll held during the confab, attendees were asked if criminal hackers will use AI for offensive purposes in the coming year, to which 62 percent answered in the affirmative.
None of the debates to date, including Thursday's Republican confab in South Carolina, have featured a single substantive discussion about racial justice and other issues that directly involve and interest people of color.
Several months later, once the pair succeeded in raising $300 million, Wennmachers brokered a Fortune cover story to announce its launch, following it up with a mainstage appearance at Fortune's annual tech confab.
Not only did venture capitalist Annie Lamont join our own Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, and Alex Wilhelm, we also recorded this episode live at SaaStr, a yearly SaaS-focused confab in San Francisco.
IBM is making the news announcements officially today at the National Association of Broadcasters' confab underway in Vegas, an event that will mean a rush of video related-news coming out this week.
In a confab Sunday about voting rights, lawyers unfurled a laundry list of goals: same-day registration, registering votes when they obtain driver's licenses, pre-registering high school seniors, to name a few.
Facebook's confab with conservatives came a couple weeks after a pair of reports in Gizmodo that cast doubt on the content of Trending Topics, a roundup of stories popular on the social network.
Activities at the four-day confab were varied: One could attend academic lectures on Adam Smith, discussion panels about whether space aliens would be libertarians, debates over open borders and a film festival.
The particular unease of many Republicans with their presumptive candidate—along with their failure hitherto to launch a conservative rival to him—explains a surge of interest in the Libertarian confab in Orlando.
LG has put out a gesture-heavy hint ahead of the annual unveiling of new smartphone hardware at the world's biggest mobile confab, Mobile World Congress, which kicks off in a month's time.
That was the message to financial advisors unsettled by the rise of robo-advisors and other industry disruptors from speaker and writer Julie Littlechild, speaking at Charles Schwab's IMPACT 2017 confab in Chicago.
HOUSTON -- A Republican lawmaker and a CEO of a pipeline company expressed concern over President Trump's plans to impose tariffs on steel at an energy confab getting underway today in America's oil capital.
The highly secretive confab is in Beidaihe, a beach resort roughly 175 miles east of Beijing along the Bohai Sea, and it's an annual ritual from the days of former Chairman Mao Zedong.
This ethos is what brings us to Angel and Stan's dinner confab, where the pair figures out the rules of the "kept woman" arrangement that the real estate exec is so thirsty to finalize.
The second is that this is happening while Trump is literally preparing to take office, showing the Davos confab to be profoundly out of touch with the political realities of the world's wealthiest country.
The best example of a convention like that was the 1003 Republican confab, where President Ford was able to use an appeal for party unity to win Ronald Reagan's support and secure the nomination.
Founded nine years ago by five entrepreneurs, Summit has come into its own as an innovation confab that skews younger and less-buttoned-up than TED or Aspen Ideas but is equally high-minded.
They met on a small island that became known as the Isle of Faces (so named for the faces that were carved onto the island's weirwood trees during this confab) and made The Pact.
The taxi industry's war with ride-hailing services like Uber, although mostly invisible to consumers, is among the most compelling narratives of this year's CES — an annual Vegas tech industry confab that draws thousands.
This is the first time Lyft and its far larger sibling, Uber, are available at the annual tech confab, held four months after the tech companies won state approval to operate in Sin City.
In January, Sin City is super chilly, and thousands of attendees flying in from around the world means this is in effect a confab of the northern hemisphere's most unusual cold and flu viruses.
Gardner said he wasn't invited to that meeting but was included in a different confab later in the afternoon, joking the White House may be trying to limit senators to one meeting a day.
Just before the start of SuperReturn, the annual private-equity confab that's drawing thousands of investors, lawyers and consultants around the world, attendees were hit with news that would hang over the day's events.
It's a constant confab of rumbling, drilling, whistling, spinning, humming, creaking, rattling, bawling and clinking, and a lot of the time it drives me up the wall, these walls that are much too thin.
Trump tweeted about an event Thursday afternoon related to his planned tariffs, though hours before that meeting, it wasn't yet clear publicly what Trump was prepared to sign -- if anything -- during the afternoon confab.
President Trump spoke at the conservative confab Friday, while Vice President Pence, White House chief of staff and chief strategist Reince Priebus and Steve Bannon, as well as senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, also appeared.
The rapid spending unleashed by Beijing contrasted sharply with the relative gridlock in Washington and the global elite, gathering for their annual confab in Davos, Switzerland, in 2011, marveled at the benefits of state capitalism.
And they're continuing to float the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee as a possible dark horse candidate in the event no one secures the requisite 1,85033 delegates before the four-day Cleveland confab kicks off.
Tokyo (CNN)They've chatted on the phone around 16 times, schmoozed atop white silk couches in a Trump Tower duplex and huddled during an open-air security confab on the patio of Mar-a-Lago.
On the day of the Oyster Bar confab, Leo is once again fresh out of rehab, but trying to buy drugs when he is spotted by female teenagers in Central Park on a snowy day.
The end result of all this investment will likely be a "space-based broadband data network" that will be the basis of "a new space economy," Butow told the space investing confab in San Francisco.
Having worked at Apple in the 1980s as a programmer, "I have Apple in my veins," Benioff told "Mad Money" host in an exclusive interview at Dreamforce, Salesforce's annual networking confab held in San Francisco.
The annual comic book confab that sees thousands of fan boys and girls descend on the city of San Diego—often in full costumed regalia—is big business for the city's nearly $2300 billion tourist industry.
Trump's team has been clear -- they believe they'll have enough to win, something campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort told reporters after he emerged earlier this month from a major donor confab in New York.
Via Twitter, the president said in Buenos Aires that he would wait until after his return to the United States to brief the press on the outcome of the confab between the world's largest industrialized nations.
Which brings us to: With an insecure Sansa leaning on Littlefinger for support and counsel, Brienne gets sent off to King's Landing to attend to some not-at-all-suspicious summons for a confab with Cersei.
"The 'extreme conservative' and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, @SenatorRomney is formally NOT invited to #CPAC28503," tweeted Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, which puts on the annual GOP confab.
Through an incredibly fortuitous historical coincidence, the World Economic Forum — the premier confab of the global political and economic elite — is happening on the same day that Donald Trump is taking office in the United States.
What was going to be a talk on the sidelines of the G20 became a full-fledged bilateral meeting that blossomed into a 2-hour-plus confab -- far longer than the 45 minutes finally penciled in.
One of the main points of entry thus far has been CPAC, a quintessential Washington confab of political professionals: activists, elected officials, donors and campaign types— all glad-handing over the course of a few days.
World Space Week, a massive confab that takes place across over 80 countries, just ended, and it has breathed new life into organizations around the world participating in the space race, says one top industry player.
And that, aside from the worry, was another theme of the confab: Western countries are in deep trouble, but few could agree on what needed to be done or just who, exactly, should lead the way.
Modi is the only foreign leader to gather with so many top U.S. executives during the week of the United Nations General Assembly, an annual confab that brings world leaders together to discuss global policy issues.
The intrigue: Addresses like that show how this confab, traditionally known for its oil and gas executive speeches, is slowly evolving to embrace renewable energy and acknowledging how climate change is an existential threat to fossil fuels.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and deputy chief of staff for policy coordination Chris Liddell were also scheduled to travel to Switzerland for the annual economic confab.
Matt Schlapp, the conference's chairman, told Fox News on Sunday that neither Trump nor Pence had any contact with the individual and said he saw Trump clean his hands while at the confab in National Harbor, Maryland.
TechCrunch had our debut confab for enterprise types this week at Yerba Buena Center in SF, where we heard from Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, Apple VP Susan Prescott of Apple, and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich.
Last fall's confab—which came to public attention thanks to a recording of the proceedings leaked by the Democratic group American Bridge PAC—kicked off with brief remarks from Scott Fitzgerald, the leader of the Wisconsin Senate.
On Tuesday January 9, Trump held a nearly-hour long immigration confab with bipartisan congressional leaders in which he repeatedly voiced support for a bipartisan solution to the challenges of DACA recipients and his proposed border wall.
Teams from the United States have been dispatched to the Vietnamese capital in the hopes of finding settings that can match Trump's expectations of a stately and historic confab -- and to broker the diplomatic agreements to match.
I spent the past week at the annual advertising confab in the south of France, and found myself in the midst of what felt like a never-ending college party, except people can actually afford the booze.
Yet as the administration deliberates, the fact that the Metals Service Center Institute, a trade group that favors anti-import measures, held last year's annual confab at the Trump Doral resort in Miami may play a role.
The huddle with the GOP's tech-minded lawmakers also precedes another, larger confab between the Trump administration and top executives from Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, Intel, Oracle and other tech companies, which is slated for June 19.
But then Google's announced exactly those dates for its I/O confab and like last year, Microsoft probably had to scramble a bit… and we'll get back-to-back developer keynotes from Microsoft and Google in early May.
But not every Christian conservative is a Cruz hypebeast, as I suspect we'll see at the next stop: the Conservative Review Convention, a confab of right-wing infotainers and presidential candidates that's going on Thursday night in Greenville.
On Saturday, Iran announced that it would not send a representative to the confab, which is being closely watched by analysts for hints on whether OPEC and non-OPEC producers will agree to a freeze of crude output.
With the potential for that kind of "train-wreck television" in the offing, it's no surprise that there are reports of the usual top GOP donors and corporate sponsors delaying their traditional financial backing for the nominating confab.
At this blurred intersection of the real and the absurd, no one seemed less interested than the very people protestors were there to confront—FOP members arriving in Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops for their four-day confab.
" A month before Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015 and more than a year before Bannon joined the campaign, Trump was searching out Bannon at a conservative confab, the South Carolina Freedom Summit, asking, "Where's my Steve?
North Korea bubbles up sporadically, garnering particular attention whenever the president decides he wants another genial confab with Kim Jong Un, and even then exists mostly as a platform to joke about Trump's inability to close a deal.
As Julia Manchester and Tal Axelrod report from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Md., Sanders and his brand of socialism were front and center during the first full day of the annual right-wing confab.
The confab brought together curators, collectors, art dealers, researchers and, most notably, conservators who have worked on art-environment restoration projects, as well as administrators, both volunteer and professional, who oversee the care and maintenance of such sites.
CURITIBA, Brazil, May 24 (Reuters) - Brazilian police and prosecutors said they are investigating pipe suppliers Apolo Tubulars and Confab in the latest phase of a sweeping investigation of contracts with state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras.
A confab of tech titans had a "productive" meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower on Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told CNBC, as Trump moved to mend fences with Silicon Valley before taking office in January.
BofA said investors are moving away from the globalization type of trades of "Davos Man," who is named for the annual international confab in Davos, Switzerland, where corporate and political movers and shakers go to see and be seen.
Interviews with over two dozen attendees at the conservative confab revealed that many think Sanders's diverse and devoted base of support within the Democratic Party's left flank sets him up well heading into November compared to his 2020 rivals.
At the shipping confab, David Paul, the Marshall Islands' environment minister, argued the final outcome could mean the difference between a "secure and prosperous life" and an "uncertain future" for children born today on the country's low-lying coral atolls.
"Though the tariff tantrum ramped up a bit since the last FOMC confab, the core of the Fed is thus far unconvinced that this warrants any material shift in the outlook," said Tom Porcelli, chief U.S. economist at RBC Capital Markets.
Despite the slander you might have heard, US National Security Adviser John Bolton's meeting in Mongolia this weekend — which kept him from joining President Donald Trump's confab with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — was long-planned and totally unavoidable.
Over the last several years, the grieving families of young black men shot and killed by police have attended at Sharpton's annual confab, which combines the National Action Network's advocacy and Sharpton's part-political, part-pastoral leadership in one event.
Last question before we get to lots of questions, listener questions: So do you think people are really turned off by social media or is this a Washington, media, Silicon Valley confab, or are most people just oblivious to it?
The report surprised few but sent a very strong signal -- it comes after the annual confab known the 6th plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, which wrapped up four days of closed door meetings in Beijing.
On April 14, 1956 — 60 years ago last month — Ampex introduced the desk-sized Mark IV, the first commercial video tape recorder, to a stunned group of TV execs and engineers at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) confab in Chicago.
Ahead of that confab, China has committed to buying up to $1.2 trillion in U.S. goods, though as late as last week, the two sides were said to be far apart on issues concerning the forced transfer of intellectual property.
It's not surprising therefore that Democrats and some Republicans question why the summit is still on, especially given the administration's failure to provide a clear sense of the agenda and possible deliverables of a confab Trump has craved for months.
Several prominent Republicans who have been floated as potential 2024 candidates took the stage at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., making appearances at the confab to boost Trump while keeping up their own profiles.
Most of the powerful people hanging around at the World Economic Forum's Swiss confab this week would agree that some mix of feisty private sectors, competent but limited governments and ample international trade are crucial ingredients for durable and increasing prosperity.
In addition to opposition to the annual confab of global business and political leaders in Davos, about 150 km (93 miles) from Zurich, that included a visit from U.S. President Donald Trump, demonstrators called for swifter action on climate change.
In a dim corner of the area with the vertical farm, where the fresh, florist-shop aroma of chlorophyll is strong, young graduates of prestigious colleges confab around laptop screens that show photos of currently germinating seeds and growing leaves.
Some of the deals that were hatched at the Sun Valley confab in years past include Disney's acquisition of Capital Cities/ABC in 1995, Comcast's purchase of NBCUniversal, Verizon's buy of AOL and Jeff Bezos' acquisition of The Washington Post in 2013.
Throw in the networking appeal of almost 4,000 people in town for the annual World Water Week confab, including government officials and executives from big companies like Diageo, Apple and Nestlé, and it's hard to imagine Wall Street types not flooding the event.
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The overarching discussion topic at the privacy and data protection confab, both in the public sessions and behind closed doors, was ethics: How to ensure engineers, technologists and companies operate with a sense of civic duty and build products that serve the good of humanity.
Since ruminations about this confab started, Russia, Iraq and Iran have all increased production, hitting output highs not seen since the end of the various eras associated with each of them: post-Soviet-era high, post-Saddam Hussein era high, and post-nuclear-sanctions high.
It's time, once again, for everyone's favorite winter event: the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the comically effete confab of rich people, sympathetic politicians, and "public intellectuals" or whatever inveighing on the state of the global economy and basically all of humankind.
"CPAC is a very tough crowd for us because the knee-jerk reaction for most Republicans is to oppose this," said Saul Anuzis, a former chairman of the Michigan Republican Party who plans to promote the national popular vote effort at the conservative confab.
Ahead of the Mnuchin confab, Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) said Wednesday night that congressional staff was still working "to knock off a lot of extraneous" issues holding up the deal, to "narrow the scope down to just a few" unresolved provisions.
At last summer's annual confab of the nation's TV critics, this usually unflappable contingent of seen-it-all smarties had their collective breath taken away with the disclosure that there will likely be way more than 400 scripted series on the so-called "small screen" in 2016.
Benioff has also become a yearly fixture at the elite business-and-celeb confab in Davos, Switzerland, including an appearance last year where he called out Uber as an example of tech companies that sacrifice the trust of their employees and users at the altar of growth.
The celebratory confab is organized by the Coalition for Radical Life Extension, a gaggle of fringe scientists, biotech start-ups, and immortality enthusiasts united in agreement that "the deathist paradigm" has to go, and that within most of our lifetimes, biological aging can be a thing of the past.
One could point to the historically high correlation with energy and the more than 10 percent decline in crude prices, the drop initiated by those ill-advised bulls going long on the hope that for once, just once, OPEC would agree on production cuts at their November confab.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump insisted that a 2016 meeting in Trump Tower was about adoption policy -- after knowledge of the confab became public -- even though it was likely that reporters had evidence it was set to obtain dirt on Hillary Clinton, a new book on his presidency says.
Indian Wells, California (CNN)At a confab in the California desert this weekend, leaders of the powerful political and policy network founded by billionaire benefactors Charles and David Koch issued a stark warning for the midterm elections: President Donald Trump's unpopularity could be churning up a Democratic wave.
The NGA confab is supposed to be a bipartisan forum for governors to work through challenges facing state governments, but this year's event couldn't come against a more partisan backdrop: on the heels of Iowa and President Donald Trump's impeachment acquittal, and just ahead of Tuesday's New Hampshire Democratic primary.
In a clandestine confab, artists from the Public Theater and the Donmar Warehouse on Saturday met in the Lower Manhattan auditorium where "A Chorus Line" and "Hamilton" began so the actor Daniel Radcliffe (in the flesh) and the fugitive Edward J. Snowden (by video from Moscow) could run lines of Shakespeare.
The chairman was crowing about the great success of his Cleveland confab — the rousing addresses delivered by Ted Cruz, the actor Scott Baio and Melania Trump, among others; the party unity on display; and even the special socks (blue with red squigglies) that the G.O.P. lifer-apparatchik donned for the occasion.
The freshman congresswoman responded affirmatively to a question on the subject at an event celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday in New York, just as many of the world's billionaires were gathering for the start of the annual Davos economic confab in Switzerland amid concerns over economic uncertainty and rising populism.
Asked about the administration's decision to end DAPA and maintain DACA, despite the right criticizing both programs as being an amnesty granted by executive order instead of legislative mandate, Kelly said at a news conference here at the closing of a Central American prosperity and security confab that it was a simple move.
In a case of the proverbial cobbler's children being the worst shod, only 30 percent to 35 percent of financial advisors have a succession plan in place, David DeVoe, managing director and founder of San Francisco consulting firm and investment bank Devoe & Co., told attendees at Charles Schwab's IMPACT 2017 confab in Chicago.
Thanks to companies founded by this "billionaire boys club" — as some at the space investing confab referred to them — a company can now get a payload into space for as low as "tens of thousands of dollars per kilogram," said Monica Jan, senior director of strategy and customer experience for Virgin Orbit.
Officials for the top three domestic automakers — Ford, GM and Fiat Chrysler — met with Trump earlier this month, where he vowed to cut regulations to make it easier to build and sell cars in the U.S.  Ford and Tesla also separately met at the White House for a confab with other businesses leaders last month.
Of all the Ukrainian oligarchs, he was the most focused on his own image: He donated millions to the Clinton Global Foundation and even paid Donald Trump $150,000 the following year to appear via Skype at his annual mini-Davos confab in Ukraine while the real estate magnate ran for president of the United States.
Those questions have grown louder with the controversy around Ms. Omar and will grow louder still in the run-up to this month's annual Aipac policy conference — a three-day Washington confab that is expected to draw more than 21990,000 people, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and leaders of both parties in Congress.
Save for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos calling the confab "very productive" — the verbal equivalent of dead air — execs like Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not comment about what was said in the room and most of the press reports afterward were very vague.
The Democratic party is hoping for a similar boost during its convention this week in Philadelphia, but the confab had a rough start: the Wikileaks website released emails on Friday that enraged many voters who had supported Clinton's rival for the nomination, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, showing that party officials had looked for ways to undermine his candidacy.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos called the confab "very productive" — the verbal equivalent of dead air — but execs including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk did not comment about what was said in the room, and most of the press reports afterward were very vague.
The head of the organization that hosts the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) says Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's decision to skip the confab was "disrespectful" to conservatives.
"Here's the bottom line: we got a lot of good news from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference last week, but if this confab showed us one thing, it's that you need to be very careful when you speculate in small-cap biotech stocks, because the difference between the biggest winners and the biggest losers is enormous," the "Mad Money" host concluded.
This year, experts warned that the legions of slave Leias, green-haired Jokers, and wizard Alfs could have turned the confab enormous petri dish near the hottest outbreak of coronavirus in the U.S. The event, which brings in millions of dollars in ticket sales every year, and is a boon to businesses in the area, had been under pressure to postpone or cancel.
On the sidelines of a Brookings Institution confab in D.C. on Monday, he told Axios: Why it matters now: With Republicans in control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, some Democrats might find it more politically possible to take positions that go counter to certain liberal causes, such as opposing fossil-fuel infrastructure like Keystone, which could lead to more bipartisan energy policy.
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"The two leaders also acknowledged the challenges of cyberthreats and interference in the democratic processes of the United States and other countries, and agreed to explore creating a framework around which the two countries can work together to better understand how to deal with these cyber threats," Tillerson said during a briefing with reporters after the confab, adding the group will look into "who to hold accountable" for cyberintrusion.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police said on Tuesday they investigated local units of three international steelmakers in a second-straight day of raids probing graft at the country's state-controlled oil producer, Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Police and prosecutors allege that Apolo Tubulars, which is 50 percent owned by United States Steel, and Luxembourg-based Tenaris SA's Brazilian unit Confab were involved in a bribery scheme to win work from Petrobras, as the oil company is known.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Brazilian police conducted raids on Wednesday in a new phase of the sweeping "Car Wash" corruption probe targeting alleged bribery by Italo-Argentine group Techint to secure contracts from state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA. Federal police and prosecutors said local Techint units Techint Engenharia e Construção SA and Confab Industrial SA formed part of an illegal cartel of contractors to win more than 3.3 billion reais of contracts between 2007 and 2010.
Transportation Secretary Elaine ChaoElaine Lan ChaoTrump administration takes step to relax truck driver time regulations New guidance on travel with service animals is a step forward, but more can be done The Hill's Morning Report — Mueller testimony gives Trump a boost as Dems ponder next steps MORE and White House chief economic adviser Gary CohnGary David CohnTrump says US will hit China with new round of tariffs next month Gary Cohn bemoans 'dramatic impact' of Trump tariffs Press: Acosta, latest to walk the plank MORE both attended Tuesday afternoon's confab on Capitol Hill.

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