Posts Tagged ‘Convention’

CMA’s Annual Conference

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

The Foush will be one of 12 Keynote Speakers presenting at the Canadian Marketing Association’s Annual Conference taking on May 26 & 27 in Toronto. It takes place at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.

The CMA embraces Canada’s major business sectors and all marketing disciplines, channels and technologies.  It has evolved into the largest marketing association in Canada. Its 800 corporate members include the country’s major financial institutions, insurance companies, publishers, retailers, charitable organizations, agencies, relationship marketers and those involved in e-business and Internet marketing. Some of Canada’s most well-known and respected brands are CMA Members, including Costco, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO), Home Depot, Kraft, the Globe and Mail and Rogers Communications.

The Foush in Portugal

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

The Foush will be keynoting at the annual meeting of Sonae Distribuição, a Portuguese retail company with two major partnerships in the shopping centers and telecommunications sectors.

The company operates in two core business:

  • - Sonae MC is the food retail market leader in Portugal with a number of distinctive formats, which offer a varied range of high quality products at competitive prices: Continente (hypermarkets), Modelo (supermarkets), Área Saúde (para-pharmacies), Bom Bocado (cafetarias) and Book.it (book shop/stationery).
  • - Sonae SR has a range of brands in benchmark positions in their respective market segments. The offer is wide ranging: Loop (footwear), Modalfa (clothing), SportZone (sports clothing and equipment), Vobis (computer equipment), Worten (white goods and consumer electronics), Worten Mobile (mobile telecommunications) and Zippy (clothing for babies and children).

Sonae is the first Portuguese retail group to adopt a fishing sustainability policy and the first to sign up to the World Economic Forum management principles. The annual meeting will be held May 24th in Troia, Portugal.

Training 2010 Conference & Expo

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Training 2010 the premier event for workplace learning is taking place February 1-3, 2010 in San Diego, CA. Rahaf is one of the select group of keynote speakers at this conference.
Training 2010 covers the core areas of workplace learning: design, assessment, development, and management. Conference highlights include Stephen Covey, author of  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and The Economics of Trust; Steve Harper, author of The Ripple Effect, an exhibition of learning technologies as well as 36 case study presentations. Fresh from her participation in the World Economic Forum’s summit at Davos, Switzerland, Rahaf Harfoush, author of the book Yes We Did: Strategic Insights and Social Media from the Campaign that Changed History will be speaking about implications of social media for building a brand.

40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum

Monday, January 18th, 2010

In response to changing priorities in the world economy the 40th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) traditionally held in Davos (Switzerland) is being held under the motto “Improve the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild”.

The premise of Davos is that changing the world requires global cooperation, which in turn needs engaging stakeholders from business, government, the media, science, religion, the arts and civil society.

The rethink component is driven by the work of over 70 Global Agenda Councils involving over 1000 experts that meet on a regional or sectoral basis to advance ideas and solutions to the most critical challenges facing the world.

The redesign components builds upon the ongoing work of the Forum’s Global Redesign Initiative (GRI), an unprecedented multi-stakeholder dialogue with the ambitious goal of adapting structures and systems of international cooperation to meet present and future challenges challenges that the world is facing.

In order to support a continuing dialogue before and after Davos, WEF has been building a Web 2.0 collaboration platform called WELCOME. Our own Rahaf Harfoush is a key member of that initiative. You can follow the Davos events and discussions on WEF’s web site, or on aggregator sites such as the Eqentia WEF portal. You can also follow them on Twitter (@davos or the tag #WEF). You can also watch on YouTube Lee Howell, Managing Director, Head of Programming & Global Agenda Councils discuss the themes of Davos 2010 here.

40th Ruby Gala Dinner

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Communicate. Inspire. Build.  These are the tenets of the 2009 Biannual Convention of the BC New Democratic Party, which will be held in Vancouver at the end of November. To commemorate the past 40 Conventions the 2009 Convention features the 40th Ruby Gala Dinner on the evening of Saturday November 28th.

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The keynote speaker is our own Rahaf Harfoush, author of “Yes We Did” who will be talking about the changing face of social media and how these tools can be used to achieve organizational goals.

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