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Top 10 Conferences and Events to Attend In 2023

Most significant workshops and seminars related to AI in 2023 Workshops, conferences, and celebrations bring together people who share similar interests as well as industry colleagues. These AI Conferences bring together professionals from all around the world to discuss new ideas, methodologies, and unreleased data, as well as gain insight from intellectual gurus they may not have known previously. Here is a list of some of the most important upcoming artificial intelligence top events and conferences for 2023 that…

Saudi Arabia Seeks to Lure Global Miners in Bid to Overhaul Its Economy

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia—Saudi officials are wooing top mining companies to help exploit untapped mineral deposits in the kingdom that could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars, as the world’s biggest exporter of oil accelerates plans to build new industries away from hydrocarbons. The fourth-largest net importer of minerals globally has a small domestic mining industry despite unverified estimates putting its mineral wealth at over $1.3 trillion, including deposits of copper, zinc, phosphates, uranium and gold. The…

The Future of Car Technology, as Seen at CES 2023

Color-changing cars. Flying taxis. And a gaming-style tablet that can steer a vehicle.Car companies descended on CES in Las Vegas this week to show off their latest ideas—some quirky and far out, others more relevant in the near term—as the industry navigates technological shifts in its business. During the week, car executives unveiled new in-car software, hyped automated-driving tech, and highlighted new partnerships and investment deals. Auto makers in recent years have accelerated the…

Stair-Climbing Wheelchairs, Closed-Caption Glasses: Assistive Tech Gains at CES in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS—The smartphone revolution of the past decade, which reduced the cost of super-efficient processors and tiny cameras, is now enabling innovators to create subtler, more effective tools to assist people with disabilities.Accessibility is among the consumer trends in focus in Las Vegas this week at CES, a global technology bazaar where companies offer clues about what’s coming in the year ahead and beyond. Cosmo Moore, who is 39, is a stay-at-home dad living with a genetic vision…

How to Make the Most of In-Person Conferences

“I’ve lost my social skills!” I texted to a friend while en route to my first in-person conference in four years. The workshop itself wasn’t new—I’d been to the same one every other year for the past decade. But between the last live one in 2018, the virtual one in 2020, and this one in 2022, I had learned to appreciate the convenience of online learning. No flights. No dress code. No interacting with others—the perfect environment for an introvert like me. But 10 months after registering, I left my sweatpants and…

Fear of professional backlash may keep women from speaking up at academic conferences

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Academic conferences provide invaluable opportunities for researchers to present their work and receive feedback from attendees during question-and-answer sessions. Women are less likely to ask questions during these sessions, however, and research in Psychological Science suggests that this may be due to anxiety about how colleagues will receive their comments.…

Marketers Brace to Defend Their Ad Budgets in an Unsteady Economy

ORLANDO, Fla.—An opening session of a major marketing conference this week included a quick mention of a conversation many industry executives expect to be having soon.“In the next few months, if you have not already been asked, you’re going to be asked to cut your budgets, you’re going to be asked to find ways to save money,” said Bob Liodice, chief executive officer of the Association of National Advertisers, a trade association whose members include Coca-Cola, Walmart and McDonald’s.…

2023 Golden Globes to get no press conferences from Hollywood Foreign Press

Press conferences for any movies or TV shows eligible for January`s Golden Globe Awards will not be held by The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, said the group on Friday. According to Deadline, in early 2021, the practice of Globes press conferences conducted exclusively for HFPA members came under the microscope amid revelations in a Los Angeles Times expose that detailed multiple shortcomings at the organization around diversity and transparency. Instances of being subjected to intrusive questions were shared by…

HFPA Announces There Will Be No Press Golden Globes Press Conferences – The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the organization behind the Golden Globes, will not have any press conferences this awards season. “The HFPA will not be hosting any press conferences during the current awards cycle,” HFPA president Helen Hoehne said in a statement. “Our commitment remains on recognizing the very best in film and television both in the U.S. and abroad and bringing the Golden Globes to a global television and streaming audience.” She continued, “With the expansion of the…

Israel’s Defense Industry Is Big Winner Two Years After Abraham Accords

TEL AVIV—When the United Arab Emirates was looking last year for ways to protect its high-profile World Expo from possible drone attacks launched by Iran-backed militants, it secretly turned to a new friend: Israel.Faced with the possibility that Iran and its allies could launch destabilizing attacks on the lucrative event, the Persian Gulf nation bought a small Israeli air-defense system designed to bring down hostile drones, according to former Israeli leaders and defense-industry officials. Those people said the Rafael…