Over the past few years, I’ve continually been dismayed by how few women are featured as speakers at tech conferences. According to one 2015 study in the U.S., only 25% of speakers at tech events are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Hall covers entrepreneurial topics that help companies grow. The year is nearing its end, and if I had to guess off the top ...

Linguistic challenges exert a huge toll on nonnative English speakers as they pour disproportionate effort, time and money into academic tasks that their Anglophone colleagues breeze through, new ...

It’s an accessibility issue, for one. D.C.-based technologist and entrepreneur Eva Reid considers the value of academic and trade conferences, as well as what a better model could be. Conference ...

Alabama-Mississippi Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (AMTESOL) - an affiliate of the TESOL International Association – held its 2024 conference on January 11-13 in Tupelo, ...

There’s a lot that goes on behind the scenes when it comes to planning conferences. With the sheer number of events in the marketing industry alone, the competition for quality speakers – who may ...

The death of George Floyd in 2020 sparked intense emotion, and increased recognition of the need to take active measures in matters of race within science and academia. This piece considers the ...

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. A paper co-authored by Tatsuya Amano was rejected recently without review because its level of English did not meet the ...

An organizer of an upcoming software and developer conference called DevTernity has been accused of cooking up fake women speakers featured on the event’s website — AI-generated headshots and all. It ...

Conferences, powerfully, offer the ability to gather with like-minded individuals in a room, where ideas that might never have come to light have the breathing room to be shared. Opinions expressed by ...

Organized under the auspices of the Senate of Pakistan, the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference will formally begin tomorrow (Tuesday). The Senate Secretariat has finalized all arrangements in ...