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An annual general meeting ( AGM, also known as the annual meeting) is a meeting of the general membership of an organization. These organizations include membership associations and companies with shareholders . These meetings may be required by law or by the constitution, charter, or by-laws governing the body.
Academic conference. An academic conference or scientific conference (also congress, symposium, workshop, or meeting) is an event for researchers (not necessarily academics) to present and discuss their scholarly work. Together with academic or scientific journals and preprint archives, conferences provide an important channel for exchange of ...
A conference is a meeting, often lasting a few days, which is organized on a particular subject, or to bring together people who have a common interest. Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, is the primary purpose of conferences. The term derives from the word confer .
Town meeting, also known as an "open town meeting," is a form of local government in which eligible town residents can directly participate in an assembly which determines the governance of their town. Unlike representative town meeting where only elected representatives can participate in the governing assembly, any town voter may participate ...
The World Economic Forum and its annual meeting in Davos have received criticism over the years, including allegations of the organization's corporate capture of global and democratic institutions, employer misconduct and harassment, institutional whitewashing initiatives, the public cost of security, the organization's tax-exempt status ...
General Assembly (horse), American throughbred racehorse. General assembly (Occupy movement), the primary decision-making bodies of the global Occupy Movement which arose in 2011. General Assembly (school), a private for-profit education company. General Assembly, a fictional international council from the browser game NationStates.
Meeting (parliamentary procedure) According to Robert's Rules of Order, a widely used guide to parliamentary procedure, a meeting is a gathering of a group of people to make decisions. [ 1] This sense of "meeting" may be different from the general sense in that a meeting in general may not necessarily be conducted for the purpose of making ...
The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties – the Conference of the Parties (COP) – to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally ...