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A U.S. House of Representatives working group on addiction (2019). A working group is a group of experts working together to achieve specified goals. Such groups are domain-specific and focus on discussion or activity around a specific subject area.
Public session – a meeting, usually of a governmental body, that is open to the general public. [16] [17] [18] For government bodies, such meetings may be required to be open to the public due to open meeting laws. [19] Electronic meetings – a meeting held by electronic means, such as the internet. [20]
A summit meeting (or just summit) is an international meeting of heads of state or government, usually with considerable media exposure, tight security, and a prearranged agenda. Notable summit meetings include those of Franklin D. Roosevelt , Winston Churchill , and Joseph Stalin during World War II .
An advisory committee meeting can be closed to the public if the president or an agency head determines that any of the 10 exemptions to the Sunshine Act apply (see below). The committee must provide access to materials provided to it, including reports, transcripts, minutes, working papers, agendas or other documents unless any of the nine ...
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 information between ...
"The various Pugwash activities (general conferences, workshops, study groups, consultations and special projects) provide a channel of communication between scientists, scholars, and individuals experienced in government, diplomacy, and the military for in-depth discussion and analysis of the problems and opportunities at the intersection of ...
Kickoff meeting, the first meeting with a project team and the client of the project to discuss the role of each team-member [5] Town hall meeting, an informal public gathering. Work meeting, which produces a product or intangible result such as a decision; [6] compare working group. Board meeting, a meeting of the board of directors of an ...
A committee of the whole is a meeting of a legislative or deliberative assembly using procedural rules that are based on those of a committee, except that in this case the committee includes all members of the assembly. As with other (standing) committees, the activities of a committee of the whole are limited to considering and making ...