A conference is a meeting of people who "confer" about a topic. Conference types include:
Academic conference, in science and academic, a formal event where researchers present results, workshops, and other activities.
Athletic conference, a competitive grouping of teams, often geographical
Authors' conference, or writers' conference, where writers gather to review their written works and suggest improvements
Conference call, in telecommunications, a call with more than two participants at the same time
Conference hall, room where conferences are held
Convention (meeting), meeting of a, usually large, group of individuals and/or companies in a certain field
Conference, between the two houses of a bicameral legislature
News conference, an announcement to the press (print, radio, television) with the expectation of questions, about the announced matter
Parent-teacher conference, a meeting with a child's teacher to discuss grades and school performance
Peace conference, a diplomatic meeting to end conflict
Professional conference, a meeting of professionals in a given subject or profession dealing with related matters or developments
Settlement conference, a meeting between the plaintiff and the respondent in lawsuit, wherein they try to settle their dispute without proceeding to trial
Trade fair, or trade conference
Unconference, or open space conference, who avoids meeting [with more persons], a participant-driven meeting that tries to avoid one or more aspects of a conventional conference
Video conference, with the reception and transmission of audio-video signals by users at different locationsDedicated may refer to:
Affect may refer to:
Affect (education)
Affect (linguistics), attitude or emotion that a speaker brings to an utterance
Affect (philosophy)
Affect (psychology), the experience of feeling or emotion
Affect display, signs of emotion, such as facial expression, vocalization, and posture
Affect theory
Affective science, the scientific study of emotion
Affective computing, an area of research in computer science aiming to understand the emotional state of users
Reduced affect display, a.k.a. emotional blunting or affective flattening, a reduction in emotional reactivity
Pseudobulbar affect, a.k.a. labile affect, the unstable display of emotion
Affect (rhetoric), the responsive, emotional feeling that precedes cognition
Affected accent; see Accent (sociolinguistics)
Affect (company), a defunct Japanese video game developer