{"id":1914,"date":"2019-03-18T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yoy.foxthemes.me\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2019-03-18T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T15:28:51","slug":"academic-events-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/2019\/03\/18\/academic-events-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Events Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA conference is generally understood as a meeting of several people to discuss a particular topic. It is often confused with a convention, colloquia or symposium. While a conference differs from the others in terms of size and purpose, the term can be used to cover the general concept. A convention is larger than a conference; it is a gathering of delegates representing several groups.<\/p>\n<p>At a conference, innovative ideas are thrown about and new information is exchanged among experts. Its purpose could be one of the following:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul-bullet-list-grey\">\n<li>An&nbsp;<strong>academic conference<\/strong>&nbsp;is a gathering of scientists or academicians, where research findings are presented or a workshop is conducted.<\/li>\n<li>A&nbsp;<strong>business conference<\/strong>&nbsp;is held for people working in the same company or industry. They come together to discuss new trends and opportunities pertaining to the business<\/li>\n<li>A&nbsp;<strong>trade conference<\/strong>&nbsp;takes place on a larger scale. Besides businessmen, there are members of the public who come to network with vendors and made new connections. Such a conference consists of workshops and white paper presentations.<\/li>\n<li>An&nbsp;<strong>unconference<\/strong>&nbsp;differs from the traditional conference, since it avoids the high costs, top-down organizational hierarchy and sponsored presentations. All attendees are equally knowledgeable about the topic and the discussion follows an open mode; usually without a single speaker addressing the gathering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA conference is generally understood as a meeting of several people to discuss a particular topic. It is often confused with a convention, colloquia or symposium. While a conference differs from the others in terms of size and purpose.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[24,27],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fullscreen","tag-conference","tag-workshop","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semanadelainnovacion.ucompensar.edu.co\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}