NIAF's 2009 public policy programs on Capitol Hill featured prominent Italians and Italian Americans as keynote speakers, including Leon Panetta, Director of the CIA, and Franco Frattini, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Italy.

The keynote featured developers from Wolfram Research, who discussed their experience porting Mathematica to Mac OS X on the Intel platform.

NewTek shipped a 64-bit version of LightWave 3D as part of the fifth free update of LightWave 3D 8, and was featured in a keynote speech by Bill Gates at WinHEC 2005.

" Defining moments of the 2004 Republican National Convention include a featured keynote address by Zell Miller and the confirmation of the nomination of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for reelection.

" LaRouche's writings are featured prominently in Schiller Institute communications, and he is the keynote speaker at most Schiller Institute conferences.

The 2004 Democratic National Convention included the featured keynote speech of Barack Obama, then a candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, who would later go on to become the 44th President of the United States in 2009.

The convention featured speeches by Joe Paterno, Pat Robertson, a keynote address by Thomas Kean, then-governor of New Jersey, and the music of the Jimmy Maxwell Orchestra.

* In February 1966 Vietnam War supporters held a prayer rally that featured Dean Rusk as its keynote speaker.

Cohen ’ s public appearances include delivering keynote addresses and / or being a featured speaker at a variety of international conferences and workshops and speaking at various universities.

Active in Islamic missionary work in the United States, Estes is often featured as guest presenter and keynote speaker at various Islamic events as well as frequently appearing on various Islamic satellite TV channels.

One significant event was the ' Science and Its Critics ' conference in early 1997 ; it brought together scientists and scholars who study science and featured Alan Sokal and Steve Fuller as keynote speakers.

On October 10, 2009 the college held a dedication ceremony for the new building which was attended by approximately 1, 000 people and featured evangelical leader James Dobson of Focus on the Family as the keynote speaker.

The keynote featured an appearance by Microsoft CEO Bill Gates by satellite.

During the WWDC 2007 keynote, Steve Jobs made widgets out of the following: the featured news headlines on Yahoo. com, the top ten most searched terms on Google, the Photo of the Day on National Geographic, the Dilbert comic strip, and the box office information from Rotten Tomatoes.

) Over 250 people participated in the first conference which took place in Kalamazoo, MI on April 1st, 2006 and featured former Central Intelligence Agency director Jim Woolsey giving a keynote speech on U. S. oil dependence and national security.

The BET awards were gala affairs that featured such keynote speakers as President Bill Clinton, then-Vice President Albert Gore, Senator Bill Bradley, and journalist Bill Moyers.

The 2010 History Under Siege: Most Endangered Civil War Battlefields report news conference also featured a keynote speech by the best-selling author and Civil War Trust Board Member Jeff Shaara.

Attendees also hear keynote speeches and readings and attend workshops, Q & A sessions, and book signings by featured speakers such as Billy Collins, Ursula Le Guin, Neil Gaiman, Amy Tan, and Dave Eggers.

State Party Chairman James W. Dorsey added that enthusiasm was picking up for a state rally to be held Sept. 8 in Savannah at which newly elected Texas Sen. John Tower will be the featured speaker.

This became the ' standard edition ' for the future and it featured some of the literary conventions that modern readers expectthere was still no spacing between words, little or no punctuation and no stage directions, but abbreviated names now denoted changes of speaker, lyrics are broken into ' cola ' and ' strophai ' or lines and stanzas, and a system of accentuation was introduced.

In November 2009 Voight was a featured speaker, at a Tea Party protesting the healthcare reform legislation, and again at a rally outside the capital on March 20, 2010.

Margaret Mead ( December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978 ) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

The featured speaker was T. R. M. Howard, a black civil rights leader from Mississippi who headed the Regional Council of Negro Leadership.

The convention was seen by some of its contemporaries, including featured speaker Mott, as but a single step in the continuing effort by women to gain for themselves a greater proportion of social, civil and moral rights, but it was viewed by others as a revolutionary beginning to the struggle by women for complete equality with men.

Because of the fame and drawing power of Lucretia Mott, who would not be staying in the Upstate New York area for much longer, a regional Woman's Rights Convention was held two weeks later in Rochester, New York with Abigail Bush serving as president, and Lucretia Mott as featured speaker.

:" he was a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference.

In 2006 he was a featured speaker in a public service campaign sponsored by a UN conference to focus attention on trade of illicit arms, especially of small arms and light weapons.

In November 1992, Irving was to be a featured speaker at a world anti-Zionist congress in Stockholm that was cancelled by the Swedish government.

The existing Webster Parish Court House in Minden, built at a cost of $ 876, 000, was dedicated on May 1, 1953, with Governor Robert F. Kennon, who was reared in Minden and formerly served as its mayor, as the featured speaker.

This city was founded in 1910 in which the featured speaker at the dedication ceremony was former President Theodore Roosevelt.

In that sworn statement, the organizers indicated that " Einhorn, given a small role on the stage at Earth Day, grabbed the microphone and refused to give up the podium for thirty minutes " During Einhorn ’ s murder trial, one of the Earth Day organizing committee members, psychiatrist Donald Nathanson, took the stand and under oath testified that the committee had barred Einhorn from their discussions, considering him a nuisance .. Again, under oath and penalty of perjury, Dr. Nathanson said there was no master of ceremonies and Einhorn ’ s only role at the event had been as a liaison with poet and featured speaker Allen Ginsberg.

In Thought for the Day, featured since 1970, a speaker reflects on topical issues from a theological viewpoint ; the editorial responsibility lying with BBC's Religion and Ethics Department ( a point often made on the Today Programme ).

Three of his lectures and two panel discussions he participated in were recorded when he was a featured speaker at both the Starwood Festival and the WinterStar Symposium ( both with and without Robert Anton Wilson ) and produced by the Association for Consciousness Exploration.

Evidence of how impatient audiences were getting with psychiatrists telling them they were mentally ill was displayed in 1964 when at an ECHO convention, a featured speaker named Dr. Albert Ellis stated that " the exclusive homosexual is a psychopath " to which someone in the audience responded, " Any homosexual who would come to you for treatment, Dr. Ellis, would have to be a psychopath!

On February 17, 2008 Jemison was the featured speaker for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Portillo has featured in a number of television documentaries, including one on Richard Wagner, of whose music he is a notable fan, and two on Spain: Great Railway Journeys: From Granada to Salamanca for BBC Two ( 2002 ), and a programme on Spanish wildlife for BBC Two's The Natural World series ( 2006 )-Portillo is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Marrs has been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the annual International UFO Congress and the annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference, but he also speaks at local conferences, such as Conspiracy Con and The Bay Area UFO Expo.

In 1978, after Abagnale had been a featured speaker at an anti-crime seminar, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter looked into his assertions.

" Robbins is a featured speaker on the seminar circuit sponsored by Learning Annex.

Robbins appeared as a featured speaker at the 2007 Technology, Entertainment and Design ( TED ) conference.

* American Library Association 2002 featured speaker

Hollywood actor and native Iowan Stephen Collins was the featured speaker at the 2010 commencement ceremony and spoke to the 234 graduating students about his views on " counter-culturalism ".

In May 2011, Baio was honored as a featured guest speaker during the Hollywood Congress of Republicans monthly meetup, saying, " I was never afraid to speak my mind.