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| Conference – As compared with a congress, a conference is normally smaller in scale and more select in character features, which tend to facilitate the exchange of information. | |||||||||
| Congress – Regular coming together on a representational basis of several hundreds to even thousands of individuals belonging to a single professional, cultural, religious or other group. | |||||||||
| Convention – General and formal meeting of a legislative body, social or economic group. The term is also used to describe meetings of business circles such as the Ford Dealers Convention. | |||||||||
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Forum – A small gathering of people, usually no more than one hundred persons for the exchange of information. Speakers and delegates take part in the discussion. |
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| Seminar – Meeting or series of meetings of specialists who have different skills but have a common specific interest and have come together for training or learning purposes. | |||||||||
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Summit – A gathering of like minded people to discuss/debate topics of mutual interest with stated outcomes at the end of the Summit. |
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| Symposium – Meeting of a number of experts in a particular field at which papers are presented by specialists on particular subjects and discussed with a view to making recommendations. | |||||||||
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