The team here at FTF would like to wish you all a Happy and Prosperous New Year! FTF has been taking a short blogging break for the holidays, but not to worry, we’ll be back on January 3, 2011. We’ll see you in the New Year!
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The Worst Gift I Ever Received Was….
Everyone knows how hard it can be to find the perfect gift for someone. Whether you are searching for a close friend or colleague, sometimes it’s simply difficult to pick out a gift that you know the other person will love. Usually, when I’m in this position I go with the “safe gift,” maybe a
Conference and Event Planning
Top 5 Conference Disasters
In the event planning industry, you get used to putting fires out. But the true test of an event planner is whether you can put the fire out without people knowing a situation arose at all! Thanks to Murphy’s Law, it’s pretty much a given that something you don’t expect to happen, is going to
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Top 3 Event Mistakes and How NOT to Make Them
We were hired recently by a software company to help expand their presence in North America by organizing an industry breakfast and securing 30-40 fund of fund operations professionals from the top 1% of firms in North America. Additionally, we were responsible for selecting the venue, advising on the agenda and flow of the day,
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Meet Some of the Staff of FTF
For the past four and half years, the women of FTF have worked hard to provide thought leadership on Wall Street through our conferences, breakfast briefings, webinars, proprietary events and training seminars. Additionally, since you’ve been reading our blog posts for the past four months, we thought we were long overdue for a formal introduction
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Happy Thanksgiving from FTF
Financial Technologies Forum would like to wish you and your families a very Happy Thanksgiving. We are thankful to all of our guest bloggers and readers who have helped make our blog, TheBullRun, a success. We’ll see you back here Monday for our regular scheduled programming. Go forth to eat and help stimulate the economy!
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What Makes a Great Speaker Great?
At the end of each conference that Financial Technologies Forum hosts, we collect evaluations that rate how well each of our speakers did throughout the day on a 1 to 5 scale, 5 being excelleing and 1 being poor, as well as how the attendees felt about the conference content. Following our 5th Annual OTC
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Tis’ the Season…
Can you believe Christmas is only 58 days away?! The holiday season is right around the corner and with this realization comes the flood of holiday “To Do’s” that overtake our life every year. But this year FTF would like to take the time once again and help out children in the NYC area that
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Thoughts from a Conference Professional – The Final Session
For years we have asked ourselves “Why do attendees leave the conference before the final session?” We have tried everything from saving key sessions until the end of the day, to having half-day events rather than full-day events. We have even invited everyone to join us for cocktails at the close of the event, thus
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Eating Our Way through Wall Street!
We thought it might be fun to lighten the mood this Friday and share with you some of the FTF crew’s favorite Wall Street eateries. Food is a topic that regularly comes up in conversation at the office, so it is only natural that it has made its way to our blog! We plan to
