The last big gathering of this kind 20 years ago pledged international action to tackle climate change and the growing threat to the natural world.
Where privacy advocates see the specter of a corporate Big Brother gathering details on consumers' every move, Swindle sees enterprise thriving.
Similar shows took place in cities across the world, with hundreds of thousands lining London's Thames and big crowds gathering in New York.
With several hundred politicians, diplomats and academics milling around one of the region's capitals, it is more like a big family gathering than an international summit.
He took reporters to church at the weekend, and there is a fascinating report that Mitt the Mormon will be center stage at next week's big Republican gathering in Florida.
"Gathering big data about human behaviors can be a sensitive topic, " says Dave Lathrop, director of workspace futures and strategy at Steelcase Inc.
The idea behind UltraPixels is to combine a physically large sensor with big pixels capable of gathering more light.
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In short, it was an exclusive, but grassroots gathering of big brains who came to Detroit to explore, reflect, let loose and contemplate on how they could affect and potentially enter the local economy.
The convention center has become a big place where people are gathering and that's closer to you.
But Toyota's gathering assault on the big-pickup market is ominous.
All markets need to pause and take a break and the bulls appear to be merely gathering strength for their next big upside assault on the key target from the October 2012 peak.
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Indeed, many big shot hedge fund managers might be gathering at the Las Vegas Salt conference, giving their hotly sought after views on certain stocks and markets, but Icahn, who is busy working in New York, has outperformed just about all of them in recent years.
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At BlogHer, the annual gathering for women bloggers, PepsiCo was a big player last week in New York.
In a speech on October 25th at The Economist's Buttonwood Gathering in New York, Mervyn King savaged big banks and criticised the new Basel 3 rules as too soft.
As the cost of gathering, storing and processing data steadily declines, Big Data technology helps us listen in to what the social web is saying.
Now the Democrats are gathering with the support of Reverend Jackson to have a big march.
Politicians always strive for the big sound bite, the clever phrase that the media grabs and repeats ad infinitum, gathering momentum and mind share.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the big name guest at this year's Soccerex convention, with 3, 000 delegates attending the latest gathering of the world's biggest football business event.
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The Internet, after all, is a vast Big Data environment, in which millions of servers and billions of personal computers and smart devices are continuously and perpetually gathering great caches of data on every single one of its users.
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