Annual General Meeting Research Articles

Emotions flare in tense but civil CMA annual meeting

Physicians who attended the annual general meeting (AGM) of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) in Winnipeg were not shy in suggesting words to describe the event, and many of those words weren’t flattering. Rushed. Tense. Emotional. Confusing. “People were really upset. You could see the

Minutes of the 87th Annual General Meeting of The Agricultural Economics Society held on Tuesday 17th April 2018, The Lecture Theatre, Ramphal Building, University of Warwick

Minutes of the 87th Annual General Meeting of The Agricultural Economics Society held on Tuesday 17th April 2018, The Lecture Theatre, Ramphal Building, University of Warwick

NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ANZUP CANCER TRIALS GROUP LTD (ANZUP) (ACN 133 634 956)

Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical OncologyVolume 14, Issue S2 p. 9-9 ANZUP AGM AGENDA NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ANZUP CANCER TRIALS GROUP LTD (ANZUP) (ACN 133 634 956) First published: 04 July 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/ajco.13036Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume14, IssueS2Special Issue: ANZUP Annual Scientific Meeting, Putting People First, 8–10 July 2018, Hyatt Regency, Sydney, NSW, AustraliaJuly 2018Pages 9-9 RelatedInformation

Geological Society of India Bengaluru Annual General Meeting - 2018 and National Seminar on “Effects of Paleo- and Anthropogenic Events on Earth System”

Geological Society of India Bengaluru Annual General Meeting - 2018 and National Seminar on “Effects of Paleo- and Anthropogenic Events on Earth System”

Meeting Report: SANCOLD Conference 2017

The 2017 SANCOLD Conference was held in Centurion, South Africa from 15 to 17 November. The BDS Chair attended the various technical sessions, a workshop on dam safety issues, the Annual General Meeting, the Young Persons Forum and social events. A summary description of the event is included within this report.

NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Greetings all,It has been a long winter in the Edmonton Area so we are very happy to be welcoming spring weather and warm temperatures! This issue’s news items are a bit of a mixed bag of recaps and award announcements:Recap of TD Canadian Children’s Book Week & Lana Button TD Canadian Children’s Book Week was held May 5-12 across Canada. Events across the country featured 400 readings to 28,000 children in 175 communities. At the University of Alberta we featured Lana Button on May 9th for a presentation, showcasing her newest picture book, My Teacher’s Not Here! To read more about Lana Button check out the UAlberta Library Blog: Library News. To read more about other Book Week events see: http://bookweek.ca/CCBC AGMCanadian Children’s Book Centre is holding its Annual General Meeting 2018 on June 14, 2018. This year’s guest speaker is veteran publisher Jim Lorimer. CCBC members and the general public are welcome to attend.WHEN: Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 6:30 pmWHERE: Room 200, Northern District Library40 Orchard View Blvd.Toronto, Ontario The American Library Association Announces Youth Medal Awards for 2018 The annual ALA Medal Awards for 2018 were announced in February. Notable award winners were as follows:John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature: Hello, Universe written by Erin Entrada KellyRandolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children: Wolf in the Snow illustrated and written by Matthew CordellCoretta Scott King Book Awards recognizing African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults: Piecing Me Together written by Renée WatsonMichael L. Printz Award for excellence in literature written for young adults: We Are Okay written by Nina LaCourStonewall Book Award – Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s & Young Adult Literature Award given annually to English-language children’s and young adult books of exceptional merit relating to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender experience: Little & Lion written by Brandy Colbert and The 57 Bus written by Dashka SlaterFor a full description of all award winners see the announcement on the ALA website.Finally, as some food for thought I thought this article from the Family section of The New York Times (April 16, 2018) might be of interest to some our readers. Perri Klass, M.D. writes about how Reading Aloud to Young Children Has Benefits for Behavior and Attention.All the best for an enjoyable spring!Hanne PearceCommunications Editor

Vaccines, inspiring innovation in health

This report covers the topics of pandemics, epidemics and partnerships, including regulatory convergence initiatives, new technologies and novel vaccines, discussed by leading public and private sector stakeholders at the 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Developing Countries Vaccine Manufacturers’ Network (DCVMN). Contributions of Gavi and the vaccine industry from emerging countries to the growing global vaccine market, by improving the supply base from manufacturers in developing countries and contributing to 58% of doses, were highlighted. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) and others reported on new strategies to ensure speedy progress in preclinical and clinical development of innovative vaccines for future MERS, Zika or other outbreak response. Priorities for vaccine stockpiling, to assure readiness during emergencies and to prevent outbreaks due to re-emerging diseases such as yellow fever, cholera and poliomyelitis, were outlined. The role of partnerships in improving global vaccine access, procurement and immunization coverage, and shared concerns were reviewed. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other international collaborating partners provided updates on the Product, Price and Procurement database, the prequalification of vaccines, the control of neglected tropical diseases, particularly the new rabies elimination initiative, and regulatory convergence proposals to accelerate vaccine registration in developing countries. Updates on supply chain innovations and novel vaccine platforms were presented. The discussions enabled members and partners to reflect on efficiency of research & development, supply chain tools and trends in packaging technologies improving delivery of existing vaccines, and allowing a deeper understanding of the current public-health objectives, industry financing, and global policies, required to ensure optimal investments, alignment and stability of vaccine supply in developing countries.

Europeana Network Association 年次総会参加報告

Europeana Network Association 年次総会参加報告

Newsletter Spring 2018: Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada (CITAC).

A decade of CITAC Annual General Meetings: 2007-2017 In 2007, the Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada (CITAC) launched its inaugural Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM has since become a major annual event, jointly organized by CITAC and leaders from the Canadian Society for Clinical Investigation (CSCI), and continues to provide a forum for clinician investigator (CI) trainees to exchange ideas, advance career prospects and engage with the broader community. Indeed, since its inception, all Canadian institutions with medical doctor and clinician investigator (MD+CI) training programs have participated in the AGM, while more than 1,000 trainees have registered as CITAC members. The 10th CITAC-CSCI AGM was recently held in Toronto (November 20-22, 2017). There were nearly 200 attendees, including CI trainees, faculty member and physician leaders from across Canada (Figure 1A, 1B). Trainees spanning diverse career stages had opportunities to participate in interactive poster sessions, workshops and lectures by leading physician-scientists. These exercises were designed to encourage and enhance networking, career development and mentorship for prospective physician-scientists.

Report of the 1st Annual General Meeting of ENETWILD Parma, 16‐18 January 2018

The ENETWILD consortium (www.enetwild.com) has implemented an EFSA‐funded project whose main objective is to collect information and model the geographical distribution and abundance of wild boar throughout Europe. This is of particular concern owing to the spread of African swine fever from Eastern areas. In January 2018, ENETWILD organised discussion workshops for 70 experts in the field of the ecology, management and epidemiology of wild boar. Three workshops addressed the following questions: (1) what kind of data is needed to develop wild boar abundance maps?; (2) how can estimates of boar abundance be harmonised between regions?; and (3) how can the collection of wild boar distribution and abundance data be improved? In order to collect data on the presence/absence and abundance of wild boar obtained from different sources (administrations, hunters, naturalists and researchers), it is necessary to work on the generation, collection and processing of data in a harmonised manner, thus enabling the information to be comparable and used at a European level. The use of information on hunting statistics (number of animals hunted and hunting effort per surface unit) is particularly essential. The strategy is based on, firstly, collecting existing non‐harmonised wild boar data in the short‐term (occurrence and hunting statistics) by collecting the more accessible data. As a second step, ENETWILD distributed a questionnaire on how and where the data concerning hunting statistics are collected throughout the different Countries or regions in Europe. The objective of this questionnaire was to identify those places in which hunting statistics are still disaggregated (at the highest spatial resolution), with the purpose of standardising the means employed to collect hunting data in Europe. The following step consisted of the appropriate collection of data, using a data model and supported by a data‐sharing agreement.

Auditor Face‐Work at the Annual General Meeting

AbstractThis paper examines how auditors prepare for the annual general meeting (AGM) and how they report their work to the shareholders there. Prior literature has suggested—but not explicitly studied—that the endpoint of an audit is a state of comfort between the auditor and the management and audit committee members, but also is potentially fragile. The fragility can arise from a failure to relay trust to the investor community, which may initiate or increase doubts about the financial report and/or the auditor's independence. We build the case that an AGM is an event to study how the endpoint of an audit engagement is both a state of collective comfort and a fragile state. The analysis is based on ten interviews and three workshops with auditors as well as observations at 67 AGMs. To analyze the field material, the paper draws on Goffman's idea of face‐work, which requires backstage preparations, notably with management, and a front stage performance as an independent auditor to relay trust to the shareholders. The paper details how auditors at the AGM perform as independent verifiers of the management's financial report. Although we recorded that auditors were typically successful in preventing the backstage activities from becoming visible to the shareholders, we found incidents that challenged both the auditors' and the managements' face. In analyzing these incidents, we found that auditors reinforced their image as independent to regain both their own face and the management's face. The management did not take a similar collective responsibility for the auditor's face, which implies that auditors were asymmetrically committed to the management. As a take‐away, the paper discusses how governance mechanisms backstage are linked and can surface front stage at the AGM.

Proceedings of The Annual General Meeting Of The Society — 2017

Proceedings of The Annual General Meeting Of The Society — 2017

Lessons Learned from AI Prototype Designed for Corporate AGM Voting Decisions

In this paper, we examine how the development of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) system can benefit the process of shareholder activism via making AGM (Annual General Meeting) voting decision. Using historical voting records for the years 2016 and 2017 from Castlefield Investment Partners, we find that those guidelines with clearly defined, numerical tests for acceptability have often triggered voting decisions while those requiring judgment calls have only done so very rarely. The design of any machine based AGM voting decision making tool would require the fully formal, concrete codification of the voting guidelines as an essential preliminary step. Indirectly, the necessity of an unambiguous voting guideline turns out to be the most important advantage arising from the implementation of AI tool.

ASIL Assembly and Annual General Meeting

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Proceedings, 121st Annual General Meeting, 2018

Proceedings, 121st Annual General Meeting, 2018

Shareholder engagement e co-creation. Un’analisi su un campione di imprese quotate

Purpose of the paper: The paper analyzes and interprets the shareholder engagement as a means of co-creation of value and aims to verify whether it could encourage a greater flow of information within the firm, creating the foundations for a shared government. Methodology: This study has an exploratory approach; the scholars used a phenomenological approach to test a sample of 44% of Italian companies to large and mid-cap. The data used refer to the years 2014/2016 and report the degree of dissent by minority shareholders with respect to the proposals in shareholder meetings and in particular with regard to remuneration policies. Findings: Results show that the continuous shareholder engagement reduces the degree of dissent by minority towards business decisions, with regard to decisions relating to the remuneration policies. Research limits: The paper used a sample of 44% of Italian companies to large and mid-caps listed. It would be desirable, in the future, expand the survey to a sample of international companies, operating in different contexts. Practical implications: The paper provides information on the operation and effectiveness of the actions and policies of engagement by providing useful practical guidance on the effectiveness of proxy solicitors and on a “new role” of the Annual General Meeting. Originality of the paper: In studies on corporate governance, the co-creation of value approach has not found a specific epistemological framework. In this work, however, we have tried to reinterpret the shareholder engagement as a co-creation tool.

Overview of the RPS Annual General Meeting 2018

Overview of the RPS Annual General Meeting 2018

Minutes of the 2018 Annual General Meeting

Minutes of the 2018 Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting oral and poster competiton winners

Annual General Meeting oral and poster competiton winners

Canadian Committee on Labour History Annual General Meeting University of Regina, 28 May 2018

Canadian Committee on Labour History Annual General Meeting University of Regina, 28 May 2018