The AAFS Annual Scientific Meeting is held in February at which time over 500 scientific papers, breakfast seminars, workshops, and other special events are presented.

Some were doing prep work for the evening, others were serving 500 people at a corporate breakfast seminar.

In his speech at the breakfast seminar, Mr. Gargano vowed to provide financial incentives "only to firms where such assistance will make a tangible difference in job creation and retention."

How to insure the survival of family-owned businesses will be among the topics of a breakfast seminar on Thursday sponsored by the Family Business Alliance.

On a local level, IoD regions, divisions and branches host over 50 events per month with events ranging from breakfast seminars to golf days out.

For example, breakfast seminars might be best for networking with a small group from a specific industry sector.

A new series of breakfast seminars on e-business will be offered at Pace University's Graduate Center in White Plains on Thursday and Nov. 30.

Other conference activities include special interest groups, breakfast seminars and a media show case.

Examples include breakfast seminars, lunchtime learning sessions, e-learning, company-wide learning days and full/half day workshops.

Lectures, visits from composers, breakfast seminars and home-based recitals keep the group active.