67th World News Media Congress · 22nd World Editors Forum · 25th World Advertising Forum
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Thank you for participating in the 2015 Congress. We look forward to welcoming you this year in Cartagena, Colombia, from 12 to 14 June 2016.
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WAN-IFRA, in cooperation with the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), has held the most prestigious event for news media professionals, the 67th World News Media Congress in Washington, D.C.
The Congress offered three parallel events that together form the annual meeting point for publishers, CEOs, managing editors and advertising executives from all over the world striving for excellence to succeed in today's highly competitive media landscape.
Speakers
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Larry KramerLarry Kramer is president and publisher of USA Today. Prior to that he was an...
Speakers
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Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr. became publisher of The New York Times in 1992 and continues to run...
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Larry Kramer
Larry Kramer is president and publisher of USA Today. Prior to that he was an...
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Nancy Lane
Nancy Lane is the dynamic leader of the Local Media Association, an...
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Torry Pedersen
Torry Pedersen is CEO/Editor in Chief of Verdens Gang AS, Norway’s most read news-site/...
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Martin Baron
Martin “Marty” Baron became executive editor of The Washington Post on January 2, 2013. He...
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Terry J. Kroeger
Terry J. Kroeger is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BH Media Group, and the...
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Melissa Bell
Melissa Bell co-founded Vox.com in early 2014 and became the first person at...
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Emily Bell
Emily Bell is director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's Graduate School of...
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Fadi Chehadé
Fadi Chehadé is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Internet Corporation for...
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Marta Gleich
Marta Gleich, 52, is the executive editor of Zero Hora and seven other RBS Group newspapers in...
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Nick Tjaardstra
Nick leads our most advanced digital revenue programmes, from our eRev exec programme, to our...
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Perrine Albrieux
Perrine joined the Groupe Télégramme in 2012, as Group Marketing Director, where she is in...
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Greg Barber
Greg Barber has made a career of startups within news organizations.
After a stint...
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Joyce Barnathan
Joyce Barnathan is president of the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), a non-profit...
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Donna Barrett
Donna Barrett has been president and chief executive officer of Community Newspaper Holdings Inc...
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Fergus Bell
Fergus Bell is a UGC and digital newsgathering expert who has a passion for the positive...
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Nick Bell
Nick Bell is now part of the Snapchat team. Formerly he was Senior Vice...
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Guy Berger
Guy has many years of experience in the African media and headed the School of Journalism &...
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David Biderman
David Biderman is the Director of Business Intelligence at Dow Jones, assisting on product...
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Ludovic Blecher
Ludovic Blecher has spent most of his professional career in the newspaper industry. He first...
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Matt Boggie
Matt Boggie is the Executive Director of the R&D Lab at The New York Times. As the lab...
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Irina Bokova
Irina Bokova, born on 12 July 1952 in Sofia (Bulgaria) has been the Director-General of UNESCO...
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Gordon Borrell
Gordon Borrell is one of the media industry’s leading analysts. He is ranked in the top 2...
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Jim Brady
Jim Brady is the CEO of Spirited Media, which operates the news platform Billy Penn in...
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Tomas Brunegård
Tomas Brunegård is the President of WAN-IFRA and former Chairman of the Board of Sweden's...
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David Callaway
David Callaway is Editor-in-Chief of USA Today, responsible for the day...
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Phil Chetwynd
Phil Chetwynd was appointed AFP's Paris-based Global Editor-in-Chief in October 2012. He is...
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Rita Chinyoka
Rita Chinyoka is a seasoned business executive who brings to Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) over 20...
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Pichai Chuensuksawadi
Pichai Chuensuksawadi is the Editor-in-Chief of The Post Publishing, which publishes the...
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Liam Corcoran
Liam Corcoran is NewsWhip's Social Media Editor.
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Randy Covington
Randy Covington is director of the WAN-IFRA Newsplex Training Centre at the University of South...
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Zohar Dayan
Zohar Dayan is the Co-Founder & CEO of Wibbitz, a technology that automatically produces...
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Daniel Dessein
Daniel Dessein was born in Tucumán (Argentina), in 1973. He is the president of DYN news agency...
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Ken Doctor
Ken Doctor is an analyst with a ringside seat at the greatest story ever told about the global...
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Ekrem Dumanlı
Ekrem Dumanlı is the editor-in-chief of the Zaman daily, one of Turkey’s largest...
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Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards joined The Gazette Company in May of 2009. He oversees the sales and...
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Deniz Ergürel
Deniz Ergürel is a technology journalist and social entrepreneur. He is currently the R&D...
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Lou Ferrara
Lou Ferrara is the vice president for sports, business, interactive and entertainment news at...
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Alanna Gombert
Alanna Gombert is CEO of Gombert Consulting, a full service digital media consulting...
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Ulrik Haagerup
Born in 1963, Ulrik Haagerup is the Executive Director of News at the Danish Broadcasting...
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Ferial Haffajee
Ferial Haffajee is Editor-in-Chief of the highly rated South African Sunday newspaper City Press...
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Mark Halperin
Mark Halperin is co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, which leads Bloomberg’s political and...
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John Heilemann
John Heilemann, co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, has covered politics, business, and...
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Christian Hendricks
Chris Hendricks has been Vice President, Interactive Media at McClatchy since 1999. He...
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Stephen P. Hills
Steve Hills has made a career out of creating successful customer-focused innovation. During his...
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Lars Hordnes
Lars Hordnes has worked with digital advertising since 1996 with companies...
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Fred Hurkmans
Born in France, Dutch and living in Belgium, Fred Hurkmans joined NewsMaster in 2013....
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Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis is professor and director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at...
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Douglas Jehl
Douglas Jehl is foreign editor of The Washington Post, overseeing all news coverage outside the...
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Alexis Johann
Johann is managing director of styria digital one, the advertising arm of Austria´s...
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Robert Johansson
Robert Johansson manages the daily operations of AdMarket for Schibsted Sweden and one of his...
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Cathrin Kahlweit
Cathrin Kahlweit is the Correspondent for Central Eastern Europe at Süddeutsche Zeitung, where...
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Tom Kent
Thomas Kent is deputy managing editor and standards editor of the AP, responsible for standards...
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Larry Kilman
Larry Kilman is the Paris-based Secretary General for the World Association of Newspapers and...
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Anders Kring
Anders Kring is the Head of Berlingske Media LAB. He is a former games producer who have...
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Christopher M. Lee
Chris Lee became President of Deseret Digital Media (DDM) in 2013 after previously serving as...
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Elisa Lees Muñoz
Elisa Lees Munoz is the IWMF’s Executive Director. She is responsible for identifying strategic...
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Caroline H. Little
Caroline Little is president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America, the industry’s...
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Alex MacCallum
Alex MacCallum is an assistant editor at The New York Times, a position she has held since...
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Robert M. McDowell
Mr. McDowell, former commissioner and senior member of the Federal Communications Commission (...
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Amy Mitchell
Amy Mitchell is director of journalism research for the Pew Research Center. She is responsible...
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Andrew Nachison
Andrew Nachison is a writer, journalist, digital media analyst, strategist, futurist,...
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Raju Narisetti
A digital media executive with a measurable track record in creating, rethinking and managing...
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Tom Negrete
Tom Negrete has been focused on moving The Sacramento Bee toward personalization and...
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Bill Nichols
Bill Nichols is POLITICO's Editor-at-Large and has played a senior role with the publication...
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Miriam Grut Norrby
Miriam Grut Norrby joined Schibsted in 2012 as an Investment Manager at ...
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Anders Nyland
Anders Nyland (born 1975) has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Bergensavisen (Bergen City...
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Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye
Oluwatoyosi Ogunseye has over 10 years experience as an investigative journalist on different...
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Dickens Olewe
Dickens Olewe is a Kenyan journalist. He was the Digital Content Manager at the Star...
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Robert Picard
Professor Robert G Picard is a world-leading specialist on media economics and government media...
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Don Podesta
Don Podesta is the manager and editor at the Center for International Media Assistance at the...
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Julie Posetti
Julie Posetti is an award-winning Australian journalist and academic. A former news editor...
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Shailesh Prakash
Shailesh Prakash is the Chief Information Officer of the The Washington Post. He is a member of...
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Jennifer Preston
Jennifer Preston joined Knight Foundation in October 2014.
Previously, Preston was an...
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Leo Prieto
Leo Prieto pioneered the internet industry in Latin America with...
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Courtney C. Radsch
Courtney C. Radsch, PhD, is a free expression advocate who works at the nexus of media, activism...
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Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie is the director of internet, science and technology research at the Pew Research...
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Gilles Raymond
Gilles Raymond is the CEO & Founder of News Republic, publisher of news application for...
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Marcelo Rech
Marcelo Rech, 55, President of the World Editors Forum, is the first Editorial...
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Maria A. Ressa
Maria A. Ressa is the CEO and Executive Editor of Rappler, a social news network which uses a...
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Henk Rijks
Henk Rijks works as Digital Strategy Director, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has...
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James G. Robinson
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Tom Rosenstiel
An author, journalist, researcher and media critic, Tom Rosenstiel is one of the nation's most...
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Carolina Rossini
She is a Brazilian lawyer with 15 years of experience in Internet and intellectual property law...
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Gerald Ryle
Gerard Ryle is the director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (...
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Vivian Salama
Vivian Salama is Baghdad bureau chief for The Associated Press. For more than a decade, Salama...
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Javier Fernández-Samaniego
Javier is Managing Partner of Bird & Bird LLP office in Madrid and Head of the Information...
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Vivian Schiller
Vivian Schiller is a media and technology executive with over 25 years of...
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Josh Schwartz
Josh Schwartz is Chief Data Scientist at Chartbeat, where he develops infrastructure and...
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Juan Señor
Juan Señor is a Partner at Innovation Media Consulting Group based in London. He is also a...
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Thomas A. Shannon, Jr.
Thomas A. Shannon, Jr., was appointed Counselor of the Department by Secretary Kerry on December...
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Ben Shaw
Ben joins WAN-IFRA's team to strengthen its mission of being the knowledge hub for the news...
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J. Tom Shaw
In 1998 Tom started in radio as an advertising account executive in Colorado...
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Tanya Sichynsky
Tanya Sichynsky is a Social Media Editor at USA TODAY Sports. Prior to... -
Thomas A. Silvestri
In June 2012, BH Media Group named Tom to its leadership team as the vice president of its new...
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Paul Smurl
Paul Smurl joined Some Spider in May 2015. The Start-Up is launching and operating...
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Ray Soto
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Lockhart Steele
Lockhart Steele is the editorial director of Vox Media, overseeing editorial content across all...
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Remco Steen
Remco has 9 years experience in programmatic trading & ad exchanges. He worked for...
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Jon Steinberg
Jon Steinberg is the Chief Executive Officer of DailyMail.com North America. DailyMail.com is...
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Eamonn Store
Eamonn Store joined Guardian US as CEO in September 2014. Previously he was President, Agency... -
Tamás Szépvölgyi
Sanoma’s Mobile Development Centre was established four years ago to replicate and reuse...
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Sorosh Tavakoli
As Senior Vice-President for Adtech, Sorosh Tavakoli oversees all of Ooyala’s advertising...
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Charles D. Tobin
Chuck Tobin is a partner in Holland & Knight's Washington, D.C., office, and he chairs the...
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Claire Wardle
Claire Wardle is the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at...
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Aidan White
Aidan White is a journalist. He is Director of the Ethical Journalism Network, a global campaign...
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Brad White
- Creator of pro-active international media relations and public affairs strategies...
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Troy Young
Troy Young is president of Hearst Magazines Digital Media. In this position, Young oversees the...
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Zaffar Abbas
Zaffar Abbas is the Editor of Dawn, Pakistan's oldest and most prestigious English language...
Further Information
67th World News Media Congress
The World News Media Congress addresses the management and business issues facing news media and examines emerging new business models and revenue streams.
Highlight sessions include:
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The New York Times Innovation Report — |
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Positive signals from top U.S. publishers American newspapers were the first to face digital transformation and there are many lessons to be learned from their experience of managing it. This panel will share the experiences of top CEO’s from leading media houses, talking about what went well as well as what went wrong. What opportunities do they see now? |
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22nd World Editors Forum
The editorial stream of the Congress unpacks the big challenges facing editors, newsroom managers and journalists. It focuses on new initiatives, trends and solutions but also some of the heavyweight issues of concern to editors, including challenges to press freedom, the safety of journalists and sustainability.
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Storytelling rebooted Highlighting the pioneers using algorithms, explanatory journalism and new formats for enhanced storytelling.
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25th World Advertising Forum
The World Advertising Forum is the annual venue for publishers and advertising executives to discuss successful strategies for increasing advertising revenues from both digital and print – and to learn how to show advertisers the full value of your audience.
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Digesting Programmatic and its Impact on Sales Teams Programmatic ad buying has changed online advertising profoundly, and nowhere has the impact been greater than on advertising sales teams and human resources in news media companies. Does it allow sales teams to focus on more important matters, such as improving creativity and storytelling to accomplish the goals of a campaign? Does it affect sales prices?
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The Congress will take place at the Washington Hilton Hotel. Please use the link below to benefit from special WAN-IFRA room rates:
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01 Jun 2015 - 03 Jun 2015Washington, D.C.USA
