From the Project Cloud Desk

4 January 2010

Welcome to the new year! Let me take this opportunity wish you a great year ahead. 

One of the focus points at Project Cloud is about attending conferences. From the broader perspective, a conference is a great opportunities to learn and make friends. With a little attention to detail, a conference can be a great resume booster.

So how does one know which conference to attend? There are two approaches to attending conferences.  One is to be conservative and attend only a few selected ones. The other, logically, is to attend many. Take the example of Ravi K. He attended only a few select ones throughout his law school. His reasoning was that he did not want to attend a conference for the sake of attending one. He was also sure of being a criminal lawyer which is why he concentrated on attending conferences; confident that each conference put him one step ahead of his peers.

Then there is Ashish D. He attended ten conferences before he graduated. While most of them were related to corporate law, he ventured into arbitration and cyber law too. So when he decided to go for his higher studies, he could choose which conference he wanted to mention tailored as per his course options. 

Each strategy has its advantages and disadvantages. In our next post, we will discuss how to get the most from one conference.

Good luck!

The Project Cloud Team

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