The National Pheasant Fest And Other Odd Conferences

Many of us attend conferences either as a work requirement or to learn new things

for our personal development, and they are often relating to fairly standard topics that appeal to a lot of people. However, there also lots of much more niche and somewhat unusual conferences out there, and below are just a few that are weird, wonderful and what you'd never expect.

First on the list is the National Pheasant Fest , an American event which is held annually and is a hub for everything pheasant and quail related. It's organised by Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever and topics addressed include wildlife conservation, hunting & habitat management. Highlights of the 2009 conference were dog training seminars and hunting keynotes, and the 2011 event will be hosted by Omaha, Nebraska.

Pheasants not your thing? Then another American event Cheese-a-Topia may be more your kind of thing. The American Cheese Society's annual get together is in Seattle this year and the two components which stood out for me are the cheese making workshops and the opportunity to get inside the mind of a cheese consumer, but there are plenty more keynote addresses, seminars and interactive demonstrations to keep all amused.

Sticking with the food theme, we have probably my favourite of these conferences, The New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers Association Conference. This is held every year alongside the Ice Cream Awards and celebrates ice cream manufacturers and their innovations, with one of last years winners being a Creamy Chocolate & Raspberry with a Hit of Chilli ice cream-yum!

No round up of weird or unusual conferences would be complete without mentioning the Weird Paranormal Conference. This annual conference covers all things paranormal and at Weird 10 guest speakers will discuss everything from unexplained sheep attacks to the Loch Ness Monster.

So those are some the unusual and unexpected conferences I have heard of and thats without even getting started on conferences that are held in unusual venues- maybe I'll write about that at a later date.

by: Jack Rowley

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