These are upcoming conferences and other events in the fields of storytelling and the use of stories in business.

November 5-7, 1999
AAAI 1999 Fall Symposium on Narrative Intelligence
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~michaelm/narrative.html
The conference's web site has downloadable copies of most of the contributed papers.

April 6-9, 2000
International Conference of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
Atlanta, Georgia
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/Clayton/Narrative.htm

April 7-8, 1999
Edinburgh
AISB Conference on Stories and Humour
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kimb/aisb99/programme.html
The AISB (Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour) Symposium on AI and Creative Language: Stories and Humour (April 99). "Within the area of "creativity", there is a growing interest in the uses of language, particularly the creation or interpretation of stories or humorous texts. The papers to be presented at this two-day workshop explore these areas, covering models of story generation, mechanisms underlying humour, and applications of ideas of narrative."

April 15-16, 1999
The 1999 Conference on Knowledge Management & Organizational Learning
New York City
http://www.conference-board.org
(search for conferences on the keyword "Knowledge Management")
"Drawing from their personal experience, speakers will describe ways to make knowledge management and organizational learning actionable."

May 15-20, 1999
ACM CHI 99
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chi99
"The annual CHI conference is the leading international forum for the exchange of ideas and information about human-computer interaction (HCI)."

August 30 to September 3, 1999
INTERACT '99: Seventh IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/i99
"INTERACT '99 will bring together researchers and practitioners in all the fields and disciplines which contribute to HCI."

September 15-18, 1999
Annual Digital Storytelling Festival
Crested Butte, Colorado
http://www.dstory.com/dsf5/home.html