The Conference Exchange provides online database and media services for hundreds of professional conferences annually. This team ofsoftware developers and technical support staff has been growing since 1996 in Cumberland RI, enjoying the ambience of an historic mill location and convenient access to highways, bikeways, and the Blackstone River.  Confex makes it easy for non-profit associations, government agencies, and others around the world to plan large conferences that typically include include hundreds or thousands of speakers.  They create highly specialized, interactive web sites that collect proposals from speakers online, enable the review of those proposals by the organizers, facilitate scheduling, track thousands of other details.  The data thus accumulated online is then transformed into conference publications in electronic and print formats.  Confex technical specialists travel the world, recording over ten thousand conference presentations annually.  The company distributes those recordings online and on DVD, provides e-commerce services, and supports continuing education programs for professionals in a wide variety of fields.  If you are looking for a challenging opportunity, like working with both computeres and people, and want  to feel that you are really accomplishing something every week, keep your eyes open for their job postings.