"This fall will be the veritable test because it's a year after generation 11.

"This fall will be the veritable test because it's a year after generation 11. It'll tell us a destiny about the future of conferences" says Tracey Mills, public relations manager for the ABA.

Last fall's terrorist attacks onward the United States saw the unprecedent cancellation of industry incidents such as ABA's annual convention and SWIFT's SIBOS display in Singapore--at an estimated $10 million costliness to SWIFT's 3,000 institutional members, worldwide. Meanwhile, last October, the European Financial Management and Marketing Association went ahead with its annual talk and drew just 60 attendees in lieu of the normal 2000