in a statement, scott beck, san francisco travel president and ceo said san francisco's tourism recovery efforts continue to make steady progress, attracting more conventions and events to the city is a key focus to san francisco travel , even a citywide impact on san francisco's economy. the key driver behind the surgeon tourism is the city's strong convention calendar. >> put traffic on the corridor, especially in spring and summer, we can see it is happening. it is coming back. >> in 2023, the moscone center hosted 34 events and tracked in delegates from around the world. this increased convention activity and that translated into significant gains for san francisco's industry. these two friends reunited at the conference here. one is from l.a. and the other one from vancouver, canada. >> honestly, my entire experience from start to finish has been pretty fantastic. >> i have been here about six hours now but i can't complain. a beautiful day out and great food and drink. i will come back. >> more local people are going back to work in the financial district, meaning more local custom

our next speaker, scott beck is the head of sf travel and scott comes to san francisco with so much joy and so much excitement, and he and i had the chance to chat and totally understands how important this park is to getting people to come to san francisco, spend money in san francisco and enjoy san francisco. we do not have a bigger champion then sf travel, stow so it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the microphone sir to say a few words. [applause] >> wow. thank you for the warm welcome. as a new san franciscans i feel this is special opportunity. my association with the park began as a visitor. i used to chase my wife through the park on a bike when she ran several marathons. my daughters would visit the institutions. it was always on the-i'm excited to have it be part what i call home now. the park is also living example of san francisco creativity, ingenuity and ongoing evolution as phil noted. it took imagination, invasion to transform sands into greenery, to turn the land into oasis for all to enjoy. and as the mayor noted, it takes dedication and ongoing work to keep the

our people were looking for revenge, the first missiles were scott beck missiles from the soviet union. it had reached iraq , it had been used against our border towns, people were chanting that rockets are the answer to rockets, and of course we didn't have rockets at that time, and with an international arrangement , we got some, but some places had problems, even the way they were launched. he had not given us a kind of unity and finally he was in an equation rather than showing mercy to us. afghanistan had suffered a humiliating defeat and wanted to get out of there. it needed help . first, it needed power from the islamic republic. before that help, of course , we got a part of these missile weapons , but again we did not have the authority. i'll go faster because time is short, you see, sometimes people expect instant revenge , sometimes they expect total revenge, we have never worked without an account. that is, a decisive response of our high inhibitory , for example open. we don't want it to happen to us we know that these are false and we are also victorious , so as a governm

in a statement, scott beck, san francisco travel's president and ceo, said san francisco's tourism recoverytinue to make steady progress, attracting more conventions and events to the city is a key focus to san francisco travel, given their city-wide impact on san francisco's economy. a key driver behind the surge in tourism is a city strong convention calendar. >> much more foot traffic on embarcadero corridor and especially in spring season and summer. we can see that it's happening. thankfully. yeah. it's coming back. >> reporter: in 2023, moscone center hosted 34 events, attracting delegates from around the world. this increase in convention activity has translated into significant gains for san francisco's lodging industry. >> first time here? >> reporter: like these two friends who reunited at a conference here. one is from l.a. and the other one from vancouver, canada. >> honestly, my entire experience from start to finish has been pretty fantastic. >> i've been here about six hours now and i can't complain. it's a beautiful day out. and great food and drinks. so -- i'll come back. >

and in a statement, scott beck, san francisco travel's president and ceo said san francisco'tourism recoveryo make steady progress attracting more conventions and events to the city is a key focus to san francisco travel given their city-wide impact on san francisco's economy. a key driver behind the surge in tourism and a strong convention calendar. >> much more foot traffic on the corridor and especially in spring season and summer. we can see that it's happening. thankfully. yeah. it's coming back. >> reporter: in 2023, moscone center hosted 34 events attracting delegates from around the world. this increase in convention activity has translated into significant gains for san francisco's lodging industry. >> first time here? >> reporter: like these two friends who reunited at a conference here. one is from l. a. and the other one from vancouver, canada. >> honestly my entire experience from start to finish has been pretty fantastic. >> i have been here about six hours now and i can't complain. it's a beautiful day out. and great food and drinks. so -- i'll come back. >> reporter: and he s

our next speaker, scott beck is the head of sf travel and scott comes to san francisco with so much joych excitement, and he and i had the chance to chat and totally understands how important this park is to getting people to come to san francisco, spend money in san francisco and enjoy san francisco. we do not have a bigger champion then sf travel, stow so it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the microphone sir to say a few words. [applause] >> wow. thank you for the warm welcome. as a new san franciscans i feel this is special opportunity. my association with the park began as a visitor. i used to chase my wife through the park on a bike when she ran several marathons. my daughters would visit the institutions. it was always on the-i'm excited to have it be part what i call home now. the park is also living example of san francisco creativity, ingenuity and ongoing evolution as phil noted. it took imagination, invasion to transform sands into greenery, to turn the land into oasis for all to enjoy. and as the mayor noted, it takes dedication and ongoing work to keep the park shini

secretary of state scott sha a wap -- schwab. open a.i.'s beck yea waite. and our moderator, dr. tala schwab -- talia schwab. [applause] >> thank you so much for that. such a pleasure to chat about digital media and the 2024 election. we have a hot topic here. just a small topic. and just to offer some introductory remarks, we are in a remarkable setting right now in 2024. we have elections in over 630 countries, plus the european union. representing just under half of the world's population. which is mind-blowing. we have seen a.i. used in elections. we have the a.i. generated robocall impersonating president biden that sought to discourage voters in new hampshire's primary. we have auto clips of a liberal party leader discussing vote rigging. we have a video of an opposition leader in the conservative muslim majority nation of bangladesh wearing a bye keeny. there are so many things to talk about and possible uses of a.i. as we look to the election. i'm looking forward to this conversation. i want to just get started. we are delighted to be joined by becky, who is the head of g