Happy. Enrico Zuffi, director of the Geneva Convention Bureau, posted 20 conferences with 14,600 delegates this September. For example, Geneva hosted the 1,700-strong congress of the Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP) as well as the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) with 1,500 people. The European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology attracted 1,700 guests. Nine further congresses have already been booked up to 2010, in 2009 the World Telecom Conference will make its return. www.genevaconventionbureau.ch