A Chabad shliach (Hebrew: שליח, pl. שליחים/שלוחים, shlichim/shluchim) is a Chabad member sent out to promulgate Judaism and Chasidut around the world. Chabad shluchim as of 2010 number about 4,500 worldwide, and can be found in many of even the most remote worldly locales.
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Starting in the 1950s, the Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, sent many thousands of shluchim all over the world, often to remote locations, to bring Jews closer to Judaism through his Mitzvah campaigns and to assist Jewish communities worldwide in their religious needs.
The Rebbe told Rabbi G.M. Garelick when he went out to Milano, "[Y]ou will be a Rabbi of a shul, headmaster of a school, director of a camp and a counselor for people, but none of it will truly define what you will do in Milan. It will be above and beyond all of it--you'll be a Shaliach."[1]
The Kinus HaShluchim (Hebrew: כנוס השלוחים, lit. Assembly of Emissaries) is the annual gathering of Chabad Shluchim held in the fall of each year. The conference is typically held in New York City on the weekend prior to the new Hebrew month of Kislev. Over 4,000 rabbis gather each year, making the assembly the largest rabbinical conference in the world.
A similar conference is held each winter for the Shluchos (wives of the rabbis), typically proximate to the Yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson. Both Kinusim are simulcast in multiple languages and have extensive tracking, including programs for lay leaders and children.