Dear IUFRO coordinators, Deputy coordinators of D5, scientists and friends of IUFRO D5,
As a member of the CSC of the IUFRO 125th Anniversary Congress that will be held on 19-22 September 2017, Freiburg, Germany, I urgently seek your help in nominating potential keynote speakers from forest products research/academia or even from related (or unrelated) sectors you feel would make good keynote speakers at the 125th anniversary congress. Please feel free to pass on this request to your colleagues who are non-members of IUFRO. Details of request for keynoters are provided by Andrew Liebhold (CSC Chair) below. The congress website is
http://iufro2017.com. The deadline for nominations is 1 November 2015.
[For your information, IUFRO D5 is organizing an All-Division 5 (Forest Products) conference to be held on 12-16 June, 2017, Vancouver, Canada - yes the same year and about 4 months prior to the IUFRO 125th anniversary Congress]
Look forward to receiving nominations of keynoters for consideration at an earliest convenience.
Many thanks in anticipation.
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Andrew Liebhold <aliebhold@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:41 AM
Subject: Request for suggestions for keynote speakers at 2017 Congress in Freiburg
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Cc:
Helen.Desmond@forst.bwl.de,
Janina.Radny@forst.bwl.deDear IUFRO Enlarged Board members,
As chair of the Congress Scientific Committee for the 125th anniversary congress in Freiburg (19-22 September, 2017,
http://iufro2017.com ), I'd like to ask for your help in identifying keynote speakers. With the entire program limited to three days, we plan to include three keynote presentations with an hour allocated to each presentation including questions.
Please let me know if you have any ideas of individuals who would make good keynote speakers at the congress. We are looking for interesting, knowledgeable and articulate speakers to address topics focusing on pure science or science-policy themes. Given that we aim to encourage a cross-disciplinary dialogue, our choice is not necessarily confined to forest scientists: we may wish to invite other well-known individuals whom scientists would be interested to hear. Thus, we are seeking speakers able to inspire the audience to contemplate future directions in forest related scientific disciplines relative to benefits for the global, or regional, human population.
If you have idea(s) for keynote speakers, please send me an email, listing the proposed speaker, a brief description of who they are and what subject we might ask them to speak on. Once the CSC has developed a ranked list of candidate keynote speakers, speakers will be invited by the IUFRO Executive Director. Fortunately, there are funds allocated to cover the keynote speakers' travel expenses and honoraria. I would like to receive all ideas for keynote speakers by November 1. Thanks!
There are a few other things I'd like to mention about the Congress. First, we anticipate the call for session proposals opening in January so you might want to pass the word and start thinking about good session topics. Second, we request that you keep the congress dates of 19-22 September, 2017 in mind when organizing other meetings. Some units will choose to meet within the Congress and a few may organize satellite meetings just before or after the Congress. But we request that other meetings not be organized too close to these dates such that they conflict or compete for attendees. This information should also be passed along to other officers in your unit.
Thanks!!!
-Sandy
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