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The Sixth International IPM Symposium, "Transcending Boundaries," will be held March 24-26, 2009 at the Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.

 

Symposium sessions will address IPM across disciplines internationally, in agriculture, the market place, urban settings, greenhouses, and more. Plenary speakers include Aziz Lagnaoui, World Bank pest management specialist in transcending international boundaries; Janjo deHaan, Wangeningen Research Center, The Netherlands, expert on IPM in multifunctional cropping systems; Pierce Jones, director of the Program for Resource Efficient Communities at the University of Florida; and Sara J. Scherr, director of Ecoagriculture Partners, an international partnership to promote increased productivity jointly with enhanced natural biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes.

 

Integrated Pest Management, or IPM, is a long-standing, science-based, decision-making process that identifies and reduces risks from pests and pest management related strategies. It coordinates the use of pest biology, environmental information, and available technology to prevent unacceptable levels of pest damage by the most economical means, while posing the least possible risk to people, property, resources, and the environment.

 

Corporations, agencies, and other organizations with interests in IPM are invited to provide financial support to the 2009 Symposium. For more information, please visit our Sponsors, Contributors and Exhibitors section of our website.

 

More than 650 professionals from 23 countries representing industry, government, universities, and non-governmental organizations attended the previous very successful 5th IPM symposium, held in 2006 in St. Louis, Missouri (http://www.ipmcenters.org/ipmsymposiumv).

 

To receive future notices about the symposium, send your e-mail address to ipmsymposium@ad.uiuc.edu.

 

 

An optional opening reception at the World Forestry Center is being arranged for Monday, March 23. There will be a separate registration fee for this activity.

The Symposium plenary session begins at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, March 24. After the awards luncheon, concurrent sessions will be held in the afternoon, followed by a poster session and reception. Concurrent sessions will fill the day on Wednesday, followed by another poster session and reception. The symposium will end at noon on Thursday, March 26.

 

Registration is now available for the symposium.
Click here for the secure registration form.
If you don’t want to submit the form online, you can print it out and fax or mail it. Mailing information is on the form.

The registration fees for the symposium are:

On or before March 2 -
Regular - $225.00
Student - $150.00
One-Day - $110.00 [The one-day registration includes symposium materials and catering functions for the day you are attending.]
Guest/Accompanying Person - $75.00

 

After March 2 -
Regular - $300.00
Student - $175.00
One-Day - $150.00 [The one-day registration includes symposium materials and catering functions for the day you are attending.]
Guest/Accompanying Person - $100.00

 

The regular and student registration fee includes symposium admission and materials, three continental breakfasts, one lunch, and two poster session receptions.

 

The guest or accompanying person registration fee includes admission to the two poster session receptions.

 

Cancellations: If you register and find you cannot attend the symposium, a refund less a $50 processing fee will be made if you notify the Conferences & Institutes office at ipmsymposium@ad.uiuc.edu or 217-244-9687 by March 10, 2009. No refunds will be guaranteed after March 10. You may send someone in your place.

 

There will be additional fees for the Monday reception and symposium field trips.

 

 

 

Elaine Wolff
Program Director, Conferences & Institutes
Office of Continuing Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
302 E. John St., Ste. 202
Champaign, IL 61820
217-333-2880
217-333-9561 (fax)
ipmsymposium@ad.uiuc.edu

      
Sponsor/Exhibitor Contact

Tom Green
President
IPM Institute of North America, Inc.
4510 Regent St.
Madison WI 53705
608 232-1410
Fax 608 232-1440
ipmworks@ipminstitute.org

       

Brenna Wanous
Project Assistant
IPM Institute of North America, Inc.
4510 Regent St.
Madison WI 53705
608 232-1410
Fax 608 232-1440
bwanous@ipminstitute.org

Norm Leppla
IPM Coordinator
University of Florida
703-308-7035
ncleppla@ifas.ufl.edu