2017 Conference Agenda

27th January, Friday

7:30- 8:30: Breakfast and Registration 

8:30- 10:30: Opening Keynote Remarks 

Dr. Ingrid Burke - Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean, Yale F&ES (Opening remarks)

Omar Antonio Figueroa - Minister of State, Belize

Jan McAlpine - Former Director, UNFF Secretariat – Department of Economic and Social Affairs

Carlos Roxo - Member of the Board’ Sustainability Committee of Fibria

Peter Holmgren - Director General, CIFOR

10:30- 10:45: Coffee Break

10:45- 12:15: Panel- Creating Strategic Partnerships for Sustainable Resource Use in the Tropics 

This high- level panel helps unpack complex issues in relation to creating multidisciplinary teams and building strategic partnerships for sustainable resource use in the tropics. You may read about the panel here. Panelists include: 

Chris Meyer - Senior Manager, Tropical Forest Policy, Environmental Defense Fund 
 
Sarah Price - Head, Projects and Development, PEFC International 
 
Dr. Amy Vedder - McCluskey Fellow and Lecturer, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 
 

Peter Boyd- Executive Fellow, Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY)

Moderator: Gary Dunning - Executive Director, The Forest Dialogue
 

12:15- 13:00: Lunch

13:00-15:00: Building Block Talk Sessions
 
A Building Block Talks (BBT) is a PechaKucha styled ten minute talk. Each BBT session comprises seven BBT presenters who share their experiences or research on adopting the multidisciplinary approach and building strategic partnerships to attain sustainable resource use in tropical nations. Two BBT sessions will take place simultaneously and participants are free to choose between two sessions. You may read about BBT Sessions and presenters here
 
15:00-16:00: Coffee Break and Poster Session 
 
16:00-17:00: ISTF Innovation Prize Presentations 
 
Yale ISTF is offering a $3,000 Innovation Prize to honor outstanding multidisciplinary projects that address sustainable resource use in the tropics. Two ISTF Innovation Prize finalists present their projects, which is followed by a casting of votes to choose the ISTF Innovation Prize winner. The two finalists for the 2017 ISTF Innovation Prize are:
 
Bunleang Phai - Steering Committee Member, Prey Lang Community Network, Cambodia
 

Keerthi Meepe Mohotti- Human and Environment Development Organization, Sri Lanka

 
17:00- 18:00: Special ISTF edition of TGIF (Thank God I’m a Forester!) 
 
Mingle with the foresters at Yale over beer, wine and snacks at this special edition of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies’ Friday evening tradition of TGIF! 
 
18:00- 20:00: Cocktail Reception
 
From TGIF, we move to on to a more intimate cocktail reception for participants of the conference. 
 
 

28th January, Saturday

7:30- 8:30: Breakfast
 
8:30- 10:30: World Café, Speed Networking and workshops 
 

World Café: The World Café is an intentional way to create a living network of conversations around questions that matter. In this year’s World Café, rotating groups will be asked to collaboratively address different scenarios facing tropical forests by exploring multi-stakeholder partnerships and interdisciplinary approaches.

Workshop: Addressing deforestation and other land-based conflicts in the frontier forests of eastern Panama: The case of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+) 

Workshop leader: Gordon M. Hickey, McGill University 

You may read about this workshop here

Speed Networking: An opportunity for participants wishing to create a network at the conference, speed networking allows one to meet other participants in a more informal setting. Participants move in a circle and have a five minute conversation with another over coffee. With limited registration for this event, each participant gets to converse on a one on one basis with the others.  

10:30- 10:45: Coffee Break 
 
10:45- 12:15: Panel- Creating Strategic Partnerships for Sustainable Resource Use in the Tropics
 
This high- level panel helps unpack complex issues in relation to creating multidisciplinary teams and building strategic partnerships for sustainable resource use in the tropics. You may read about the panel here. Panelists include: 
 
Dominique Bikaba - Executive Director, Strong Roots Congo
 

Elmedina Krilasevic - Programme Officer, Forest Landscape Restoration, IUCN

Seth Shames - Director of Innovations in Policy and Markets, EcoAgriculture 

Moderator: Dr. Amity Doolittle, Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist, Yale F&ES

12:15- 13:00: Lunch
 
13:00- 15:00: Building Block Talks Sessions
 
A Building Block Talks (BBT) is a PechaKucha styled ten minute talk. Each BBT session comprises seven BBT presenters who share their experiences or research on adopting the multidisciplinary approach and building strategic partnerships to attain sustainable resource use in tropical nations. Two BBT sessions will take place simultaneously and participants are free to choose between two sessions. You may read about BBT Sessions and presenters here
 
15:00- 16:00: Coffee Break 
 
16:00- 16:30: ISTF Innovation Prize Winner Announcement 
 
Based on the votes casted on January 27th, we will announce the ISTF Innovation Prize winner from the two finalists mentioned above. 
 
16:30- 17:00: Closing Remarks 
Ms. Aban Marker-Kabraji - Asia Regional Director, IUCN
 

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