Description of events
See also programme overview for a quick one-page overview of the events or go to the Venue page for more information about the location of the meeting venue.
Monday, 15 September 2014
Nodes Steering Group meeting
Time: 09:00-12:30
Venue: Mahogany room, India Habitat Centre
Meeting of the GBIF Nodes Steering Group. The meeting is open to members of the group only.
Budget Committee meeting
Time: 09:00-12:30
Venue: Chinar room, India Habitat Centre
Meeting of the GBIF Budget Committee. The meeting is open to members of the committee only.
Science Committee meeting
Time: 09:00-12:30
Venue: Willow room, India Habitat Centre
Meeting of the GBIF Science Committee. The meeting is open to members of the committee only.
Executive Committee meeting
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Willow room, India Habitat Centre
Meeting of the GBIF Executive Committee. The meeting is open to members of the committee only.
Ice Breaker
Time: 19:30-
Venue: Magnolia Hall, India Habitat Centre
Welcome reception for Governing Board delegates, committee members and observers.
Tuesday, 16 September 2014
Governing Board meeting
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Gulomhar room, India Habitat Centre
The first day of the official GBIF Governing Board meetings. Registration starts at 08:00.
For official Governing Board delegates and invited observers.
Hosted Dinner
Time: 19:30-
Venue: Jacaranda room, India Habitat Centre
Official dinner for Governing Board delegates, committee members and observers.
Wednesday, 17 September 2014
The GBIF Public Symposium 2014: Innovation and Impact through GBIF
Time: 09:00-17:00 + reception 17:00-18:00
Venue: Gulmohar room, India Habitat Centre
This full-day symposium will include contributions from a) GBIF Secretariat staff outlining achievements in the past 12 months, b) GBIF Participants reporting on recent projects and policy-relevant applications and c) researchers demonstrating innovative uses of data accessed through GBIF.
- Enhancing the global biodiversity information infrastructure
- GBIF recent and upcoming developments
- Questions and discussion
- National participation and using data for policy
- National data management services in Ireland
- GBIF Benin - progress and plans
- A species stocktake for UK overseas territories
- Capturing data on biodiversity concervation in Australia
- Panel discussion
- GBIF promoting excellence in biodiversity informatics
- Ebbe Nielsen Prize presentation: Selected innovations in biodiversity informatics
- The GBIF Young Researchers Award
- Using GBIF to research bat nectar corridors (2013 award)
- The 2014 award winners (messages)
- The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
- GBIF supporting research for sustainable development
- Filling biodiversity knowledge gaps
- GBIF helping to underpin food security
- Biodiversity data and emerging infectious diseases
- Databases and invasion research: an ergonomic perspective
- Biodiversity and human innovation
- Wrap-up
The brochure for the symposium can be downloaded from http://www.gbif.org/resources/8789
The symposium is open to all Governing Board delegates and to the public and press but pre-registation is needed (registration closed on 8 September)). The symposium will be followed by a reception.
Thursday, 18 September 2014
Governing Board meeting
Time: 09:00-17:00
Venue: Gulmohar room, India Habitat Centre
Continuation of the official GBIF Governing Board meetings.
For official Governing Board delegates and invited observers.
Friday, 19 September 2014
Executive Committee meeting
Time: 09:00-12:00
Venue: Chinar room, India Habitat Centre
Meeting of the GBIF Executive Committee. The meeting is open to members of the committee only.