The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) & Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) joint conference in 2024 will be a hybrid meeting, hosted in Okinawa, Japan from 2 – 6, September 2024.
Be there in person or join the conference online!
Essential early information has been posted on the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 conference website. Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.
We invite you to submit a proposal for an organized session or workshop at SPNHC-TDWG 2024 that reflects the work that SPNHC and TDWG do and the ways that collections and standards contribute to our understanding and documentation of biodiversity. Organized sessions can be symposia, panel discussions, lightning sessions, and other formats in which the primary purpose is to convey information and engage the SPNHC-TDWG audience.
We strongly encourage you to submit proposals that fit the conference theme: Enhancing Local Capacity, Elevating Global Standards.
Sessions may be open or closed to presentation submissions; we highly encourage diversity and inclusivity and session ideas not explored during previous SPNHC or TDWG conferences. Session proposers will be responsible for soliciting and coordinating presentations, reviewing, approving and ordering abstracts for the session, and moderating the proposed session(s). At least one session organizer must be present, in-person, at the meeting. Every symposium must have an abstract that will be published on the conference website. Session organizers and all presenters, must be registered for the conference.
Please note that we are limited in our ability to accommodate workshops during the conference this year. If you wish to host a workshop, please contact the conference organizers for more information.
Calls for abstracts will be announced in early March, 2024.
If your proposal is accepted, your session title and description will be posted on the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 conference website.
Submission (hard) deadline: 16 February 2024 (Close of Business in your time zone)
Please contact the conference organizers with any questions.