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2011 IVMAA Proposed Seminar Agenda

Tuesday March 1, 2011

6:00 – 9:00 – Registration

7:00 – 9:00 – Meet and Greet

(Sponsored by Dow AgroSciences & TrueNorth Specialty Products)

Wednesday March 2, 2011

6:45 – 7:45 Breakfast

7:45 – 8:00 Opening Remark – Keith Sanftleben, President IVMAA

8:00 – 9:00 Keynote speaker – Professionalism in Vegetation Management;

Gaining Public Understanding at a global level

Derek Vannice, Past Executive Director Utility Arborist Assoc.

1 – CEC for Professionalism & Communication

9:00 – 10:00 Impacts & Actions – Working together to get the story straight!

Jeffery Lowes1 – CEC for Environment 

10:00 – 10:30 Break with Exhibitors

10:30 – 11:30 Technical Updates: New Tools and Product Advancements. Dow

AgroSciences Shawna Ferrence, DuPont - Pat Forsythe and BASF

Canada – Scott MacDonald

1 – CEC for Application Technology

11:30– 12:00 Biomonitoring Studies of Pesticides in Humans Part I

Jock McIntosh, Alberta Environment½ - CEC for Human Health (2

ndhalf of CEC in afternoon)

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

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1:00 – 2:00 IVMAA AGM and Elections

2:00 – 2:30 Biomonitoring Studies of Pesticides in Humans Part

Vivianne Servant, Alberta Environment

½ - CEC for Human Health (2nd

half)

2:30 – 3:00 Break with Exhibitors

3:00 – 3:30 Perception is Reality: Gaining Support for the Fight Against Invasive

Species. Virginia and Don Battiste AIPC

+3:30 – 4:00 The Alberta Weed Control Act: “Changes, Challenges and New

Opportunities” Gayah Sieusahai

1 – CEC for Pest Management & Regulation

4:00 – 5:00 Regaining Public Confidence - Don Hay, City of Calgary

1 – CEC for Professionalism & Communication

6:00 – 7:00 Evening Reception and Tradeshow Browsing

7:00 – 8:30 Banquet, Awards and Entertainment Clean Comedy by Clark 

Robertson (Banquet Sponsored by AltaLink)

8:30 – 10:30 Evening Social, Networking, Silent Auction and Draws

Thursday March 3, 2011

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast

8:00 – 9:00 Advancements in Technology - Milo Mihajlovich, Degelman and

Diamond Mower

1 – CEC for Application Technology

9:00 – 10:00 Integrated Vegetation Management; Utilizing Best Management

Practices – Derek Vannice, Past Executive Director Utility Arborist

Association

1 – CEC for Pest Management

10:00 – 10:30 Break with Exhibitors

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10:30 – 11:30 Electric system tree-caused outage prediction models and methods:

Are tree related service interruptions predictable? Sig Guggenmoos,

Ecological Solutions Inc.

1 – CEC for Application Technology/Environment

11:30 – 12:00 A look back at Industrial Vegetation Management history.Ed Kelly and Neil Thiessen

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:00 BioBeds – using microbes for pesticide waste disposal.

DR. Tom Wolf, Agriculture Canada

1 - CEC for Environment

2:00 – 3:00 Chemiphobia; are we afraid of the right things?Darren Dillenbeck, Dow AgroSciences

1 – CEC for Human Health

3:00 – 3:15 Closing Remarks