Annual Conference 18.9

EFI Annual Conference 2024
Provisional Agenda

Wednesday, 18 September 2024, at 9.00- 17.00 CET 
Background documents (password protected pdf is here)
The Conference venue: University Club Bonn
Address: Konviktstraße 9, 53113 Bonn

On-site registration starts at 8:00 am

Members’ dialogue session
09.00-10.30

Introduction 
Rach Colling, Head of Communications, EFI

  • Presentation of the new EFI communications strategy
  • Interactive discussion on multi-stakeholder engagement

Moderator: Alex Giurca, Principal Scientist, EFI
Panel:

  • Helga Pülzl, Assistant Director for Policy Support, EFI
  • Rach Colling, Head of Communications, EFI
  • Marc Gramberger, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Prospex Institute
10.30

Coffee break

Ordinary plenary session (11.00-13.25)
11.00

Item 1
Opening of the Conference ordinary plenary session (10´)
a) Announcing the total number of participants and voters
b) Adoption of the agenda (voting item)

11.10

Item 2
Election of the Officers of the Conference (10´) (voting item)
a) Vice-chair of the Conference 2025 
b) Minute checkers
c) Vote checkers

11.20

Item 3
Board’s report to the Conference (10´)

11.30

Item 4
EFI Reports and Plans (45´)
a) Review and adoption of the Annual Report 2023 (voting item)
b) Approval of the audited financial statements 2023 (voting item)
c) Approval of the Work Plan for 2025 (voting item)

12.15

Item 5
Auditors of Accounts for 2025 (10´) (voting item)

12.25

Item 6
Board members 2024-2027 (15´) (voting item)
a) Re-election of one Board member for the period 2024-2027
b) Election of one Board member for the period 2024-2027

12.40

Item 7
Annual Conference venues (20´)
a) Venue of Annual Conference in 2025
b) Venue of Annual Conference 2026-2027 (voting item)

13.00

Item 8
Conference and membership Issues (10´)
a) A welcome to new members
b) Membership fees for 2025 (voting item)

13.10

Item 9
Any other business (15´)
a) Fellowships

13.25

Item 10
Closing of the ordinary plenary session

13.25-13.35

Official group photo

13.35-14.45

Lunch

Young scientists’ session: Forests and generative AI (14.45-17.00)
14.45

Introduction
Rina Tsubaki, Communications Manager, Strategic Partnerships, EFI

14.50-15.50

Interactive session on the topics explored by the Hackathon on “Forests & generative AI”

  • Rina Tsubaki, Communications Manager, Strategic Partnerships, EFI

  • Gabriele Colombo, Politecnico di Milano

  • Anna Cattaneo, Politecnico di Milano

15:50-16.50

Young Scientists presentations 

Moderator: Rina Tsubaki, Communications Manager, Strategic Partnerships, EFI

Towards an AI enabled forest system platform. 
Stephan Playfair, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE)

Automating Boreal Forest Conservation: Convolutional Neural Networks for Broadleaf Tree Detection
Stojan Ivanović, University of Eastern Finland

Balancing Risk and Opportunities of Innovation: A Comprehensive Evaluation of AI and Enabling Technologies for Social Development and Forest Conservation in the Amazon
Igor Felipe de Souza Barboza, Technical University of Dresden

16.50

Wrap up

17.00

Session ends

19.00

Gala dinner will be at the restaurant La Redoute Bonn. Address: Kurfürstenallee 1, 53177 Bonn

There is possibility to take a bus to the gala dinner. Bus will depart at 18.30  from the Hotel Dorint Bonn (Berliner Freiheit 2, Bonn ). Return bus will leave at 22:45 from the restaurant and will return to Hotel Dorint Bonn. 

You can also take local train from Bonn central station (Hauptbahnhof ) to La Redoute Bonn ( Kurfürstenallee 1). Train usually goes every 20 minutes and costs about 3.50€ one way.