TDWG 2009 Annual Conference

CORUM Conference Center
Montpellier, France

Monday 9th - Friday 13th November 2009

Conference Brochure

Latest Information

1. A preliminary publication of the Proceedings of TDWG is now available at http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/issue/current. The PDF version can be downloaded from here.
2. Registration will continue at Le Corum during coffee breaks and lunch breaks.  
3. Your name tag will be issued when you check in.  Please wear it to ensure that we have only our registered participants in our conference space.
4. Please look after your valuables, such as computers, cameras, and other personal belongings, when you are at the conference. The organizers and the venue cannot accept responsibility for lost items.
5. The programme is posted and updated on the conference web site:  http://www.tdwg.org/conference2009/program/.  Descriptions of working sessions are also available (see links in the left navigation panel under program).
6. Plenary session presenters (Mon, Wed, Fri) are requested to provide their presentation file to the convener (or the registration desk) the day before their presentation.  Monday presentations will be collected on Sunday during registration.
7. In working sessions (Tue, Wed, Thu), session conveners may instruct presenters and demonstrators to provide presentation files in advance.  Each room for working sessions will be equipped with a projector, WiFi (see beow),  screen and flipchart, but participants must provide their own laptops.
8. A draft volume of The Proceedings of TDWG (abstracts) will be available by Friday, November 6, at http://www.tdwg.org/proceedings/issue/current.  (Before Friday, the file available there will be from TDWG 2008.)

9. The sessions must finish at 1730 sharp in order for the Corum to be fully empty at 1800 for the closure of the doors.

10. WiFi will be in all Corum areas. (Network signals are open and named "enjoyNN", where NN are numbers.)  Each Room will have a video projector, screen and flipcharts but conveners will need to plug their own laptop. Spontaneous demos outside the working sessions won’t have videoprojector.

For questions about registration please contact Stan Blum.   For any questions about logistics and meeting content, please contact

• Adrian Rissone, TDWG Secretary: a.rissone(at)nhm.ack.uk,
• Elizabeth Arnaud,  Chair Local Organizing Committee: e.arnaud(at)cgiar.org, or
• Lee Belbin, TDWG Secretariat: lee(at)tdwg.org.