Global Biosecurity Conference 2010
Global Biosecurity Conference 2010
28 February – 3 March 2010
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
Biosecurity has become a major economic issue of concern to governments, agricultural industries and environmental organisations worldwide. Despite its wide impact and complexities the opportunities for scientific exchange (among researchers and industry) has until now, been limited.
Global Biosecurity 2010: safeguarding agriculture and the environment will provide a forum for stakeholders from across the biosecurity spectrum, including researchers, industry representatives, policy makers, primary producers and importers/exporters, to:
- workshop, network and exchange knowledge on agricultural and environmental biosecurity
- facilitate engagement and cross-fertilisation of ideas between researchers and their end-users (industry, regulators and other end-users), and
- build cross-disciplinary networks across all biosecurity related disciplines.
The program will focus on agricultural and environmental biosecurity and includes conference streams examining:
DRIVERS — What makes biosecurity so important?
THREATS and IMPACTS — Understanding risks is the first step in analysing and planning to address biosecurity issues.
KNOWLEDGE — Accessing the right information at the right time can be a challenge, with so many agencies and organisations involved across the biosecurity continuum. What information is available, how are you sharing it and what systems underpin it?
SYSTEMS — Policy, regulation and operational procedures underpin all biosecurity planning and responses. Is a best practice approach possible?
Keynote Speaker
Ms Rebecca Bech
Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine
USDA, APHIS
TOPIC: The biosecurity drivers for agriculture in the USA
Dr Angus Cameron
AusVet Animal Health Services
TOPIC: Animal disease surveillance systems
Professor Mick Clout
Associate Professor in Conservation Biology
The University of Auckland
TOPIC: Biodiversity impacts of invasive animal species
Mr Rob Delane
Director General
Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia
TOPIC: Reshaping agricultural biosecurity for Australia
Mr Bob Griffin
Director Plant Epidemiology and Risk Analysis Laboratory
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
United States Department of Agriculture
TOPIC: Risk analysis to safeguard agriculture and natural biological systems
Mr Johann van Der Merwe
Quarantine Manager
Gorgon HES, Chevron Australia
TOPIC: Biosecurity issues for a large multi-national industry
OFFICIAL WEBSITE GLOBAL BIOSECURITY 2010: SAFEGUARDING AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
www.globalbiosecurity2010.com
