Saturday, October 13, 2001
Afternoon	Check in Charles Hotel One Bennett Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617-864-1200 or 800-882-1818 Fax: 617-864-5715
6:00 - 8:00 PM	Informal Reception, light buffet with sandwiches Agassiz Room, Charles Hotel
Sunday, October 14, 2001 Harvard Faculty Club 20 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617- 495-5758 Fax: 617-496-8754
MORNING Return to Top
7:30 AM	Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM	E.O. Wilson - welcome and introductory statement
9:00 AM	Brian Boom, CEO, ALL Species Foundation - introductory statement
9:15 AM	What we have learned; results of survey: About the participants, what we know about their inventories/organizations, and efforts underway not represented A snapshot of the state of species identification and guestimates Followed by a brief discussion on above
9:30 AM	Report from Gustavo Fonseca, Vice-President, Conservation International, on the Megadiverse Countries Workshop held September 28-29, 2001 in Mexico City
9:45 AM	Coffee Break
10:15 AM	Inventory Case Studies Terry Erwin, Board Member, ALL Species Foundation. A brief look at a few select inventory efforts and how they are handling the following challenges: How did you protocol "discovery" of species? What is your protocol for information transfer to appropriate source countries? What would you do again, what wouldn't you do again? All species in 25 years! - What is your take on this human challenge?
11:30 AM	Discussion of issues raised in morning session
12:30 PM	Lunch on your own - Harvard Square
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2:30 PM	Inventory and Identification Approaches (Peter Raven, Chair) Open Discussion - all attendees Discuss inventory approaches: By geography By taxon By organism ATBI, etc. Mining existing collections How can we best accelerate inventory efforts? What are the easy wins: by taxon/by region? How to ensure capacity building occurs? Developing effective partnerships, local, regional, global?
3:45 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM	Continue, Inventory and Identification Approaches
5:45 PM	End Session
EVENING Return to Top
6:00 PM	Cocktails, followed by Dinner Harvard Faculty Club
Monday, October 15, 2001 Charles Hotel, Kennedy Room
MORNING
7:30 AM	Continental Breakfast - Pavillion Foyer
8:30 AM	New Tools/New Technology for Taxonomy (Demonstrations) Chair - Kevin Kelly, Chairman, ALL Species Foundation David Hillis - Tree of Life Piotr Naskrecki - Imaging and internet publication Stuart Pimm - Remote sensing and mapping John Pickering - Web-based identification guides
9:45 AM	Technology Discussion: What else is promising? What else is needed?
10:15 AM	Coffee Break
10:30 AM	Reaching Consensus (Edward O. Wilson)
11:30 AM	Working Lunch Creating a Strategy/Setting Priorities/Action Plan (Kevin Kelly) Next steps (workgroups, etc.) (Terry Erwin)
12:30 PM	Accomplishing the Vision (Edward O. Wilson) The role of ALL Species Foundation (Brian Boom) Wrap up (Edward O. Wilson)
2:00 PM	Adjourn Return to Top