The 5th Annual General Meeting

The 5th OIPC Annual General Meeting was held on October 13th and 14th at the Isaiah Tubbs Resort in Prince Edward County.  The meeting was a resounding success and helped us to further our partnerships and knowledge of invasive plants in Ontario.

Strengthing Partnerships and Making Connections

Once again, the OIPC AGM got bigger and better! Every year we work to include more valuable information and networking opportunities for our partners to connect with others working to prevent the spread of invasive plant species.  We added 4 pre-meeting tours to view local control projects and areas of significance.

The tours on Thursday October 13th included:

Sandbanks Provincial Park with Joanne Dewey

Massassauga Point with Tim Trustham (Quinte Conservation)

Prince Edward Point with Terry Sprague 

Woodlot Tour with Andy Margetson (Prince Edward Stewardship Council)

The evening bonfire on the beach was held despite drizzly weather, and everyone had a blast! A huge thanks to Mike for bringing his guitar and banjo.

The actual AGM and Symposium was attended by 100 registrants and presenters.  As usual, there were some changes to the format from last year, but we kept the parts that people liked the most from previous meetings.  We kept a good amount of time for networking and discussion, and also maintained our reputation for getting a great combination of leading specialists from Canada and the USA, along with the key responsible people for important policy and program areas in the provincial and federal government.

Please click here for the registration form, and here for the AGM Announcement. Media - please click here for the official OIPC media release.

Annual General Meeting on Friday October 14th:

Agenda

Program

This link takes you to a photo slideshow on the OIPC Flikr.

For the full summary of feedback from the evaluation forms, click here 

We had a very large percentage of evaluations completed and most of the participants rated all aspects of the meeting at 4s and 5s (out of 5) for quality. We all went home with exciting new information and contacts....energized to try out some of our new-found knowledge.  Comments from the evaluation forms included:

"Good amount of schmoozing and getting down to business"

"Great way of networking with interested and interrelated agencies/organizations!"

"Dedicated group of people set good example of how to run a council"

Thank you to our sponsors!!