MPWG: 2002 Symposium Program

Appendix E

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2002 SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

DAY 1 - FEBRUARY 26, 2002

7:30-8:30 a.m.	Registration desk open. (Desk will also be open the evening of February 25.)
7:45-8:30	Continental Breakfast.

PART 1: MEDICINAL PLANT CONSERVATION AND BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP

8:30-8:40 a.m.	Native American Blessing Leon Secatero - Spiritual Elder, Canoncito Navajo
8:40-8:50	Opening Remarks Overview of goals, Introduction of special guests and speakers. Mark Blumenthal, Chairperson - Founder and Executive Director, ABC
8:50-9:00	Medicinal Plant Conservation and Business Partnership: The Only Way Forward Dominique Conseil - President, Aveda Corporation
9:00-9:15	Who are the Plant Conservation Alliance and the Medicinal Plant Working Group? Federal and International participation in conservation. Peggy Olwell - Chair, PCA Julie Lyke - Chair, MPWG Dr. Uwe Schippmann - Head, CITES Scientific Authority Plants, Germany
9:15-10:00	Reflections on the Wisdom of Preserving Native Medicinal Plants Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D. - Director, Center for Sustainable Environments, Northern Arizona University
10:00-10:30	What Sustainability Means in the Global Marketplace Michael McGuffin - President, AHPA
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:15	Native American Perspective: The State of American Wild Herbs Leon Secatero - Spiritual Elder, Canoncito Navajo Tis Mal Cro Crow - United Lumbee/Hitchiti, Tennessee
11:15-11:30	Summary of Morning Session

PART 2: CASE STUDIES: HIGHLIGHTING SUCCESSFUL CULTIVATION & PLANNING FOR MEDICINAL PLANTS

11:30-12:00 p.m.	Overview of the Marketplace and Need for Sustainable Practices Steven Foster - President, Steven Foster Group
12:00-12:30	Echinacea and Goldenseal: When Wild-Crafting Stops and Cultivation Starts Ed Fletcher - CEO Botanicals, Strategic Sourcing, Inc.
12:30-1:45	Lunch
1:45-2:30	Successful Cultivation and Planning of Black Cohosh Professor G. Harnischfeger - Schaper & Brummer Dr. Uwe Koetter - Glaxo Smith Kline
2:30-3:00	Aromatic Plant Sources: Planning for Sustainability David Hircock - Herbalist, Aveda Corporation
3:00-3:15	Break
3:15-3:45	Quality Control: A New Vision of Sustainability Trish Flaster - CEO, Botanical Liaisons
3:45-4:30	Perspectives on Biodiversity Conservation and Natural Product Drug Discovery Dr. Charlotte Gyllenhaal - Assistant Professor, Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Chicago
4:30-5:00	Working with Industry to Harvest Non-Timber Forest Products in Ways That Are Environmentally and Socially Responsible Tensie Whalen - Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance
5:00-5:30	Aromatic Plants and Essential Oils - Balancing Environmental, Social and Enterprise Issues Ann Koontz - Director, Enterprise Works Commodity
5:30-6:00	Sustainable Trade and the Conservation of Wild Herbs and Aromatics Professor Monique Simmonds - The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom Jill Cholmondeley - The Herb Exchange Closing Questions
6:00-7:00	Poster Session
7:00-8:00	Organic Certified Wine Donated by Fetzer Vineyards

DAY 2 - FEBRUARY 27, 2002

7:45-8:30 a.m.	Continental Breakfast
8:30-8:45	Introduction to the World's First Environmentally Preferable Hotel Barry Dimson - President and CEO, Sheraton Rittenhouse Square
8:45-9:00	Opening Remarks Mark Blumenthal, Chairperson - Founder and Executive Director, ABC

PART 3: PLANNING FOR ETHICAL AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT USING MEDICINAL PLANTS

9:00-9:30	Environmentally Defensible Ways to Use Medicinal Plants Indigenous to the United States Bruce Stein - Vice President for Programs, Association for Biodiversity Information (ABI)
9:30-10:00	Globally Sustainable Aromatic Resources: Traceability and Transparency Dr. Akash Chopra - Biosys Group, United Kingdom
10:00-10:30	Funding to Create Opportunities for Sustainable Sourcing Michelle Penna - Director, Eco Enterprises Fund
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-11:30	Key Questions to Ask When Planning for Sustainability and Resource Availability Bruce Mannheim - Attorney, Bennett ,Turner & Coleman Kelly McConnell - ABI Speaker TBA - Missouri Botanical Gardens Speaker TBA - Frontier Natural Products Corp. Q/A Session
11:30-12:15 p.m.	Globally Sustainable Resources Jennifer Morris - Manager, Enterprise Development & Support, Conservation International Julie Lyke - Chair, MPWG Diane Don Carlos - Project Manager, National Center for the Preservation of Medicinal Herbs Pierre Franchomme - Aromatic Sourcing Expert Q/A Session
12:15-1:30	Lunch Tables for lunch will have topics for discussion, including: Cultivation opportunities Aromatic plant sustainability Sustainable trade-the questions to ask Finding the status of plant sources -endangered , at risk, etc. Collection of plant material from the wild Native American perspectives on sustainability
1:30-2:15	Planning for Product Development Success Maximizing long term sales and profits through sustainability. Dr. Magdy Abdel Malik - Pfizer David Hircock - Herbalist, Aveda Corporation John O'Mullane - VP, Glaxo Smith Kline Q/A Session

PART 4 FORUM TO DISCUSS INDUSTRY ACTION TO PRESERVE MEDICINAL PLANT BIODIVERSITY

2:15-4:30

Mark Blumenthal, Chairperson - Founder and Executive Director, American Botanical Council
Bruce Stein - President for Programs, Association for Biodiversity Information
Dr. Uwe Schippmann - Head CITES Scientific Authority Plants, Germany
Dominique Conseil - President, Aveda Corporation
Michael McGuffin - President, American Herbal Products Association
Native American Elder Circle members
Industry and conservation representatives

Register to support and join the industry action team to ensure medicinal plant conservation and business partnership.

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