2023 CPC National Meeting
CPC at Desert Botanical Garden
On the Horizon: Looking to the Future of Plant Conservation
May 4-6, 2023
Mark your calendars – we are thrilled to announce that the 2023 CPC National Meeting will take place May 4-6! Back by popular demand, the 2023 meeting will feature a hybrid format, with both in-person and online presentation sessions highlighting the theme of “On the Horizon: Looking to the Future of Plant Conservation.” In-person sessions will be held at Desert Botanical Garden which offers 55 acres of gardens and trails for you to explore and immerse yourself in the beauty of the desert. In-person sessions will be live streamed and recorded for later viewing on the conference platform. Virtual attendees will also have access to pre-recorded presentation content and virtual breakout sessions. Registration offerings and more details coming soon!
Presentation sessions will include updates from the CPC National Office on network-wide initiatives, plus lightning talks from CPC network partners on plant conservation research, accomplishments and challenges, and future initiatives. We welcome both Institutional and Individual Conservation Partners to submit abstracts for presentation sessions highlighting this year’s theme of “On the Horizon: Looking to the Future of Plant Conservation.” We encourage our contributors to consider presentation proposals that spotlight new conservation projects and research; ways your institution is visioning the field of plant conservation, goals, and outcomes in the future; or topics that otherwise adhere to the theme.
Post-meeting Field Trip
Our National Meeting field trip will take place Saturday, May 6, 2023. More information coming soon!
Board of Trustees Meeting
CPC’s Board of Trustees meeting will take place the Wednesday before the CPC National Meeting on May 3, 2023. The Board will have the opportunity to join the field trip on Saturday May 6, 2023.
Important Dates
March 15, 2023
Presentation Abstracts Due and Early Bird Registration Ends. This is also the last day to book rooms in our hotel block. Travel and lodging details coming soon.
April 15, 2023
Last Day for In-person Registration and Deadline for Online Presentation Content. We recommend in-person registration during the early bird window to secure a spot in our hotel block. Virtual registration closes April 27. Registration coming soon.
May 4-6, 2023
National Meeting Activities Begin. Conference sessions take place Thursday, May 4 and Friday, May 5 at Desert Botanical Garden. The post-meeting field trip will take place Saturday, May 6.
Presentations
BEFORE March 15, 2023, we invite Institutional and Individual Conservation Partners to submit abstracts with their registration form. We are limiting in-person oral presentations to ONE per institution.
Oral Presentations
We invite one representative per CPC Institutional and Individual Conservation Partners to contribute a 5-minute update about the rare plant conservation research at their institution. This year, the theme of our meeting is “On the Horizon: Looking to the Future of Plant Conservation.” We encourage our contributors to consider presentation proposals that spotlight new conservation projects and research; ways your institution is visioning the field of plant conservation, goals, and outcomes in the future; or topics that otherwise adhere to the theme. With your permission, we will catalogue these videos through our CPC Rare Plant Academy platform as an educational resource.
In-person lightning talks will be live-streamed to the virtual attendees via the conference platform. In-person oral presenters will have the opportunity to field questions live from both in-person and virtual attendees. Conference presentations will be recorded and embedded onto the conference platform shortly after each session for all attendees to view.
We ask that presenters bring their powerpoint presentations to the conference on a flash drive and email Katie Heineman their PowerPoint presentations the day before their presentations.
For institutions who cannot send a representative to the meeting, we invite the submission of online-only presentations. This content may be submitted by virtual registrants prior to the meeting no later than April 27, 2023. These presentations will appear on the conference platform two days before the start of conference sessions, but will not be streamed live to in-person conference attendees. Online-only presenters will have the opportunity to field questions and feedback about their presentation via the conference platform, which is available to all meeting participants. Online-only content will also be catalogued on CPC Rare Plant Academy. Please follow the content guidelines suggested for in-person presentations.
Please self-record your oral presentations using the software of your choosing (Zoom, PowerPoint, Panopto, Screen cast-o-matic). You will receive instructions in mid-April notifying you how to transfer files to the CPC National Office. If possible, please use headphone or air pod microphones when recording your presentations to maximize the audio quality of presentations. Avoid settings with loud ambient background noise (labs with autoclaves, etc.) Good audio quality makes your recorded presentations more enjoyable and allows CPC to reuse your valuable information for educational purposes.
Poster Presentations
If you would like to highlight the work of multiple members of your institution or multiple projects, you may give one or more poster presentations in addition to an in-person or online oral presentation. Posters will be featured in person only, and should be printed a standard size (3 ft x 4 ft) using a material than can be hung with push pins into a conference poster bulletin board.
Poster session will be subject to interest/number of submissions.
Registration Coming Soon
If you have meeting access questions, contact the CPC National Office at info@saveplants.org.