Wood for a Sustainable Future: Strengthening the Connection Between Industry and Science

Thank you for your interest in being a session organizer for the upcoming Forest Products Society & Society of Wood Science & Technology's Joint Convention for 2025 to be held in Fort Collins, Colorado, June 15-20, 2025.

The joint 2025 FPS-SWST Convention will be organized in 90-min Technical Session blocks. FPS and SWST members are encouraged to work together to organize Technical Sessions around specific topics of interest. Options for session formats include presentation, panel discussion, or a combination of presentations and panel discussion. The goal of the Session Organizer is to bring together a critical mass of people with expertise and interest in the topic.

The critical mass of expertise at the convention should be assured by the combination of session organizers and invited oral presenters or panel members. By assembling this critical mass of expertise well in advance of the conference, the conference organizers can better advertise and promote the sessions to increase session participation and its overall success.
 
Presentation sessions will be composed of invited oral presentations, offered oral presentations, and offered poster presentations. In general, invited speakers are researchers who either have great knowledge in the field and can provide the foundation for the session by presenting the current state of the art and future directions, or someone with a recent significant contribution to the field that deserves to be highlighted at the conference. A combination of invited and oral presentations is recommended for each session block. Offered poster presentations will be grouped together in the conference poster session held during one of the evenings.

 

Offered oral presentation abstracts that do not fit into the session blocks should be offered a poster presentation. If there are last-minute oral presentation cancellations, the best posters should be offered an oral presentation to take the place of the cancelled presentation.
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​View the Session Organizer Information tab for more detailed information on responsibilities and timelines expected of Session Organizers.​​​​​​​​