TENTH INTERNATIONAL IPM SYMPOSIUM

FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 3, 2022 | DENVER, COLORADO, USA

Late February 2022 several hundred IPM enthusiasts will gather in Denver for the Tenth International IPM Symposium as a face-to-face meeting.

To date we have 50 sessions scheduled (list below), with more than 200 presentations. In addition, there have been 130 posters submitted. We expect more than 50 students among our 500 attendees, so a great opportunity to recruit new members for your team!

Communication

·         A Social Media Solution: Communicating IPM in the 21st Century

·         Approaching IPM and Resistance Management Through Understanding How Community Social Dynamics Can Affect Adoption

·         Bridging the Divide: Pathways to Partnership for Pesticide Safety Education and IPM

·         Communicating and Building Partnerships for IPM in Communities

·         Social Science to the Rescue: A Better Way to Talk About IPM

·         Using active learning to enhance your IPM programming

Forestry/Natural Landscapes/Turf & Sod

·         IPM in the US Department of the Interior Land Management agencies

·         Utilizing soil amendments to improve turfgrass health and suppress turfgrass disease

Horticulture and Specialty Crops

·         Focusing on Minimizing Disease and Weed Impacts on Pumpkin and Squash

·         Furthering small fruit IPM after a decade-long battle with spotted-wing drosophila

·         Managing Invasive Pests in the New Era of IPM in Specialty Crops

·         Novel Tools and Opportunities for Cucurbit IPM in North America

·         Use of Drones in IPM Monitoring, Application of Low Risk Pesticides and for Biological Organism Releases

Overarching/Multi-Disciplinary

·         Early career researchers in IPM: Balancing work, life, and everything in between

·         Ecostacking as an approach to IPM

·         Growing Big Trees from Small Seeds

·         Integrated Pest Management programs and centers: bringing diverse experience into action

·         IPM in the 21st Century: Communicating Across Borders and Disciplines

·         Predicting, Monitoring and Responding to new plant pests

·         Role of Entrepreneurship and Agri-startups in promotion of IPM - a global perspective for international and regional cooperation

·         Roundtable Discussion with International Participants on IPM in Developing Countries

Row/Field Crops (Soybean, Corn, Canola, Pulses, Cereals, Industrial Hemp, etc.)

·         Cotton Insect Management in Water-Deficit Production Scenarios

·         Detection and management of fungicide-resistant plant pathogens of soybean

·         IPM for Tropical Crops in Asia and Africa

·         IPM of Cannabis sativa: Lessons learned and future directions

·         Management of Fall Armyworm in Africa and Asia

Urban/Structural/Landscape/School IPM/Public Health/Veterinary

·         Beyond CEUs: Developing Hands-on, Impact-Driven Programs for Structural Pest Management Applicator Education

·         Implementing IPPM: Statewide efforts to engage academic, outreach, and industry professionals

·         Integrated Tick Management: Increasing Adoption of ITM Practices to Address the Global Tick Problem

·         IPM in Housing: The Housing Professional’s Perspective

·         Managing rodents using multiple control tactics

·         Meeting the IPM Needs of Urban Growers

·         The science and practice of glyphosate alternatives in the urban landscape

·         Wood Destroying Insect Pest Exclusion Using Physical Barriers: A Sustainable Future for New and Existing Structures

Additional information about the IPM Symposium is available at

https://ipmsymposium.org/2022/index.html