Schedule

9-14 February 2026

RE-REGISTRATION | February 8, 2026

Date & Time Agenda Speaker Venue / Notes
18:00 – 20:00 RE-REGISTRATION I Kaimana Ballroom

DAY 1 | February 9, 2026

Date & Time Agenda Speaker Venue / Notes
07:30 – 09:00 RE-REGISTRATION II Kaimana Ballroom
09:00 – 09:20 Opening Ceremony Kaimana Ballroom
09:20 - 10:15 Welcome Remarks Kaimana Ballroom
10:15 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:00 Plenary Session 1 – Good & Clean Governance on Nature-Based Solutions President of AIPI & Head of BRIN, Minister of Research, Technology and Higher Education Kaimana Ballroom
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break Dining Area
13:00 - 14:30 Parallel Session 1 - Room 1: Biodiversity & Climate Finance tbc Kaimana
Parallel Session 1 - Room 2: Bioeconomy & Sustainable Land Use tbc Mansinam
Parallel Session 1 - Room 3: Deciphering the plaited taxonomy of Syzygium: Progress, challenges and future directions Yee Wen Low (SBG), Eve Lucas (RBG Kew) Bintuni
14:30 - 14:45 Bridging time for participants to move rooms
14:45 - 16:15 Plenary Session 2 – Nature-Based Solutions: Concepts & Practices tbc Kaimana
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:00 Parallel Session 2 - Room 1: NBS: Challenges & Opportunities tbc Mansinam
Parallel Session 2 - Room 2: Tropical Forests tbc Bintuni
Parallel Session 2 - Room 3: Reassessing species boundaries in Melastoma: Integrating morphology, hybridisation, and molecular evidence Louise Neo Kaimana
18:00 - 18:30 ALL PARTICIPANTS
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome Dinner hosted by Governor of Papua Barat Swiss-Belhotel

DAY 2 | February 10, 2026

Date & Time Agenda Speaker Venue / Notes
09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session 3 – Nature-Based Climate Solutions: Bridging Policy & Science Bustar Maitar (Econusa), Development Partners, NUS, UNIPA Kaimana
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Parallel Session 3 - Room 1: Indigenous Knowledge & Biodiversity tbc Kaimana
Parallel Session 3 - Room 2: Hoya of New Guinea ⁠Michele Rodda Mansinam
Parallel Session 3 - Room 3: NBCS - Peatlands, Mangroves & Seagrass tbc Bintuni
12:15 - 13:30 Lunch Break Dining Area
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Session 4 - Room 1: Coral Reefs tbc Masinam
Parallel Session 4 - Room 2: Flora of Singapore/The Asian Herbarium network Jana Skornickova-Leong Kaimana
Parallel Session 4 - Room 3: arget-Capture Phylogenomics Clarifies Relationships and Sectional Circumscriptions in Malesian Begonia Daniel Thomas Bintuni
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:45 Plenary Session 4 – Regional & Global Commitments for Sustainable Conservation tbc Kaimana
16:45 - 18:00 Poster Presentations & Networking Exhibition Area

Day 3 | February 11, 2026

Date & Time Agenda Speaker Venue / Notes
09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session 5 – The Future of Conservation in Papua & Beyond Dr. Timothy Utteridge Kaimana
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 Parallel Session 5 - Room 1: Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Flora Malesiana Kaimana
Parallel Session 5 - Room 2: Floristic Diversity & Biogeography Flora Malesiana Mansinam
Parallel Session 5 - Room 3: Local Flora & Ethnobotany Flora Malesiana Bintuni
12:15– 13:15 Lunch Break Dining Area
13:15 - 14:45 Parallel Session 6 - Room 1: Ecology & Conservation: Important Plant Areas & Current Threats Flora Malesiana Kaimana
Parallel Session 6 - Room 2: Global Warming & Its Impact on Flora Flora Malesiana Mansinam
Parallel Session 6 - Room 3: Rhamnaceae in Malesia Flora Malesiana Bintuni
14:45 - 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 – 16:00 Parallel Session 7 - Room 1: Useful Plants (Sago, Nutmeg) & Climate Change Flora Malesiana Kaimana
Parallel Session 7 - Room 2: Myrtaceae Flora Malesiana Mansinam
Parallel Session 7 - Room 3: Podocarpaceae Flora Malesiana Bintuni
16:00 - 17:00 Poster Presentation & Networking exhibition hall

Day 4 | February 12, 2026

Date & Time Agenda Speaker Venue / Notes
09:00 - 11:00 PLENARY SESSION 8 : - Development of Papua Biodiversity Research Centre - Research Priorities & Capacity Building - The Rarest Profession: Plant Taxonomists Rodrigo/ Antonelli, RBG Kew & Brin Kaimana
11:00 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:45 Parallel Session 8 - Room 1: Arecaceae (Focus on Sago & Pinang) Flora Malesiana Kaimana
Parallel Session 8 - Room 2: Ericaceae Flora Malesiana Mansinam
Parallel Session 8 - Room 3: Thelypteridaceae Flora Malesiana Bintuni
12:45 - 13:45 LUNCH BREAK
13:45 - 15:45 Final Group Discussions & Conference Summary Kaimana
15:45 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30 Closing Ceremony Kaimana

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