14-15 November 2023, NEW ZEALAND | 21-22 November 2023, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA | Online Virtual

ForestTECH is Australasia’s premier forestry technology series. It’s run annually for forest resource managers, remote sensing specialists, inventory foresters, forest establishment and tree crop managers

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ForestTECH - What is it?

Starting in 2007, every year, over 300 forest resource managers, remote sensing, GIS and mapping specialists, inventory foresters and technology providers to this part of the industry from throughout Australasia (and more recently, North and South America, Europe and SE Asia) have met up. It’s the annual ForestTECH series.

For 17 years now, it’s been the one forest technology event every year that’s run in both New Zealand and Australia. For the last few years, foresters from 15-20 different countries have also been participating. The word is getting around - it’s now well and truly recognised internationally as one of the leading forest technology events being run, anywhere in the world.

Since 2020, the crossover between remote sensing and new data collection technologies for forest operational planning and innovations with forest establishment and tree crop management have meant that these two key themes have been combined. Event delegates overwhelmingly have continued to support both the content and the format with the conference, exhibitions and workshops providing ample learning and networking opportunities.

Programme Content

This event will showcase the very latest forest industry developments including;

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Programme

We work closely with a wide range of New Zealand, Australian and international companies, service suppliers, researchers and government bodies to develop a strong and innovative programme. For questions about the programme, please contact Brent Apthorp on brent.apthorp@fiea.org.nz or (+64) 21 227 5177.

New Zealand

Mon 13 Nov 2023

Pre-Conference Workshop: Remote Sensing Cluster Group meeting

Tue 14 Nov 2023

Pre-Conference Workshop: Advances in forest management planning and operations efficiency
Conference Day 1
Social Evening

Wed 15 Nov 2023

Conference Day 2
Post-Conference Workshop: Tools for Foresters - Survival surveys

Australia

Tue 21 Nov 2023

Pre-Conference Workshop: ProFert and APSIM tools for optimising fertiliser use and profitability in plantations
Conference Day 1
Social Evening

Wed 22 Nov 2023

Conference Day 2
Post-Conference Workshop: Advances in forest management planning and operations efficiency

Virtual Online

Tue 14 Nov 2023

Conference Day 1 (NZ Programme)

Wed 15 Nov 2023

Conference Day 2 (NZ Programme)

Workshops

New Zealand Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshop

Remote Sensing Cluster Group meeting

New Zealand

Schedule: 1.00 to 5.00pm | Mon 13 November 2023
Cost: Free for Conference Attendees.
Organiser: Remote Sensing Cluster Group.
Venue: Manaakitanga Room, Scion, Rotorua

The Remote Sensing Cluster Group will be held on the 13th November from 1 – 5pm at Scion, Rotorua. Presentations will be given from a mix of researchers and industry staff around a range of remote sensing topics. These presentations will focus on industry application of promising remote sensing methodologies and reports around how well these methods are being integrated within industry settings.

Confirmed topics to date include use of terrestrial LiDAR to more accurately characterise trees; prediction of red needle cast in a bad year; deep learning prediction of tree dimensions using synthetic datasets; mapping of cyclone impacts; and an overview describing the pros and cons of different types of satellite imagery within the forestry industry. There will also be a brief update around progress within Tools for Foresters.

Enquiries can be directed to: michael.watt@scionresearch.com.

Pre-Conference Workshop

Advances in forest management planning and operations efficiency

New Zealand

Schedule: 11.00am to 12.00pm | Tue 14 November 2023
Cost: Free for Conference Attendees
Venue: Distinction Rotorua Hotel, Rotorua Presenter: Dan Turkington, Business Development Manager, Trimble Forestry, New Zealand

The latest developments in CFForest, a spatially-enabled operations management system developed for Forest Owners. Trimble Forestry has been working on driving efficiency of workflows and features designed to increase the operational efficiency of forestry staff.

This increase in efficiency enables foresters to spend more time in the field while still being able to plan operations and collect operational data. Summary information like maps and dashboard aligned with key metrics allows for oversight and directed actions for problem areas.

Post-Conference Workshop

Tools for Foresters - Survival surveys

New Zealand

Schedule: 1.00 to 3.00pm | Wednesday 15 November 2023
Cost: Free for Conference Attendees.
Venue: Distinction Rotorua Hotel, Rotorua

The Tools for Foresters initiative will host another workshop helping to disseminate information on new technology for the forest industry. The workshop will unpack the SOPs developed by Toi Ohomai's Forestry students in collaboration with Tools for Foresters as part of FGR's Precision Silviculture Programme.

Input from workshop delegates will be used to finalise the SOPs which will be made available on the Tools for Foresters and Precision Silviculture Programme’s websites. The SOPs will help foresters and contractors to select and implement new methods for carrying out early survival surveys using UAVs.

Australian Workshops

Pre-Conference Workshop

ProFert and APSIM tools for optimising fertiliser use and profitability in plantations

Australia

Schedule: 10.00am to 12.00 noon | Tuesday 21 November 2023
Cost: Free for Conference Attendees.
Venue: Jasper Hotel, Melbourne
Presenters: Barrie May, General Manager, TreeMod & Philip Smethurst, Soil, Water and Plant Nutrition Scientist, CSIRO, Australia

ProFert and APSIM tools for optimizing fertiliser use and profitability in plantations

ProFert is a model designed to enable forest managers to identify the most responsive plantations to fertilise and the most profitable combination, rates and timing of fertilisers to apply through the entire rotation.

APSIM is a process-based modelling framework that has been developed and used in recent years for assessing yield gaps and the effects of climate change on eucalypt and pine plantation productivity in Australia, along with management impacts on water use and carbon sequestration.

The relationships that drive ProFert are based on results from over 100 fertiliser experiments in hardwood and softwood plantations across Australia and uses relatively easy to measure stand and site parameters to predict the increase in volume and value of wood harvested.

ProFert is designed to use product volume and value and harvest and haulage cost information that is consistent with other company-specific information including:

Region or stand specific growth rates, harvest regimes and product yields
Site and harvest regime information on product yields, values and harvest and haulage costs
The model can be adapted to suit the specific needs or data from individual companies
It provides the opportunity for users to investigate the effect of changing the timing of fertilizer in harvest regimes on stand growth and profitability

Baseline growth data (i.e. for unfertilised stands) are needed in order to run ProFert, for which there are several options. Potential use of the APSIM modelling framework for providing wood yield predictions will be discussed.

Post-Conference Workshop

Advances in forest management planning and operations efficiency

Australia

Schedule: 1.00pm to 2.00pm | Wed 22 November 2023
Cost: Free for Conference Attendees
Venue: Jasper Hotel, Melbourne
Presenter: Dan Turkington, Business Development Manager, Trimble Forestry, New Zealand

Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities

ForestTECH 2023 offers a tremendous opportunity for companies involved in developing innovative forest management tools, technologies and resources to maximise their exposure to New Zealand and Australia’s leading forestry companies.

FIEA has a well-deserved reputation of providing both sponsors with a unique platform for promoting their products and services to the industry, BOTH in New Zealand and Australia.

Our sponsors and partners can also benefit from exposure in www.foresttech.news which is providing monthly communication and technology updates to well over 6,000 forest resource and tree crop managers and inventory foresters from across Australasia.

Sponsorship and branding opportunities are also available for other Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) events and in the region’s most widely read weekly e-newsletter, Friday Offcuts.

For a full range of sponsorship, exhibition and branding options, please contact Gordon Thomson, Marketing & Sponsorship Manager, (+64) 7 921 1384 or (+64) 27 275 8022, gordon.thomson@fiea.org.nz.

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The Conference Rate refers to your attendance in person at the Rotorua conference and exhibitions
Virtual Online registrations can be booked. These apply to companies from outside of New Zealand. This will ensure on-line attendance by Australian and other international companies.
All prices exclude GST (15%).
* For virtual online registrations from outside New Zealand, GST does not apply.
A credit card processing fee of 2.9% will be charged for all transactions.
Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) Member Discounts of 10-25% apply to the listed Standard Conference Rate. FIEA Membership Details and Benefits can be seen on www.fiea.org.nz Membership status and discounts available can be checked by calling our FIEA offices.
The Early Bird Rate applies only to the standard two-day conference rate. To be eligible for the Early-Bird Rate, registrations and payment must be received ON or BEFORE Friday 15 October 2021. All 'Early Bird' discounts require payment at time of registration and before the cut-off date in order to receive any discount.
For those attending the Rotorua event, the event registration payment covers morning and afternoon teas, lunches, refreshments, a conference handbook, post-event access to presentation PPT’s (electronic download of PDF’s for those presentations where presenter approval has been given) and recorded presentations, for a limited time and where speaker approval has been given.
For Virtual Online registrations, your registration payment covers live access to all conference presentations, post-event access to presentation PPT’s (electronic download of PDF’s for those presentations where presenter approval has been given) and recorded presentations, for a limited time and where speaker approval has been given.

COVID-19 related information:

The event organiser will work diligently to ensure that all instructions provided by the New Zealand Government and Health Authorities, relating to travel and the running of events because of COVID-19 are strictly adhered to. You can be sure that we will have all measures in place to safeguard your health and safety.
It is the responsibility of the sponsor, exhibitor or delegate, if intending to travel to attend the Rotorua conference, to check on all updated health and Government guidelines for any specific entry requirements.
If for any reason the Rotorua venue was unable to be used because of COVID-19 restrictions that were imposed by the New Zealand Government, those registered to attend the physical event would be transferred to a new virtual on-line event that would be set up by the organisers.
Please refer to our full Terms and Conditions relating to any event related issues around COVID-19.

Cancellation policy:

For cancellations on or before Friday 15 October 2021, a 10% administration fee applies. Cancellations received after this date are non-refundable but are transferrable. Please allow 30 days for refunds to be processed. If you wish to transfer your registration to another individual from within your company, please provide us with at least 24 hours advance notice.

To read our full Terms and Conditions, Click Here.

Venues

Rotorua, NEW ZEALAND

Distinction Rotorua Hotel
390 Fenton Street, Rotorua, New Zealand

With its beautiful garden setting and located just minutes from the city centre, Distinction Rotorua Hotel is the perfect place to relax and unwind after a big day at the conference. After the event, this hotel is also a great base to enjoy the wealth of attractions and activities Rotorua has to offer. Free car parking is available at the venue, however, spaces are limited and hotel guests take priority.

Special accommodation rates:

Superior Room $195 (single|double|twin)
Deluxe Room $215 (single|double|twin)
Junior Suite $255 (single|double)
Executive Suite $295 (single|double)

* All accommodation rates incl. GST

Book Accommodation | Rotorua

Melbourne, AUSTRALIA

Jasper Hotel
489 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

In the heart of the Melbourne CBD and part of the Free Tram Zone, the 4-star Jasper Hotel offers unmatched access to city transport options, shopping destinations, sporting and cultural facilities. Nearby landmarks include Queen Victoria Market, Royal Children’s and Women’s Hospitals, Melbourne University and RMIT. It couldn’t be easier to access Melbourne CBD from Jasper Hotel.

Jasper Hotel offers a selection of newly renovated rooms and suites over eight uniquely decorated floors - In addition to impressive views of the Melbourne skyline and Queen Victoria Market.

Special Accommodation Rates to be confirmed

Registration

Category	Rate	Info	Link NZ	Link AU	Start Date	End Date
Early Bird	$795 + GST (Save $100)	Early Bird ends Friday 13 October 2023. Standard rate of $895 + GST applies after this date. Rates are per person.	Register NZ	Register AU	2023-06-04	2023-10-14
Standard Rate	$895 + GST	Rates are per person.	Register NZ	Register AU	2023-10-14	2023-11-22
Group Rate (3+)	$695 + GST (Save $200)	A minimum of 3 attendees is required for this special rate. Rates are per person.	Register NZ	Register AU	2023-06-04	2023-11-22
Virtual Online Event	$695	The NZ conference programme, except the workshops, is being streamed live online. This is restricted to attendees from outside of New Zealand. No GST is charged for registrations outside of New Zealand. Access to live and on-demand event videos post-event. Rate is per person.	Register NZ		2023-06-04	2023-11-16
Workshops	FREE	In-Person Delegates Only			2023-06-04	2023-11-22
Event has ended	Keep an eye out for future dates				2023-11-23	2024-07-26

Registration Details

General Notes:

The Conference Rate refers to your attendance in person at either the Rotorua, New Zealand or Melbourne, Australia conference and exhibitions.
Virtual Online registrations can be booked. These apply to companies from outside of New Zealand and Australia. This will ensure that those unable to travel into either New Zealand or Australia to attend in person will be able to participate directly live on-line, or view the recorded presentations at a later date.
All prices exclude GST (15% for NZ and 10% for AU). For virtual online registrations from outside New Zealand, GST does not apply.
For New Zealand transactions, including the virtual online event, a credit card processing fee of 2.9% will be charged. For Australian transactions, the credit card processing fee is 1.75%.
The Early Bird Rate applies only to the standard conference rate. To be eligible, registrations and payment must be received ON or BEFORE the listed date above. All special discounts require payment at the time of registration and before the cut-off date in order to receive any discount.
Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) Member Discounts of 10-25% apply to the listed Standard Conference Rate. FIEA Membership Details and Benefits can be seen on www.fiea.org.nz Membership status and discounts available can be checked by calling our FIEA offices.
For those attending the Rotorua and Melbourne events, the event registration payment covers morning and afternoon teas, lunch, refreshments, a conference handbook and post-event access to presentation PPT’s (electronic download of PDF’s, for those presentations where presenter approval has been given).
For Virtual Online registrations, your registration payment covers live access to all New Zealand conference presentations, post-event access to presentation PPT’s (electronic download of PDF’s, for those presentations where presenter approval has been given) and recorded presentations, for a limited time and where speaker approval has been given.

COVID-19 related information:

The event organiser will work to ensure that all instructions provided by the New Zealand and Australian Government’s and Health Authorities, relating to travel and the running of events because of COVID-19 are strictly adhered to.
It is the responsibility of the sponsor, exhibitor or delegate, if intending to travel to attend the conference, to check on all updated health and Government guidelines for any specific entry requirements.
If for any reason the venue is unable to be used because of COVID-19 restrictions that might have been imposed by Government, the event organiser may need to either reschedule the event or move the event online. Your registration will automatically transfer to the new dates and/or format. In this situation, no refunds will be given. If the event is not moved online or able to be rescheduled within 12 months of the original date, you will be entitled to a credit or a full refund.

Cancellation policy:

For cancellations on or before Friday 13 October 2023, a 10% administration fee applies. Cancellations received after this date are non-refundable but are transferrable. Please allow 30 days for refunds to be processed. If you wish to transfer your registration to another individual from within your company, please provide us with at least 24 hours advance notice.

To read our full Terms and Conditions, Click Here.