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Melbourne venue for major forest and forest products conference

DANA’s Australian Forestry and Forest Products Sector: Its status in 2015 and trends going forward Conference, is being held in Melbourne on August 13 & 14. Source: DANA, TimberBiz
All details are on the website: http://danamelbourne2015.com/
This is the fourth annual DANA Melbourne Conference, and it is the strongest yet referencing the burgeoning export of wood products, particularly logs and wood chips.
The list of speakers reads like a Who’s Who of the industry:
Matt Bovelander (Senior Consultant, Bio Solutions, New Zealand)
David Cannington (Senior Economis ANZ Research, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Limited Australia & New Zealand)
Rob de Fégely (Director Margules Groome Consulting Pty Ltd, Australia)
Ron Eddy (Managing Director, TimTechChem International Limited, New Zealand)
David Evans (Executive General Manager Marketing Forico Pty Limited, Australia)
Kevin Ezard (Conference Director, Frame Australia Pty Ltd., Australia)
Ross Hampton (Chief Executive Officer, Australian Forest Products Association, Australia)
Xiaodong (Gavin) Hao (Forestry Consultant, RISI, China)
Ngo Sy Hoai (Executive Secretary General, Vietnam Timber & Forest Products Association (VIFORES), Vietnam)
Rod Keenan (Professor of Forest and Ecosystem Science, The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Greg Lewis (Vice President at Forest Economic Advisors LLC, USA)
Greg McCormack (Chairman, Australian Forest Products Association, Australia)
Dennis Neilson (Director DANA Ltd.; New Zealand)
Linda Sewell (CEO of OneFortyOne Plantations Pty Ltd – Australia)
David Smith (Director of Smith Agri International Pty  Ltd.)
Peter Thode (Principal of Balwyn Forestry Consulting Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia)
Marcel Vroege (Head of Forest Industry Consulting, New Zealand)
Bret P. Vicary (Vice President, Forestry & Natural Resource Consulting, SEWALL, USA)
Haidong Weng (Head of Strategy, Xiamen C& D Paper & Pulp, China)
Tim Woods (Managing Director IndustryEdge Pty Ltd., Australia)
Rodney L. Young (Chairman, Chief Economic Advisor RISI, USA)