ICRF Conference Evaluation

 

Very useful to understand what research colleagues are doing and what equipment is available.

Overviews of research teams with one presentation/team of a specific project; give early-career researchers an opportunity. 

less emphasis on presentations by retired researchers - keynotes should focus on an aspect of research.

Make it one day and select specific projects, or schedule Horticulture/corps research for one day and animal research for another day or try themes to focus presentations. 

Move conference to another quarter - Q4 is very busy considering that it is a very busy time (fruit harvesting, admin re financial year).  


Here is my motivation for NO (not annually)

If annually, then it can become just one more thing on the agenda and people will ask "what is new". They will assume more or less the same information will be presented (and they will be correct as the various research focus areas by teams do not change substantially from year to year, if at all.