Inaugural DANA 2-day Changing Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Wood Trade including a day field trip to the major log export port of Longview, Washington State.

The extraordinary economic growth of many countries in Asia over the last decade has made the region a primary driving force impacting wood trade. Join us for this 2-day event featuring global perspectives on not only roundwood, but also emerging new markets in woody biomass, wood panels and other value added timber products.

Comments from participants:

"Thank you for the opportunity to speak at the event and meet many new people in the business. Appreciate the various insights from around the world."

RISI and DANA are pleased to announce the Third Annual Investment Conference.

RISI and DANA have combined forces to bring together the most compelling conference for the financial community and those engaged in tracking companies and assets or who own and manage timberlands. The Investment conference will broaden its horizons this year focusing not just on the North American investment trends and opportunities, but on the Global forest products and timberland investment market. The two day conference will take an in-depth look at timberland investments around the globe and how these opportunities will unfold in the near future.

Who must attend?
- The conference is designed for busy executives who want to gain a clear understanding of key segments of the forest products industry investments and opportunities.
- Investment analysts
- TIMOs and REITs
- Pension fund managers
- Private family offices
- Private landowners
- Hedge fund managers
- Endowments
- Forest management companies
- Forest products producers

Comments from participants:

"It was an absolute pleasure to attend the conference, thanks again for the opportunity and for the invitation. I thoroughly enjoyed the interaction and was pleased to meet future partners, we had a great deal of interest after the talk."

"You had put together an excellent program and facilitated separate meetings in a smooth manner."

"I believe that it has now become one of the premier timberland investment conferences in the world."

DANA 2-day Central America and Andes Timberland Investment Conference, followed by a 1-day field trip to teak plantations and processing plants.

To be held in partnership with La Asociacin Nacional de Reforestadores y Afines de Panam (ANARAP).

This is the first DANA Conference to be held on Timberland Investment in this region.

This DANA Conference will debate Central America & Andes Timberland Investment Opportunities.

Emerging: Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru.
And Frontier: Belize, Cuba, El Salvador, Guyana.

More than 20 Central American and International speakers and panelists will complete the line-up.

Simultaneous English/Spanish translations throughout speaker presentations.

The Event will include an optional post-Conference one day field trip to the Darien province of Panama, visiting Central American natural species plantations, teak plantations and teak wood processing plants.

Conference Flyer - English (1 Mb)

Conference Flyer - Spanish (1 Mb)

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DANA Ltd has held several conferences in Rotorua on Forestry and Forest Industry topics.

Recent conferences have been two day events covering all sectors of the industry. However this year we have decided to hold a focused one day event on Monday 29 August 2016 with world class overseas and New Zealand presenters on topics which are very important to industry players and observers.

The programme & speakers are detailed on the Conference Website tabs.

While all of the speakers and topics are world class we would like to alert potential delegates to a special 2 hour session with a presentation and then an interactive discussion on a new review on Global, regional trends and opportunities on the Engineered Wood Panels (EWP) industry. Details can be found on the Conference Website Programme Tab.

The following day, Tuesday 30 August 2016 we will have a field trip which will include visits to new wood processing facilities and other sites see details Conference Website Field Trip Tab.

DANA has previously held several conferences in Melbourne on a variety of topics including the international woodchip trade and the Australian forest industry sector. Previous conferences have been held over two days.

However, this year DANA is delighted to co-organise a one day focused event in Melbourne in partnership with Forest & Wood Products of Australia (FWPA).

DANA has designed a morning session with 7 presentations all with an international theme and with a number of overseas speakers. FWPA has designed the afternoon session providing a linkage to the morning session by focusing on important and topical subjects for the Australian forest industry sector and how wider international events may impact on the domestic industry.

This unique one day event combines the strengths and experience of DANA, which has organised/co-organised more than 25 conferences both in Australia and around the world, with the strengths and experience of FWPA which is the services company for the Australian industry (funded by levies on the forest and wood products sector and co-funded by the Australian Government for R&D, education and technolgy transfer).