International Oat Conferences/Hosts

 
January, 2025

A message from the conference organizers:
"We are excited to announce that the formation of our committees is well underway! Each committee already has 3-4 outstanding professionals on board, and we anticipate that the real work will kick off in March. The committees (Breeding, Farming, Nutrition, Milling, and Market) are actively seeking professionals from around the globe to join their teams. Each committee will need to identify the key challenges in its area of work and find the best global experts to address these topics at the conference. To achieve this, we plan to hold monthly one-hour meetings, ensuring that we have an exceptional lineup of speakers ready by the end of the year. If you’re interested in joining a committee or if you would like to let us know your ideas, we’d love to hear from you! Please contact Claudia Acosta at cacosta@empresasagrotop.cl. Thank you!"

May, 2024

The Chilean group is now using the internationaloat.com website for the 2026 conference. All of the materials related to the 2022 conference in Australia are still available on the site in the OAT2022 section.

September, 2023

Several new countries now have representatives on the IOC committee! Some countries have also designated backup representatives. The new list can be found here.

May, 2023

The IOC country representatives have voted, and Pucón, Chile, has been selected to host the 2026 International Oat Conference (12th IOC). Congratulations to the Chilean group, headed by Karina von Baer! You can find a message from Karina here.

Both the German and Chilean groups submitted excellent, high-quality bids, and the IOC committee would like to thank them for all of their time and effort. The vote was *very* close, so the German group is being encouraged to submit a bid to host the 13th IOC meeting in 2030!

A link to the website for the 2026 conference will be posted here once it has been set up.

 

IOC Committee structure

As of October 13th, 2022, the IOC chair is Steffen Beuch (NORDSAAT Saatzucht GmbH, Germany) and the secretary is Charlene Wight (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada). The list of country representatives is here.

 

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