Annual Report 2007: FY July 1, 2006-June 30, 2007
International Conference and Exhibition Committee
The role of the International Conference and Exhibition Committee (ICE) is to work closely with the International Regions Committee and the AAPG international convention staff to select the location of the upcoming international conference.
The committee has a Working and an Advisory Group. The Working Group is composed of previous general chairman, general vice chairman, and technical program chairman of previous ICE conventions. The Advisory Group is composed of the six international Region presidents, the chairman of the international Regions and Technical Advisory Committee and a few additional key international members with strong ties to ICE.
The committee also works closely with AAPG convention staff to ensure that we have adequate information on hotels, convention center, host society and AAPG members on the ground in the city and country of ICE to offer the Association membership a great venue and the type of conference they expect from AAPG.
During 2007 our main task was to complete the motion to hold the 2008 ICE meeting in Cape Town in October 2008 and the selection of the host city for the 2009 Latin America meeting. At the end of the fiscal year the 2009 short list of cities was present to the Executive Committee for review and additional information will be collected with a decision to be made by the Executive Committee in August 2007.
It has been a pleasure serving as the chairman of ICE for the last two years. I thank my co-chair Art Donovan from BP for his work on the committee and I wish John Brooks and Erik Mason success in the coming year as the co-chairs of ICE.
John Hogg, Chair
Committee members: Jeff Aldrich, Stuart Brown, Art Donovan, (vice-chair), John Hogg (chair), Jean Jaques Jarrige, John Kaldi, Terry O’Hare, Henry Pettingill, Peter Purcell, Robyn Purcell, Dvorakova Vlastimila, and Marianne Weaver. Advisory members: Carlos Jorge Abreu, Deborah E. Ajakaiye, John Brooks, Theresa Curry, Herman Darman, Barry Katz, Dana Patterson Free, Nahum Schneidermann, Warren Workman, and Pinar Yilmaz.