The following information is from the 2019 AFWA Annual Meeting. A preliminary schedule for the 2020 Meeting will be available in the Spring.
The AFWA Annual Meeting schedule details are now posted to the Attendify App. To view the schedule details online, click the button below.
The AFWA Annual Meeting schedule details are now posted to the Attendify App. To view the schedule details online, click the button below.
Schedule at-a-Glance
Related meeting requests are now being accepted for committees and working groups, universities, organizations, agencies, and others interested in holding a meeting or social function in association with the 108th AFWA Annual Meeting. Download the related meeting request form.
The following schedule is subject to change (as of July 24, 2019); please check back for updates.
| Saturday, September 21, 2019 | ||
| 4:00pm – 7:00pm | Conference Registration Desk Open | TBD |
| Sunday, September 22, 2019 | ||
| 7:00am – 5:00pm | Conference Registration Desk Open | TBD |
| 7:00am – 3:30pm | Directors' Retreat (invitation only) Lunch Sponsored by Brandt Information Services |
Offsite |
| 7:00pm – 5:00pm | Business Center & Internet Café Open | TBD |
| 8:00am – 5:00pm | Exhibitor Set-up | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Bird Fish Conflict Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | MAT Team Workshop | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Drug Approval Working Group | TBD |
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | National Cooperators Coalition | TBD |
| 4:00pm – 6:00pm | Women in Wildlife Conservation Network (WWCN) Power Walk and Networking | TBD |
| 6:00pm – 8:00pm | Young Guns 11th Annual Happy Hour | Offsite |
| 6:00pm – 9:00pm | Directors’ Reception & Dinner (invitation only) Co-sponsored by Ducks Unlimited and Kalkomey |
Offsite |
| Monday, September 23, 2019 | ||
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) | TBD |
| 7:00am - 5:00pm | Conference Registration Desk, Business Center & Internet Café Open | TBD |
| 7:00am - 5:00pm | Exhibits Open — Stop by and show your support! | TBD |
| 8:00am | Guest Gathering | Hotel Lobby |
| 8:00am - 9:45am | Welcome & Plenary Session | TBD |
| 9:30am - 3:30pm | Guest Activity: Historic Fort Snelling and the Sibley Historic Site (advance registration required; $40.00 per person; includes lunch) We’ll have a private guide for a tour of Fort Snelling. This National Historic Landmark resides on Dakota homeland, known as Bdote, with history spanning 10,000 years. Learn stories of the military fort and its surrounding area, home to a wide history that includes Native peoples, trade, soldiers and veterans, enslaved people, immigrants, and the changing landscape. http://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling We’ll have lunch inside the park and following lunch visit the Sibley Historic Site. The Sibley Historic Site is the site of Henry Hastings Sibley's home, who was the regional manager of the American Fur Company and Minnesota's first governor. It is one of the 26 historical sites that are operated by the Minnesota Historical Society. http://www.mnhs.org/sibley |
Offsite |
| 9:30am - 10:30am | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | EOD Pre-Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | National Pheasant Plan Management Board Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Forestry Working Group – Ag Conservation | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | National Wildlife Health Initiative (Invitation Only) | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Project Wild Subcommittee Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Legislative Federal Budget Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Subcommittee on Water | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | International Relations Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | PIF/Shorebird/Waterbird Working Group | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | National Grants Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Law Enforcement Business Meeting | TBD |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Monarch Conservation Updates and MAMCS Board Meeting | TBD |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Directors' Lunch (invitation only) | TBD |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Attendee Lunch - On Your Own | N/A |
| 1:00pm - 1:30pm | Finance Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Wildlife Viewing & Nature Tourism Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Climate Adaptation Leadership Awards Ceremony | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Aquatic Animal Health Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | USGS Science Applications for Fish & Wildlife Management | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Fish and Wildlife Relevancy in Minnesota | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Law Enforcement Committee Business Meeting | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Feral Swine Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Lesser Prairie Chicken Initiative Council | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | CRP Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Invasive Species Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Bird Conservation Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 1:30pm - 5:00pm | Executive Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Diversity & Inclusion Working Group | TBD |
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Climate Change Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact Meeting | TBD |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Joint EOD & Wildlife Diversity & Conservation Funding Working Group | TBD |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Forest Service Partners Meeting | TBD |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Harvest Information Program Working Group | TBD |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Forest Service Partners Meeting – Working Session | TBD |
| 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Welcome Social! | Offsite: Science Museum of Minnesota |
| Tuesday, September 24, 2019 | ||
| 7:00am - 5:00pm | Conference Registration Desk, Business Center & Internet Café Open | TBD |
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) | TBD |
| 7:00am - 7:00pm | Exhibits Open — Stop by and show your support! | TBD |
| 8:00am | Guest Gathering | Hotel Lobby |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Outreach Working Group | TBD |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Science and Research Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Technology and Data Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Wildlife Diversity Conservation and Funding Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Waterfowl Working Group | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Sagebrush Executive Oversight Committee | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Legal Committee Business Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Joint Meeting of the EQIP/CSP Working Groups | TBD |
| 8:00am - 5:00pm | AFWA/NACLEC Law Enforcement Meeting | TBD |
| 8:30am - 12:30pm | Guest Activity: Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Bell Museum (advance registration required; $25 per person; lunch is on your own) We’ll start the day at the Minneapolis Institute of Art which is described as “inspiring wonder through the power of art. The Minneapolis Institute of Art enriches the community by collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art from the world’s diverse cultures.” Lunch will be on your own in downtown Minneapolis. After lunch, we’ll visit the Bell Museum in St. Paul, Minnesota’s official natural history museum and planetarium. Their new home on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus features a digital planetarium, high-tech exhibits, our famous wildlife dioramas, outdoor learning experiences and more. Explore the far reaches of the universe in the Whitney and Elizabeth MacMillan Planetarium, see a glimpse of the diversity of life on Earth and throughout Minnesota, travel back in time to meet a woolly mammoth, and learn about University of Minnesota researchers imagining a better future. |
Offsite |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm | Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm | Fish & Wildlife Trust Funds Committee | TBD |
| 9:30am - 10:30am | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Regional Coordinators Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 11:00pm | Ocean Resources Policy Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 10:00am - 11:00pm | Human Wildlife Conflict Working Group | TBD |
| 11:00am - 12:00pm | Human Dimensions and Social Science Organizational Meeting | TBD |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Directors' Lunch (invitation only) | TBD |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Attendee Lunch - On Your Own | N/A |
| 1:00pm - 2:00pm | Lead and Fish & Wildlife Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 2:15pm | Migratory Shore & Upland Game Bird Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Feral and Free-Ranging Cat Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 3:00pm | Farm Bill Easements Working Group | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Fisheries & Water Resources Policy | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Resolutions Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Sustainable Wildlife Use | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Energy & Wildlife Policy Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 1:00pm - 5:00pm | Hunting & Shooting Sports Participating Committee | TBD |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm | Federal and Tribal Relations Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 1:30pm - 5:00pm | Executive Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 2:15pm - 3:30pm | Bird Conservation Committee Grassland Working Group | TBD |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Bat Working Group | TBD |
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | Education Working Group | TBD |
| 3:00pm - 5:00pm | RCPP Working Group | TBD |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Resident Game Bird Working Group | TBD |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | Private Lands Social | TBD |
| 6:00pm - 7:00pm | Reception with Exhibitors Sponsored by National Park Service |
TBD |
| 7:00pm - 9:00pm | Annual Awards Banquet | TBD |
| 7:00pm | Arachnid Society Reception hosted by Vista Outdoor (invitation only) | Offsite: Blackhawk Cove |
| Wednesday, September 25, 2019 | ||
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Directors' Breakfast (invitation only) | TBD |
| 7:00am - 8:00am | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 7:00am - 3:00pm | Conference Registration Desk, Business Center & Internet Café Open | TBD |
| 7:00am - 10:30am | Exhibits Open — Stop by and show your support! | TBD |
| 8:00am | Guest Gathering | Hotel Lobby |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | MAFWA Executive Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Bird Conservation Committee Meeting Part 2 | TBD |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Education, Outreach & Diversity Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 10:00am | Wildlife Resource Policy Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Legal Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Fish & Wildlife Health Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Agricultural Conservation Committee Meeting (Part 1 & 2) | TBD |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm | Threatened & Endangered Species Policy Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm | Angler & Boater R3 Committee | TBD |
| 9:30am - 10:30am | Coffee Break with Exhibitors | TBD |
| 10:00am - 12:00pm | Leadership and Professional Development Committee Meeting | TBD |
| 10:30am - 11:30am | NCLI business Meeting | TBD |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Directors' Lunch (invitation only) | TBD |
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm | Attendee Lunch - On Your Own | N/A |
| 1:30pm - 5:00pm | AFWA Business Meeting | TBD |
| 6:00pm - 7:30pm | President's Reception Sponsored by Boone and Crockett Club |
TBD |
