Saturday October 31, 2015. From 9AM-4:30PM. ICAO, Montréal.
Preliminary program
0930 Welcome
QCBS&Future Earth: Andrew Gonzalez
CBD-SBSTTA Chair: Andrew Bignell 
CBD Secretariat: Braulio Frerreira de Souza Dias
0945 – Setting the Scene – Presentation of the organisation, its contribution to realizing their vision and strategic plan, the role it plays in the science-policy-interface and interest in engagement with other ones.
Future Earth, Paul Leadley
GEO BON, Mike Gill
IPBES, Anne Larigauderie
S-CBD, David Cooper
Q&A
1015-1200 Biodiversity and human well being – Key messages from the three themes of the QCBS Symposium, held on October 29-30. Andrew Gonzalez focuses on an exiting potential, urgent and important gaps and unutilized links in order to mainstream biodiversity and contribute to achieving the CBD mission.
Theme 1 Biodiversity & Cities
Theme 2 Biodiversity & health
Theme 3 Biodiversity & agro-sylvo pastoral systems
Q&A
Further discussion in roundtables/world café with facilitators: Identification of key messages and
questions to be addressed by the research or policy communities
1200-1215 – Wrap Up
1215-1325 – Lunch
1325-1430 – Introducing Future Earth
Speed talks from different Future Earth Core Projects and activities:
bioDISCOVERY-modelling & scenarios; Paul Leadley
ecoSERVICES-Brightspot; Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne
bioGENESIS-building capacity: translating GBO-3 outcomes for the young generation; Melina
Sakiyama
Further discussions in roundtable/world café with facilitators: opportunities for extended presentation, followed by discussion and identification of opportunities of cooperation.
1430-1445 – Wrap up
1445-1500 – Coffee break
1500-1600 – CBD and the research agenda
Introduction: Robert Hoft with Mike Gill GEO BON and Anne Larigauderie, IPBES
Discussion in roundtables/world café with facilitators:
- Connecting CBD to Future Earth, GEO BON, IPBES regional assessment
- Identifying topics/activities/approaches of interest of CBD delegates to achieve the 2025 strategic plan (e.g. tools, engagement platform at different scales, co-design approach, etc., To be defined)
1600-1615 – Wrap up
1615 – Closing remarks
Future Earth, Paul Leadley
QCBS, Andrew Gonzalez
CBD, Hesquio Benitez, Mexican representative
