IrisBG
Events
- Sponsor and participating in the APGA Sustainability Index Webinar-series
- The annual PlantNetwork Plant Records meetings
- Consortium of Norwegian Botanic Gardens
About
Supporting the botanical community
IrisBG is proudly supporting communities, conferences, events and initiatives.
Memberships
Where we are members
IrisBG is a member of the organisations that represent botanic gardens and plant records professionals.
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International (opens in a new tab)
- American Public Garden Association (opens in a new tab)
- PlantNetwork of Britain and Ireland (opens in a new tab)
- BGANZ (opens in a new tab)
- Norwegian Botanical Association (opens in a new tab)
With two of them we go further than membership. Our formal partnerships with BGCI and BGANZ, including the discount on licences and services for BGANZ members, are set out on the partnerships page.
Conferences
Conferences we sponsor
Conferences and symposia IrisBG has sponsored, several of them every year for well over a decade.
- Annual APGA Conferences Since 2012
- EuroGard conferences Since 2009
- Global Botanic Garden Conferences Since 2010
- Botany Conference 2021
- BGANZ Congress 2017
- BIAZA Annual Conference 2014, 2016
- Botanic Gardens in a changing world, Hortus Botanicus Leiden 2015
- APGA Esri GIS Symposium 2015
- Volunteers in Gardens and Arboreta Conference 2011
Events and initiatives
Events and initiatives
The recurring meetings and programmes we take part in through the year.
Initiatives
Our Marketing Director and Product Manager, Mari Rustan, is volunteering as a Creative Advisor for the PlantNetwork podcast.
Closer to home, our own Coffee Chats bring IrisBG users together every second Tuesday of the month. Everyone is welcome, and you can find them on the community page.
Meet us at the next one
If you are going to one of these conferences, or you would like to talk about your own collection, we would like to hear from you.