Plenary Speakers and Topics
| Speaker | Affiliation | Country/Region | Title |
| Mark W Chase |
Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew & Member of the Orchid Committee of the Royal Horticulture Society |
United Kingdom |
Orchid taxonomy and genetic data: Is it reliable and is DNA-based taxonomy an improvement over what came before? |
| Wen Huei Chen |
Research Fellow, Orchid Research Center, National Cheng Kung University |
Taiwan |
Modern Breeding of Phalaenopsis Orchids |
| Phillip Cribb |
Formerly of the Orchid Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
United Kingdom |
The Art and Science of Orchid Taxonomy |
| Kingsley Dixon |
Director of Science at Kings Park and Botanic Garden in Perth, Western Australia and Professor in the School of Plant Biology, The University of Western Australia |
Australia |
Conservation of Wild Orchids |
| John Elliott |
The Orchid Society of South East Asia |
Singapore |
Orchids in a Hybrid State |
| Steve Johnson |
School of Biological and Conservation Services, University of KwaZulu-Natal |
South Africa |
Pollinators and orchid floral diversity in Southern Africa |
| Michio Tanaka |
Department of Applied Biological Science, Faculty of Agriculture, Kagawa University |
Japan |
Revolutionary light sources for orchid micropropagation and acclimatization |
| Wong Sek Man |
Department of Biological Science, National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
Application of new technologies to improve orchid varieties |