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EOI to present at ForestTECH 2025

1 July 2025

ForestTECH 2025 will be running this year in Rotorua, New Zealand on 18-19 November 2025, and again in Melbourne, Australia on 25-26 November 2025.

The annual ForestTECH series is the one single technology event every year that’s the ‘must attend’ event for foresters across Australasia. It’s well established and, since 2007, has attracted a very strong international audience with delegates from 20+ countries attending either in person – or remotely – every year. Last year over 250 attended the event series.

ForestTECH provides an independent platform showcasing new and emerging technologies in remote sensing, data capture, inventory management, precision silviculture, and mechanised planting. The adoption and use of new technologies by forest companies, and the willingness to share lessons from in-forest trials and commercial operations across the wider industry, has been one of the key strengths of this annual series.

We are developing the programme for 2025, and already have a number of key leads for content this year – which we’ll shortly be following up. We are looking for the very latest technology developments, trial results, key lessons from industry, and practical integration of new innovations into forest operations.

If interested in presenting at the ForestTECH 2025, either in person, or remotely, please register your early interest by emailing ken.wilson@fiea.org.nz, before Thursday 31 July 2025. Further details can be found on our event website.

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