Regional Meetings
IPLOCA regularly hosts regional meetings which are an
Regional directors are encouraged to organise such
opportunity to meet association colleagues in a smaller
meetings every couple of years in their region, to further
forum than at the convention, to invite clients to discuss
engage members around the world at a local level and to
their proposed projects and to engage potential members
invite non-member companies, to become familiar with
of the association in addressing topics of particular
the initiatives being moved forward by IPLOCA that give
relevance to their region.
value in return to its own members. All the meetings are free of charge, include presentations from IPLOCA and
Europe Eastern
invited guest speakers, and may also incorporate a local
The first regional meeting of the year takes place in Baku,
visit, an informal dinner or buffet lunch.
Azerbaijan on the afternoon of Wednesday, 18 March at the Four Seasons Hotel. This event is being organised by
For more details on regional meetings as they are
IPLOCA in collaboration with SOCAR and Tekfen and will
confirmed, visit www.iploca.com.
focus on Health, Safety and the Environment and projects being developed by IPLOCA’s Corresponding Members in the region. For further information and registration details please visit www.iploca.com/baku.
Future Meetings Other meetings are being considered in the coming months and further details will be available on the IPLOCA website: - East & Far East – McConnell Dowell is expecting to hold a meeting in Shanghai, China during the second week of August; - Latin America – it is hoped that a meeting will take place in early September; - Middle East & Africa – Bahrain or Saudi Arabia are being explored as possible locations; - Europe Central – a meeting in the Netherlands is being considered for this region; - France – a meeting in the Bordeaux area is being planned in Spring 2021 with the support of SPAC.
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