Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) will hold its 2015 annual conference 28 September to 3 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. This is TDWG's first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is *Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global Biodiversity*. Subprograms will include: Digitization, Semantic Technologies, Phyloinformatics, Outreach and Collaboration, ePublications, Trait Data, and Conservation informatics.
We are issuing a call for symposia or workshop proposals for the conference. More details can be found at http://bit.ly/1M9ssrp. Please send symposium/workshop proposals to the Program Chair, Hank Bart and TDWG General Secretary by *28 February 2015* at 2015(at)tdwg.org . We are also recruiting trainers and facilitators for a 5-day capacity building workshop for African participants at the conference, focused primarily on biodiversity collection digitization, biodiversity databases, data cleaning, and georeferencing. The workshop dates are 21-25 September 2015 (the week before the TDWG conference). Anyone interested in participating in the training workshop should contact 2015(at)tdwg.org. Cyndy Parr, TDWG Chair on behalf of TDWG Program Committee
