DAY

Time

Description

Location

Friday

12:00 Noon – 8:00 PM

Set-up

Belvedere Center

2:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Hospitality Room

Warren Suite (101/103)

12:00 Noon – 8:00 PM

Late Exhibit and Congress Registration

Belvedere Foyer

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

MAOC Executive Meeting

Main Street Annex

7:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Slipper Orchid Alliance Meeting: Dennis D’Alessandro speaking on “Recent Slipper Orchid Discoveries and New Hybrids”

Main Street Annex

9:00 PM – 11:00 PM

Plant Preview Party (Cash Bar)

Belvedere Center

Saturday

6:30 AM

Judges and Clerks Breakfast

Executive 3

8:00 AM

Ribbon Judging

Belvedere Center

10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Show Hours and Plant Sales

Belvedere Center

11:00 AM

AOS Judging

Belvedere Foyer East

12:00 Noon – 1:00 PM

Judges Lunch

Executive 3

12:00 Noon – 4:00 PM

Hospitality Room

Warren Suite (101/103)

Featured Seminar

1:30 PM

Fred Clarke: “New Hybrids with Catasetum, Cycnoches and Mormodes”

Executive West

2:30 PM

Dr. Ron McHatton: “Sex in the Greenhouse”

Executive West

3:30 PM

Dr. Henry Oakeley: ““Orchid Hunting in the Headwaters of the Amazon, Central Cordillera of Peru”

Executive West

4:30 PM – 5:00 PM

MAOC Auction Preview

Main Street Annex

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

MAOC Auction

Main Street Annex

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Banquet (Cash Bar)

Main Street Grill & Annex

Sunday

7:00 AM – 8:30 AM

Affiliated Societies Breakfast
Mary Beth Mansour “Compensating Speakers”

Executive West

9:00 AM – 4:30 PM

Show Hours and Plant Sales

Belvedere Center

9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

MAOC Business Meeting

Executive 3

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Judges Forum: Alexa Noel on , “History of Classification: Where we’ve been; where we are; and where we’re going”

Executive 3

12:00 Noon – 4:00 PM

Hospitality Room

Warren Suite (101/103)

1:00 PM – 3:00 PM

International Phalaenopsis Alliance Meeting

Executive 1

4:30 PM

Tear-Down

Belvedere Center