Spain’s leading livestock event – the 17th edition of Expoaviga – will take place at the Fira de Barcelona’s Gran Via venue on 15-18 April 2008. www.expoaviga.com 

The 2008 Poultry Science Association Centennial Meeting will take place in Niagara Falls, Canada on 20-23 July 2008. www.poultryscience.org/psa2008 

29th World Veterinary Congress will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on 27-31 July 2008. The deadline for early registration is 4 April. www.worldveterinarycongress2008.com

The 1st international conference and exhibition on avian influenza and human health has been announced. BirdFlu2008 will take place in St Anne’s College of Oxford University in the UK on 11-12 September 2008. www.libpubmedia.co.uk/Conferences/BirdFlu2008/Home.htm

The Polish branch of the WPSA is organising  XX International Poultry Conference WPSA subtitled ‘Science for Poultry Practice – Poultry Practice for Science’ in Wenecja near Bydgoszcz, Poland on 15-17 September 2008. www.utp.edu.pl/wpsa-whbz/wpsa-pl.htm

The 2nd OIE Global Conference on Animal Welfare – entitled Putting the OIE standards to work – will take place in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on 20-22 October 2008. www.oie.int 

National & International Poultry Waste Management Symposium will be held in Des Moines, USA on 21-23 October 2008.

www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/poulsci/poultry_waste_symposium.html 

IPA 2008, the World Food Process Exhibition, will take place in Paris, France on 17-20 November 2008. On show will be the latest technologies for food processing, and the focus will be on forward planning and innovation. http://en.ipa-web.com