Meeting 6 - Business to Media: Mutual understanding between palm oil industry and media on environment. Senior editors of well-known media and leaders of palm oil industry will discuss the topic. The meeting aims to promote mutual understanding between the media and palm oil industry particularly on current hot issues faced by the industry particularly environment. The organising committee plans to record the meeting for future TV network broadcasting. Open-end questions to be covered (but should not limit the discussion as long as it fits the topic) are:

1. Is palm oil produced in sustainable way? Is there any sustainable vegetable oil anyway?
2. Balancing the coverage of media on palm oil issues – good and bad. How to promote mutual understanding between the media and the industry?

Meeting 7 – Business to Community: The role of palm oil industry in community development. The objective of the meeting is to discuss the role of palm oil industry in developing a region and its community, the issues and conflicts related to community dynamic in relation palm oil development, and to share experiences on CSR /CD projects of palm oil companies. There will be space for poster presentation in the hall to facilitate further discussion. This will give the opportunity for the palm oil companies to showcase their involvement in community development. Interested persons/companies are encouraged to submit the abstract. The open-end questions or thematic subjects to be discussed include:

1. Social conflicts – what lessons have been learnt so far?
2. CSR – is that effective to ease social conflict?
3. Community in undeveloped area – are they ready to have palm oil industry in their area?

Poster sessions to be held during the breaks (refreshment and lunch) are to encourage discussion in a relax atmosphere. WPOSE is dedicated to cover topics and issues related to the business of palm oil industry. Therefore, there will be no presentations (oral or poster) on scientific or very technical subjects during the event. We give special attention to the posters on CSR /CD and Sustainable Palm Oil. However, other topics will also be considered.

Exhibition and Sponsorship

WPOSE provides an opportunity for companies and organizations to promote their products and services at international exhibition for three days. There are 183 booths being allocated for the exhibit area in a spatial hall during the summit. By mid February 2008, 73 companies have committed to exhibit their products and services in the exhibition with total booth occupied 155 booths, consist of 49 Domestic Companies in 99 booths and 34 Overseas Companies in 56 booths.
*) The Organizer will provide lounge areas for discussion & transaction of product and services

In addition to exhibiting products and services, the exhibitors can participate in Talk Shows and Product Presentations which will be organized in the exhibition hall. A number of slots each of 10 minutes will be provide to companies for presentation either by oral, slide or motion picture. Please contact WPOSE secretariat (att. Mr Lukman Fadli on telephone +62617862477, lukmanfadli@yahoo.com) for more details.

There is also opportunity at WPOSE to undertake promotion through sponsorship. A number of companies have committed to sponsor WPOSE, i.e. P.T. Sampoerna Agro (Platinum), PT. SMART, Tbk. and PT. Indotruck Utama, and Bank Mandiri (Gold). P.T. Astra Agro Lestari, Tbk (Silver). Please contact us for more details about sponsorship (Main, Gold and Silver).