GENERAL PROGRAMME
| Saturday, May 18th, 2024 | |
| 08:30 – 12:30 | -Interbull Technical Committee – Room VODA (by invitation only) -ICAR Board – Room ARNOLD I (by invitation only) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | -Interbull Technical Committee – Room VODA (by invitation only) -ICAR Board – Room ARNOLD I (by invitation only) |
| 13:00 – 18:00 | Registration INTERBULL / ICAR – RIKLI BALANCE HOTEL |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | DINNER for Interbull TC, Interbull SC and ICAR Board – Kavarna near Hotel PARK (by invitation only) |
| Sunday, May 19th, 2024 | |
| 08:30 – 09:30 | ICAR Board & Interbull Steering Committee – Room ARNOLD I (by invitation only) |
| 09:30 – 12:30 | -Interbull Steering Committee – Room VODA (by invitation only) -ICAR Board – Room ARNOLD I (by invitation only) |
| 08:30 – 12:30 | InterBeef WG and Technical Meeting – Room ARNOLD II |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | PPP project meeting – Room VODA (by invitation only) |
| 14:00 – 17:30 | ICAR Board and Chairs of Working Groups – Room ARNOLD I (by invitation only) |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Registration INTERBULL / ICAR – RIKLI BALANCE HOTEL |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | DINNER for Interbull SC & Interbull TC & ICAR Board & Chairs of SCs and WGs – BLED Castle (by invitation only) |
| Monday, May 20th, 2024 | |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Registration INTERBULL / ICAR |
| 08:30 – 10:30 | -Interbull Open Meeting – ARNOLD (I/II) -Milk Analysis SC – Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL (open meeting) -SC Animal Identification– Room VODA (by invitation only) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | -Interbull Business Meeting I – ARNOLD (I/II) -Milk Analysis SC, aimed to the ExtraMIR updating (all the ExtraMIR participants will be invited) –Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL (by invitation only)SC Animal Identification SC – Room VODA (by invitation only) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | -Interbull Open Meeting – ARNOLD (I/II) -Animal Identification SC – Room VODA (by invitation only) -Milk Recording & Sampling Devices SC – Hotel PARK: PREŠEREN (by invitation only) -Functional traits WG, IDF SCAHW and experts – Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL -Conformation Recording WG – Hotel PARK: PEN 4 |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | -Interbull Open Meeting – ARNOLD (I/II) -Animal Identification SC – Room VODA (by invitation only) -Milk Recording & Sampling Devices SC – Hotel PARK: PREŠEREN (by invitation only) -Functional traits WG, IDF SCAHW and experts – Hotel PARK: KOSOVELWG -Conformation Recording – Hotel PARK: PEN 4 |
| 08:30 – 17:30 | Exhibition and Poster session |
| 19:00 – 23:00 | INTERBULL DINNER – Restaurant AVSENIK (buses leaving at 18:30) |
| Tuesday, May 21st, 2024 | |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Registration ICAR |
| 08:30 – 10:30 | -Interbull Open Meeting – ARNOLD (I/II) -WG DNA – Room VODA (by invitation only) -Certificate of Quality EAG Meeting – Hotel PARK: PEN 4 (by invitation only) -Artificial Insemination WG – Hotel PARK: PREŠEREN 1 (open meeting) -Goat Conformation WG – Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL -Joint MRSD-SC & Functional Traits and IDF SCAHW WG & Manufacturers – Hotel KOMPAS (closed meeting) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | -Interbull Open Meeting – ARNOLD (I/II) -WG DNA – Room VODA (by invitation only) -Certificate of Quality EAG Meeting – Hotel PARK: PEN 4 (by invitation only) -Artificial Insemination WG – Hotel PARK: PREŠEREN 1 (open meeting) -Goat Confirmation WG – Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL -Joint MRSD-SC & Functional Traits and IDF SCAHW WG & Manufacturers – Hotel KOMPAS (session till 13:30) (open meeting) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | -Interbull Business Meeting II – ARNOLD (I/II) -Dairy Cattle Milk Recording WG – Hotel PARK: PEN 4 -Feed and Gas WG (together with working group of the Global Methane Genetics program) – Hotel PARK: PREŠEREN (open meeting) -Animal Identification SC & Manufacturers meeting – Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL (by invitation only) -From 14:30 on: Animal Data Exchange WG – Hotel KOMPAS (Jezerska) (open meeting) -Sheep, Goats, Camelids WG – Hotel PARK: PEN 3 (open meeting) -From 14:30 on: Milk Recording & Sampling Devices SC – Hotel KOMPAS (Triglavska) (open meeting) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Interbull Technical Committee – Room VODA (by invitation only) |
| 16:00 – 17:30 (18:00) | -Dairy Cattle Milk Recording WG – Hotel PARK: PEN 4 -Feed and Gas WG (together with working group of the Global Methane Genetics program) Hotel PARK: PREŠEREN (open meeting) -Animal Identification SC & Manufacturers meeting – Hotel PARK: KOSOVEL (by invitation only) -Animal Data Exchange WG – Hotel KOMPAS (Jezerska) (open meeting) -Sheep, Goats, Camelids WG – Hotel PARK: PEN 3 (open meeting) -Milk Recording & Sampling Devices SC – Hotel KOMPAS (Triglavska) (open meeting) |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Interbull Steering Committee – Room VODA (by invitation only) |
| 08:30 – 17:30 | Exhibition and Poster session |
| FREE EVENING | |
| Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024 | |
| 08:00 – 18:00 | Registration ICAR |
| 07:30 – 08:30 | Registration of ICAR delegates |
| 08:30 – 10:00 | ICAR General Assembly (ARNOLD I/II) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 13:00 | ICAR Plenary Session (ARNOLD I/II) (chair: Tatjana Pirman) |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | ICAR / Interbull Joint Session “Data collection for Beef on Dairy” (chairs: Matt Shaffer & Jo Newton) (ARNOLD I/II) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18:00 | Manufacturers Showcase (chair: Steven Sievert) (ARNOLD I/II) |
| 08:30 – 18:00 | Exhibition and Poster session |
| 18:00 | Welcome Cocktail (RIKLI Balance Hotel) |
| Thursday, May 23rd, 2024 | |
| 08:00 – 10:30 | -ICAR Session 1a: “Decision Support Tools of the Future – Promoting Sustainability Farm Management” (chair: Robert H. Fourdraine) –ARNOLD IICAR Session 2: “New tools to extend the horizon of milk mid-infrared spectrometry” (chair: Josée Bordeleau) –ARNOLD IIICAR Session 8: “Global challenges in measuring methane in ruminants” (chairs: Birgit Gredler-Grandl and Roel Veerkamp) – Hotel KOMPAS |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 13:00 | –ICAR Session 1b: “Decision Support Tools of the Future – Promoting Sustainability Farm Management” (chair: Robert H. Fourdraine) –ARNOLD IICAR Session 5: “How to relate on farm sustainability and milk analysis?” (chair: Josée Bordeleau) – ARNOLD IIICAR –Session 11: Methane Emission-Free Communications: Genetics, Environmental, and Life Cycle Assessment Studies (chairs: Maddalena Zucali and Raffaella Finocchiaro) – Hotel KOMPAS |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | LUNCH |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | –ICAR Session 3: “Factors Affecting the Accuracy of the Recording day” (chair: Steven Sievert) – ARNOLD I –ICAR Session 6: “Evaluation and presentation of new parameters in herd management for dairy farms” (chairs: Kai Kuwan and Betka Logar) – ARNOLD II –ICAR Session 7: “Breeding for agro-ecological transition in sheep and goats” (chair: Jean-Michel Astruc and Mojca Simčič) – Hotel KOMPAS |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30 – 18.00 (18:30) | –ICAR Session 9: “Genomic’s impact on Livestock Sustainability” (chair: Gerben de Jong) – ARNOLD I –ICAR Session 4: Value Adding to Electronic Identification (chair: Ken Evers) – ARNOLD II –ICAR Session 10: New approaches in the field of functional traits for management and breeding – (chairs: Christa Egger Danner and Luiz Brito) – Hotel KOMPAS (till 18:30) |
| 08:30 – 18.00 | Exhibition and Poster session |
| 20.00 | GALA DINNER (Hotel TOPLICE) |
| Friday, May 24th, 2024 | |
| 08:30 – 10:30 | ICAR 2024 Wrap up meeting (ARNOLD I/II) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 17:30 | Technical Tour 1 – Dairy cattle Technical Tour 2 – Beef cattle and Sheep & Goats |
| 08:30 – 11:00 | Exhibition and Poster session |
