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Featured Speakers

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Dr. Lewis Bartlett

Dr. Lewis Bartlett is an infectious disease biologist, entomologist, and evolutionary ecologist at the University of Georgia’s Center for the Ecology of Infectious Diseases. He uses field studies, laboratory experiments, and computer simulations to understand how changes in beekeeping are affecting bee diseases in both the short and long term.
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Michael Bush

Michael Bush is one of the leading proponents of treatment-free beekeeping. He has had an eclectic set of careers from printing and
graphic arts, to construction to computer programming and a few more in between. Currently, he is working in computers.

He has been keeping bees since the mid 70’s, usually from two to seven hives up until the year 2000. Varroa forced more experimentation which required more hives and the number has grown steadily over the years from then. By 2008 it was about 200 hives. He is active on many of the Beekeeping forums with last count at about 50,000 posts between all of them.

Other Speakers

Fleming Mattox, Francis Reay-Jones, Tom Nolan, Glen Severt

Conference Schedule

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Track 1: Spring Conference

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Lobby

 Registration
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Lobby

 Honey Show Entries Accepted

Coordinator: Steve Genta
8:00 AM –  9:00 AM

Vendor Space

 Doughnuts, Muffins, Coffee
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Main Room

 SCBA Business Update

Speaker: Kerry Owen
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Vendor Area

 Vendors/Break
9:20 AM – 10:20 AM

Main Room

 Crowding and Caravans: I Industrial Beekeeping Bad for Bees?

Speaker: Dr. Lewis Bartlett
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Honey Judging

Coordinator: Steve Genta
10:20 AM – 11:15 AM

Main Room

 Four Simple Steps to Healthier Bees

Speaker: Michael Bush
11:15 AM – 11:50 AM

Main Room

 Science/DNA Technical Side

Speaker Fleming Mattox, MD
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM

Vendor Area

 Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Main Room

 Honey Show Results

Coordinator: Steve Genta
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Main Room

 IPM: How Clemson Educates Farmers to Use it in Tehri Pest Management Operations

Speaker: Francis Reay-Jones
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM

Vendor Area

 Break/Visit Vendors
2:20 PM – 3:00 PM

Main Room

 Mite-Away Treatments for Hot/Humid Conditions

Speaker: Tom Nolan, NOD
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Main Room

 Zero Mite Count Theory

Speaker: Glen Severt
3:30 PM – 4:42 PM

Main Room

 Lazy Beekeeping: How to Accomplish More While Working Less by Doing Things Differently

Speaker: Michael Bush
4:25 PM – 5:15 PM

Main Room

 Bee Breeding: Problems and Promises of Darwinian Beekeeping

Speaker: Dr. Lewis Bartlett
5:15 PM Adjourn

Track 2: Welsh Honey Judging Academy

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM

Lobby

 Registration
7:00 AM – 9:00 AM

Lobby

 Honey Show Entries Accepted

Coordinator: Steve Genta
8:00 AM –  9:00 AM

Vendor Space

 Doughnuts, Muffins, Coffee
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Main Room

 SCBA Business Update

Speaker: Kerry Owen
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM

Vendor Area

 Vendors/Break
9:20 AM – 11:50 AM

TBA

 Session 1

Brutz English and Steve Genta
11:50 AM – 1:00 PM

Vendor Area

 Lunch
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM

TBA

 Session 2

Brutz English and Steve Genta
5:15 PM Adjourn