02/26/2025 – Integrated Pest Management Achievement Awards
About this event
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) hosts the annual Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Achievement Awards to recognize IPM leaders for their achievements in the adoption and promotion of safer, more sustainable IPM practices in agricultural, urban, and wildland settings throughout California. IPM—any approach that uses the least toxic, effective method to solve pest problems—is a foundational concept in sustainable pest management.
When: February 26, 2025
What time: IPM exhibits open at 12:30 p.m. Keynote panel discussion to begin at 1:15 p.m. and the award ceremony to begin at 1:30 p.m. and conclude at 3 p.m.
Where: California Environmental Protection Agency, 1001 I St., Sacramento in the second floor mezzanine and Sierra Hearing Room. The ceremony will also be streamed on Zoom – registration is required on the Zoom website. Interpretation into Spanish will be provided in-person and on Zoom.
What: The expanded IPM Achievement Awards event will include exhibits and opportunities for networking and educational resources, a keynote panel discussion to highlight SPM opportunities and collaborative opportunities, and a ceremony to highlight and celebrate the annual IPM Achievement Award Winners.
- Exhibitors include UC IPM, and UC ANR Urban IPM Advisors, CDFA, California Invasive Plant Council, among others.
- Keynote panelists include Karen Cowan, Executive Director for the California Stormwater Quality Association, Scott Park, founder of Park Farming Organics and Lisa Worthington, Chief of the Office of Vegetation and Wildfire Management at CalTrans.
- Award ceremony to include remarks from state leaders, including the California Environmental Protection Agency Secretary Yana Garcia and California Department of Food and Agriculture Undersecretary, Christine Birdsong, California legislators and IPM Achievement Award Winners.