Apimondia is the biggest beekeeping organization on the planet I just came
back from Montreal in Canada where I attended the last meeting and there was
a couple of surprises one that I was really got me I'm really excited about
this is that for the first time we have a North America elected the President of
Apimondia, a good friend of mine dr. Jeff Pettis. Coming up next.
Hello, everyone, I am here, I think it's not a secret anymore, no, with the new
president of Apimondia dr. Jeff Pettis yeah congratulations
thank you very much yeah it was a great day so everybody did I know I stopped in
ask a very simple question okay what are you doing to help the bees? and I think
you have a big list. For me now it is a different level.
yes I keep about 60 hives and I try to help my bees but now I have to
help beekeepers globally, a couple more hives. Education yeah
outreach just yeah just communication with beekeepers around the globe about
you know their problems honey adulteration so I mean and so
that's helping the beekeeper helping the bees make sure people have respect
what're the challenges now? Do you have a plan? what can we expect from now on?
I have a plan but I can't show here. I do have a plan and I am well
Apimondia so, it's an old organization every two years we have a really good
meeting that people come from all over the world they get to interact himself
but we have to be more than that we have to serve the delegates from around the
world and we have to listen and help with the problems of beekeeping around
the world a little bit so we are going to hire a communications officer okay you
know try to get word out about what we're doing and to just listen and
interact quite a bit more with the bee community we also are trying to cool
regional little symposium so a problem in Asia might be more Asian than
something in South America some more specific for different areas. Let me know if I can help with anything? I will also the
other part of that is that travel is becoming more expensive and stuff so
this is a way of you know not you know everyone have to travel a long way
around the globe again we can host something in more local area and lastly
this is a stretch but it but it might work I think I don't know what I think
we can have you can you can come to the meeting and pay for your hotel and your
friend all that stuff or for a small fee you can get electronic access to Apimondia, all of the
way they can link and see everything they can see only certain session and we
don't have every session taped and running all the time but the major
sessions and in my ideas we had four excellent speakers Tom Seeley and others
here they give their speech it's online it is live but more importantly they
commit to doing another hour somewhere where it's interactive dialogue so
during the Congress they do their speech it it's filmed and that's accessible
electronically and then they spend an hour where people are submitting
questions electronically or whatever in they're responding and Talkies kind of
interactive for at least an hour an hour people have morning engagement exactly
okay because it that there was a huge interest in these tall and then there's
10-15 minutes worth of questions yeah and and everyone has to be on their own
yeah so and this would allow it to be permanent I mean you can access it even
if you've paid that money you can access it live or you could access it over the
next four months or something. We can't obviously tape every
session and video but key sessions key talks
Maybe you can. okay let's talk no actually no because it's Conmart right yeah all
right I have to start talking to Conmark I think this is a viable
model I mean it doesn't have to be super revenue producing but it needs to have
enough interest that people I've done it where I've remotely tried to watch
something and you can only you know last so long you can't but if I know that I
can see this thing live I'd say Tom see they speak or I see so
to speak and now listen to that and then maybe I can go ahead and go with meetly
to the question answer part or whatever so I that the whole video library of the
Congress will be available for those permanently for some little fee and a
small annual fee yeah yeah yeah different mode oh I don't know I don't
know yeah viable or not but it's a way and I know I can't make the Congress but
I want to at least tap into it a little bit because sometimes it our place is so
isolated or far away that people from the east can't go to the west
and the other the last thing I'm just about inclusive history there's a lot of
urban beekeepers and alternative types of beekeeping treatment freebie evening
and even development work that we're not capturing enough fault in Apimondia we
tend to be a plus mellifera beekeepers in square boxes and then we need to we
need to include everybody yeah and I hate to say we need to think outside the
box wait but we need to we need to think of
a different box
I saw innovation already well I'll try
okay