With the 2015 CIBJO Congress set to open in Salvador, Brazil, at the beginning of next week, agendas and all related documentation for the various sessions and meetings that will take place during the event are now available online. Contained in a Digital Binder, they can be downloaded from the dedicated congress website. To down the Digital Binder, please CLICK HERE.
The schedule of the CIBJO Congress includes a series of meeting of different working groups, called sectors and commissions, each of which focuses on a different sector or field of interest in the jewellery industry. The Digital Binder includes the agendas and documentation related to each of their sessions, as well as those sessions that encompass the entire CIBJO membership.
The congress will take place at the Sheraton da Bahia Hotel in Salvador from May 4 to May 6, with pre-congress meetings starting on May 2.
Serving as the official venue for the meeting of the CIBJO Assembly of Delegates, the CIBJO Congress gathers the members of national jewellery and gemstone associations from more than 40 countries and representatives of many of the industry’s most important commercial bodies. During the event, the organisation’s Diamond, Coloured Stones, Pearl, Precious Metals and Gemmological Blue Books, which are industry’s most widely accepted directories of uniform grading standards and nomenclature, are discussed and updated. This congress will see the introduction of a Coral Blue Book.
This is the first time that a CIBJO Congress is taking place in Latin America. It is being hosted by Instituto Brasileiro de Gemas e Metais Preciosos (IBGM), working in close cooperation with the local jewellery association in Bahia, Progemas (Associação Bahiana dos Produtores e Comerciantes de Gemas e Metais Preciosos).
Photo Caption: Salvador, Brazil, the site of the 2015 CIBJO Congress.