<div dir="ltr"><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:2.5rem">TDWG 2022—A Hybrid Conference</h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:2.5rem">Stronger Together: Standards for linking biodiversity data</h1><h1 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:2.5rem">17–21 October 2022</h1><h3 id="gmail-be there in person, or join the conference online!" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:1.75rem">Be there in person, or join the conference online!</h3><hr style="box-sizing:content-box;height:0px;overflow:visible;margin-top:1rem;margin-bottom:1rem;border-right:0px;border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.1);color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"><h2 id="gmail-call for organized sessions_1" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-weight:500;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-size:2rem">Call for organized sessions</h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual conference in 2022 will be a hybrid meeting, hosted in Sofia, Bulgaria by:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://pensoft.net/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,101,0);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">Pensoft</a>,</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="https://www.nmnhs.com/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,101,0);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">National Museum of Natural History</a>, <a href="https://www.bas.bg/?lang=en" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,101,0);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">Bulgarian Academy of Sciences</a>, and</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="http://www.iber.bas.bg/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,101,0);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research</a>, <a href="https://www.bas.bg/?lang=en" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,101,0);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">Bulgarian Academy of Sciences</a>,</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">Essential early information has been posted on the <a href="https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(202,101,0);text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">conference website</a> (<a href="https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/">https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/</a>) . Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1rem;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji";font-size:16px">We invite you to <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CYK8HPR" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(2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