Yale Forest Forum Fall 2026 Speaker Series: Unlocking Forest Sector Innovation: The Practice and Potential Pathways to Scaling Up

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September 3 – December 10, 2026

Exploring the practice and pathways to scaling up forest sector innovation is vital because global forest use and demand for wood and non-wood forest products are rising rapidly, affecting billions of people and putting pressure on forest ecosystems. At the same time, deforestation, unsustainable harvesting, and climate-change-driven stressors like wildfires and pests threaten forests’ health and resilience, creating urgent and sometimes competing management needs. Supporting and improving innovation can help reconcile these pressures by enabling sustainable forest management and community benefits, while filling gaps in awareness and research —especially beyond technology-centric, Western-focused perspectives — so effective solutions can be created, adopted, and scaled.

This fall 2026 Yale Forest Forum speaker series will explore the opportunities, challenges, and pathways that exist and are emerging in forestry innovation. This series will highlight speakers across a wide variety of forest research institutions, practitioner settings, and geographies. The series is developed and supported by members of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations’ (IUFRO) Scaling-Up Science-based Forest Sector Innovation Task Force and their broader networks.

Join us every Thursday from September 3 to December 10, from 12-1 p.m. U.S. ET. There will be no webinars on October 22 or November 26.

*Note: Sessions through October 29 will be held from 12-1 p.m. EDT (GMT-4). Beginning November 5, sessions will be held from 12-1 p.m. EST (GMT-5).

The series is free and open to the public. Each session will be recorded. We will offer certificates of attendance for CEUs for foresters and practitioners who attend the live webinars. Please email yff@yale.edu(link sends e-mail) for further information.

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