From Wednesday June 3rd to Saturday June 6th the Bulgarian town of Varna, located on the Black Sea coast will welcome the FIS family at the International Hotel Casino & Tower Suites for the FIS Calendar Conference 2015.
As every Spring, Alpine officials will face a busy schedule as the various Alpine Sub-Committees and Working Groups will undertake three full days of meetings before presenting at the Alpine Committee on Saturday morning, the last day of the Conference.
The Sub-Committee meetings for Classification of Alpine Competitors and Ladies' Alpine Skiing are scheduled on Wednesday afternoon and will be the first strictly Alpine related meetings of this year’s Conference. The agenda of the Ladies’ Alpine Skiing meeting anticipates a special report by the Athletes Commission that should provide valuable input to the future work of the Sub-Committee.
On Thursday morning the meetings of the Sub-Committees for Europa Cup and Intercontinental Cups will provide a first debrief of the 2014/15 season and discussions regarding the finalization of the competition calendars for the 2015/16 season.
Thursday afternoon will be dedicated to the meetings of the Sub-Committees for Alpine Rules and Alpine Youth & Children and a meeting focusing on competition equipment.
On Friday morning, the Sub-Committee for Alpine World Cup will hear reports from
Chairman Niklas Carlsson, Chief Race Directors Atle Skaardal and Markus Waldner and FIS Marketing Manager Marcel Looze before finalizing the World Cup calendars for the 2015/16 season and discussing the calendar proposals for the 2016/17 – 2018/19 seasons.
In the afternoon, Club 5 will hold their traditional meeting of the Calendar Conference before attending the World Cup OC Seminar where best practices from the different organizers will be shared.
The Alpine part of this year’s Calendar Conference meetings will wrap up on Saturday morning with the Alpine Committee meeting were the various Alpine Sub-Commissions and Working Groups will have an opportunity to present their work before everyone returns to their homes to continue preparing for the upcoming ski season
Source: fis-ski.com
