The 2015 Biodiversity Information TDWG Annual Conference will be held from 28 September to 1 October 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya.  This is TDWG’s first conference in Africa! The theme of the conference is Applications, Standards and Capacity Building for Sustaining Global Biodiversity.  Subprograms will include: Digitization, Semantic Technologies, Phyloinformatics, Outreach and Collaboration, ePublications, Trait Data, and Conservation informatics.