This is not the first time that we have run such a meeting!  An outline of our previous workshop, where we developed many of the ideas that we will incorporate into this meeting, can be seen at http://www.andinabbar.weebly.com/workshops.html A paper describing the meeting and its outcomes, was published in New Phytologist:

Murray, J.V. et al. (2012) ‘Raising the bar’: improving the standard and utility of weed and invasive plant research.  New Phytologist 196: 678-680. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2012.04343.x/pdf