The WOC Trust 

World Orchid Conferences have been held every three years since 1954, each time in a different city.

While the long and arduous work entailed in staging each conference is undertaken wholly by local orchid groups and their enthusiastic supporters, the final responsibility for the series of World Orchid Conferences rests with the trustees of the World Orchid Conference Trust, established for that purpose jointly by the American Orchid Society and the Royal Horticultural Society.

The 20th World Orchid Conference took place in Singapore 13-20 November 2011. A photographic record has now been added to the WOC Galleries and a conference report originally published in the RHS Orchid Review may be downloaded from this link:-

WOC 20 report

At the conclusion of a highly successful event the Trustees confirmed:

The 21st WOC will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2014

An Ecuadorian bid to host the 22nd WOC in Guayaquil in 2017 has been provisionally selected from the 7 applications submitted for the event

Effective from the closing of the 20th WOC, Mr Peter Furniss' term as the President of the World Orchid Conference Trust has been completed. Mr Johan Hermans succeeds him as President

21st World Orchid Conference Johannesburg 2014

The next opportunity to host the event will be in 2020. If your group is interested to learn more about hosting this event, please review our guidelines.