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Tenth pre-CIBJO Congress 2024 Special Report released   With fewer than two weeks to go to the opening of the 2024 CIBJO Congress in Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2024, the tenth and final of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Technology Committee, headed by Stéphane Fischler, the report reviews a momentous period in the introduction of new technologies into the jewellery industry, noting that artificial intelligence (AI) may soon be driving the most efficient ways of using data to optimize the various processes in our industry.   “Yes, many challenges remain, and there is a lot of hype for sure,” Fischler writes. “Those are well known caveats that it’s important we appreciate, especially when incorporating or investing in any new technological strategy or use. But we should focus on the positive, because we undoubtedly work in an industry that has been progressively and constructively impacted by the adoption of new technology-driven pr

  CIBJO released ninth pre-CIBJO Congress 2024 special report   With fewer than three weeks to go to the opening of the 2024 CIBJO Congress in Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2024, the ninth of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Coral Commission, headed by Vincenzo Liverino, the report look at how the industry has relied on science both to ensure the sustainability of its own precious coral resources, as well as to help save non-precious reef corals that are under threat from global warming and ocean acidification.   “While we have underlined the fact that deep-water precious corals should not be regarded in the same way as the shallow reef-corals, as a community that is a fully conscious of the necessity of conservation we share same global environmental concerns, and are committed to using the knowledge we have gained to conserve what remains in the shallow-water reefs and maybe revive what has been damaged in recent years,” writes Liv

  Much to learn within our oceans & waterways: CIBJO   With fewer than six weeks to go to the opening of the 2024 CIBJO Congress in Shanghai, China, on November 2, 2024, the sixth of the pre-congress Special Reports has been released. Prepared by the CIBJO Pearl Commission, headed by Kenneth Scarratt, the report looks at environmental and biochemical research being carried out on pearls and in the waters in which the pearl oysters live, and the likely impact that the knowledge gained will have on pearl farming, marketing and the quality of the product itself.   As it did in 2023, the report considers the effects of micro plastics that pollute the waters both in the wild and the vicinity of pearling farms, and which have been detected in sediments and in the oysters themselves. In culturing areas, Scarratt notes that an important evidence has been collected that indicates that exposure to micro plastics may impact the appearance of bio minerals and the expression of bio mine

Dedicated congress 2024 with the programme launched Registration for the 2024 congress of the World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) is now open. Delegates and other participants may register for the congress via a dedicated congress website located at: www.cibjo.org/congress-2024/   CIBJO’s 2023 annual congress will take place in Shanghai, China’s financial centre and the gateway to what is today the world’s largest jewellery market, from November 2 to November 4. Pre-congress meetings will be held on October 31 and November 1.  The hosts of the congress are the Donghao Lansheng Group and the China Gems & Jade Exchange. The congress venue and the official hotel will be the Shangri-La Qiantan, in the heart of Shanghai’s New Bund International Business District in Pudong.  The dedicated website includes the congress programme, important travel information, background information about Shanghai and the congress venue, news and media. An online registration form for the congress is ava