Welcome aboard Smallmasterr, thanks for joining Bananas.org and posting a thread about this.
I had missed this thread and started another about this conference.
International Banana Conference 2008
Looks very interesting and we're following it...
Like Ron states, we did reach out to Bioversity in the past to no avail. Maybe they are very busy? The community should have more open and better communication so that preparations for the future are more efficient.
I have plans to be in Africa the beginning of 2008 so this event
may be a possibility to attend. I do hope other members here are able to make it. Hopefully at least one of us can attend and create a composition of the highlights for all who couldn't attend to read.
Regardless, best of success with the event!