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Day 1 (Friday) will take place at Lowell Observatory, atop Mars Hill. Lunch will be included.
Day 2 (Saturday) will be at the High Country Conference Center. Lunch will be at the nearby restaurants, at the participant's discretion.
On Sunday after the Forum, there will be an opportunity to tour of Lowell Observatory's Anderson Mesa site, including NPOI.
| Day | Start | Stop | Agenda | Moderator | Archivist |
| Friday | 9:00 | 9:30 | Welcome/Introductions/Assignments | van Belle | |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Forum concept presentation and initial discussion | van Belle | Baines | |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Active plans of current facilities | Herbst | Baron | |
| 11:00 | 11:30 | Break | |||
| 11:30 | 12:15 | Significant developments in technology - achieved or needed | Buscher | Berger | |
| 12:15 | 1:15 | Lunch | |||
| 1:15 | 1:45 | Funding and other practical matters | Wishnow | Creech-Eakman | |
| 1:45 | 2:30 | Long term perspective on astronomy programs - relation of interferometry to other facilities | Mourard | Tuthill | |
| 2:30 | 3:30 | Next-generation interferometric science - opportunities and requirements | Berger | Petrov | |
| 3:30 | 4:15 | Break and work time | |||
| 4:15 | 5:00 | Summaries of today's high points from archivists and further discussion | |||
| Saturday | 9:00 | 9:30 | Forum concept - discussion continues | ten Brummelaar | Schmitt |
| 9:30 | 10:30 | Interferometry user and operator experience | Delplancke | Stencel | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Break | |||
| 11:00 | 12:00 | Blue sky thinking | Eisner | Payne | |
| 12:00 | 1:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 | 2:00 | International collaborations/coordination | Armstrong | Herbst | |
| 2:00 | 2:30 | The role of formal and informal community organizations and networking | Mozurkewich | Elias | |
| 2:30 | 3:30 | Break and work time | |||
| 3:30 | 4:15 | Summaries of today's high points from archivists and further discussion | |||
| 4:15 | 5:00 | Concurrence on Forum scope and objectives and plans for future activities | Perrin |