This conference provides an intimate setting for the exchange of information on Mineral and Petroleum Exploration, Mining Activities, and Government and Academia Geoscience Research in Canada’s north. The 2009 Yellowknife Geoscience Forum attracted nearly 750 delegates from industry, academia, and government. The conference has been growing in the past eight years and even with the current economic downturn, we are pleased with attendance and delegate enthusiasm as we continue to promote the NWT and Nunavut’s immense mineral potential.