The first HAIS meeting was held 5-6 October 2006 at the National Academies of Science, Washington DC, USA. The idea of this meeting was to invite heads of national IPY secretariats to exchange information, present funding status information, and to discuss issues of potential joint interest.

For practical reasons, the participants came from the northern hemisphere (hence called Arctic). However, both Polar Regions were included in the discussions.
You can find a list of all the HAIS 1 documents from this first meeting on the Classic IPY site.

The second meeting of the HAIS will be held at the Danish Polar Center (DPC) in Copenhagen 1st - 2nd February, 2007.