Why Landscaping Conferences Are Important to Your Business
The entire community of landscaping professionals is one of the most active professional industries. Every year, just in the USA, there are 100+ landscaping trade shows and conferences built to tackle some of the hardest challenges businesses in landscaping face. Landscape and industry trade shows allow you to see the innovations, hear from experts, and network with other business professionals around the country to understand the pressures facing your business.
We have built a list of the top landscaping conferences to attend this year and beyond. This page is continually being updated with the newest landscape events, conferences, and learning courses for your industry.
VIVAHR will be attending many of the landscape conferences listed below. Be sure to come to say “hi” and pick up some swag 🙂
Growers, retailers, landscapers, and other green industry professionals gather each year to network, find suppliers/customers at the Marketplace and earn CEUs at the Education Program during Green & Growin’- the largest green industry trade show in the Southeast! Learn how you can put your company’s brand in front of more than 5,000 attendees.
The Landscape Expo is a regional trade show and educational conference for landscape professionals from all facets of the industry. Featuring hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees every fall for the past 60 years, the Landscape Expo is the premier event for landscape professionals in the western United States.
The Landscape Show is where 7,000 attendees come to network, attend workshops, and see the newest plant material. The show offers dozens of educational programs, industry CEUs, peer-to-peer exchanges, and inspiration to grow your business.
Exhibiting at The Landscape Show is a first-class ticket to connecting your products with eager motivated potential customers. The connections you’ll make at the show are indelible. Tree buyers, woody ornamentals, and landscape equipment all converge at the Landscape Show in the thousands to get a feel for what materials and products are available to them – and make purchases!
The Garden Center Conference and Expo are more than just another trade show. It’s an inspiration-packed, education-driven forum guaranteed to engage your mind and expand your relationships. It’s a 2.5-day boost of actionable ideas and peer collaboration. It’s the newest product coming to market.
Featuring an education track for executives and one tailored specifically for team leaders, it’s where leading retailers and their teams come to grow together and move the industry forward.
Energized, innovative and collaborative. The National Association of Landscape Professionals’ new annual conference and expo ELEVATE in Dallas 2023 (September 10-13). Save the dates and plan to be there. It’s the can’t miss education and networking event for landscape maintenance, lawn care, design-build, irrigation, and horticulture professionals.
How to plan for your upcoming Landscaping trade show and conference
Build your wish list: Before you go, make sure you create your list of key questions you’re facing right now in your business, industry, or team. These can be your talking points while meeting with peers or during Q&A time at the end of speaker presentations. It can also help keep you focused in the exhibitor area knowing who you should spend your time talking to.
Is there a conference app? Find out if there is a conference app. Download it before you go to see the latest announcements and potential peers, and mentors you can meet up with. The best relationships are built outside the hr conference. Find out where the after-parties and peer dinner groups are meeting. WiFi is not always a sure thing at the venue. Make sure you download the app before you go.
Get your Twitter account ready – A lot of the conference chatter happens via a Twitter hashtag thread. Find out what the conference hashtag will be, and save it in your search preferences in your Twitter mobile app. Engage. These events are so much better when you can share what you’ve learned, insights, and tips with other landscaping professionals. Great way to see who else is attending and who you may want to follow on Twitter for post-event conversations and networking.
Block out time for meetings. The relationships you make will be better than the presenter’s message (sorry speakers! I know you agree though 🙂 Find time in the conference schedule to have one on one coffee connections or lunch meetings. Get to know other professionals. Many people take the time to build support groups or masterminds with other landscape professionals. Allows them to have a trusted community of contacts to share ideas and grow alongside.
Take advantage of the early-bird sessions. The more well-known speakers are scheduled during the meat & potatoes time slots of the conference. However, some of my favorite sessions during professional conferences have happened during the pre-conference time slots. The ‘up-and-comers’ are speaking and putting a TON into their presentations. Don’t overlook the newbies to the speaking scene.
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Redline Electric & Solar
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Types Of Landscape Conference Educational Content
Laws and Regulations
Safety – OSHA Inspections
Sustainability
Labor Law Compliance
Sales and Customer Success
Recruiting and Talent Acquisition
Training and Development
Each of these categories of learning content at a landscaping conference will educate you about the current pain points you may be facing. Some of the larger conferences will have breakout sessions for each of these categories, but you will gather more depth at a dedicated conference educating around a very specific niche.
