Top Landscaping Conferences To Attend In 2020
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 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 say “hi” and pick up some swag 🙂
Landscaping Trade Shows & Conferences in 2020
Green and Growin’
GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
January 27, 2020 – January 31, 2020
North Carolina Nursery & Landscape Association puts on this conference every year in Greensboro, NC. Green & Growin’ includes an educational portion with more than 50 classes available that provide CEU credits. Two speakers will deliver keynote speeches. The Marketplace provides an opportunity to view vendors’ products and network.
Pricing: $95-$400
iLandscape
SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS
January 29, 2020 – January 31, 2020
The seventh annual show will be January 29-31, 2020 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center in Schaumburg, Illinois. iLandscape is owned and managed by the Illinois Landscape Contractors Association (ILCA).
iLandscape is the show for today’s landscape professional. iLandscape is a professional trade show for Midwestern landscape professionals.
Over 5,000 people attended the sixth iLandscape show.
Location:
Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center
1551 N, Thoreau Dr N, Schaumburg, IL 60173
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ProGreen Expo
DENVER, COLORADO
February 5, 2020 – February 7, 2020
This is a landscaping professional show for the rocky mountain region. More than 6,000 green industry professionals gather every year at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver to gain vital knowledge and skills to improve business, educate employees and discover the latest information for the upcoming season.
Location:
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th Street, Denver, CO 80202
Nor Cal Landscape and Nursery Show
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA
February 27, 2020
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, 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 latest announcements and potential peers, 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, 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 presenters 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 master minds 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 put a TON into their presentations. Don’t overlook the newbies to the speaking scene.
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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 around 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.
