The Professional Landcare Network (PLANET) is offering four additional business workshops at its annual educational conference for green industry professionals. The optional courses enhance the educational sessions of the Green Industry Conference (GIC), Oct. 24–27, 2007, in Louisville, Ky., and are open to those attending the entire conference as well as those who are interested in just a taste of the education that GIC offers.
The following optional workshops will be offered from 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday Oct. 24, at the Kentucky Expo Center:
“Benchmarking to Improve Profits”
Kevin Kehoe, Kehoe and Co., Laguna Nigel, California
“How to Differentiate Yourself From the Competition and Profit”
Judith Guido, Guido and Associates, Moorpark, California
“AALD Design Workshop”
Tim Thoelecke, American Academy of Landscape Design, LLC
“A Year’s Worth of Lean Insights”
Jim Paluch, JP Horizons, Inc., Concord, Ohio
GIC is an annual educational and networking conference for the green industry. Education is offered for each specialty group (design/build/installation, lawn care, interior plantscaping, and landscape management), and special Hispanic, financial, and safety sessions are offered as well. Featuring events including a live benefit auction, facility tours, free concerts, and lively roundtable breakfast gatherings, GIC is designed to offer something for every person involved in the green industry.
This year’s conference registration will also include attendance at the larger-than-ever GIE+EXPO, which includes a 20-acre outdoor demonstration area and more than 500 indoor exhibitors, and is located in the Kentucky Expo Center along with GIC.
The Green Industry Conference Platinum Sponsor is John Deere, and the Gold Sponsor is Bayer Environmental Science.
For more information about GIC, visit www.GreenIndustryConference.org or contact PLANET at 800/395-2522 or events@landcarenetwork.org.