Wednesday 19 February

Nursery tours

Option 1: South 

• Marlborough Nursery – an expansive production nursery supplying the retail trade with large volumes of high-quality containerised indoor flowering and foliage plants
• Rocky Point – designing custom growing media for each individual grower’s specific requirements
• Digga – Australia's largest manufacturer of planetary gearboxes producing world-class machinery for some of the world's leading companies.
• Redlands Research Facility – generating breakthroughs and cutting-edge practices in Australian agriculture

Option 2: North - two more tours to be announced soon!

• Dracaena Farm Nursery – 3.5-acre nursery combining shaded growing areas with hail-guard zones for sun-loving succulents
• Quality Plastic Products – supplying nursery products made from recycled materials to Australian greenlife growers

Networking drinks

Enjoy drinks and nibbles as you cruise up the Brisbane River under the night sky – think music, bars and networking…

Thursday 20 February - Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) 

• Negotiation, leadership, communication and influence - Chris Hedler
• Unlocking success in retail negotiations – Neil Rechlin, Director, NextGen
• Sharpen your insights to thrive in a dynamic environment – Joanna Cave, GIA CEO
• Plant protection and resistance management – John McDonald, GIA Director RDE and Biosecurity
• Profiting from best practice – four real growers
• Introducing the Horticulture Centre of Excellence – Craig Taberner, CEO, NGIV
• From drones to barcodes – need-to-know intel on harnessing new tech in the greenlife sector – four punchy and powerful presenters
• Your levy, your say – facilitated by Cath Botta, driven by YOU
• Gourmet Greenlife Grill - gourmet barbeque on the BCEC’s sky deck.

Friday 21 February -  Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) 

• Brekkie and brainstorming with Cath Botta (registrations open soon!)
• Artificial intelligence – Julian Moore
• No nonsense marketing for busy business owners – Tanya Williams
• Horticultural Olympics – world horticultural experts greening the globe: Treve Evans
• Futureproofing your business – Lightning presentations on succession planning, staffing, diversification environmental, social, and governance (ESG), and more efficiency/less waste
• Horticulture, the salve and the solve 
• Fire ants facts and fixes: expert technical info on this burning issue– Peter Ambrose Pearce