Events & Conferences

Our conferences and events provide the best education for landscape and lawn care professionals. Learn from top industry experts who have insider knowledge and connect with CEOs owners and managers who are dealing with the same issues that you face.

NALP Annual Events

Leaders Forum

January

Leaders Forum is the premier executive-level conference for landscape and lawn care company owners, CEOs and senior managers. Network with award-winning leaders and emerging talent in the field, and address challenges and opportunities impacting your career, your team, and your business.

Workforce Summit

February
The landscape industry is experiencing a workforce crisis. No amount of action from any individual company will solve this problem. It is time for industry professionals to work together to identify solutions to this crippling challenge. The competition is no longer the landscape contractor down the street but employers from other industries that are upping the ante to attract the talent they need. The landscape industry needs to confront long-standing assumptions and break the mold of tried and true hiring and work practices.

National Collegiate Landscape Competition

March

The National Collegiate Landscape Competition is an annual three-day powerhouse event which brings together the top landscape and horticulture students, top industry companies and dozens of the biggest industry manufacturers and suppliers. Each year more than 700 students from two- and four-year colleges demonstrate their skills in real-world, competitive events and network with top companies at the largest Career Fair in the industry.

Legislative Days

June

NALP works year-round with members of congress and the administration representing your professional interests, However, in today’s political world that is simply not enough. Your voice carries the most weight with politicians. Join your peers - learn more about the issues that impact your business and come together on Capitol Hill to make sure our industry's issues are heard.

Renewal & Remembrance

July

Join us for the largest service event in the industry – Renewal & Remembrance. Help us honor America’s veterans by lending your professional skills, side by side with your peers, to care for and beautify one of our nation’s most hallowed places – Arlington National Cemetery.

NALP Field Trip

August

The NALP Field Trip with Marty Grunder and Frank Mariani is part facility tour and part education and discussion sessions. And that adds up to some powerful takeaways that could just possibly change your business model. In a different location every year, you'll tour a leading landscape operation and you'll discuss strategy with your peers in the education sessions.

Leadership Academy

September
Looking for industry specific leadership and business management training at a world-class institution? Then the Leadership Academy is for you or for your rising stars. In partnership with Cornell University's SC Johnson School of Business, NALP's  Leadership Academy provides industry pros with the skills, industry specific insight, and know-how needed to be effective leaders in today's changing market.

LANDSCAPES

October

This year's conference provides next level strategies for your whole team of landscape, lawn care, or green industry professionals! Now more than ever, landscape and lawn care businesses need new solutions to adapt and grow. Through our education and networking sessions, you'll find innovative ways to optimize your leadership skills, operations, financial management, sales and marketing, company culture, and safety. Get your 365 All Access Pass to LANDSCAPES and view all the education sessions at your own pace (until October 2021). Attendees have access for a full year to watch anything you missed, just log in and view the conference platform.

Innovation & Technology Forum

November

Stay on the top of the latest trends! Don't miss the virtual Innovation & Technology Forum and learn how technology is impacting landscape and lawn care businesses and how innovation drives business growth. Get a peek at how other pros are leveraging TECHNOLOGY in four key areas (people, productivity, sustainability, and equipment). Join us on November 18, 2020 to listen to the sessions, participate in live Q&A, and network with speakers and other attendees. 

On Tour

Select Dates Throughout the Year
Want to peek behind the bushes and see how other successful landscape companies make it work? Hit the road with us (at least virtually) and go “On Tour” as we take you behind-the-scenes of successful landscape businesses.