Tracks
Powerful Partnerships and Collaborations
Deeply Rooted Leadership and Development
Historic Horticulture
How do you forge powerful relationships with the community to build your shared future? What are you doing to re-imagine the community landscape as a more relevant and engaged garden with new audiences on a local and global basis?
What are you doing as a leader to change your garden’s culture and promote more engaged employees? Demonstrate your challenges and successes and show how your efforts are changing workflows and encouraging new rivers of advancement at your garden.
Go back to your roots and share the beauty of your garden’s features and plant collections. Are you looking to your past to make your gardens’ future better? Are you creating historic advances through the use of new technologies? Share the successes and struggles at the root of what you do each and every day.
Track Co-Chairs:
Track Co-Chairs:
Track Co-Chairs:
Michelle Conklin Executive Director Tucson Botanical Garden
Carmia Feldman Assistant Director UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden
520.326.9686 execdirector@tucsonbotanical.org
530.752.4880 csfeldman@ucdavis.edu
Neil Gerlowski Executive Director Vallarta Botanical Garden
Dave Forehand VP of Gardens and Visitor Services Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Gardens
52.322.223.6182 neil@vbgardens.org
214.515.6607 dforehand@dallasarboretum.org
Casey Sharber Director of Horticulture Myriad Botanical Gardens 405.445.7080 csharber@myriadgardens.org Tom Smarr Director of Horticulture Friends of the Highline 646.774.2482 Thomas.Smarr@thehighline.org