GROW Executive Summit Is Fast Approaching; Here’s Why You Need to Register Today
October 29, 2021 
We are just over a month away from the premier of Greenhouse Grower’s newest event — The GROW Executive Summit. Registration is open, and we hope you will make plans now to join us for two days of education, discussion, and high-impact networking in Charlotte, NC, on December 7-8.
This Summit is not your typical conference or tradeshow. It’s a high-level, active-participation event where you’ll have the chance to interact with your peers, industry innovators, and other experts to gain real market insight and a firm grasp of strategies and technologies that will advance your business.
We don’t expect you to attend this conference and just sit back and listen. We expect you to voice your opinions, share your ideas, and engage in the discussions that will take place at the Summit. You are the thought leaders the industry needs to hear from, and the GROW Executive Summit is the perfect platform to share your insights and learn from other owners, CEOs, and senior management leaders across all sectors of the greenhouse industry.
Expect to address business management from all angles as we cover topics impacting your business now and in the future. Here’s a sneak peek of the program for the GROW Executive Summit and what you and other attendees will be talking about.
The Immediate: Volatile Economic and Market Outlooks
We’ll spend an entire morning focused on challenges you are dealing with as we head into 2022. You need to fully comprehend the ramifications of what is happening now before asking what happens next for your business. We’ll identify some of the trends shaping the next normal and discuss how they will influence the direction of national and global markets. Then we’ll bring everything together by discussing what this means for your business and how it may need to adjust.
- End-to-End Supply Chain Risk Management
Gain insights into the next risk trends in supply chain management to help you navigate the uncertain business environment in 2022 and beyond. - Talent Acquisition and Employee Engagement Strategies Post-Pandemic
The best leaders understand that growth, innovation, and market disruption don’t happen with the wrong people in place, or the right people who aren’t actively engaged at work. How does senior leadership influence employee engagement? You’ll find out during this discussion.
The Intermediate: A Five-Year Forecast
After covering the immediate issues impacting your business, we’ll look further out beyond the hurdles of this year and the next. What do you want your business to look like five years from now? Preparing for what is on the horizon means thinking about larger issues than your business.
- The Changing Landscape of Capital Management: Financing and Fundraising
As the demand for greenhouse-grown products increases, controlled-environment operations will need capital to expand existing farms and establish new ones. How lenders and investors work with greenhouse operations for funding is changing rapidly. You will learn what you need to know to access the capital to grow your business. - Strategic Water Management: The Next Ten Years
Managing your water is mission-critical, and water management practices have garnered more attention from state and federal governments as drought and clean water crises affect communities globally. Water restrictions, new regulations, and natural disasters impacting water scarcity and quality are just a few of the things you’ll need to think about as you decide how your business can deploy a climate-resilient water management strategy. - Strategic Energy Management for Protected Agriculture
Dependably meeting the energy needs of both the business and public sectors has become a priority for energy suppliers who want to rethink and redesign their energy systems to respond to emerging challenges and regional climate goals. Learn about energy management models from other energy-critical industries, strategies and accounting methods for achieving carbon-neutral operations, the role of lighting and environmental control in driving energy savings, and more.
The Ultimate: A New Playbook for Future-Ready Leaders
Good business management is all about strong leadership. Vision brings focus, but vision without action isn’t enough. Your leadership is what helps transform vision into reality, with the full power of your team behind you.
- Embrace Your Leadership Role as Chief Change Agent
The success or failure of efforts to make organizational change hinge on the leadership skills of top management. We’ll discuss how you as a leader can objectively set targets and define results to accomplish change and maximize your team’s efforts. - Succession Planning: Building Value into Your Business
If you want the value of your business to remain intact for your successors, you should begin the planning process sooner rather than later. This session will cover how talent assessment, development, and compensation planning can help you identify and groom the next generation of leadership to ensure your legacy isn’t left up to chance. - Strategic Planning: If You Can’t Measure It, It Doesn’t Exist
Simply launching strategic initiatives and projects doesn’t always guarantee your organization is increasing profitability, market share, and revenue, or that you are more efficient as a result. Measuring/monitoring systems are critical to know whether your execution is successful and bringing you closer to your business goals.
The Emerging: Catalysts for a Technology-Driven Company
The second day of the conference we’ll focus on new forms of automation and technology that are changing the greenhouse space and that could impact your business operations in the future.
- New Developments on the Path From Automation to Autonomy
New forms of automation are transforming the greenhouse space and more companies are making the leap from manual processes to automated solutions. This is your opportunity to learn about all the newly available and upcoming technologies available to help you realize greater efficiencies than ever before.
Bringing It All Together with GROW Conversations Live
Finally, to finish off the event we’ll bring a group of growers together to get their take on the discussions that took place across the entire conference. This in-person version of Greenhouse Grower’s popular online GROW Conversations series will be a non-moderated, no-holds barred, frank conversation you won’t want to miss.
Secure a Coveted Seat, In-Person
The Summit is a limited-capacity, intimate gathering in order to facilitate active dialogue, open discussion, and high-value networking. Seats are going fast, so register today to ensure your participation. (Register before November 12 to lock in the Advanced Rate. You’ll save $255 compared to on-site registration) We look forward to seeing you in Charlotte this December.
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