These forms can be printed. Then sent to NIPA via:

fax

copy to a file and email or

use Australia Post.

Conference Extract

Delegate Registration Form

Accommodation Form

Exhibitor Form

Speaker Presentations
Thursday Afternoon 12AM-5PM

9AM Exhibitors Bump In

Margaret Burchett - Key Note Speaker
Prof Burchett on the outcomes from the UTS Project, both how plants clean the air and psychological benefits. This is possibly the most important research ever done on indoor plants and you should know all about it.
An overall view of the whole research with NIPA/HAL/UTS and where it has taken the industry.

Accreditation Workshop
This workshop will be given by Paul Plant a well known horticulturist and editor. Paul owns the company that assesses the NIPA Accreditations Applications. At the conclusion of this workshop you will be able to easily gain Accreditation.

Financial/Sales Session
This session by David Ross from Direction Accounting, will help you manage your finances better. It will include pricing, discounting, cash flow, benchmarking and other pertinent matters relating to small business.

Customer Communications (Tentative)
What to do when a Customer say "pullout the plants" - with templates.

Conference Dinner
Friday 7:30 - 5PM

Shark Bay
6:55AM or 7:55AM later for families.

8:30AM Entertainment Session
Lorin Nicholson is a blind guitarist and motivational/inspirational speaker and presenter with fantastic credentials.

Margaret Burchett
Margaret will give 2 sessions (maybe 3). One on mould and one on the psychological benefits and touch on other things for designers.

Green Building Council Australia
Increased productivity is a current agenda for GBCA and the Government and we can help.

Mark Thomson
Mark Thomson, an Ecological Architect and Adjunct Professor of the QUT School of Design, who has recently been reappointed as President of the Australian Green Development Forum. We are extremely lucky to have Mark attend our conference.

Interior Designer
We have an interior designer from BVN Architecture who will discuss case studies, plus colour trends and predictions for next season and beyond. This session is important to show the industry what is being done in the upper part of town.

How We Create
A presentation by Norm Johnson.

Guidelines for Architects and Designers
This document prepared by NIPA enhanced by Mark Thomson will be launch in this session.

Green Walls
Living Walls are aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly and here to stay. This session is important to educate the industry and show other ways of including green life in a building.

PAWA
NZ Representative. What is happening in NZ.

Interior Plantscape NIPA Standards
These are a published set of NIPA standards that should enhance your business by adhering to them.

Nursery Words (tentative)

4PM Bump Out Time for Exhibitors

2010 AUSTRALASIAN INTERIOR PLANTSCAPE CONFERENCE

Improve Your Triple Bottom Line

Profit – People - Planet

SeaWorld Nara Resort Queensland’s Gold Coast

Thursday 7th & Friday 8th October

This year’s Industry Conference and Expo will be a learning experience in a very creative environment that is also a world standard tourist location at a special price to suit your budget. The special accommodation rate extends to pre and post resort stays for three days either side of the conference. There is also a special rate available for kids and babysitting.

Who is not looking forward to an exclusive experience at Shark Bay as part of the conference experience? Like plantscapers, sharks can either be solitary, (working alone) or gregarious, working in schools or (in our case) attending conferences with up to 100 others. Recent studies have indicated that many shark species possess powerful problem-solving skills, social complexity and curiosity.

These are the same attributes as many of our 2010 conference attendees who will congregate at the Gold Coast this October to hear speakers of the caliber of Prof Margaret Burchett - talking about how plants actually remove VOC’s from the air and possible future research directions. Attendees will hear the Green Building Council’s take on how we can market plants as being an attractive choice for green star points. Corporate Sustainability Principal, Schivello Group, Mark Thompson will help us to market plants to designers, architects and facility managers. Learn about future trends in interior design and how these trends will affect the types of plants and containers our industry will use. Green Walls are going to play a big part in that future so the conference will spotlight different types of green walls, how they can be easily constructed, watered and serviced.

With conference attendees coming from many parts of the globe, it will be interesting to hear PAWA’s speaker address plantscape trends in New Zealand. Also get the Aussie nurserymen’s expertise on growing methods, plant varieties, pest control and potting media. Conference Expo exhibitors will showcase products and services that complement the speaker topics ranging from nursery stock, to the current state of Fire Ants in Australia, to the industry’s international accreditation scheme as well as an exhibition of the latest planters from Conference Patron, The Container Connection Group.

All this conferencing in one and a half days, plus there will be time for networking, talking and Thursday night Conference dinner partying with plant hirers from every State and Territory in Australia, New Zealand and industry representatives from like-minded associations across the globe. For some of us this NIPA Conference will be a reunion and the highlight of our business calendar. For others, if you have not attended before, 2010 is the year to start – it promises to be bigger and better than before. Complete and return the Conference Registration Form in this newsletter and OR visit www.nipa.asn.au and download your 2010 Conference Registration E-form and Accommodation Booking details TODAY.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Container Connection Group is NIPA’s national patron as well as the Conference Patron. Their financial backing keeps conference fees down and enables the Association to undertake many other projects. They support your industry. Please support their business in return.

P.S. See you all at this year’s conference.

CONFERENCE HOTLINE: +61(0) 414 503 979 RECEPTION: +61 7 5591 0000 RESERVATIONS: +61 7 5591 0019 SEAWORLDRESORT.MYFUN.COM.AU

The conference patron for 2010 was "The Container Connection Group".