2024 Landscape Summit

View videos and presentation materials from the 2024 event:

• Agenda
   
• Slides and Timestamped Videos
  • Welcome and opening remarks - Shelkie Tao, Landscape Committee Chair (00:00)
  • Board of Directors welcome - Vice Chair Richard Santos (04:45)
  • State of the Valley's Water - Assistant Officer Kirsten Struve (13:30) / Slides 
  • Valley Water Programs: Overview and Updates - Senior Water Conservation Specialist Ashley Shannon (29:07) 
  • Let's Talk about Native Plants - Moderator Shelkie Tao (46:25)
    • Rebecca Shoenenberger, Owner, California Nativescapes (47:30) / Slides
    • Rachel Klassen, Nursery Manager, Central Coast Wilds (57:48) / Slides
    • Dan Greeley, Program Manager, City of San Jose and Rhonda Nourse, Executive Director, Happy Hollow Foundation (01:09:04) / Slides
  • How are we dealing with Non-Functional Turf? - Moderator, Brian Boyers, Superintendent, Cinnabar Hills Golf Club (01:21:08)
    • Philip Dolan, Water Conservation Specialist, Valley Water (01:32:0) / Slides
    • Loren McIrvin, CEO, Allied Landscape (01:42:30) / Slides
    • Shannon Rossow, Environmental Programs Coordinator, City of Morgan Hill (01:51:13) / Slides
    • Kyla Phillips, Account Manager, Newpath Landscape (02:03:00) / Slides
    • What are Climate-Ready Trees? Natalie van Doorn, Research Urban Ecologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (02:19:41)
  • Summit wrap and closing - Shelkie Tao (02:46:27)
• Full presentation video