Leadership, Innovation and Growth is the theme of CIH conference
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The Chartered Institute of Horticulture (CIH) will be hosting its conference at SALTEX 2015 on 4 November at the NEC, Birmingham.
The CIH is the authoritative organisation representing those professionally engaged in horticulture in the UK and Ireland and its conference provides an excellent opportunity to gain an insight in to the challenges, trends and strategic thinking of horticultural leaders and to meet industry professionals. The Institute was granted a Royal Charter by her Majesty the Queen on 21 July 2014 and a key benefit of this is that it is able to grant members the right to use the title Chartered Horticulturist, with the designatory letters C Hort.
With its theme of Leadership, Innovation and Growth, the conference brings together six top-flight industry leaders to deliver dynamic and inspiring presentations on fruit, vegetables, protected ornamentals, botanic gardens, garden centres and green spaces.
The six highly respected speakers will highlight their leadership challenges and growth success stories of managing commercial and public enterprises in the 2015 economy. They will demonstrate the innovation required to capture and retain clients and members in all horticultural sectors against the challenging background of greater discretionary spend and diminishing budgets.
The conference will be chaired by TV gardener David Domoney (pictured).. The speakers include Phil Pearson FCIHort Group Development Director, APS Salads who will talk about Innovation - the future for glasshouse edibles; Anthony Snell Managing Director, AJ and CI Snell who will tell delegates about Berry breeding, growth and retailing to the consumer; Martin Emmett MCIHort, Director of Binsted Nursery and Walberton Nursery and AHDB Horticulture board member who will share his thoughts on Innovation and education: A blend for a ‘Smart’ future; Alan Roper Managing Director, Blue Diamond Group will be speaking about Garden Centres - The new lifestyle destination?;Richard Barley MCIHort Director of Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew will talk about Charting a new direction for botanic gardens and Sue Ireland Director of Open Spaces, City of London Corporation will tell delegates about Managing access to public green spaces.
Andrew Gill C Hort FCIHort, President, believes that SALTEX provides the ideal platform to reach the CIH’s extensive network of members. He said “The Chartered Institute of Horticulture is delighted to collaborate with the Institute of Groundsmanship for the first time by holding its conference at SALTEX this year. The new location for SALTEX at the NEC provides a central and accessible venue for all of our delegates, who will also have the added value of time to visit the exhibition. The Institute is grateful to the support from our event sponsors The Horticultural Trades Association, Omex and Horticulture Week, without whom the conference would not be possible. We have a first class line-up of speakers and it promises to be an excellent day open to both members and non-members.”
To find out more and book please visit www.horticulture.org.uk
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