It’s been three years since we have been able to come together as a community for Landscape Ontario’s Congress Trade Show and Conference. During the pandemic, we tried taking the trade show online and it was clear that it wasn’t really what the community was looking for. We took the conference online and because it offered the convenience of being able to watch all of the sessions, and at your own pace, you embraced it. But what we all want now is to see each other in person at the Toronto Congress Centre once again.

LO’s Congress Trade Show and Conference is one of those events that involves much more than simply browsing the latest in equipment, products, and services. It’s even more than our world-class education. It’s a homecoming. It’s where relationships are formed, strengthened, and renewed. It’s where most of us got to know the truest value of Landscape Ontario: its ability to bring the landscape trades community together.

Our events team has been working extra hard to make this one of the most exciting, valuable, and successful shows to date. Through the tremendous leadership of Heather MacRae, LO’s Director of Trade Shows and Events, the team has been attracting high-profile exhibitors, coordinating activities and events, collecting payments, and dealing with every challenge that comes their way with grace. Thank you Heather MacRae, Amy Buchanan, Keri MacIvor, Gregory Sumsion, Liz Lant and Meagan Sheehan. And thanks also to our communications team led by Scott Barber, with Robert Ellidge, Mike Wasilewski, Angela Lindsay, Karina Sinclair, and Charlotte Guena. It takes incredibly skilled people to put together and pull off an event that has the size, scope and breadth of Landscape Ontario’s Congress Trade Show and Conference.

This will be my 20th year at Congress, but my first with Landscape Ontario. More importantly, it is Landscape Ontario’s 50th anniversary! So many people have invested their time and effort to make Landscape Ontario what it is today and this is our chance to celebrate that together.

I’m looking forward to being able to connect with as many of you as possible. Please consider this your personal invitation to experience Landscape Ontario’s Congress Trade Show and Conference. Visit locongress.com to register using the Promo Code 50YRJS to get free admission to the trade show and all that it entails.

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