Conference Agenda

8:00 am - 8:30 am

Registration  (Please note this change from previous years:  Doors open at 8 am)

8:30 am - 8:40 am

​Welcome
Beate Popkin, ​CKOTA President

8:40 am - 9:40 am

​Keynote Address:  
Parklands of Floyds Fork: A Park of Endless Possibilities
Tom Smarr, Director of Horticulture
Twenty-First Century Parks, Louisville

9:40 am - 10:45 am

Urban Tree Care for a Sustainable Planet
Chris Carlson, Professor of Arboriculture and Urban Forestry
Kent State University, Ohio

10:25 am - 10:45 am

Coffee Break & Trade Show

10:45 am - 11:30 am

Sustainable Turf and Landscape Management in Public Areas
Aaron Boggs, Director of Grounds Maintenance
University of Louisville

11:30 am - 12:00 pm

Plant Disease Update – Recent Trends in the UK Diagnostic Lab
Julie Beale 
Plant Pathology, University of Kentucky

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch Break & Trade Show

1:10 am - 2:15 pm

The Future of Urban Parks:
The Challenges of Managing Modern Urban Parks
Tom Smarr

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm

The Benefits of Ecological Landscaping along Streams, Ponds and Lakes
Russ Turpin, Senior Environmental Specialist
EcoGro, Lexington

3:00 pm - 3:20 pm

​Coffee Break & Trade Show

3:20 pm - 3:45 pm

Developing Monarch Butterfly Conservation Methodsfor Multipurpose Landscapes
Adam Baker, Graduate Student
​Entomology, University of Kentucky

3:45 am - 4:30 pm

Insecticide Use in the Landscape: Choices and Implications
Lee Townsend, Professor of Entomology
​University of Kentucky