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      <image:title>Speakers - Bert Kuyrkendall</image:title>
      <image:caption>Bert is a certified planner and licensed engineer with Orion Planning + Design. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he has developed a career helping towns and cities become more sustainable, livable and equitable places through public sector roles such as City Transportation Engineer for Chattanooga, TN, Transportation Design Manager for Birmingham, AL, and Interim Town Planner for Nolensville, TN. He has also served as a consultant to counties, towns/cities, and neighborhoods for multiple comprehensive and corridor planning projects,  multimodal network plans, and complete street design projects. As a planner and engineer, Bert is able to bring a balanced approach to transportation and land planning, code and standards development, and implementation planning.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Lee Altman</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lee Altman, AIA, LEED AP, is Director of Design Management at SCAPE. She draws on her experience in city government as well as her past work with architects, artists, scientists and public health professionals to form a multifaceted perspective in managing landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects. Within SCAPE, she works to develop firmwide project management systems and processes and facilitates peer learning across project teams. Lee holds a Master’s in Architecture and Urban Design from Columbia University, where she received the Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize, the GSAPP Honor Award for Excellence and the William Kinne Travel Fellowship. Lee also holds a Bachelor’s in Architecture with Honors from the Israel Institute of Technology.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Charlene LeBleu</image:title>
      <image:caption>Charlene LeBleu, FCELA, FASLA, AICP is an Alumni Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning &amp; Landscape Architecture at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Her primary areas of interest and research have been focused on water quality issues, especially issues related to low-impact development design. She is a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (FASLA) and a Fellow and past President of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (FCELA). She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). She has a B.S. Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida, and a Master of Landscape Architecture, and Master of Community Planning from Auburn University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - SuLin Kotowicz</image:title>
      <image:caption>SuLin K. Kotowicz, FASLA, PLA, has dedicated her career to advocating for our profession, growing ASLA, and empowering others. She has 20+ years of experience in the private sector. Kotowicz brings a diverse perspective, energy, and collaborative spirit to her service.   Kotowicz served the Michigan ASLA Chapter for over a decade on numerous committees and leadership positions in the chapter. She advocated for licensure and later served on the committee who worked with the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Reform to draft rules for landscape architectural licensees. Kotowicz is an active leader at community, state and national levels as well as volunteering for multiple local non-profit organizations.   In 2008, Kotowicz was recognized with the Michigan Chapter ASLA Emerging Professional of the Year award and again in 2016 with the Chapter’s Distinguished Member of the Year award for sustained and inspirational service to the profession. Kotowicz is a graduate of Ball State University and is a licensed landscape architect in the state of Michigan. She is a Senior Project Manager for VIRIDIS Design Group, creating inspirational and accessible public spaces in the built environment.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Mike Fingeroth</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mike Fingeroth has been working in the Recreational Products industry since 2006. He is currently the Eastern Regional Manager for Landscape Structures, Inc. He began at Pebble Flex, a safety surface manufacturer which was acquired by Landscape Structures, Inc. He is very knowledgeable about the equipment and surfacing requirements associated with those areas. Mike has provided market intelligence, identified key target markets, and taught countless CEU’s that focus on compliance, maintenance, ADA updates, and general product info.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Will Hargrove</image:title>
      <image:caption>Will is a proud graduate of the Auburn University MLA program and currently practices as a licensed Landscape Architect and Project Manager for the Huntsville office of Alta Planning + Design. He has over ten years of experience in planning and design for municipalities of all sizes including trails and greenways, parks, streetscape revitalization, and redevelopment. Will has a passion for solving complex problems through strategic landscape architecture, urban design, and planning, and has helped local communities across the southeast achieve active transportation and recreation goals.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Matt Leavell</image:title>
      <image:caption>Matt Leavell is a developer with experience in economic development, real estate, architecture, urban design, planning, sustainable tourism, and facilitation. He’s applied design thinking strategies across a wide variety of projects throughout Alabama including the Regional Ecotourism Plan for Coastal Alabama and the Gulf State Park Enhancement Project, a $143 million effort to redevelop Gulf State Park into an international benchmark for economic and environmental sustainability. He is one of the primary authors for the 2021 Alabama State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan, a founding member of the Cahaba Blueway, and the board chair for Your Town Alabama, a leadership workshop dedicated to inspiring and educating leaders about the ability of design and planning to assist them in improving their communities. He's held a variety of professional positions at firms and universities including the University of Alabama, Auburn University, SOM, PJAR, and Shepley Bulfinch. He’s been published in the book Developing Citizen Designers and Trim Tab magazine. He lectures frequently to community and professional organizations about the economic benefits of aspirational community development. He’s also developed and taught studio and lecture classes at Auburn University, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and The Boston Architectural College. He has earned degrees in Architecture and Interior Architecture from Auburn University and a Master’s of Urban Planning from Columbia University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Ben Raines</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ben Raines is an environmental journalist, filmmaker, and adventurer. In 2018, he discovered the wreck of the Clotilda, the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to arrive in the United States. His new book, The Last Slave Ship – The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning, published Jan. 25, 2022. Raines has won dozens of awards for his coverage of environmental issues and has coauthored several peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals. He wrote and directed The Underwater Forest, an award-winning film about the exploration of a 70,000-year-old cypress forest found off the Alabama coast. Raines also wrote and produced the documentary America’s Amazon, which has aired on PBS stations around the country and been distributed to public schools across Alabama. His latest film, The Carnivorous Kingdom premiered on Alabama Public Television in August. His underwater film work has appeared in documentaries on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic TV. Raines has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The Today Show, Good Morning America, the BBC, England’s Channel 4, NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News. His journalism has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Raines also wrote the award-winning nature book, Saving America’s Amazon, and co-authored the book Heart of a Patriot with U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, which chronicled Cleland’s journey from triple amputee after a grenade accident in Vietnam to the U.S. Senate. Ben is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a degree in filmmaking, and is a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain, giving tours of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Alabama’s barrier islands. He lives with his wife in Fairhope, Alabama, and aboard the Suzanne, an 82 year old river boat moored on the Tensaw River.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Brandon Bias</image:title>
      <image:caption>Brandon serves as a certified Community and Regional Planner for GMC. His background includes a wide range of experience with proven expertise in master planning that has an emphasis on design, ecological processes, regional dynamics and smart growth principles. He currently serves on several statewide boards, including as Vice-President and Treasure of Design Alabama, which is a non-profit organization that seeks to raise the bar for design through education of the applied arts, promoting designers who live and work in Alabama and supporting sound design thinking to sustain our communities. His service to these organizations is grounded in his passion for the unique assets of the communities those organizations support. Bias graduated from Auburn University with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design and also holds two master’s degrees in Community Planning and Landscape Architecture from the university. Prior to joining the firm, he served as the Planner in the Special Projects Division of the Community Development Department for the City of Birmingham, Alabama.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Joseph De Sciose</image:title>
      <image:caption>Joseph De Sciose has been a professional photographer for more than 25 years. His expertise includes photography in horticulture, travel, editorial features, portraits and commercial imagery. He was a senior photographer at Southern Living magazine for more than five years and was the principal photographer for three books. Joe frequently photographs for local publications and companies. Joe’s images have been extensively featured in books and magazines such as Southern Living, Birmingham Home &amp; Garden, BBC America, Horticulture, Country Garden, Progressive Farmer, Country Living Gardener, Fine Gardening, B Metro, Business Alabama, Hana-Midori (Japan), The New York Times Magazine and many publications for The New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He is also the sole photographer for three books: Garden Guide: New York City, (Norton Books, 2010) The Flower Gardener’s Bible (Storey Publications, 2003) which was awarded a Garden Globe Award in 2004 by the Garden Writers Association for Best Photography for a garden book and The Year- Round Vegetable Gardener, (Storey Publications, 2011, over 150,000 in print) In 2014 &amp; 2015 he exhibited 20 large B&amp;W fine art photographs of the Moss Rock Nature Preserve in Hoover, AL and at several galleries and public spaces in the Birmingham area. Those images are now in the permanent art collection for the City of Hoover. Joe does pro bono photography for Tedx Birmingham, the Sidewalk Film Festival and has documented the restoration of the historic Lyric Theatre in Birmingham. Joe resides in Hoover, Alabama with Gail his wife of 35 years. He continues to work on editorial projects and make photos of people and beautiful landscapes and objects. He participates in contests and gallery exhibitions on a regular basis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Brad Howe</image:title>
      <image:caption>Brad Howe, RLA, is a Design Director at SCAPE. He leads design teams for a number of large-scale waterfront and resilience planning projects across the firm. His work focuses on creating ecologically vibrant waterfronts and public spaces, from complex, large-scale planning projects with extensive engagement to detailed site design. Brad holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor’s in Science with Distinction from the University of Nebraska.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Carolyn Buck</image:title>
      <image:caption>For the past six years, Carolyn has served as the Red Rock Trail System Director for the Freshwater Land Trust. In this role, Carolyn works with a wide range of partners to plan, fund, and develop the Red Rock Trail System, a 750-mile network of planned and established multi-use trails spanning Jefferson County. Prior to her work with Freshwater Land Trust, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Central America where she learned about community development (and the joy of an afternoon nap) and worked in the environmental sector protecting wetlands and streams. Carolyn received a B.S. in environmental science from Baylor University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Isaac Cohen</image:title>
      <image:caption>Isaac Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University. He has two decades of experience working on all aspects of park and urban public space issues. He has spent this time working with communities around the country on the design of varied public spaces, advocacy and fundraising to build parks, and on engagement and research into critical issues impacting the use of public space. Most recently he was an Associate at Studio Outside Landscape Architecture in Dallas, TX where his projects ranging from built works to city scale planning and equitable development planning. His work has been awarded, published, and exhibited nationally and internationally. Cohen’s design research addresses the connection between the contemporary practice of landscape architecture and the myriad uses — social, cultural, economic, and ecological — of public space. Demonstrating this commitment, he was recently recognized with an American Society of Landscape Architecture Honor Award for Research for his project Race and the Control of Public Parks with buildingcommunityWORKSHOP. This work asks challenging questions of the term public and for whom, when, and why we build parks and public spaces.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Frank Hu</image:title>
      <image:caption>Frank Hu, PLA is Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture, where he teaches studio in addition to courses in construction and graphic studies. His teaching and research explores advanced technologies in landscape visualization, digital media, and GIS. Prior to joining Auburn, Frank practiced for 8 years at Lamar Johnson Collaborative, based in St. Louis, Missouri, focusing on large scale urban design and public greenways. Hu’s research interest include Geospatial Modeling, GIS/LIDAR, Multispectral Imagery, Parametric Design, Remote Sensing, and Visualization. Hu holds a master’s in landscape architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s of science in architecture from Washington University in St. Louis.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Rebecca Dunn Bryant</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rebecca Dunn Bryant, AIA LEED Fellow, is the founding principal of Watershed, a sustainable architecture and consulting firm founded in 2008. With more than 24 years’ experience in sustainable architecture and advocacy, Rebecca has a passion for beautiful design that inspires deeper connections to the natural world.  Her architectural experience covers a broad range of project types, from mixed-use, educational, commercial, and hospitality, to custom residential.  Her work is joined by the common threads of biophilia, resilience, and sustainability. Rebecca is the first LEED Fellow and the first Living Building Ambassador in the state of Alabama and is proud to have been involved in many firsts for the state and region, including the first Living Building, first SITES, and first Commercial Fortified projects at Gulf State Park. She seeks out “watershed” projects that have the potential to create ripple effects beyond the project boundaries.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Jonathon Geels</image:title>
      <image:caption>As a Principal at Troyer Group, Jonathon Geels, PLA, FASLA has established a purpose-driven approach to every project with a distinctive commitment to people and experiences. As an award-winning landscape architect, he focuses on public sites with an emphasis on park and open space design. His design ethic and process seek to solve emergent problems by connecting people to new ideas through research, advocacy, and activism. Over the last twenty years, Jonathon’s project experience has encompassed large park systems, a variety of urban spaces, and multimodal transportation system planning and design. He is passionate about urban sociology applications in public landscapes, seeing it as integral to environmental and infrastructure management as well as economic development.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Claudia West</image:title>
      <image:caption>Keynote Speaker Claudia West is a leading voice in the emerging field of ecological planting design. Known for her passionate advocacy of plant-driven design, Claudia is a widely sought out speaker and consultant who applies the technologies of plant systems to bring essential natural functions back into our cities and towns. She has worked on all sides of the green industry—as a designer, a grower, installer, and land manager—grounding her innovative work in pragmatic solutions that address the realities of our urbanizing world. She is the co-author of the critically acclaimed book, Planting in a Post-Wild World. Having grown up on a family-owned nursery, florist business, and design/build firm in eastern Germany, Claudia was propagating plants before she could walk. Her love of American native plants brought her to the U.S. where she worked at Blue Mount Nurseries in Maryland and immersed herself in the study of American flora and mid-Atlantic ecosystems. Claudia holds a Master’s Degree of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the Technical University of Munich, Germany. Her intense studies of plant habitats and the science of plant community-based design strategies at the renowned school for horticulture in Weihenstephan, Germany built a solid foundation for her current work. Before co-founding Phyto Studio, Claudia was ecological sales manager at North Creek Nurseries, a wholesale perennial grower in Landenberg, PA. Her work was focused on bridging the gap between growers, designers, and land managers as well as introducing more functional and beautiful ecological plants into the nursery trade.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Francesca Gross</image:title>
      <image:caption>Francesca Gross works for Cawaco Resource Conservation and Development Council as an Environmental Specialist focusing on active management of natural resources to enhance the well-being of city residents, while prioritizing the needs of frontline communities.  She is Program Manager for Cool Green Trees focusing on restoring health to Urban Heat Islands in Jefferson County. Previously she spent 5 years building the new Urban Conservation program at The Nature Conservancy in Birmingham, Alabama on projects such as the Shades Creek Watershed Management Plan, prioritizing Healthy Greening and Stormwater Opportunities in the Birmingham, Alabama area using ArcGIS mapping tools, and design/build of 4 landscape prototypes to transform vacant urban land in Birmingham Alabama.  Her educational background includes a BA in Natural Resources from The Ohio State University College of Agriculture, and MS in Systems Ecology, Environmental Engineering Sciences from University of Florida, Gainesville, through the Howard T. Odum Center for Wetlands.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Andrew Wright</image:title>
      <image:caption>Andrew Wright, RLA, is an Associate at SCAPE based in New Orleans. His approach to design is driven by his interest in the natural sciences, background in music, and experiences living in southeast Louisiana and New York. His work at SCAPE spans regional-scale planning and resilience efforts and site-scale design and implementation, and he has led and contributed to efforts such as the 2023 Louisiana Coastal Master Plan, Resilient Jacksonville, and the Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail. In his work, Andrew seeks to uncover and recast narratives of place to build thriving, resilient landscapes and communities. Andrew earned his Master of Landscape Architecture with a minor in Wetland Science and Management from Louisiana State University in 2020, where his research focused on the modeling, design, and management of coastal and fluvial landscapes. In addition to his MLA, Andrew holds a BFA in Music Performance from The New School and a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science from LSU. He was a 2019 LAF Olmsted Scholar. Before pursuing landscape architecture, Andrew worked in the music industry, where he managed marketing and promotion campaigns for major artists and album releases.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Chandra C. Wright</image:title>
      <image:caption>After witnessing the environmental and economic impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Chandra Wright left the practice of law in search of work focused on environmental stewardship. That search led her to become the Nature Tourism Specialist for the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium and Gulf Shores &amp; Orange Beach Tourism. In that role, Chandra worked with nature-based tourism operators in coastal Alabama and coastal Mississippi to help them be financially successful while also being good stewards of the natural resources their livelihoods depend upon. That experience made her a natural fit to oversee the environmental sustainability efforts and educational initiatives at the Lodge, Interpretive Center and Learning Campus at Gulf State Park. These Valor Hospitality-managed facilities are among the world’s most environmentally-friendly hospitality projects, with the Lodge being LEED Gold and SITES Platinum certified (the first hospitality project to achieve SITES certification), the Interpretive Center being Petal Certified under the Living Building Challenge (the world’s most rigorous building standard) and LEED Platinum, and the Learning Campus being LEED Silver certified. In addition, all three of the facilities were the first-ever FORTIFIED Commercial projects in the world. With more than a decade of experience in sustainable tourism, Chandra’s passion and dedication for ensuring a better world for current and future generations is clear. Chandra holds a Professional Certificate in Sustainable Tourism from the Global Sustainable Tourism Council, achieved her Living Future Accreditation through the International Living Future Institute, and is pursuing both Living Building Challenge and LEED Green Associate professional certifications. Chandra also serves on the board of several environmental nonprofits and volunteers with Alabama’s sea turtle program.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Daniel Tal</image:title>
      <image:caption>Daniel Tal, RLA, FASLA, is a landscape architect, author, software developer, and lecturer. With over two decades of experience in the field, he is known for his expertise and passion for the industry. As the Digital Studio Manager for Confluence, Daniel, along with his co-manager Jenn Becker, leads the firm mandated AI research and development The Confluence Digital Studio has established itself as a hub of expertise on AI and its ongoing impact on landscape architecture. Confluence’s current AI comprehension is showcased in this unlisted YouTube video. Daniel is the author of three books published by Wiley and Sons, including "SketchUp for Site Design," "Drones in Professional Practice," and "Rendering in SketchUp." Daniel is also the creator and owner of two software apps, PlaceMaker and UrbanPaint, which are used in SketchUp and Revit. These tools, which utilize AI data, were developed to optimize 3D modeling for AEC projects. Daniel regularly presents at national conferences on 3D modeling an AI, including the recent November 2024 SketchUp Basecamp in Las Vegas, and the upcoming Twin Stated Conference in February 2025. He operates a website offering free SketchUp tutorials and resources to students and attendees of his lecture events.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Kona A. Gray</image:title>
      <image:caption>As a firm leader with 30 years of experience in 30+ countries, Kona A. Gray’s (FASLA, PLA) global design and management sense has positively shaped many environments. Kona envisions welcoming places that promote community and vitality in diverse neighborhoods around the world. His portfolio ranges in multiple scales with emphasis on communities, parks, hospitality, urban public realms, mixed-use destinations, healthcare, and campus spaces. At EDSA, Kona’s award-winning projects are inspired by a passion for creative design solutions that solve meaningful global issues. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), Kona currently serves as ASLA National President. He recently served as the Landscape Architectural Accreditation Board ASLA Representative. Kona is a Past President of the Landscape Architecture Foundation and active Urban Land Institute member. Kona serves on the University of Miami Architecture School and Nova Southeastern University Business School Real Estate Advisory Boards as well as the University of Georgia School of Environment + Design Dean’s Council. He is a registered Landscape Architect holding a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia and Commercial Real Estate Certificate from Cornell University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Speakers - Sadık C. Artunç</image:title>
      <image:caption>Sadık C. Artunç, FASLA, FCELA, PLA, PE, currently is a professor of landscape architecture. He served as the Head of the Department of Landscape Architecture at Mississippi State University from 2007 until 2024. Before his tenure at MSU, he taught in the Robert S. Reich School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University from 2007 to 1981. Sadık has a B.S. and M.S. in forestry and forest engineering from the University of Istanbul and an M.L.A. from the University of Michigan. He is a registered landscape architect in the U.S.A. and a registered forester and forest engineer in Türkiye. His teaching involves design implementation and construction, site planning and design, and regional planning and design. His professional consulting involves large-scale planning and design, focusing mostly on recreation and tourism, resource planning, and design implementation and construction.</image:caption>
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