Speaker(s): Michelle Arab, ASLA | Michelle H. Crowley, ASLA | Akiko Ono, ASLA | Adam Greenspan, ASLA

The experience of women in the workplace and the importance of female leadership have recently catapulted to the forefront of American consciousness. In this context, three women in landscape architecture discuss the role of gender in their practices and design philosophies and make the case for valuing Design with Nurture.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how different perspectives create stronger, inclusive, and safer designs
• Examine strategies to work more collaboratively (with design teams and contractors)
• Develop ways to encourage and engage women in design
• Gain insight into managing work/life balance

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Speaker(s): Kelleann Foster, ASLA | James Sipes, ASLA | Jesse D. Suders

Augmented intelligence (AI) is disrupting the complexity where designers thrive. A new era of collaboration enables shift from data overload toward data sensibility. How will capitalizing on augmented intelligence affect your practice? Your productivity? Geodesign, a unique AI, provides distinctive opportunities—learn from practitioners successfully navigating this shift.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how geospatial data provides augmented intelligence that is relevant for design practices (large and small) and opportunities how to utilize this most effectively.
• Learn the distinctive benefits and potential challenges of combining geospatial technology with landscape architecture design practices
• Be able to compare technologies that provide augmented intelligence and how best to leverage various approaches to collaboration using the geodesign approach
• Realize how landscape architecture’s skills and expertise are a perfect fit for leading geodesign teams and become inspired by these opportunities.

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Speaker(s): Hana Ishikawa, Affil. ASLA, AIA | William Sullivan, ASLA | William A. Stock

International landscape architects make up an important part of the candidate pool. This panel will outline the immigration processes that are necessary to hire from abroad from both the candidate's and employer’s perspective, as well as review best legal practices that allow for successful use of the employment-based immigration program.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the current immigration processes, best practices, and how they relate to landscape architects.
• Discover methods for international students to enter US design schools and remain in the United States after graduation.
• Learn strategies for design firms to hire and retain international students or landscape architects from abroad.
• Keep up with the current administration’s immigration policies and understand how evolving policies can and do impact the profession.

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Speaker(s): Mia Scharphie, Associate ASLA

Feel like your growth at work has stalled? Hitting a barrier to your career growth and not breaking through? In this session you’ll learn about some of the common reasons women's career growth can slow down and what you can do to speed it up again. You’ll learn about three strategies—from three real women in design—that can help you achieve your own career breakthrough.

Learning objectives:

1. Identify key work habits that may be slowing down your career growth.
2. Implement at least one strategy to help you grow faster at work.
3. Advocate for key support needed for career growth from coworkers or supervisors.

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Speaker(s): Mia Scharphie, Associate ASLA

While at some points in our careers there are clear milestones to achieve, such as licensure or promotions, oftentimes, there’s no clear path ahead and we need to craft our own careers and set career goals. In this webinar, Mia Scharphie, of the women’s career advancement training company Build Yourself, will walk through how to set goals for creatives. You’ll learn frameworks and activities that can help you unlock inspiring and motivating career goals that will guide you in your day-to-day, and methods to be ‘creatively strategic’ in optimizing the investment of your time. We’ll also look at common pitfalls that women face in setting goals and harvesting the fruit of their efforts, how they overcome those pitfalls, and how they can have more of what they want in their careers. This session will also have a special focus on women with multiple passions. We’ll dispel the myth that ‘if only you could narrow down’ you’d be successful, and give you a pathway to success that respects being interested in many things.

Learning objectives:

• Develop creative career goals, customized to their own interests.
• Identify gender bias, both internalized and external, that can hinder women in setting and achieving career goals.
• Identify and develop strategic projects or efforts to invest their time in growing in their careers.

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Speaker(s): Betsy Anderson, Associate ASLA | Sean Batty, ASLA | Barbara Deutsch, FASLA | Pamela Galera, ASLA

Landscape architects are systems integrators in a world with ample specialization and deductive thinking. To unlock the strength beyond the private design firm and open space projects, we will focus on four careers demonstrating the real impact of landscape architects and explore how it can be applied “outside the studio.”

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how successful practitioners have developed different career paths founded on their landscape architecture training and experience.
• Understand the tools necessary for emerging professionals to pursue work effectively in government and non-profit roles. 
• Gain insight on the process and challenges of pursuing diverse career paths.
• Learn about the importance of collaborative opportunities between public and private sector practitioners.

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Speaker(s): Wileen Kao, ASLA | Andrea L. Hansen Phillips, ASLA | Mia Scharphie, Associate ASLA

How can we as landscape architects be agents of positive social change? This discussion will consider the means by which landscape architects can become active participants in civic engagement, through professional practice as well as in alternative careers in government, social entrepreneurship, and more. 

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the critical role of landscape architects and designers in promoting social change.
• Discuss opportunities for civic engagement as an extension of landscape architectural practice.
• Consider the ways in which interdisciplinary collaboration and social change have expanded the field of landscape architecture and created new and exciting opportunities to contribute to social progress.
• Learn about alternative career paths for landscape architecture graduates that allow emerging practitioners to apply their unique expertise to generate positive outcomes for communities.

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Speaker(s): Ryan Sand, ASLA, LEED GA | Anna Cawrse, ASLA | Matthew McMahon, ASLA | Laura E. Stedenfeld, ASLA | Jessica Pickul, LEED AP

Metrics and methods are changing the direction of our work. However, no resulting actions are taken if communication is not effective. Using various focuses of the profession, this panel examines external (clients, community, consultants, etc.) and internal office experience and methodologies, putting collaboration to action.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the influence and benefit of effective communication, both internally and externally.
• Share applicable techniques to better engage community, client, and consultants to collaborate for more resilient design.
• Learn to better engage internally for effective project and professional development with emerging staff. 
• Evaluate collaboration and the found and missed opportunities through the various stages of projects.

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Speaker(s): Lauren Schmitt, ASLA | Steve Rasmussen Cancian, ASLA | Scott Paterson | Janet Tam, AIA

This session will share methods to approach design with the core value of empathy. Empathy is the first step in design thinking and the basis for usercentric design. Learn how practitioners from multiple design disciplines bring multiple voices into the design process using empathy as their starting point.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the principles of a usercentric design process.
• Design a process to bring in multiple voices and perspectives.
• Identify strategies to avoid and defuse conflict.
• Understand the power of empathy in reaching agreement as well as being the key to meaningful design.

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Speaker(s): Pamela Conrad, ASLA, LEED AP | Martha Schwartz, FASLA

As humanity becomes increasingly aware of the reality of climate change, now is the time for landscape architects to unite, harness our unique expertise, and lead the charge for change. To make this contribution, we must state our position, ally with stakeholders, and begin implementing strategies that combat this challenge.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the importance of the landscape architect’s role in addressing climate change.
• Gain insight on implementable climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies through case studies and research.
• Learn how the profession is responding to climate change.
• Explore how to set metrics for tracking climate-positive impacts on projects and practices.

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