Event Schedule

Learning Objectives:

• Learn integrated pest management techniques, including sampling and control options. For biological, cultural and chemical
• Gain insight into ABW history, biology, and damage patterns.
• Latest research conducted to develop control programs that integrate cultural controls with traditional and novel chemistries
• Scouting and monitoring programs to properly time controls

Learning Objectives:

• Explore what it takes to integrate robotics into golf operations successfully
• Learn how to pull data, spot red flags, and ask the right questions to ensure your robotic program runs smoothly

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the science behind fertilizer and pesticide development and how that use changed over time
• Regulatory and environmental evolution
• Integration with cultural practices

Learning Objectives:

• Soil health includes the chemical, physical and biological characteristics of the soil
• Understand what builds organic matter and maintains a readily decomposable nutrient source for an active microbial population in the soil to improve soil health

Learning Objectives:

• Recognizing changes in the environment and know how they can affect the growth and the quality of the turfgrass they manage
• Adapt maintenance practices to prioritize the effects of environmental changes

Learning Objectives:

• Learn about changes being seen in weather patterns across all seasons
• Recognize how patterns could continue to change in the future
• Understand how to interpret short- and long-range weather forecasts

Learning Objectives:

• How the 2026 World Cup is tackling its turf problems with the most micromanaged grass in the world
• FIFA selected Dr. Dickson and colleague Dr. John Sorochan to lead a multi-year, evidence-based research project to design, install, and manage the natural grass playing surfaces for all 16 World Cup stadiums.
• In turn, they developed the ‘fLEX Device’, to understand surface traction, hardness, and energy return generating data on playability and safety.

Learning Objectives:

• Turfgrass establishment begins with careful planning, knowledge of soil conditions, and an understanding of the environmental and cultural requirements of turfgrasses
• A stepwise approach to turf establishment and renovation including site preparation, nutrient pre-plant, seeding, sodding, and care.

Learning Objectives:

• How PGR’s influence organic matter
• How they impact root turnover, root density, and increase carbon deposition
• Understand that long-term PGR use alters soil biology and carbon cycling not just canopy growth
• Understand carbon partitioning.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the most highly effective product selections for your applications
• Understand the research and development for industry leading performance

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the foundational principles of insecticides, focusing on their modes of action and the criteria for selecting the most appropriate products for managing pests in turfgrass
• Learn how to identify and select the most effective insecticide for a given pest problem
• Understand the importance of integrating insecticide use with cultural, biological, and other chemical methods to achieve sustainable pest management in turf systems

Learning Objectives:

• Explore solutions against both biotic and abiotic stressors like drought and heat

Learning Objectives:

• Discover how the turfgrass microbiome can revolutionize golf course disease control.
• Learn how microbial communities interact with disease, fungicides, and management practices to enhance long-term disease suppression
• Gain practical tools to integrate targeted fungicide use with microbiome-friendly approaches

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding the core of weed control programs and why they are successful or fail.
• Determine the expectations of your weed control program due to timing of applications, products, active ingredients, and rates.
• Be able to make decisions to optimize programs based on agronomics as well as impacts on business performance.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to better interpret daily weather data from your computer or your phone, or by just looking up.
• To apply meteorological information to turfgrass management especially with how it may impact daily practices like mowing, irrigation, and scouting for wilt and diseases.
• Learn to forecast weather based on visual observations, weather station data, and daily weather reports.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the benefits of a low-growing minimal water use lawn alternative that provides aesthetic beauty, shelter for pollinators, and an ecological carbon bank for your landscape

Learning Objectives:

• How golf course maintenance has changed due to increased technology, research results, and pressure from environmental activists
• Transitioning from integrated pest management to sustainability to best management practices.
• Understand the growth and decay of pesticides, fertilizers, golf mechanical and cultural practices

Learning Objectives:

• A proven technology to efficiently measure and map the moisture content of soil
• Understand the benefits of water cost savings, energy savings and enhanced course playability

Learning Objectives:

• Communication becomes part of the culture when it’s modeled by leadership and encouraged at every level
• Communication is the bridge between effort and results

Learning Objectives:

• To understand carbon nutrition technology
• The benefits of increasing soil porosity, water holding capacity, and nutrient mineralization

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the factors affecting fungicide performance.
• Understand how disease pressure influences rate selection and application intervals.
• Learn how to deal with resistance utilizing tank-mixing and rotation.
• How best to utilize your resources to remain current on research surrounding turf diseases.

Learning Objectives:

• Transforming irrigation challenges into efficient, sustainable solutions

Learning Objectives:

• Better understanding of fertilizers and their specific characteristics for releasing nutrients
• Conduct hands-on investigation of the physical differences of particle size and uniform qualities of various fertilizers
• Have a discussion on making the best choices, knowing the chemical and physical characteristics of a fertilizer.

Learning Objectives:

• While soil fungi naturally produce laccase, its production is suppressed by nitrogen fertilization and other cultural practices leading to concentrations too low to keep pace with the rapid buildup of turfgrass thatch

Learning Objectives:

• Understanding the core of weed control programs and why they are successful or fail.
• Determine the expectations of your weed control program due to timing of applications, products, active ingredients, and rates.
• Be able to make decisions to optimize programs based on agronomics as well as impacts on business performance.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand compliance with applicable state and federal laws
• Know where to find your lawn care resources

Learning Objectives:

• The professional turf market is constantly looking for improved varieties to meet the demands of professional turf managers.
• To understand improved genetics, wear tolerance, disease tolerance, and drought tolerance.
• Selecting turfgrass seed that best fits your climate, site use and intended maintenance level.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salinity, and nutrient shortages
• Learn how turfgrass defends itself through constant and triggered responses
• Discover ways to boost defense mechanisms using elicitors and activators

Learning Objectives:

• Highlight the various control techniques used in construction, including vegetative, structural, and mechanical practices
• Determining the best use with blankets, hydroseeding, sediment control, mulching techniques, and baffle systems

Learning Objectives:

• Adopting new technology and equipment including irrigation, soil moisture sensing, robotic striping equipment, and advanced sports turf field grading
• Overcome common stumbling blocks and challenges of implementation
• Provide the knowledge and confidence to evaluate, justify, and successfully integrate these technologies into daily practices