Booking has now opened for the Garden Centre Association ’s ( GCA ) one-year league next January ( 2024 ) , and the organization has also reveal its 21st - hundred musical theme and its top - quality speaker line - up too .
The group discussion , which takes place at De Vere Cotswold Water Park Hotel near Cirencester from January 28 until 31 , has ‘ The hereafter of Garden Retailing ’ as its primary theme .
Chairman - Elect for 2024/25 , Will Blake , who is organize the conference with GCA CEO Peter Burks , says : “ We ’ve been working severely to ensure it ’s big and better than ever this yr . We ’ve put together some very forward - think themes and have secured a line - up of dynamic speakers who are informative , inspiring , and motivational . There will also be opportunities to socialise with manufacture friends , co-worker , and associate too .
“ Our overarching root word is something that every one of our members can have-to doe with to . Our sub - themes are also extremely pertinent . They are Environment & Sustainability , Trends & Insights , and Health & Wellbeing .
“ On Monday , our first loudspeaker is Josh McBain , Global Consultancy Director at Foresight Factory . He ’ll be speaking about ‘ The Future of Garden Retailing ’ . He head the enquiry for the Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Group ’s ‘ Growing a Green Economy ’ report in 2021 , which demonstrated the succeeding time value the manufacture could have in drive UK economic growth . He ’s also been listed by Data IQ cartridge clip as one of the top 100 most influential people work in Big Data in the UK . ”
Josh is followed on the dais on Monday by Mark Stevenson and Ed Gillespie , who will be speak about the Environment & Sustainability . Expert on Global Trends and Innovation , ‘ Reluctant Futurist ’ Mark is a strategic adviser to governments , investors , NGOs , and corporates and co - founder of Carbon Removals company CUR8 .
He is a Global Ambassador for the environmental law business firm Client Earth and a former strategic consultant on peace , interior security , and clime change to the UK Ministry of Defence . He also enjoys a successful side career as a drollery writer and songwriter . His hit podcast , ‘ Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts – Book of Revelations ’ , with well - experience comedian Jon and Ed , who is a fellow system change advocate , is useable on all major platform .
Environmental Entrepreneur and author Ed focus on sustainability and founding . He is the author of ‘ Only satellite – a flight - liberal adventure around the worldly concern ’ – a book about his circumnavigation of the globe without puzzle on a plane .
Ed ’s core group natural endowment is taking the complex , interconnected , mutualist nature of the many challenges the humans faces , from climate change to disruptive instauration , and making common sense of them .
Will continues : “ On Tuesday , we ’ll be receive to the stage economic expert Mark Berrisford - Smith , who has spent most of his career working at HSBC . From 2012 until 2023 , he was Head of Economics for the Bank ’s Commercial Banking division in the UK .
“ He will be follow by bestselling source , spreader , and neuroscience presenter Dr. Hannah Critchlow , who was name in 2019 by Nature as ‘ Rising Star in Life Sciences . ’ She ’s a Fellow at Magdalene College , Cambridge , and regularly appears on TV and Radio , most latterly as a Science Presenter for ‘ Family Brain Games , ’ Tomorrow ’s World Live , and BBC Radio 4 ‘ lot and the Brain , ’ and ‘ set off the Week . ’ She ’ll be speaking about wellbeing .
“ We ’re also charmed to welcome back our motivational keynote speaker , Casper Craven . Casper give a brilliant presentation at our 2023 group discussion , and delegate express a keenness to have him back again . He ’s double sail around the worldly concern and is one of the land ’s first experts on leadership and the role of teamwork . Casper ’s lecture is entitled ‘ Be More Human ’ – so this traverse several of our key conference matter .
“ This year ’s conference is about the ‘ future , ’ so , with a nod to the current and retiring , the fancy dress subject this year is ‘ big businessman & Queens . ’ We ’re look forth to seeing just how creative everyone will be with this ! We ’ll also have our fundraising action for the brotherly love Greenfingers on the Sunday , include a tour of fellow member Melcourt Industries ’ growing medium facilities follow by a go of the Ramsbury Brewery and Distillery . ”
The 2024 GCA Conference take blank space at De Vere Cotswold Water Park Hotel near Cirencester from January 28 until 31 .
For more information : Garden Centre AssociationTel . : 01244 952170[email protected]gca.org.uk
