SYNKD Live
SYNKD Live is where ambitious outdoor living design-build professionals come together to challenge the status quo, exchange ideas, and move the industry forward.
Created specifically for business owners, executives, and decision-makers, this intimate event connects leaders from across the outdoor living design, construction, and maintenance sectors for practical education, meaningful conversations, and high-value networking.
Attendees gain direct access to industry experts, innovative products, emerging technologies, and proven business strategies designed to improve operational efficiency, increase profitability, strengthen teams, and elevate project outcomes.
Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, interactive roundtables, facility tours, and peer-to-peer networking, participants leave with actionable insights they can immediately apply to their businesses.'
More than a conference, SYNKD Live is a community of professionals committed to raising the standard of the outdoor living industry. By bringing together the people responsible for designing, building, and maintaining exceptional outdoor spaces, the event creates new opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and long-term growth.
Whether you are looking to streamline operations, develop stronger leaders, adopt new technologies, improve profitability, or build relationships with industry peers, SYNKD Live delivers the insights and connections needed to move your business forward.
SYNKD Live Agenda
Tuesday, September 29
9:00 AM–3:00 PM — VIP Desert Botanical Garden Tour
Available to VIP ticket holders.
5:00–7:00 PM — Welcome Reception and Registration
7:00–10:00 PM — Social Event
Wednesday, September 30
7:00–8:00 AM — Breakfast and Welcome
8:00–9:00 AM — Opening Keynote: Outrageous Designs & Flawless Construction
Jonny is designing and constructing outdoor living spaces that have never been done before. Hear how he continues to push the boundaries of design and construction.
9:30–10:30 AM — Breakout Sessions
Design Your Culture: How Great Landscape Companies Attract and Keep Great People
A field-tested, eight-pillar framework for recruiting and retaining top talent. A thriving team is not an accident—it is something you intentionally design.
Business
From Guesswork to Growth: Using Real Cost Data to Build a More Profitable Landscape Business
Explore how leading landscape companies use real-time production data and AI-powered insights to improve estimating, increase efficiency, and make more profitable decisions.
Roundtable
The Green Roof Learning Curve: How Maintenance Shaped Better Design
An honest look at the challenges, failures, and breakthroughs that have helped redefine green rooft design with the Optima Camelview Project with Floor & Associates.
Regenerative
Tree Stabilization Strategies for Ground-Level and Rooftop Landscapes
Explore the latest strategies for stabilizing trees in challenging environments, from ground-level installations to rooftop landscapes, using percussive earth anchors and other proven anchoring systems.
CEU
Why Most Living Walls Fail
A systems-level conversation about irrigation, drainage, root volume, plant health, specification decisions, and the gap between beautiful renderings and buildable reality.
Regenerative
11:00 AM–12:00 PM — Breakout Sessions
Enhancing Outdoor Environments with Audio
Discover how thoughtfully designed outdoor audio systems can elevate landscapes, enhance outdoor experiences, and create deeper connections between people, nature, and the spaces they inhabit.
CEU
Stop Competing for Clicks. Start Creating Conversations.
Discover how unforgettable experiences, bold branding, and community engagement can make your business the one customers remember long before they need your services.
Marketing
We Can’t Operate Like It’s 1990 Anymore
Real-world examples demonstrate why the industry must work differently across disciplines. From communication and collaboration to soil improvements, attendees will leave with practical actions they can implement.
Regenerative
Regenerative Landscapes: Rebuilding Biodiversity, Resilience, and Community in Our Urban Environments
Explore practical regenerative design strategies that rebuild healthy soils, increase biodiversity, conserve water, and create thriving urban habitats.
12:00–1:00 PM — Lunch
1:00–2:00 PM — Main Stage Panel: The Red Thread—Connecting Disciplines for a Better Future
This main-stage discussion brings together business owners and industry leaders representing multiple perspectives to explore how greater collaboration can create a stronger future for the industry.
2:30–3:30 PM — Breakout Sessions
Adding Design to Your Landscape Business
Explore how adding landscape design services to your contracting business can elevate the quality of projects you pursue and increase the value you provide to clients.
Business Roundtable
AI: What’s Hype, What’s Real and What’s Next in Landscaping and Beyond
Learn how to cut through the AI hype and use today’s most practical tools to streamline operations, improve customer communication, increase profitability, and prepare your business for what comes next.
Business
ROMEX Hardscapes: Permeable Systems Training Course
Learn how to design and install long-lasting hardscape surfaces that resist shifting, reduce runoff, and meet modern performance and sustainability standards.
CEU
Under the Hood: A Live Business Diagnostic
Every business has a growth constraint. Join Christene Marie for an interactive roundtable designed to help you identify what is holding your business back and uncover practical opportunities to accelerate growth.
Marketing Roundtable
3:30–5:00 PM
Holistic Water Management & Conservation
Water conservation can be positively influenced through thoughtful design, construction, and horticulture. This expert panel will share new ways to approach water management and conservation across a variety of sites.
Panel
4:00–5:00 PM — Breakout Sessions
Beyond Pretty Finished Photos: Using Images to Attract Better Leads and Close Faster
Beautiful project photos are only the beginning. Chris Major will show landscape designers how to use images strategically to attract ideal clients, communicate value, strengthen sales, support hiring, and build trust.
Marketing
Crafting the Desert Floor - Integrated Design and Assembly in the Sonoran Desert
Combining integrated architecture, fabrication, and construction specifically for the Sonoran Desert landscape, the work shows regional responsiveness, the harsh environmental realities, and material adaptation. The projects focus on sustainability, preservation, and environmental systems. Case studies on research and fabrication through technology illustrate the hands-on approach of the firm. The firm organizational structure highlights the value of self-performing complex architectural components and risk and rewards associated with it.
Business
Stop Losing Time (and Money): Practical AI for Smarter Operations
Every business has hidden gaps where leads, promises, proposals, and customer communication fall through the cracks. Learn five simple AI implementations that close those gaps quickly and create immediate operational wins. Through real examples and practical implementation strategies, you'll see how AI can become a dependable business system—not just another tool to learn.
Stop Repeating Yourself
It's easy to fall into the habit of using the same materials and details because you already know they'll work. They're easier to price, easier to build, and easier to sell. But if every project starts looking like the last one, clients start to think that's all you do. In this session, I'll share why we try to include something we've never built before in every project, how each new iteration of an idea makes the next one better, and why showing a wider range of work opens the door to bigger, more interesting projects.
Roundtable
5:00–5:15 PM — Closing Remarks
5:30–7:30 PM — Drinks and Vendor Showcase
7:30–9:30 PM — Dinner and Social Time
Thursday, October 1
8:00–9:00 AM — Breakfast at FOUND:RE Phoenix Hotel
9:00 AM–1:00 PM — VIP Tour of Design and Build Projects
- 180 Degrees Design & Build
- Openbook Pools & Landscaping Project
1:00–2:00 PM — VIP Group Lunch
3:00 PM — Event Concludes
Host Hotel
Found:RE Phoenix Hotel
Special Event Rate: $229 per night
Address: 1100 North Central Avenue | Phoenix, AZ 85004
Phone: 602-875-8000
Distance to The Duce: Approximately 1.4 miles, with convenient access via Valley Metro Rail.
Book your room using the button below.
SYNKD Live
SYNKD Live is where ambitious outdoor living design-build professionals come together to challenge the status quo, exchange ideas, and move the industry forward.
Created specifically for business owners, executives, and decision-makers, this intimate event connects leaders from across the outdoor living design, construction, and maintenance sectors for practical education, meaningful conversations, and high-value networking.
Attendees gain direct access to industry experts, innovative products, emerging technologies, and proven business strategies designed to improve operational efficiency, increase profitability, strengthen teams, and elevate project outcomes.
Through keynote presentations, panel discussions, interactive roundtables, facility tours, and peer-to-peer networking, participants leave with actionable insights they can immediately apply to their businesses.'
More than a conference, SYNKD Live is a community of professionals committed to raising the standard of the outdoor living industry. By bringing together the people responsible for designing, building, and maintaining exceptional outdoor spaces, the event creates new opportunities for collaboration, innovation, and long-term growth.
Whether you are looking to streamline operations, develop stronger leaders, adopt new technologies, improve profitability, or build relationships with industry peers, SYNKD Live delivers the insights and connections needed to move your business forward.
SYNKD Live Agenda
Tuesday, September 29
9:00 AM–3:00 PM — VIP Desert Botanical Garden Tour
Available to VIP ticket holders.
5:00–7:00 PM — Welcome Reception and Registration
7:00–10:00 PM — Social Event
Wednesday, September 30
7:00–8:00 AM — Breakfast and Welcome
8:00–9:00 AM — Opening Keynote: Outrageous Designs & Flawless Construction
Jonny is designing and constructing outdoor living spaces that have never been done before. Hear how he continues to push the boundaries of design and construction.
9:30–10:30 AM — Breakout Sessions
Design Your Culture: How Great Landscape Companies Attract and Keep Great People
A field-tested, eight-pillar framework for recruiting and retaining top talent. A thriving team is not an accident—it is something you intentionally design.
Business
From Guesswork to Growth: Using Real Cost Data to Build a More Profitable Landscape Business
Explore how leading landscape companies use real-time production data and AI-powered insights to improve estimating, increase efficiency, and make more profitable decisions.
Roundtable
The Green Roof Learning Curve: How Maintenance Shaped Better Design
An honest look at the challenges, failures, and breakthroughs that have helped redefine green rooft design with the Optima Camelview Project with Floor & Associates.
Regenerative
Tree Stabilization Strategies for Ground-Level and Rooftop Landscapes
Explore the latest strategies for stabilizing trees in challenging environments, from ground-level installations to rooftop landscapes, using percussive earth anchors and other proven anchoring systems.
CEU
Why Most Living Walls Fail
A systems-level conversation about irrigation, drainage, root volume, plant health, specification decisions, and the gap between beautiful renderings and buildable reality.
Regenerative
11:00 AM–12:00 PM — Breakout Sessions
Enhancing Outdoor Environments with Audio
Discover how thoughtfully designed outdoor audio systems can elevate landscapes, enhance outdoor experiences, and create deeper connections between people, nature, and the spaces they inhabit.
CEU
Stop Competing for Clicks. Start Creating Conversations.
Discover how unforgettable experiences, bold branding, and community engagement can make your business the one customers remember long before they need your services.
Marketing
We Can’t Operate Like It’s 1990 Anymore
Real-world examples demonstrate why the industry must work differently across disciplines. From communication and collaboration to soil improvements, attendees will leave with practical actions they can implement.
Regenerative
Regenerative Landscapes: Rebuilding Biodiversity, Resilience, and Community in Our Urban Environments
Explore practical regenerative design strategies that rebuild healthy soils, increase biodiversity, conserve water, and create thriving urban habitats.
12:00–1:00 PM — Lunch
1:00–2:00 PM — Main Stage Panel: The Red Thread—Connecting Disciplines for a Better Future
This main-stage discussion brings together business owners and industry leaders representing multiple perspectives to explore how greater collaboration can create a stronger future for the industry.
2:30–3:30 PM — Breakout Sessions
Adding Design to Your Landscape Business
Explore how adding landscape design services to your contracting business can elevate the quality of projects you pursue and increase the value you provide to clients.
Business Roundtable
AI: What’s Hype, What’s Real and What’s Next in Landscaping and Beyond
Learn how to cut through the AI hype and use today’s most practical tools to streamline operations, improve customer communication, increase profitability, and prepare your business for what comes next.
Business
ROMEX Hardscapes: Permeable Systems Training Course
Learn how to design and install long-lasting hardscape surfaces that resist shifting, reduce runoff, and meet modern performance and sustainability standards.
CEU
Under the Hood: A Live Business Diagnostic
Every business has a growth constraint. Join Christene Marie for an interactive roundtable designed to help you identify what is holding your business back and uncover practical opportunities to accelerate growth.
Marketing Roundtable
3:30–5:00 PM
Holistic Water Management & Conservation
Water conservation can be positively influenced through thoughtful design, construction, and horticulture. This expert panel will share new ways to approach water management and conservation across a variety of sites.
Panel
4:00–5:00 PM — Breakout Sessions
Beyond Pretty Finished Photos: Using Images to Attract Better Leads and Close Faster
Beautiful project photos are only the beginning. Chris Major will show landscape designers how to use images strategically to attract ideal clients, communicate value, strengthen sales, support hiring, and build trust.
Marketing
Crafting the Desert Floor - Integrated Design and Assembly in the Sonoran Desert
Combining integrated architecture, fabrication, and construction specifically for the Sonoran Desert landscape, the work shows regional responsiveness, the harsh environmental realities, and material adaptation. The projects focus on sustainability, preservation, and environmental systems. Case studies on research and fabrication through technology illustrate the hands-on approach of the firm. The firm organizational structure highlights the value of self-performing complex architectural components and risk and rewards associated with it.
Business
Stop Losing Time (and Money): Practical AI for Smarter Operations
Every business has hidden gaps where leads, promises, proposals, and customer communication fall through the cracks. Learn five simple AI implementations that close those gaps quickly and create immediate operational wins. Through real examples and practical implementation strategies, you'll see how AI can become a dependable business system—not just another tool to learn.
Stop Repeating Yourself
It's easy to fall into the habit of using the same materials and details because you already know they'll work. They're easier to price, easier to build, and easier to sell. But if every project starts looking like the last one, clients start to think that's all you do. In this session, I'll share why we try to include something we've never built before in every project, how each new iteration of an idea makes the next one better, and why showing a wider range of work opens the door to bigger, more interesting projects.
Roundtable
5:00–5:15 PM — Closing Remarks
5:30–7:30 PM — Drinks and Vendor Showcase
7:30–9:30 PM — Dinner and Social Time
Thursday, October 1
8:00–9:00 AM — Breakfast at FOUND:RE Phoenix Hotel
9:00 AM–1:00 PM — VIP Tour of Design and Build Projects
- 180 Degrees Design & Build
- Openbook Pools & Landscaping Project
1:00–2:00 PM — VIP Group Lunch
3:00 PM — Event Concludes
Host Hotel
Found:RE Phoenix Hotel
Special Event Rate: $229 per night
Address: 1100 North Central Avenue | Phoenix, AZ 85004
Phone: 602-875-8000
Distance to The Duce: Approximately 1.4 miles, with convenient access via Valley Metro Rail.
Book your room using the button below.