2025 Farwest Speaker Lineup
Learn from the Best at Farwest.
Jazmin Albarran
Executive director, Seed Your Future
[Bio & Seminars]
Rob Aldridge
Commercial sales and financing, Pure Energy Group
[Bio & Seminars]
Carlos E. Bográn, Ph.D.
Director, technical services, BioWorks Inc.
[Bio & Seminars]
Tom Brewer
Director of Sales-West, HC Companies
[Bio & Seminars]
Michael Brownbridge, Ph.D.
Sr. technical services manager, Bioworks Inc.
[Bio & Seminars]
Man-yeon Choi, Ph.D.
Research entomologist, USDA Horticultural Crops Disease and Pest Management Research Unit
[Bio & Seminars]
Raymond A. Cloyd, Ph.D.
Professor and extension specialist, Kansas State University
[Bio & Seminars]
Todd Davis
Director of the Catalog/OnSyte Division of Veritiv Visual/Horticultural Printers
[Bio & Seminars]
Todd Downing
Managing Partner, Best Human Capital & Advisory Group
[Bio & Seminars]
Aubry Field, M.S.
Founder and lead scientist, Lizzy Blossom LLC.
[Bio & Seminars]
Jeb Fields, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Florida
[Bio & Seminars]
Christopher Fifo
Product representative for Darwin Perennials, Pan American Perennials
[Bio & Seminars]
Paige Franks
Senior executive search advisor, Best Human Capital & Advisory Group
[Bio & Seminars]
Sharon Hadden
Container design, international speaker
[Bio & Seminars]
Dan Heims
Horticulturist, Terra Nova Nurseries, Inc.
[Bio & Seminars]
Grace Hensley
Owner of Fashion Plants
[Bio & Seminars]
Benjamin Hoover, Ph.D.
Associate professor of sustainable nursery production, Cal Poly
[Bio & Seminars]
John Kennedy
Co-founder of Boomerwrangle
[Bio & Seminars]
Connie Lindsay
Sales and marketing manager, GK Machine, Inc.
[Bio & Seminars]
Michael Maggiotto Jr., PHR, SHRM-SCP
Michael Maggiotto Jr., PHR, SHRM-SCP
[Bio & Seminars]
Broch Martindale
National Nursery & Greenhouse Strategic Account Manger, Corteva
[Bio & Seminars]
Tom Marting
Director of Sustainable Solutions, HC Companies
[Bio & Seminars]
Ron McCabe
President of Everbearing Services
[Bio & Seminars]
Keawe Molifua
ODA pesticide investigator, Oregon Department of Agriculture
[Bio & Seminars]
Jon Morrison
Co-founder, Brands in Blooms
[Bio & Seminars]
Lloyd Nackley, Ph.D.
Professor, Oregon State University
[Bio & Seminars]
Jeff O’Brien
Co-founder, Brands in Blooms
[Bio & Seminars]
Aaron Palmateer, Ph.D.
Director of horticulture, Harrell’s, LLC
[Bio & Seminars]
Steven Paulsen
CEO and owner, Native Roots, LLC
[Bio & Seminars]
Rachel Popp
Science teacher at Lake Oswego High School
[Bio & Seminars]
Tim Quebedeaux
Owner of RetailKPI, service provider for The Garden Center Group
[Bio & Seminars]
Brian Schulker, Ph.D.
Business development manager growing media constituents at Jiffy Growing Solutions
[Bio & Seminars]
Jake Shreckhise, Ph.D.
USDA-ARS research horticulturist
[Bio & Seminars]
Nicholas Staddon
Consultant and plantsman, Staddon Consulting
[Bio & Seminars]
Karen Stever, Ph.D.
GGSPro technical specialist, Griffin Greenhouse Supplies
[Bio & Seminars]
Danny Summers
Managing director and chief instigator, The Garden Center Group
[Bio & Seminars]
Suzanne Wainwright-Evans
Buglady Consulting
[Bio & Seminars]
Ryan Watkins
Founder, HortMentor
[Bio & Seminars]
Ashley Wright
Co-founder & CEO, Plantista
[Bio & Seminars]