Chair

Lucy Pickford, Membership Marketing Manager, Landscape Institute



Lucy is Membership Marketing Manager at the Landscape Institute. She is currently leading on the LI’s revamped education and outreach programme, and marketing the new entry standards for landscape. Originally trained as a landscape architect, Lucy has since run SMEs in different sectors and countries before coming full circle back to the landscape profession.

 

Speaker

Patrick Smith, Aquatic Consultant, Ustigate



Patrick’s career has been dedicated to the enhancement of green and blue infrastructure for twenty years. It is a career that began in the horticultural trade, working with scientists to produce award winning compost to promote thriving plants and led to Patrick working closely with Staffordshire University to evidence plants reduce particulate matter in our atmosphere and noise pollution. This peer reviewed research lead to several green living walls and roofs being established in Victoria, London; resulting in an end to localised flash flooding, cleaner air, a nicer and quieter Victoria environment and an award presented by Mayor of London Boris Johnson in 2012.