The workshops at our yearly Symposium are some of the highlights of the week! In Chicago, the classrooms will be filled with experts to teach you everything from design to business. Get a preview of what’s to come from these dedicated designers and educators, before we see them in action. Add these workshops when you register. Or, to add them after you’ve registered by e-mailing info@aifd.org with your full name, phone number, and the course you wish to add or change. Staff will update your registration and create an invoice for you to pay via credit card. You will receive an email notification once the invoice is ready for payment.
Patience Pickner AIFD
Creative Crescent Bridal Bouquets That Wow
July 2 & 3 | 7am – 8:30am
Sponsored by Syndicate Sales, this will be a fun, informative, yet casual workshop showcasing a crescent bridal bouquet, including tips and techniques to easily create this unique design. We will be working with a trendy color palette of gorgeous fresh and dried product.
You’ll learn a versatile technique that can also be used to create cascade bouquets.
Follow Patience: @patience_aifd @thebusinessofflowers_design
R. Varito Vasquez AIFD
Cultivating Style in Couture Wire Design
July 2 & 3 | 7am – 8:30am
Sponsored by Smithers Oasis, all the attendees will experience the upscale level of the Couture Floral Wire Design
You’ll learn to make an incredibly unique and highly personalized piece of art with simple wire techniques and basic movements using different materials.
Follow Varito: @rvaritoaifd@R. Varito Designs & Institute
Corrine Heck
Call to Action!
July 2 | 7am – 8:30am
Sponsored by Details Flowers Software, Call to Action is for all aspiring Mainstage Designers looking to prepare for their first presentation. As the official procurement software for the AIFD convention, Details helps many designers plan their Mainstage Showcase. Still, these essential organization tools are primarily helpful for the procurement team to flawlessly combine all the stage shows into one giant flower order.
You’ll learn the essentials of organization, from proper bunch count purchasing to maximize costs, to coordinating perfect color palettes and preparing your design team to execute massive installations. You’ll want to add some of these essential things to your creative toolbox.
Follow Details: @DetailsFlowers
Loann Burke AIFD
Midnight at the Oasis®
July 4 & 5 | 7am-8:30am
Sponsored by Smithers Oasis, you’ll see that there are so many fabulous uses of Midnight Foam and lots of fun techniques to show it off (or cover it up). It’s all about learning new things, taking them in and creating something with your own personal style. Education is a springboard to creativity!
You’ll learn techniques and uses of Midnight Floral Foam, from basic mechanics to creative, decorative methods that can be used to enhance designs. After a demonstration of several Midnight possibilities, you’ll be unleashed to explore these techniques and create your own unique and modern architectural design.
Follow Loann: @loannburke@OasisFloralChannel
Tim Huckabee
Sales & Service MADE EASY
July 5 | 7am – 8:30am
Sponsored by The Profitable Florist, you can expect to be engaged, challenged and inspired! For the past 25 years Tim has been teaching a dynamic new way to sell flowers to some of the best and most creative floral artists on the planet.
You’ll learn cutting edge perspectives, language and tips from Tim’s award-winning methodology that enables even the shyest of the shy to listen, engage and sell better.
Follow Tim: The Profitable Florist
Corrine Heck
Wake Up To Profitability
July 3 | 7am – 8:30am
Sponsored by Details Flowers Software, Corrine will jumpstart your morning and your event business! She will dive into her top strategies for boosting your event business revenue and helping you save time.
You’ll learn how to save time and earn more profit in your business! By owning her own floral business, Corrine understands the importance of staying on top of the floral game. She will dive into her top ten strategies for boosting your event business revenue and helping you save time.
Follow Details: @DetailsFlowers
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Phil Rulloda AIFD
Green Transformations: Upping Your Design Game with Foliage Manipulations
July 1 | 2pm – 4:30pm
Sponsored by Green Point Nurseries, prepare to turn over a new leaf and embrace the many options to make foliage’s the stars in your designs!
You’ll learn a variety of leaf manipulation techniques and will create a tropical arrangement utilizing your new skills.
Follow Phil: @PhilRulloda
Per Benjamin
The World of Colour According to Per Benjamin
July 5 | 4pm – 6:30pm
Sponsored by Marginpar, Per wants to totally change your view on colour. This is a colour system built especially for us florists.
You’ll learn a hands-on lesson, followed by a chance to try out Per’s very own colour theory system. Per and his assistants will guide you to understanding and good results.
Follow Per: @PerBenjamin
Björn Kroner
Color – Lightness – Creativity 2.0
July 5 | 4pm – 6:30pm
Sponsored by Smithers Oasis, NE & SE Regions, Björn loves to show up the beauty of every flower; let them fly, give them room and space to bloom up, transparency is very important to him.
You’ll learn to work with less botanical material but creating beauty by using the space given.
Follow Björn: @BjoernKroner
Elly Lin
Botanical Fashion
July 6 | 8am – 3pm
Educational Funding in part by the AIFD Foundation, Elly is joining us from Taipei Tawain to share her gift with botanical blossoms.
You’ll learn techniques to apply to both bridal bouquets and arrangements, where imagining the emotion of the plant will drive your creativity and creation.Follow Elly: @EllyLin
