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Conference
Friday, January 23 | 9am to 4:30pm
Presidio Officers' Club, 50 Moraga Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94133

The 80,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area contains some of the nation’s most significant natural and designed landscapes. Managing this expansive cultural landscape is complex and costly.  Among the greatest management challenges is addressing the park’s inherent natural, scenic and cultural assets, while also mediating the often-passionate constituencies that represent them. In this conference, landscape architects, ecologists, journalists, academics, managers of similarly diverse systems and other professionals will address sustainability, the agendas of different constituencies, diversity, the role of people, and public education.  This follows up on the sold out similarly themed conferences held in 2012 in conjunction with the Central Park Conservancy in New York City, and 2011 at the Jay Heritage Center in Rye, New York.

Prosecco and a Private Visit to Alcatraz Island and the new Ai Weiwei installation
Thursday, January 22 | 3:50 to 7:15pm
Departs Alcatraz Landing at Pier 33, 1398 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94133

The conference kicks off with a sunset ferry ride to Alcatraz Island and a private visit to the site-specific exhibition @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz. Attendees will discover the island's layered legacy, hear compelling stories about its history and residents, and learn about the architecture, wildlife, and landscape all while enjoying a glass of Prosecco and world-class views of the Golden Gate and City at sunset. Chinese a