International Trade Fair for Plants, Horticultural Technology and Landscape Architecture 2026 Exhibitor List

Catherine Muller is President of VALHOR, the French interbranch organization dedicated to horticulture, floristry and landscape. Over 25 years, Catherine ran with her husband a landscape company near Strasbourg in France. Designing, building, planting and maintaining green spaces, all these services were performed upon a wide range of environments: public parks, gardens of private and shared residences, grounds of schools, hospitals, offices and other commercial buildings, sports greens, and alongside roads. Catherine was president of UNEP (Union Nationale des Entreprises du Paysage France) from 2013 to 2019. She was member of the board of ELCA (European Landscape Contractors Association) from 2019 to 2022. In 2021, she was elected president of VALHOR.

Edmund joined the Dutch environmental certification scheme MPS as commercial director in September 2022. He has a proven track record in leading positions and a good understanding of standardisation’s needs, strengths, and values within the international business environment. He has extensive knowledge of making use of data to improve business and calculated footprints for more than 150 customers in 20 countries.

Prof. Dr. Lidia Sas-Paszt was awarded the title of Professor of Agricultural Sciences by the decision of the President of the Republic of Poland, dated 11 May 2020. She conducts research on the role of roots and rhizosphere in the growth and yield of horticultural plants and the development of sustainable and ecological methods of horticultural plant cultivation using beneficial microorganisms. Between 2002 and 2022 she coordinated/implemented 10 research and development projects funded by the European Commission and 18 projects from the science budget. She was a member of the Management Committees and Working Groups of 5 COST Actions of the European Commission. She has extensive experience in coordinating and implementing R&D projects (CEAF, CRAFT, EraNet RURAGRI, EkoTechProdukt, HortiEnergia, Huntsman, EFSA Project, ŻywNatur, VORTEX, DEMOSTRATOR with INCO Group, BON Taylor, BON Arkpol, Domino, Akwaponika, Excalibur, BIO-FERTIL, EcoFruits, Resberry, ECONUTRI). She was the manager of more than 50 research and development works commissioned by economic entities. She was the coordinator of the project with the acronym BIO-FERTIL, entitled: ‘Development of technology for innovative microbially enriched mineral fertilisers’ for stimulating soil fertility and productivity (2018-2022).

Dr. Marta Czaplicka – Head of the Department of Horticulture at Wrocław University of Life Sciences. Her daily work includes issues of innovation in horticulture, production in food quality systems, viticulture and wine production. In addition to his work at UPWr, he runs his own vineyard and several innovation projects.

Karolina Kaldońska – a graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of Social Sciences, M.A. in Philosophy, Marketing Faculty at the Poznań School of Banking, MBA in Poznań, Master of Business Administration, participant of trainings in management, presentation, sales techniques, category management, she has undergone a series of American Sales Masters trainings. She has worked for several international concerns in both sales and marketing positions, managing well-known global brands. She has launched a number of products that are still successful today in the FMCG, OTC Medicines or alcohol markets. She has trained FMCG, alcohol and drug wholesalers all over Poland in sales and product promotion and introduction. Initiator and organiser of: Horticultural Industry Forum, Horticultural and Zoological Industry Sales Congress, Ecobranch Forum, Ecobranch Congress. Initiator and founder of the first business magazine about and for the horticultural industry on the market: Business Gardening, www.biznes-ogrodniczy.pl . She runs the gardening advice portal www.karolawogrodzie.pl as well as facebook , instagram , youtube and tiktok under the name: Karola w Ogrodzie .

Jo has over 25 years’ successful leadership experience as CEO of a variety of peak bodies, member organisations and not-for-profit associations. Greenlife Industry Australia is AIPH’s member in Australia, representing horticultural producers in the country.

Ding Wang is a Horticulture streamer and CEO of JiaXingYunYao Flower Co., Ltd. Wang’s professional journey commenced in 2016. Before that, he was an ardent gardener who shared his gardening life and planting experience on the internet. As his following expanded, he transitioned into the horticultural industry officially, disseminating gardening expertise and horticultural insights online, as well as promoting superior new plant cultivars and establishing his own enterprise. To date, his enterprise has garnered over five million followers across various social media platforms, and they have achieved annual sales volume in excess of 100 million yuan through live-streaming sales. Their product range encompasses hundreds of growing items, including gardening implements and fertilizers.

Brenda Swinkels is Sales director at Smits Nurseries in the Netherlands. Smits is a tree nursery specialized in solitaires and hedging plants. Brenda has more than 20 years experience in tree nursery industry. She’s responsible for sales, advice and public relations. In 2021 she won the ‘Greenfluercer’ award. Her mission is to green public- and private spaces. Therefore, she trend watching and using social media to promote the green industry to reach out to a new generation and new communities.

Wojciech Januszczyk is a landscape architect, employee of the Institute of Landscape Architecture of the Catholic University of Lublin and lecturer at the Biala Academy of Applied Sciences in the Department of Landscape Architecture. Graduate of the School of Ecopoetics at the Institute of Reportage and owner of the Krajobrazy (Landscapes) design studio. Founder of Fundacja Krajobrazy and Supervisor of Green Areas. He has served as president of the nationwide Association of Landscape Architects and is currently an honorary member of SAK . Participant of the Festival of Gardens in Bolestraszyce, where he creates original garden realisations under the cyclical title "Protest Garden", drawing public attention to contemporary problems related to space and landscape, as well as those resulting from climate change and human responsibility for them. Creator of the idea of 'overgrowth' in public and private spaces. He promotes the introduction of the principles of the circular economy into landscape architecture. His commercial activities are guided by the principle "The garden is also a home", indicating the functional character of the space. Artistic director of IN GARDEN – Festival of Garden Art and Public Space. Coordinator of the Landart Festival since 2024. Member of the Programme Board of the magazine "Urban Greenery", where he leads the series "Copernican Revolution". Author of texts in "Architecture and Business". His passion is the word and its power. Praise for laziness, overgrowth, equality in space design, debunking myths about wasteland and tree planting in the city, unsightly aesthetics, or opposing the comparison of the modern garden to a biblical paradise are concepts on which he focuses his educational activities.

Polish poet, reporter, cultural expert, forest engineer and ornithologist. Author of the book "Atlas of Holes and Gaps." Nominated for the 2014 Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category for his book Yakutsk. A Dictionary of Place. Winner of the 2015 Wroclaw Silesius Poetry Prize in the debut of the year category for Science of Birds. For this volume, he was also nominated for the 2015 Nike Literary Award and for the award in the 11th National Literary Contest "Golden Mean of Poetry" 2015 for the best debut poetry book of 2014. For his reportage Droga 816 he was awarded the 2016 Gdynia Literary Award in the essay category, the Wieslaw Kazanecki Literary Award of the President of the City of Bialystok for the best book of 2015, and the 2016 Magellan Award. "Droga 816" also brought nominations for the 2015 Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage, the 2016 Warsaw City Literary Award in the prose category, and the 2016 Beata Pawlak Award. In 2018 the book was published in German translation.

Landscape architect. Since 2016 he has been running his own design studio PLANEA. Author of nearly 150 projects in the field of landscape architecture in the broadest sense: parks, markets, residential areas, streets, home gardens and terraces. Winner of the Poland Architecture XXL plebiscite in the home gardens category in 2018 and 2022. In his projects he combines his executive practice with a constant search for new solutions.

Works as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Landscape Art, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences. She also cooperates with the Magdalena Abakanowicz University of Arts in Poznan. Academically and didactically, she deals with topics focusing on garden art and art in the garden in the broadest sense, horticulture therapy, living in the garden, understanding plants.

Krzysztof Mielicki is a landscape architect from Poznan. He runs the company "Green notion". The work is his passion. In it he puts emphasis on working out a balance between the needs of people and the good of nature.

A forerunner of the "plant stylist" profession. He has a broad view of the surrounding world, which is perfectly compatible with the profession of landscape and interior design. He draws inspiration from nature and man, thanks to which he creates original spaces. She loves traveling and loves meeting new people. She claims that talking to another person is the best inspiration for design. When introducing plants into interiors, he combines the visual aspect with their superpowers. His favorite plants are the forgotten and underrated ones: – ficus, – monstera, – ferns. In the summer he loves to explore the underwater world by snorkeling, and in the winter he enjoys spending time on the slopes, skiing.