This Event is Exclusively for Personnel of Commercial Greenhouse Operations
What If AI Could Give Your Operation Back 10 Hours a Week—Without Hiring An Additional Person?
A 4-hour, in-person workshop (with lunch) focused on using practical, greenhouse-optimized AI to remove repetitive work, reduce mental load, and help teams keep up with daily operational demands — without adding another system to manage.
Exclusive Free Access to a Custom Prompt Creation GPT (Value $500)
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April 30, 2026
Best Western Plus
Leamington ON
10:00am - 2:00pm
Lunch Included
WHY THIS WORKSHOP EXISTS
Greenhouse operations are moving faster every year.
There are more variables to track, more decisions to make, and more pressure to respond quickly — often with the same or fewer people. Head growers, production leaders, IPM managers, and operations teams are expected to plan, troubleshoot, document, communicate, and follow up, all while staying present on the floor.
The challenge isn’t effort. It’s that too much work still requires human attention, even when it doesn’t require human judgment.
WHAT’S ACTUALLY LIMITING PRODUCTIVITY
What quietly limits productivity isn’t a lack of experience or commitment.
It’s the accumulation of repetitive, cognitively draining work that fills the day:
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Writing and rewriting notes, reports, and summaries
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Organizing scouting data, observations, and follow-ups
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Preparing first drafts and explanations
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Answering the same questions repeatedly
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Translating information into something actionable
Over time, this invisible workload creates mental fatigue, slows decision-making, and turns capable operators into bottlenecks — not because they’re ineffective, but because they’re overloaded.
WHAT THIS WORKSHOP IS DESIGNED TO DO
This is a hands-on, 4-hour working session for people inside greenhouse operations who influence how work actually gets done.
Titles don’t matter here — responsibility does
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Leaders are encouraged to bring their key team members:
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Owners with operational or department leaders
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Head growers with growers or production leads
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IPM managers with scouts or IPM team members
Working through AI-enabled workflows together creates shared understanding, faster adoption, and better follow-through back at the operation.
The focus is leverage
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Reducing unnecessary mental load
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Offloading repetitive work
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Supporting decision-making without replacing judgment
This workshop is about giving capable people support, not replacing them.
You’ll work with
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Greenhouse-optimized AI prompts tailored to real operational tasks
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A trained and validated custom ChatGPT, used live during the session
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Practical workflows for drafting, organizing, summarizing, and first-pass thinking
These tools act like a second brain — handling preparation and structure — so your time is spent on judgment, prioritization, and action.
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Everything is designed to be simple, practical, and usable immediately, without adding another system to manage.
PLUS!
Exclusive Access to a Private WhatsApp Group for Greenhouse Leaders
Alignment doesn’t stop after four hours.
​Participants receive access to a private, non-commercial WhatsApp group for greenhouse leaders across ownership, production, and IPM — people who carry responsibility and think in terms of outcomes.
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Share practical insights, questions, and real scenarios as they arise
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Learn from peers facing similar people and operational challenges
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Apply the tools from this workshop with support, not guesswork
NO sales, pressure, or obligation. Just ongoing access to perspective, experience, and shared thinking — so you’re not trying to solve people problems alone.
BONUS Early bird free gift for the first 20 registrants:
Exclusive Free Access to a Custom Prompt Creation GPT (Value $500)
The first 20 people to register will receive free access to a custom prompt-creation GPT designed specifically to help greenhouse teams build effective, reliable AI prompts for daily operational work — upon attending the workshop.
This tool helps you:
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Turn vague requests into clear, usable prompts
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Build prompts faster without trial-and-error
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Adapt AI outputs to real greenhouse workflows
This bonus is offered to early registrants only and is designed to accelerate application of the workshop tools back at the operation.
Facilitated by
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Dr. Ishtiaq Rao, PhD
CEO & Co-Founder, Crop Defenders Ltd.
Dr. Ishtiaq works directly with greenhouse leadership, production, and IPM teams across North America to build scalable pest management systems that reduce the risk of production losses from outbreaks.
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He has trained and worked closely with leading thinkers in leadership, organizational design, and human systems, and brings that experience into practical, real-world greenhouse operations. He is a board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) Canada Bridge and Detroit Chapters and has participated in multiple EO learning programs focused on executive decision-making and organizational effectiveness.
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Dr. Ishtiaq has been invited to speak by the North American Plant Protection Organization (NAPPO), the Canadian Greenhouse Conference, AmericanHort, ANBP, IOBC, and IBMA.
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His facilitation of this workshop centers on helping greenhouse leaders protect their time and attention by improving alignment — so teams perform better without added pressure.
You won't want to risk missing out on this.
Time is one of the most constrained resources in greenhouse operations.
When repetitive work is reduced:
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Mental energy is preserved
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Decisions are made faster
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Fewer things fall through the cracks
Leaders stop becoming bottlenecks