Welcome to the 2026 INASLA Annual Conference registration.

This year's theme is "Beyond the Drawing Board." The conference is being held in Fishers, Indiana. Great design is only the beginning. This year's conference includes sessions that explore the people, processes, partnerships, and unexpected challenges that bring projects to life. Join us to learn how the work we do can extend beyond the drawing board.

Thursday, October 8, 2026
Offering two Walking Tours that will be repeated:
--Walking Tour, From Plan to Place: The Making of the Nickel Plate District (offered from 3:00-4:15pm and repeated 4:30-5:45pm)
--Walking Tour, From Tracks to Trail - A Destination for Downtown Fishers (offered from 3:00-4:15pm and repeated 4:30-5:45pm)
[Walking Tours will offer continuing education and cost $20 each]

A Networking Reception follows the last Walking Tour time and is being held at the Fishers Arts & Municipal Complex, 1 Municipal Drive
Fishers, IN 46038, from 6-8pm. A cash bar will be available as well as snacks. Join us to meet and chat with company representatives who participated in the development of the Nickel Plate District and Downtown Fishers. Cost for the Reception is $50.

Friday, October 9, 2026
INASLA Annual Education Conference ($165 for Attendee)
Check-in opens at 8:00am, coffee and light breakfast items will be provided
INASLA Sponsors will be exhibiting and we encourage you to take time to say hello to each of them
Education sessions, student awards over lunch, and happy hour to follow sessions

We are thrilled to have the Mayor of Fishers, Scott Fadness, as our keynote speaker. 
He will be sharing: "Beyond the Bookshelf: How Fishers Turned a Downtown Plan into a Downtown."

In this keynote conversation, Mayor Scott Fadness sits down with Tom Dickey, the community development director he hired to make it happen, for an unusually candid account of how it was actually done — and what they would do differently. Expect specifics: the houses that came down, the meeting that went badly, the developer who said no, the space that sat empty too long, and the moment the Mayor first believed it was going to work. Expect a sitting mayor explaining, in plain terms, how a site plan becomes municipal solvency. And expect both men to answer the question this profession rarely asks out loud fourteen years into a project: what would you take back?

This conference is open to landscape architecture professionals, educators, students, and allied professionals. 

CEUs will be available through LACES. If you have any questions, please email conference@inasla.org

We look forward to seeing you soon!