OPE+ Power Forum
January 18-20, 2026
Lake Buena Vista, FL
OPE+ Power Forum brings together top experts and leaders from the outdoor power equipment industry to focus on critical issues, the latest trends, business growth, and future planning with workshops, seminars, case studies, and more. It’s a one-of-a-kind educational experience that’s designed to help your dealership thrive and ensure you’re aware of where the industry and your customers are headed. This is the must-attend event for outdoor power equipment dealers and landscape professionals.
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OPE+ Power Forum News
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Award Winners – Under 40
Our Under 40 honorees do amazing work and have many more years to do so. Nominated by their peers and chosen by our staff, the professionals honored here are driving improvements across the industry. The Under 40 Award recipients are helpful and relentless innovators, solving problems with new ideas, strategies and tactics. Cameron Wedde, Field
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Award Winners – Movers & Shakers
2025 OPE+ industry awards These power-equipment professionals lead with vision and experience. In the past year, they’ve embraced the challenges facing the industry, they’ve taken the opportunity to rethink the way they do business and managed teams to success. “Success” might be an objective outcome or more subjective, resulting in a process improvement, a design
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Power Week networking and education success in Charlotte
The EPG Brand Acceleration Power Week united three powerful, power-focused trade media groups in Charlotte in January, bringing together the OPE+ Power Forum, the Boating Industry ELEVATE event, and the Powersports Business Accelerate conference. The three groups brought a mix of dealers and industry professionals together for a business conference like no other, combining networking,
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An invitation to learning and growth
Dear Power Trade Friend and Colleague, Your success in 2025 will depend, at least in part, on the relationships you’ve cultivated and the partnerships you’ve formed while supporting our industry through thick and thin. This year, OPE+ Power Forum has designed a conference that will build and strengthen those valuable connections that signal your vested
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Power Forum: Top 10 reasons to attend
Should you attend the OPE+ Power Forum? Yes, here’s why: #10. Collaboration over competition: You’ll meet people who might be your competitors, but you’re more likely to learn from them instead of being threatened by them. #9. Education: You will learn something, probably several things. #8. Keynote speaker to share economics trends: Elliot Eisenberg is
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Start 2025 with the Power Forum
The OPE+ Power Forum business conference will take place at the Sheraton in downtown Charlotte from January 20 through 22. Our opening night party on Jan. 20 at the NASCAR Hall of Fame will rev us up for exciting days of learning and networking. This event needs to be part of your year, and our
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Visit NASCAR HOF during Power Forum
How about rubbin’ elbows and rubbin’ fenders? During the OPE+ Power Forum business conference, attendees will get the chance to celebrate with peers at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, N.C. The NASCAR Hall of Fame venue is a unique experience for fans of racing and for those who are not yet fans of
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Awards Nomination time!
OPE+ staff is now accepting nominations for its two awards programs – the Movers & Shakers Award, and the Under 40 Award. Movers & Shakers Award The OPE+ Movers & Shakers Award recognizes professionals in the OPE industry who lead with vision and influence to move the industry forward. In the past year, these leaders