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Kansas City, MO October 25-27, 2017
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“You can’t sell the full-
scale school project
without coming to
EDspaces.”
—LEE STAPP ,
President,
OfficeScapes
“EDspaces is the
best conference to
attend for outfitting
the entire school
before it opens. ”
— JIM LAPOSTA,
Principal/Chief
Architectural Officer,
JCJ Architecture
EDspaces 2017:
Bigger and Better Than Ever
T
he EDspaces 2017 Conference & Expo, the only event focused on
how facilities impact learning, is coming to Kansas City October
25-27. Growing in both size and stature in the marketplace, this
year’s event will be one of the largest in attendance in recent history with
a 23% increase in exhibiting companies and record-breaking numbers of
architects and educational facility planners. Dealers, school purchasing
officials, architects, and influencers come to EDspaces to experience the
latest in educational furniture, fixtures, and equipment from nearly top
manufacturers with the very latest innovations for students and teachers.
Dealers consolidate education mar-
ket training, networking and product
research in this one event, optimizing
time and budget needs through a vari-
ety of offerings including a brand-new
pre-conference Educational Distribu-
tion Symposium & Reception on Tues-
day, October 24. This dealer-focused
education program is ideal to inspire
top management and sales profession-
For the first time ever, EDmarket held a
competition to design the education session
classrooms at EDspaces. The classrooms
provide an extension of learning by allowing
participants to experience firsthand the learn-
ing environments in action.
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als to reach new levels of service to the
educational products marketplace.
An actively-engaged committee
of EDmarket members, American
Institute of Architects Committee
on Architecture for Education and
U.S. Green Building Council’s Center
for Green Schools leaders, and local
dealers and architects in Kansas City
have planned a powerful education
The winners of the EDspaces classroom design competition:
• Demco, Inc.
• Moseley Architects
• Scott Rice Office Works/
DLR Group/VS
• School Outfitters/Learniture
• Susan Gladden Interiors