Join Us At The Kansas Roofing Association Fall Seminar on October 1st with Service First Solutions in Overland Park, Kansas. The 2026 Fall Seminar brings roofing professionals together for a full day of education, industry conversation, vendor connections, and ideas you can take back to your business.
For contractors, the value of a seminar is not simply being in the room. It is finding one useful idea or operational change you can put to work after the event. That is the kind of conversation we look forward to having on October 1.
What to Know Before You Go
- The seminar is Thursday, October 1, 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
- The event is at Fiorella’s Event Center in Overland Park, Kansas.
- Full-day attendance provides 8 hours of continuing education.
- Registration includes lunch.
- The event includes industry speakers, networking, and vendor tabletop displays.
- Current registration is listed at $100 for KRA members and $125 for guests.
| Event detail | Information |
|---|---|
| Date | October 1, 2026 |
| Time | 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Location | Fiorella’s Event Center |
| Address | 9000 W 137th Street, Overland Park, KS 66221 |
| Continuing education | 8 hours with full-day attendance |
| Registration | $100 member, $125 guest |
The Kansas Roofing Association represents roofing contractors, suppliers, distributors, and other industry professionals across Kansas. Its fall seminar combines continuing education with valuable peer-to-peer contact.
What Should Roofing Contractors Expect on October 1?
Expect a focused day built around education, industry updates, professional connections, and conversations that can help you make better decisions inside your roofing company.
A full-day seminar gives you something daily operations rarely provide: time to step outside the immediate schedule and look at the business itself. When crews, customers, estimates, and invoices all need attention, long-term improvement often gets pushed aside.
Events like this create space to look at questions such as:
- Where is our service department losing time?
- Are our pricing and documentation processes consistent?
- Are service calls creating repeat business or simply closing one ticket at a time?
- Do managers have useful numbers to review each week?
- Are field and office teams following the same process?
- Are we keeping up with safety, compliance, and local requirements?
That last point matters. Roofing companies operate in an environment where technical knowledge and business systems have to work together. Contractors can use resources such as OSHA’s roofing and fall-protection guidance to stay current on worker safety responsibilities, while Kansas contractors should also understand the state’s roofing registration requirements.
Why Join Us At The Kansas Roofing Association Fall Seminar on October 1st?
Because one day of good industry education can expose problems you have learned to work around instead of actually fixing.
A service department can stay busy and still struggle with profitability. Technicians may complete good work while closeout photos arrive late. Estimates may be accurate while approval follow-up is inconsistent. Recurring maintenance opportunities may still go untracked.
Those are not usually roofing-skill problems. They are process problems.
The best seminar takeaway is therefore not a notebook full of ideas. It is a short list of changes you can assign, measure, and revisit when you return to the office.
How Do You Turn a Seminar Into Real Business Improvement?
Choose two or three priorities before you arrive, take notes around those priorities, and schedule implementation before normal work has time to take over again.
We recommend a simple approach.
First, identify one operational number you want to improve. It could be days from service completion to invoice, average repair ticket, maintenance agreement renewals, technician utilization, callback rate, or estimate close rate.
Second, bring one process that feels harder than it should. Map what happens from the first leak call through dispatch, documentation, completion, invoicing, and follow-up. Bottlenecks are easier to fix when you can see the exact handoff where work slows.
Third, use the 48 hours after the seminar well. Select one idea, give it an owner, define the first action, and set a 30-day review date. That is how conference education becomes an operating improvement instead of another folder of notes.
Kansas contractors should also remember that code requirements can vary by jurisdiction. The KRA’s building-code information is a useful starting point, but contractors should always confirm the requirements that apply where the work is being performed.
Come Ready to Talk About Roof Service
Join Us At The Kansas Roofing Association Fall Seminar on October 1st and bring the service-department issues that are actually taking time, margin, or attention away from your team.
Maybe your department is still being run reactively. Maybe the service manager is carrying too much knowledge in their head. Maybe pricing varies by estimator. Maybe technicians are doing the work correctly, but documentation and invoicing are slowing down cash flow. Maybe you want to grow recurring repair and maintenance revenue but need a better structure for doing it.
These are the conversations we work through every day.
How Service First Solutions Helps Contractors Put Ideas Into Practice
Service First Solutions focuses specifically on helping commercial roofing contractors establish, strengthen, and grow dedicated service departments. Our team brings more than 25 years of combined experience and has worked across the roles found on the service side of the low-slope roofing industry. That field experience matters because improvement has to work in the real world.
We help contractors turn broad goals such as “grow service” or “be more efficient” into defined processes, accountability, training, scorecards, pricing tools, and operating habits. Depending on the company, that may happen through service-focused peer groups, ongoing consulting, or a focused two-day on-site Intensive Contractor Visit.
The goal is a department that is easier to manage, more consistent for customers, and capable of measurable results. For questions about working with our team, Service First Solutions can be reached at (945) 300-1350 or info@growroofservice.com.
Why Roofing Contractors Choose Service First Solutions
- More than 25 years of combined roofing service experience.
- Consultants with firsthand experience in the service side of low-slope roofing.
- Service-focused peer groups built around non-competing roofing professionals.
- Two-day on-site Intensive Contractor Visits for hands-on operational improvement.
- Ongoing consulting with structured training, support, and weekly scorecards.
- Documented client results including service-department revenue growth, added crews, and improved scheduling, documentation, and invoicing.
Let’s Continue the Conversation After the Seminar
We work with commercial roofing contractors across North America, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Florida, and Oklahoma. If the seminar brings a service challenge into focus and you want help turning the idea into a working system, get in touch with our team.
Join Us At The Kansas Roofing Association Fall Seminar on October 1st, meet other roofing professionals, ask better questions about your operation, and leave with something you can put to work.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Kansas Roofing Association Fall Seminar open to non-members?
Yes, the current event information lists both member and guest registration options.
Members are listed at $100 and guests at $125, so contractors who are not KRA members can still attend under the guest registration option.
Does the 2026 KRA Fall Seminar provide continuing education hours?
Yes, full-day attendance provides 8 hours of continuing education.
Attendees should keep any attendance documentation provided at the event for their own licensing or professional records.
Is lunch included with registration?
Yes, lunch is included with seminar registration.
That makes it easier to stay on site and use the full day for education and networking.
Where is Fiorella’s Event Center?
Fiorella’s Event Center is at 9000 W 137th Street in Overland Park, Kansas 66221.
Contractors traveling in should plan arrival time around the 8:00 a.m. start.
Who will benefit most from this roofing seminar?
Roofing owners, managers, service leaders, field supervisors, and other industry professionals can benefit from the seminar.
It is especially useful for people responsible for operations, team performance, safety, customer service, or business growth.