Registration & Breakfast

8:00 AM – 8:15 AM
  

Program Welcome & Introduction
Paul Bonington   view bio>>    
Vice President Media
Publisher, Engineering News-Record
McGraw-Hill Construction

Stephen Jones   view bio>>
Senior Director 
McGraw-Hill Construction

Keynote Address: Creating Smarter Infrastructure - Unleashing Information Technology in the Built Environment
We are starting to see the built environment as a potentially intelligent system of systems, within an ecosystem. Our built world and its inhabitants are churning out an exponentially growing river of data. That data, with the application of analytics, apps and control systems, is yielding unprecedented insights that already are changing design, construction and operations. David Bartlett, IBM's vice president for smarter physical infrastructure, will help us see how this data-rich, holistic system of the built world is translating into an imperative for ever-smarter buildings and infrastructure, and he will help us understand what that will mean to the construction industry of the future.

David B. Bartlett   view bio>>
Vice President
IBM Smarter Buildings

Virtual Gets Physical: New Devices to Bridge the Divide
As software tools provide increasingly fantastic ways to visualize design intent and simulate construction processes, there is a growing need for physical devices that allow us to experience these virtual visions in a variety of environments and to create tangible representations at multiple scales.  Knowledgeable industry leaders will explain and demonstrate examples, highlighting how the physical is keeping pace with the virtual.

Moderator:
Stephen Jones   view bio>>
Senior Director 
McGraw-Hill Construction

Panelists:
James Barret
National Director, Integrated Building Solutions
Turner Construction Company

Dan Casale
Senior BIM Engineer
DPR Construction

Behrokh "Berok" Khoshnevis
Director
Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT)
Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering
University of Southern California 

FutureTech in Record Time
The Value of Integration
In the construction industry, we often work in informational "silos", where each department deploys a different technology for managing their specific departments.  From estimating, accounting to project management, it's common to manage information independent of one another.  This can result in increased errors, lack of timely information, and a process that does not scale well with growth.  Join Frank Di Lorenzo of Viewpoint Construction Software and Tom Southam of XL Construction to learn how technology has evolved to the point where ERP solutions are offering greater departmental integration with more modules and increased functionality.  The end result is unprecedented real time information, reduced errors, and a process that will scale as a company grows and evolves.

Frank DiLorenzo, Jr.
Senior Representative, General Construction
Viewpoint Construction Software

Tom Southam
Project Manager
XL Construction

Networking & Refreshment Break

The Rise of "Super Subs": Will They Become the Drivers of the Industry?
Trade contractors are among the fastest adopters of advanced modeling and production technologies, and are also eagerly embracing the benefits of collaboration, virtual coordination, model-driven prefabrication and modularization.  As this trend accelerates it is not hard to imagine a world in which large, technologically sophisticated multi-trade contractors with design/build and post-construction servicing capabilities become the central hub of the project lifecycle process.  A panel of experts will explore this possibility from several perspectives.

Moderator:
David Morris
Director of Virtual Construction
EMCOR Construction Services

Panelists:
Todd Barrett, AIA
Director of Virtual Construction
Choate Construction Company

Jim Bratton
Engineering Manager Virtual Design & Construction
Dynalectric

Darren R. Hartman, P.E., LEED AP
Principal & Construction Support Services Practice Leader
Thornton Tomasetti

Dave Pikey
BIM Integration Director
The Hill Group

What Owners Want from Technology for the Lifecycle
Project owners from different sectors of the construction industry share their expectations for the technology expertise of architects, engineers and contractors.  How do owners set requirements (written or unwritten) for technology skills, and how do they vet firms based on their technology capabilities?  This panel will discuss how much weight owners give to a firm's technology savvy when evaluating a project proposal.

Moderator:
Stephen Jones   view bio>>
Senior Director 
McGraw-Hill Construction

Panelists:
Clarissa Easton, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB
Senior Facilities Manager
New Parkland Campus

Kimon Onuma, FAIA   view bio>>
President & Founder
Onuma, Inc.

John Roach   view bio>>
Executive Director, Technology Services
Foundation for California Community Colleges

FutureTech in Record Time

Autodesk, Inc.

Luncheon

Computational Design
Traditional Computer Aided Design tools represent and document the final state of a proposed design, but offer little to practitioners for generating and exploring a vast array of feasible options and analytically optimizing the final solution.  An emerging approach replaces this with simulation and other computational approaches to analysis and aesthetics, providing designers the exciting combination of conceptual freedom with scientific rigor.  Leading experts will share their current experiences implementing this Computational Design approach and their perspectives on how it will impact the future of the industry.

Moderator:
Stephen Jones   view bio>>
Senior Director 
McGraw-Hill Construction

Panelists:
Peter Beck
Managing Director
Beck

Forest Flager
Product Director
Stealth Start-Up

Steve Sanderson
Partner
CASE Design, Inc.

FutureTech in Record Time

A Single Data Source for All Project Stakeholders
This session will discuss the importance of long term technology planning to ensure support for your corporation’s strategic plan. The increasing complexity of projects requires all project stakeholders to be on the same page more than ever before. Your technology platform needs to act as an ‘information broker’, ensuring that project information is available to all involved parties, regardless of their job function or what system they are using.

Bassem Hamdy
Vice President
CMiC

Jennifer Green
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Pepper Construction Group

Networking & Refreshment Break

Digital Cities: BIM on an Urban Scale
The urban environment is becoming sentient for the first time.  Smart cities are awakening, roused by exponentially growing data streams from all kinds of infrastructure.  This creates opportunities for web-enabled analysis and management that can lead to better design, performance, service and sustainability.  But the framework for this urban intelligence is the digital model of the built world, which is authored by designers and builders.  Think of it as intellectual property on an enormous scale.  This panel of leaders in the Smart Cities movement will help us see the opportunities for the industry that this creates.

Moderator:
Tom Sawyer
Senior Editor, Information Technology
Engineering News-Record

Panelists:
Paul Doherty, AIA
President & Chief Executive Officer
the digit group, inc.

Gordon Feller
Director, Urban Innovations, Internet Business Solutions
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Melanie Nutter
Director
San Francisco Department of the Environment

Chuck Hixon
3D Design Group Manager
Bergmann Associates

Hottest Construction Apps
The hottest apps in the construction world will be unveiled during this panel discussion when ENR reveals the results of its polling and market research into the hottest and most useful apps and mobile tools in use on today's networked jobsites.  Also during this panel, experts in application development will provide live demonstrations of cutting edge apps they have developed in-house for clients and special projects, helping participants gain insights into how these tools are created.  Plus, a university researcher will give us a look at what's coming out of the research lab and over the horizon in construction apps.

Moderator:
Erin Joyce
Managing Editor, Integrated Media
Engineering News-Record

Panelists:
Jason Burns
Vice President, Technology
Hunter Roberts Construction Group

Mani Golparvar-Fard, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Dan Kieny
Director of Consulting & Knowledge
MWH Global, Inc.

Closing Remarks

Paul Bonington   view bio>>
Vice President Media
Publisher, Engineering News-Record
McGraw-Hill Construction

Cocktail & Networking Reception

After Party at The Autodesk Gallery
One Market