Educational Sessions

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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Updated Time! 11:15 am-12:30 pm

• Social Media: New Wave or Tsunami?
  Gregg Bundschuh, Greyling Insurance Brokerage and Risk Consulting, Inc.
• Common Mistakes in Drafting, Reading and Interpreting Contract Documents
  Kenneth F. Rubinstein, Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley, PC; Jonathan Sandoz, The Shaw Group; Michael F. Conway, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.

Updated Time! 1:45 pm-3:00 pm

• Creating Your Preferred Future — The Next Steps
  Steve Isaacs, Advanced Management Institute, a division of FMI
• Brace Yourself in the Post-Recession Workplace — Strategic Retention and Hiring of Employees
  Rachel Cantor, RC Associates, LLC

Updated Time! 3:30 pm-4:45 pm

• The Five Failures of Strategic Planning — And How to Avoid Them
  Ray Kogan, AIA & Cara Bobchek, Kogan & Company
• PLI Insurance Today and into the Future
  Richard Horner, Marsh USA; James Schwartz, Beazley; Robert Rogers, Lexington Insurance; Kate Enos Frownfelter, Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., Inc.; Alex Blanco, XL Design Professional

Thursday, March 31, 2011

10:30am-11:45am

• Tao of Wow — Enlightened Marketing for the 21st Century
  Leslie Peterson and Brett Wawers, Lamp Rynearson & Associates, Inc.
• Future Market Trends in Land Development
  Blake Murillo, Psomas

1:45pm-3pm

• Don't Let Green Design Cause Red Ink
  Nahom Gebre, Victor O Schinnerer & Co., Inc.
• Public-Private Partnerships and Design-Build Procurements: A Paradigm Shift
  Joseph Moore, Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, L.L.P.

3:30pm-4:45pm

• Small Firms, Large Losses, and Practicing Without Professional Liability Insurance
  Al Rabasca, XL Design Professional
• The Impact of Fear and Trust on Leadership
  Mark Goodale, Morrissey Goodale

Friday, April 1, 2011

8:15am-10am

• CEO Roundtables
  Small Firm (1-50 employees)
  Medium Firm (51-200 employees)
  Large Firm (201-500 employees)
  Very Large Firm (501+ employees)

10:30am-11:45am

• Why AE Marketing is Failing
  David Stone, Stone & Co.
• Working with Engineers Without Borders
  Mike Paddock, CH2M Hill
• Roundtable on Critical Issues Affecting MEP Firms
  Moderators: Jim Escamilla, Bryce & Associates, Inc.;
  Robin Greenleaf, Architectural Engineers, Inc.

1:45pm-3pm

• Certainty in Uncertain Times
  Stuart Rose, Professional Development Resources Inc.
• Revolutionary Collaboration — Assuring Success When Engineers Work with Other AE Professionals
  Scott Braley, Braley Consulting & Training
• NAECE Session: Developing and Implementing Online Continuing Education
  Rick Olson, KRM and Jeff Beard, ACEC
  This session will examine the spectrum of activities involved in developing and offering online continuing education. Hear from ACEC experts and a web-hosting vendor on topic/idea generation and vetting; registration processing and fee collection: technical aspects of preparing for and leading a webinar (including preparatory presenter dry-runs); preparing and distributing confirmations and log-in instructions to registrants; responding to participant questions and comments before, during and after the webinar; and providing and tracking PDHs.

1:45pm-3:45pm

• CIO Panel: Current and Emerging Technologies and their Impact on Your Firm's Bottom Line
  Panelists: Pete Dyke, CFO, ARCADIS; Christopher Pinckney, CIO, Psomas; John I. Marinello, CIO, WSP Flack + Kurtz; Steve Ross, CIO, Thornton Tomasetti; and James T. Walsh, CIO, AECOM