LIFTOFF! Launching our Future Today

Conference Date and Location
September 3-6, 2008 --
Westin Lierland Resort
Scottsdale, Arizona

Keynotes will include
Gene Krantz – NASA’s Mission Controller for Apollo missions 11, 13 and 17

Luc J. Messier – Senior Vice President, Project Development, ConocoPhillips

We are also please to announce the following luncheon speakers

Amy Myers Jaffe – Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy; Associate Director, Rice Energy Program

Michael S. Dudas, CFA – Managing Director, Bear, Stearns & Co.

Today’s Vision - Tomorrows Reality?
A perspective on what tomorrows projects will require from Industry Leaders
Four leaders from major industries (Power, Mining, Petrochemical, E&C Contractor ) will discuss Today’s Vision and how it equals Tomorrows Reality on capital spending, new program development and what each of us need to do to sustain our business in the next 5 to 10 years. This is a unique opportunity to examine the vision and perspective of industry executives you presently interface with or could be involved with tomorrow. Speakers will include

Rich Marcogliese – Executive VP and COO, Valero Energy Corporation
Rick Bowen – President, Peabody Energy
Ed Day – Executive VP, Southern Company
Bill Hall – President, WorleyParsons

Leadership and Management = Success
This session will look at leadership models that will be shaping our future in the Engineering and Construction arena. It will be directed to achieving success in our organizations through the combination of leadership and management and show how some organizations are reaping the benefits of new approaches in these areas.

New Frontiers: New Technologies Coming to your Project
Attendees will enjoy this lively plenary session that looks at the world of emerging technologies and execution approaches that will be shaping our future in the Engineering and Construction arena. These are bleeding-edge technologies and execution approaches that are either on their first demonstration or pilot
application, or have just moved from concept to initial deployment. Examples are developments such as Nano-Technology applications, and integrated LEAN execution approaches.

This will be a unique opportunity to see the visions and perspectives on various emerging technologies and
execution approaches by those who are the pioneers working those developments. It will provide opportunity to look for scenarios, potential integration points, and most importantly, to inspire the industry to look at the “New Frontiers” in a different way.

Mike Wetzer – Founder and CEO of Malden Labs
Dr. Joannie W. Chin – Leader, Polymeric Materials Group, Materials and Construction Research Division, NIST

Tackling the Unique Challenges of Mega Projects
Mega projects create their own set of market conditions and disrupt the “normal” business environment. During this forum, we will discuss the complexity of mega project and current solutions in the areas of: new models of collaboration, managing the impact of labor and equipment, developing joint ventures and addressing the cultural challenges. We are pleased that Janice Tuchman, Editor in Chief of ENR will be moderating this session. Download presentation.

Risk Management: The Constraining Factor?
How do we balance the risk mitigation needs of multiple equity partners, yet still deliver a project to time and budget? Can a viable projects execution approach manage both the risk and be cost effective?  During this forum different stakeholders will lead a discussion from their perspectives covering: sharing financial risks on major projects with multiple stakeholders and raising and insuring capital effectiveness to ensure delivery of these major projects. Download presentation.

Sharing Work Globally: No Longer Just a Cost Based Solution
Worksharing with a high value center is more than a cost reduction approach.  Projects are being designed in multiple locations for many reasons – primarily balancing the skills load across the world to ensure maximum use of scarce resources.  During this forum the panelists will facilitate an open discussion to identify many approaches to overcoming these challenges associated with global resource pooling. Download presentation.

Who is Minding the Store?
In a world of mega projects, how are we executing the smaller but very important capital projects.  How do develop effective teams, allocate risk, and apply technology for success?  We will explore building integrated teams, combining owner and contractor resources and the responsibility for the project outcome. Download presentation.

Exploring Different Models for Outsourcing and Collaboration
This forum will build on the earlier plenary session to explore more ideas from other industries such as what can we learn from their proven execution models and do they offer any unique "tricks" that we should apply? Download presentation.

New Ideas and Ideas Whose Time has Come
This forum will build on the earlier plenary session giving the delegates more opportunities to explore and experience the technologies that were featured as leading ideas in our industry today. Download presentation.

Rethinking the Technology Challenge
With many new technologies being applied on projects with experienced teams from their base office location but for projects in developing parts of the world, how are we tackling the challenges of getting this technology adopted on the construction site and into operations? How do these state of the art technologies ensure success in new locations? Download presentation.

Sustainability: What are the Benefits to our Business?
Sustainability is a key buzzword in the Board Rooms of our major companies but what does it really mean for our business and our projects.  What types of approaches are being developed for designing products and processes to achieve desired metrics and criteria that incorporate environmental and societal benefit factors.  How can these approaches be optimized?  We will present a roadmap for measuring sustainability and benchmarking your business. Download presentation.

Academia: Highlighting Best Practices Globally
This is a follow up from the Academia Panel from the 2006 ECC Conference on Linking Academia and Industry and will update attendees on new initiatives helping to strengthen this link.

Attracting and Retaining Young Engineers into the Industry
This will be a session led by the ECC Future Leader group, and will discuss solutions to bringing in and retaining engineers and project personnel to the Capital Projects Industry. Download presentation.