Conference ThemeRedefining Our Industry:
Solutions through Collaboration, Innovation and Organization

Conference Date and Location
September 26-29, 2007 --
The Broadmoor Hotel
Colorado Springs, Colorado

Tony Meggs, Group Vice President of Technology – BP
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David McCullough, Author, Historian

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

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The PULSE of the Industry

Collaboration & Cooperation – What a Concept!
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Session Moderator:
Richard Westney, PE, PMP, Chairman, Westney Consulting Group

Session Participants:
R. Don Vardeman, Vice President-Worldwide Projects,
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
Gregory A. Howell, PE, MSCE, Co-Founder & Managing Director,
Lean Construction Institute
Scott Boisvert, Project Manager, Merck & Company, Inc.
Matthew Riley, Supply Chain Director, BAA
Todd Zabelle, President, Strategic Project Solutions, Inc.

How will our industry deal with the challenges we face? As we wrestle with the issues of risks, resources, changing markets and emerging technologies, can we afford to be wasting energy on managing the rough edges of the client – contractor interface? This session will look at lessons from our own and other industries to point the direction for collaboration and cooperation.

Innovative Technology Solutions: What really works and why?
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Session Moderator:
Don Runaldue, Projects Executive, ExxonMobil

Session Participants:
Joseph P. Morray, Jr., President, Trinity Technologies Read bio
Nicole Testa, Deputy Director, FIATECH
Patrick Holcomb, Executive Vice President, Intergraph
Gary Chanko, Director, Construction Technology, Fluor
Tex Carter, Vice President, Oil, Gas & Chemicals, Washington Group International

This panel session will focus on specific innovative technology solutions and best practices which have made a significant difference on capital projects. The session will present success stories from our industry, and other related industries, to illustrate the benefit to capital projects of some emerging technologies, as well as innovative uses of existing technologies.
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Organizational Strategies Today and Tomorrow
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Session Moderator:
John C. Moore, Director - Technical Engineering Services, BASF Corp.

Session Participants:
Rob Berra, Manager, EPC Contracting, ConocoPhillips
Tom Vaughn, President of Construction, BE&K Engineering and Construction
Chip Andrews, Chairman, FMI

How are we handling the current organizational and people challenges in the engineering and construction functions in our companies? This panel has researched the actual strategies in use today, and will provoke discussion on how well these are handling workload variability, large vs. small projects, shifting contracting strategies, exploitation of new technology, resource limitations, and changing workforce demographics and motivation. What is working well, what is not, and what is the future bringing?

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.