Plenary
Conference Sessions
Session 1: 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 – Executive Director, WorleyParsons
Session 2: 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.
Mary Aurand – Leadership and Executive Education Leader, The Dow Chemical Company
Dr. Constance Goodwin – Goodwin Associates
Dr. Bill Badger – Arizona State University
Session 3: 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
Aidan Chopra - Product Evangelist, Google SketchUp
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