Tuesday, June 5

7:30 AM- 8:20 AM

Continental Breakfast

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8:20 AM- 8:30 AM

Opening Remarks, Day 2

Scott Seltz, Publisher, Engineering News-Record

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8:30 AM- 9:15 AM

KEYNOTE: Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence for Proactive Project Controls on Construction Sites

Mani Golparvar-Fard’s research over the past 15 years has focused on developing computer vision tools and BIM solutions to help project teams better plan, coordinate, and communicate. He will talk about how academic research functions to coalesce ideas and innovations into tools and systems that can advance the industry. An example is a company he has just co-founded that offers an integrated platform to leverage BIM, scheduling, and reality capture to visually track progress, analyze productivity and anticipate project delays—all based on incremental research he has pursued for many years.

Mani Golparvar-Fard, Ph.D., COO and Co-founder Reconstruct Inc.; Associate professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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9:20 AM- 9:30 AM

TECH STORY: VIEWPOINT

In a web and mobile-based era where phones and tablets have become ubiquitous on the jobsite, data capture has never been easier for contractors. However, converting that data into digestible and actionable packets of insights is still a significant challenge. Centralized ERP systems have been the backbone of construction businesses for many years, but they haven’t always given project managers the flexible and light-weight tools they needed. As such, they’ve empowered themselves to choose their own applications and hardware, leaving contractors with the problem of paying to integrate disparate systems and manage relationships with multiple vendors. Moreover, the ongoing battle between finance and operations over whose system is the hub of the business ignores the real problem that software is trying to solve: accurate and reliable data that can be accessed in a single system that will help contractors make informed decisions. Learn how Viewpoint is helping customers to resolve this longtime challenge through powerful analytics for the Office, Team and Field.

Jeremy Larsen, Director of Product Management, Viewpoint

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9:30 AM- 10:20 AM

PANEL: 360° Visual Data Sees It All

360º cameras are becoming commonplace on construction jobsites because of their ability to unobtrusively gather data about productivity almost effortlessly, day after day. Project managers now are at work with technologists to find the best ways to leverage the potential to ground-truth the record of work accomplished—and what’s to come—based on immersive, comprehensive, visual data.

Kristopher Lengieza, VP of Operational Excellence, Stiles Construction
Lincoln Wood, Regional Director, Tech., Turner Construction, with 
  Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO, OpenSpace.ai
Andrew Cameron, Project Manager, Hensel Phelps 
Moderator: Jeff Rubenstone, Associate Editor, Equipment and Technology, Engineering News-Record 

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10:20 AM- 10:30 AM

TECH STORY: Using Construction Technology Integrations to Improve Project Outcomes

While technology helps us do our jobs a little better, we’re still left with fragmented, siloed information. During this presentation Andy Leek, Vice President - Technology and Innovation for PARIC Construction, will take you through their vision to connect disparate technology, allowing them to gain.

Andy Leek, VP - Technology and Innovation , Paric

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10:30 AM- 11:00 AM

Networking Break

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11:00 AM- 11:45 AM

PANEL: Seeing the Future with Data Analytics

Construction firms are awash in information, but they are generally short on the kinds of insight that can come from analyzing operational data across many projects over time. Some now are turning to machine learning and data analytics to automatically sift through data as it is acquired—as well as legacy data already in hand—to recognize trends and patterns, reduce risk and support data-driven decisions. Our panelists will share examples of their progress toward this goal and discuss where they see it heading.

Christopher Mayer, EVP & Chief Innovation Officer, Suffolk, with 
  Jit Kee Chin, EVP & Chief Data Officer, Suffolk
Frank Otero, President & CEO, PACO Technologies, Inc.
Andy Rosic, Innovation Product Manager, The Home Depot
Moderator: Christine Kilpatrick, California and Northwest Editor, Engineering News-Record

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11:50 AM- 12:00 PM

TECH STORY:CMiC Field with McShane Construction Company

McShane Construction Company is a leading construction services provider serving the industrial, multi-family, commercial, and institutional markets. McShane went live on CMiC’s Project Management solution in 2016 and later enabled Accounting in 2017. McShane’s users demanded a flexible solution that would allow them to work in the field without being tied to a desktop computer. In this case study, you will learn how McShane was able to configure CMiC’s mobile application to meet the needs of an owner who required a deficiency log for each OAC meeting.

Steve Cangiano, Product Manager, CMiC

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12:00 PM- 12:45 PM

PANEL: The Connected Jobsite: What’s Next?

Technology is evolving that discretely collects data about jobsites and operations—almost sifting it out of the air without human involvement—to knit it into systems of knowledge that can not only provide answers to pressing questions quickly, but flash notices of looming issues and opportunities before managers can even think to ask. This panel will discuss the programmed marriage of drones and RFID chips to track the complexities of huge laydown yards; an evolving non-invasive, omniscient system for collecting and analyzing operational data as a quiet byproduct of normal activities, and a new system for turning the humble safety vest into a data collection and communications platform.

Nate Fuller, Innovation Manager, Bechtel
Allison Swank, Founder and President, VisionVest, LLC.
Meirav Oren, CEO and Co-Founder, Versatile Natures, Ltd., with
  Andrew Lenahan, VP, First Florida 
Moderator: Aileen Cho, Senior Editor, Transportation, Engineering News-Record 

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12:45 PM- 1:45 PM

Luncheon & Networking

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1:45 PM- 2:30 PM

KEYNOTE: Drones and the Oroville Dam Spillway: The Future is Clear

When the main and emergency spillways spectacularly failed at Lake Oroville, California in February 2017, a rapid fix was required to have a functional spillway in place by the next winter season to protect the nearly 200,000 people living downstream. As general contractor, Kiewit was faced with an intense schedule on a flood-ravaged mountainside, with no room for error. The firm’s technology team realized that intensive use of drone technology was the only way to quickly evaluate the site and track the work continuously through the break-neck project ahead. Our presenters will talk about the progressive ways they delivered drone data to the designers and builders and about some of the unexpected, ways the experience will to change the way Kiewit works in the future.

John Watson, Aerial Survey Manager, Kiewit Infrastructure West Co.
Mark Edwards, Chief Product Officer, Kiewit Technology Group

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2:30 PM- 3:00 PM

Networking Break

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3:00 PM- 3:45 PM

KEYNOTE: The Dodge Perspective 

Dodge Data & Analytics’ research focuses specifically on A/E/C to search for answers to questions such as “what are the tangible, scalable and repeatable benefits of the key technology and project delivery trends currently shaping the industry? And how will the ever-dynamic construction economy behave over the next few years?” Steve Jones will share highlights from several of Dodge’s recent studies and economic forecasts.

Steve Jones, Senior Director, Dodge Data & Analytics

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3:50 PM- 4:35 AM

PANEL: Home-Grown Tech: Developing From Within

Panelists will demonstrate two in-house collaboration and optimization tools. The first, IMMERSIFY, is a VR-based software created by LERA Consulting Structural Engineers that works with Revit and Rhino. It lets users inhabit, navigate and modify 3D models at real scale and with a sense of presence, as well as share geometric and parametric information with other project team members from any location. All user-actions are saved and imported back into the original model, establishing a two-way connection. MEP firm, Jaros, Baum & Bolles will demonstrate IMMERSIFY in its workflow. Also, AECOM Tishman's Emerging Technologies Team will show OneDesign, a proprietary coordination process it is implementing on several major projects. It supports early coordination of structural steel and large-scale mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to enable changes, enhance flexibility and improve price certainty at the time of the MEP award.

Antonio Rodriguez, Senior Associate, VR Specialist, LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
Mike Lorenzo, VP of Emerging Technologies, AECOM Tishman
Maura Candelaria, BIM Director, Jaros, Baum & Bolles
Moderator: Steve Jones, Senior Director, Dodge Data & Analytics 

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4:40 PM- 4:50 PM

TECH STORY: How AI is revolutionizing construction project management

Find out how artificial intelligence is already being leveraged by construction firms, real estate owners, and developers in their project planning, scheduling, and management to speed up their project timelines while significantly reducing labor costs and requirements.

Rene Morkos, CEO, ALICE Technologies
Ricardo Khan, Senior Director of Innovation, Mortenson Construction

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4:50 PM- 5:30 PM

PANEL: Performance Based Design Meets AI

Three firms will showcase their drives to move toward analysis- and simulation-driven workflows for performance-centered design, either through the use of internal design charette shoot-outs to test their software options, or through the development of their own data-driven, computational design systems.

Don Posson, Vice President, Corporate Director of Engineering, SmithGroup
Nicholas Mundell, Lead Computational Designer, Thornton Tomasetti
Zigmund Rubel, FAIA, Co-Founder, Head of Design Services, Aditazz
Moderator: Christine Kilpatrick, California and Northwest Editor, Engineering News-Record

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5:30 PM- 7:00 PM

Cocktail Reception & Networking

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Wednesday, June 6

7:00 AM- 8:20 AM

Continental Breakfast

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8:20 AM- 8:30 AM

Opening Remarks, Day 3

Scott Seltz, Publisher, Engineering News-Record

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8:30 AM- 9:15 AM

KEYNOTE: The Future of Tech in AEC

Leadership is of overarching importance for companies navigating through digital transformation. Just as digital transformation promises to create fundamental changes and opportunities in how companies pursue work and make business decisions it also calls for new skills of vision sharing and leadership team building. All of the other presentations at FutureTech this year deal with more granular aspects of the transformation, but the particular kinds of leadership skills and practices required to successfully lead companies through this period infuses all.

Matt Forbes, Chief Operating Officer, Operational Excellence, AECOM

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9:20 AM- 10:05 AM

PANEL: Winning the Technology Game

Integrating new technologies into company operations can lead them down costly, high-risk, momentum-sapping rabbit holes, or, if done carefully and well, can lead to quantitative advances in quality, efficiency, safety and profitability. These industry tech veterans have ambitious innovation projects under way, but they also have track records of success to inspire confidence. We ask them to share strategic tips for winning the technology game.

Tomislav Žigo, VP, Virtual Design and Construction, Clayco
Todd Williams, Technology Director, Clark, Richardson and Biskup Consulting Engineers
Marcello Sgambelluri, BIM Director, John A. Martin & Associates Structural Engineers, with
  Grant Guerrieri, Project Manager, Clark Pacific
Moderator: Aileen Cho, Transportation Editor, Engineering News-Record

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10:10 AM- 10:20 AM

TECH STORY: Oracle’s Innovation Strategy with a Start-up (Reconstruct) and a Customer (Clayco)

Learn about the first construction and engineering technology firm to be accepted into the Oracle Scaleup Ecosystem, a nonresidential, virtual-style acceleration program for startups geared to enable nextgeneration growth, business development, and to drive cloud-based innovation for startups. Reconstruct is a visual data analytics platform provider whose breakthrough web and mobile products seamlessly integrate Reality Capture, BIM, and Schedule. When combined with Oracle project delivery solutions, customers can manage their projects in a visual environment that is easy to use, accurate, and predictive – increasing efficiency and mitigating risk.

Dr. Burcin Kaplanoglu, Senior Director, Industry Strategy and Innovation, Oracle
Mani Golparvar-Fard, Ph.D., COO and Co-Founder Reconstruct Inc.; Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tomislav Žigo, VP, Virtual Design and Construction Clayco

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10:20 AM- 10:50 AM

Networking Break

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10:50 AM- 11:35 AM

PANEL: Blockchain: What’s In It For Construction?

The problem with Blockchain technology is getting a grasp on what it is, whether it is really taking root in the economy and what it will do to the way we manage information. Because construction builds with information, our panelists are convinced that blockchain is coming to the industry in a big way … and not just in one way, but in several at once. On the work side of the ledger, as the blockchain information management platform takes root it will require an explosive expansion of the hard data management infrastructure required to support it. On the business process side it will impact legal agreements and risk allocation and supply chain management, but on the design review, certification and infrastructure asset management side, proponents say it will create an enormous opportunity for design professionals to be remunerated for the enduring quality of their work, rather than only for the hours they spend designing it. These panelists have been thinking about this a lot. We will hear them explain.

Bassem Hamdy, CEO, Brickschain
Daniel Robles, founder and director, Integrated Engineering Blockchain Consortium
Tom Wendling, Systems Engineer, Jacobs Engineering
Moderator: Tom Sawyer, Deputy Editor, Engineering News-Record

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11:40 AM- 11:50 AM

TECH STORY: PlanGrid

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11:50 AM- 12:35 PM

PANEL: Virtual and Augmented Reality: The Next Moves

Our panelists’ firms are early adopters of the tools of virtual and augmented reality. They have been teaming with software and hardware developers for years and are devoting sustained resources of their own to establish a foundation for leveraging those tools on jobsites. They have been helping owners, designers and builders immerse themselves in virtual renditions of projects to unlock hidden insights, but now they are going beyond "experiencing" designs to working out systems that document production in 3D, in real time, as a background process that can lead to increased productivity and quality control. We will get a report on where they are now, and where they are going with this technology tomorrow.

Jordan Moffett, SoCal Virtual Design & Construction Manager, McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Scott Aldridge, Manager of Disruptive Innovation, CDM Smith 
Moderator: Jeff Rubenstone, Associate Editor, Equipment and Technology, Engineering News-Record

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12:35 PM- 12:45 PM

Closing Remarks

Tom Sawyer, Deputy Editor, Engineering News-Record

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