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Facility Fusion 2013 Conference & Expo

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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8:00 AM-9:30 AM

 
1.0
Day 1 Opening Power Thought Session: The Future of FM Leadership: How Much Change Are You Prepared to Embrace?
Steven Sonsino
Interactive Presentation - Change Management

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

 
1.01
Workplace Innovation Around the World
Erik Jaspers, Nancy Johnson Sanquist, IFMA Fellow, Kate North and Diane Coles Levine, MCR
Case Study - Best Practices
   
1.02
Strategies for Driving Large Portfolio Energy Efficiency
Eric Teicholz, IFMA Fellow, IFMA Board Member, Bennett Fisher, CEO and Founder, Brian Lecher and Justin Chrzanowski
Panel Discussion - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
   
1.03
The Art of Saying "NO"
Scott Offermann, CFM, MBIFM, CEM
General Presentation - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
1.04
Real-world BIM for Facility Managers
Geoff Williams, BES, B. Arch, Ted Ritter, LEED AP and Kevin Janus
Round Table Discussion - Council/Industry Specific
   
1.05
Improving Maintenance Efficiency & Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida
Larry Simmons, CFM and Richard Overman, CMRP
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific
   
1.06
The Total Test Fit
Richard Fanelli, CFM, AIA, IFMA Fellow
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific
   
1.07
Fraud! How to Detect & Prevent Fraudulent Financial Practices in Your Organization
Donald Tucker, CFM
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific
 
1.08
The 5 Hottest Topics in Real Estate and How They Affect You
Tom Turley, Janice Cimbalo, Esq., MCR and James Ware, Ph.D.
Round Table Discussion - Council/Industry Specific

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

 
2.0
Day 1 Power Speaker Boxed Lunch Session: Making the Most of Difficult Situations: Changing Markets, Changing Times
Garrison Wynn, CSP
Interactive Presentation - Change Management

1:45 PM-2:45 PM

   
2.01
Saving Big Money & Creating Value in a Tough Economy: How Schneider National Facilities Saved More Than US$15 Million Over Six Years
Ty Wagner, MBA and Jill Hendricks
Case Study - Best Practices
   
2.02
Water Management in Buildings: A Strategic Approach for Facility Managers
Laurie Gilmer, P.E., CFM, SFP, LEED AP, CxA and Christopher Hodges, P.E., CFM, LEED AP, IFMA Fellow, FRICS
General Presentation - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
 
2.03
Volunteer Leaders Deeper Dive Part 1: Volunteer Victories: How to Recruit, Retain and Maintain Effective Board Leaders
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP
Interactive Presentation - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
2.04
The Facility Manager’s Guide to Information Technology Best Practices
Geoff Williams, BES, B. Arch, Joachim Hohmann, Ph.D., MSc, CFM and Ted Ritter, LEED AP
Panel Discussion - Council/Industry Specific
   
2.05
For the Public Sector FM: Sell Your Projects With CFO Jargon
Phyllis Meng, CFM, SFP, IFMA Fellow
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
2.07
CANCELLED - Organizational Change: Lead, Follow or Get Out of the Way!
Judie Cooper, CFM
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
2.08
Getting Ahead of Lease Accounting (FASB) Changes: Positioning Your Real Estate Portfolio
Mark Ellis, Michael Billing and Doug Moxley
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

   
3.01
Benchmarking Strategies to Improve Building Performance (includes case studies)
Keith McClanahan, P.E., RPA and Peter Kimmel, AIA, IFMA Fellow
Interactive Presentation - Best Practices
   
3.02
Supported Retrocommissioning: A New Paradigm for Operating & Maintaining Buildings
Stephany Cull, BEP, CBCP, CSDP and Wayne Whitzell, Leed AP, GBO
General Presentation - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
 
3.03
Volunteer Leaders Deeper Dive Part 2: One Team, One Dream: Strategic Planning Unleash Chapter Success
Holly Duckworth, CAE, CMP
Interactive Presentation - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
3.04
BIM for Facility Managers: How Building Information Management is Transforming Life Cycle Management
Michael Schley, IFMA Fellow, Angela Lewis, Ph.D., P.E., LEED AP and Paul Teicholz, Ph.D.
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
3.05
Performance Contracting in the Public Sector & the Real World
Eric Connery
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific
   
3.06
Change Management is Out; Personal Leadership is In!
Dr. A.G. (Ab) Reitsma, CFM, CFMJ and Pekka Matvejeff, M.Soc.Sc. (Management); MBA (Henley)
Workshop - Change Management
   
3.07
Intern Night MARE
Loren Plotner, FMP and Daniel Davies, CFM
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific
 
3.08
The Real Estate Market: What’s Hot & What’s Not, a U.S. & Global Perspective
Janice Cimbalo, Esq., MCR
Interactive Presentation - Council/Industry Specific

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

 
4.00
Leadership Best Practice Roundtables
Lowell Aplebaum, CAE
Interactive Presentation - Best Practices

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

   
4.01
Developing Projects in a Vacuum Sucks
Lemelle Johnson, MBA, P.E., PMP, CFM, FMP, LEED AP BD+C
General Presentation - Best Practices
 
4.02
Facility Management, Sustainability & IFMA
Christopher Hodges, P.E., CFM, LEED AP, IFMA Fellow, FRICS and Marina Badoian Kriticos
General Presentation - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
   
4.03
Implementing Facility Management at Los Angeles World Airports
Michael Feldman, FMP, C.M.
General Presentation - Change Management
   
4.04
Which is Better - Sitting or Standing at Your Workstation?
James Mallon, B.S., M.S., M.B.A., CPE
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
4.05
Transition, Downsizing or Consolidating: An FM’s Use of a Master Plan to Guide Through Turbulent Times
Renee' Ponik
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
4.06
Hot Topics for Facility Managers at Large Law Firms
Mike Lesage, CFM
Round Table Discussion - Council/Industry Specific
   
4.07
Change Your Approach to Managing Change
Kit Tuveson, CFM, SFP, IFMA Fellow and Barbara Jo Kane-Stokes, CFM
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
4.08
Working in Harmony: Putting IT, HR & CRE/FM in a Room Together to Make Sweet Music
Diane Coles Levine, MCR, James Ware, Ph.D., Emily Arison and Dennis Duran
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific

2:15 PM-3:15 PM

   
5.01
Server Room Best Practices: Learn the Language, Understand the Metrics, Reduce the Anxiety
Richard Janis, R.A., P.E., LEED AP BD&C, Senior Lecturer, Washington University School of Architecture
Workshop - Best Practices
   
5.02
Successfully Operating LEED Buildings: Setting Your Building Apart in the New Normal
Candice Goldsmith, FMP, LEED AP O+M, Jeff Williford, LEED AP O+M and David Borchardt, P.E., LEED AP BD+C
Interactive Presentation - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
   
5.03
Techniques for Managing & Recruiting Volunteer Committees
Cookie Avila-Currier
Workshop - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
5.04
Cognitive FM - Saving Your Sanity in a Foreign Land
John Ringness, SFP
Case Study - Change Management
   
5.05
Best Practices For Dealing with Mold, Indoor Air Quality & Asbestos
Stephen Masek
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
 
5.06
Putting Out Fires Before They Start: Strategic Facility Planning Followed by AFC Business Meeting
Jolie Lucas, CFM, AICP, LEED AP
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
5.07
Why Reengineering Processes, Policies & Supply Chains Are Critical for BIM Projects
Andy Fuhrman, IFMA Fellow
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
5.08
Mixing it Up: The Future of the Office Building
Pat Turnbull, MA. LEED AP, Alexander Redlein, PhD, Shawn Gehle and Michele Dremmer, IIDA Interior Designer
Panel Discussion - Council/Industry Specific

3:45 PM-4:45 PM

   
6.01
The Value of Digital Real Estate for Facility & Property Managers
Ted Ritter, LEED AP and Greg Gotcher
General Presentation - Best Practices
   
6.02
Is Your Office Stressing You Out & Making You Fat?
Josh Radoff, LEED AP + BD&C
General Presentation - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
 
6.03
Volunteer Leaders: Leadership Roundtables & Best Practice Sharing
Lowell Aplebaum, CAE
Round Table Discussion - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
6.04
Database Synergy for Facility Assets
Sarah Peek
General Presentation - Change Management
   
6.05
The Growing Deferred Maintenance Crisis
Sean Bondar, CFM
Interactive Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
6.06
In Pursuit of a Sustainable Academic Workplace: Arlington Public School District
Adam Stoltz, John Chadwick, AIA, RIBA and Carl Elefante, FAIA, LEED AP
Case Study - Council/Industry Specific
   
6.07
Sustainability Programs that Produce Energy Star Rated Buildings
Jeffrey Goetz, P.E., LEED AP
Case Study - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
 
6.08
It's the Data, Stupid! The CRE Playbook on Big Data & Analytics
Nancy Johnson Sanquist, IFMA Fellow and John Serri, Ph.D.
Interactive Presentation - Council/Industry Specific

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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8:00 AM-9:00 AM

   
7.01
Don’t Be Caught Off Guard: A Primer on Pre- and Post-disaster Planning
Gregory Carothers, CFM, Ricardo Rafael Hernandez, SE and David Bonneville
General Presentation - Best Practices
   
7.02
Lean Back & Relax: A New Approach to Managing Solid Waste
Meredith Gethin-Jones and Gerry McGillian, P.E. in the state of Pennsylvania
Case Study - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
   
7.03
Inter-chapter Collaboration Benefits: IFMA Wisconsin's Tri-Chapter Accord Case Study
Melissa Schumacher, Sue Bunker, CFM, FMP, LEED Green Associate and Kyle Roux, CFM, FMP
Case Study - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
7.04
Go-bility: Designing & Managing Space on the Go
Kay Sargent, ASID, IIDA, CID, LEED® AP ID+C
Interactive Presentation - Change Management
 
7.06
Council Committee Leadership & Best Practices Session
William ONeill, CFM
Interactive Presentation - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
7.07
MCIC Updates, Initatives & Business Meeting
Judie Cooper, CFM and Greg McDaniels
Interactive Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
7.08
Real Estate Free Agency: Effective Management of Your Portfolio
Mark Ellis
Interactive Presentation - Council/Industry Specific

9:15 AM-10:15 AM

   
8.01
BIM Master Planning for 72 Million Square Feet
John Roach, Kimon Onuma, FAIA and Rob Barthelman, AIA
Interactive Presentation - Best Practices
   
8.02
In-sourcing High Performance Operations: Engineering Tool Kits and Training
Jenny Carney, LEED AP O+M
Workshop - Sustainability/ Environmental Stewardship
   
8.03
IFMA Chapter Website Management: Best Practices
David Suter, CFM, LEED GA
Interactive Presentation - Leading and Managing/Volunteer Leaders
   
8.04
Integrated Capital & Maintenance Budgets for Improved C-Suite Funding
Tim O'Malley, CFM, CFMJ
Interactive Presentation - Change Management
   
8.05
Understanding the Basics of Blueprints
Dick Currier
General Presentation - Council/Industry Specific
   
8.06
What’s Your Facility’s Value Proposition? Thinking & Planning Strategically
Barry Lynch, CFM, SFP, MBA, NCARB, IFMA Fellow
Workshop - Council/Industry Specific
   
8.07
MCIC Roundtable: Supporting Sustainability in Cultural Institutions & Nonprofit Organizations
Judie Cooper, CFM and Daniel Davies, CFM
Round Table Discussion - Council/Industry Specific
   
8.08
Redefining FM Education: Preparing The Next Generation of FM Leaders
James Ware, Ph.D., Alexander Redlein, PhD, Roger Peterson and Jeffery Campbell, Ph.D., IFMA Fellow
Panel Discussion - Council/Industry Specific

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

 
9.0
Day 3 Closing Power Session: Zero to Breakthrough: How a Breakthrough Mentality Creates Breakthrough Results
Vernice "FlyGirl" Armour
Interactive Presentation - Change Management