7:30 am Registration & Networking
8:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Breaking Down Silos & Identifying Opportunities Across Industries
8:10 am
Panel Discussion: Reviewing the Role of Project Controls Across Industries & Project Scales: Defining the Scope, Value & Feasibility
Moderator: Roberto Orlandi Director, Project Governance Microsoft
Synopsis
- Assessing best practice within project controls, and how can best practice be applied broadly without becoming meaningless
- Understanding the varying levels of controls analysis across industries: Is the focus shifting as more data sources become available and what does this mean for project controls management?
- Identifying transferable controls trends from one industry that deliver value in other sectors
8:50 am Democratizing Data to Drive Business Outcomes
Synopsis
- How data is captured and used today.
- The data dilemma in construction and how centralizing data is the solution.
- Creating a path from data to insights – at scale.
- How self-serve analytics creates a data feedback loop.
- How to build historical databases to drive continuous improvement.
9:20 am Morning Refreshments
Innovation in Practice
10:00 am Integrating Cost & Schedule to Improve Forecast Accuracy & Tracking
Synopsis
- Itemising how to align cost allocation with schedule
- Reviewing how cost and schedule analysis changes when integrated into a single baseline
- Understanding how technology can facilitate integration of data points at a micro level for further accuracy of tracking
10:40 am Understanding How to Improve Clarity & Consistency in Project Controls with BIM
Synopsis
- Using BIM to integrate and interrogate data while avoiding data gaps and improving predictability and performance
- Developing an Asset Breakdown Structure and linking this to a scope description, program schedule and developing a controlling structure
- Reviewing the benefits that can be expected to your current processes and also next steps when gaps between emerging design and working estimate and schedule are revealed
11:20 am Understanding How Production Management & Productivity Tracking Benefit the Project & the People
Synopsis
- Outlining the benefits of fully engaging project teams from management to crew in productivity tracking
- Analyzing how to track and analyse productivity to benefit not just management but crew as well
- Ensuring production management and productivity tracking is integrated and presented in the correct manner to ensure consistency and relevance for all stakeholders.
Managing Technology Disruption
10:00 am Identifying Opportunities for Technology to Enhance Project Controls Workflows
Synopsis
- Reviewing where construction sits vs other industries when it comes to digital adoption
- Identifying key areas for investment that can yield the most immediate results dependent on project size and construction industry segment
- Understanding the impact of key technologies for your organisation, processes, and the role of project controls
10:40 am Winning Support & Managing Expectations When Deploying New Technologies
Synopsis
- Building clarity around what will change and what will stay the same to avoid disappointment
- Reviewing related processes and technology to ensure ease of adoption
- Developing a clear resource plan to streamline deployment and training
11:20 am
Panel Discussion: Easing Integration & Preventing Your Technology Roadmap from Becoming a Burden to Productivity y
Moderator: Patrick Hennessy, Director, Scheduling & Analytics, Harkins Builders
Synopsis
- Developing a benchmarking process software to ensure you get industry ‘best practice’ without sinking costs into failed experiments
- Reviewing how you integrate applications to avoid duplication of effort and ensure important data is not lost
- Including the field context and human element of technology roll-out and integration
Accurate Forecasting & Managing Resource Availability
12:00 pm Audience Discussion: Reviewing Innovation in Practice to Optimize the Value of Controls at Project Level
Synopsis
Building on the morning presentations, join the discussion with your fellow delegates:
- Assessing areas of priority for improvement in your own processes
- Identifying the gaps in people, process or technology and these need to be coordinated
- Building a target driven implementation strategy that is measurable and stakeholder aligned
Getting Ready for AI
12:00 pm Getting Your Data AI Ready
Synopsis
- Outlining the barriers to AI implementation and finding yourself on that scale
- Developing the data hygiene requirements to prepare you for AI deployment
- Understanding the practical benefits that AI and machine learning can offer at program, project, and field level
12:40 pm Networking Lunch
Defining Your Internal Strategy & Moving Towards Industry-Wide Best Practice
1:40 pm Identifying & Defining Your Strategy & Roadmap for Project Controls
Synopsis
- Identifying strategic people, process, and technology priorities for project controls within your organisation
- Analyzing the impact of macro industry and economic trends and how they could influence the priorities you should pursue in the short-, medium- and long-term
- Ensuring your long-term strategy and development requirements are not bound by short-term decision making today
2:20 pm Panel Discussion: How Can the Industry Work Together to Support Quality in Project Controls at All Levels?
Synopsis
- Developing consistency across companies in what constitutes best practice in project controls
- Identifying routes to share and review best practice more publicly on an ongoing basis
- Reviewing how large companies can transfer their expertise and best practice to smaller companies to ensure standards across industries and organization scale