Time 8:00 am Networking Breakfast
8:30 am Opening Session
10:00 am Networking Break
10:30 am Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Collaborative Delivery
12:00 pm Networking Lunch
1:00 pm From Risks to Results: Managing Risk & Contracts in Collaborative Delivery
2:30 pm Networking Break
3:00 pm Planning Smarter Together: Budgeting & Cost Certainty in Planning and Project Delivery
4:30 pm Transition to Gala
6:00 pm WCDA 20th Anniversary Gala Reception & DInner
Time 8:00 am Networking Breakfast
8:30 am Day 2 Keynote
10:00 am Networking Break
10:30 am Stronger Together: High-Performing Teams for Collaborative Delivery
12:00 pm Networking Lunch
1:00 pm Ready or Not? building Organizational Readiness for Collaborative Delivery
2:30 pm Networking Break
3:00 pm Closing Session: The Future of Collaborative Delivery
20th Anniversary Symposium Schedule
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The symposium’s opening session features keynote speaker, Brent Darnell. As a pioneering figure in the construction industry, Brent has spent over two decades helping AEC professionals master the human side of […]
Brent Darnell
Owner, Brent Darnell International
Ernie Maschner, DBIA
VP - Division Manager Water/Wastewater/Conveyance, AECOM
Guy Voss
Vice President & Collaborative Project Delivery Director, HDR
Barbara Martin
Executive Director, WCDA
Encompassing a broad spectrum of delivery models, collaborative delivery, including construction management at-risk (CMAR), fixed-price design-build (FBDB), progressive design-build (PDB), design-build-operate (DBO), and public-private partnerships (P3), brings project stakeholders, such […]
Moderator: Dan Augusti, PE, DBIA, Brown and Caldwell; Panelists: Mark E. Alpert, PE, FDBIA, WCDA Past President and former Executive Director; Steve Gates, WCDA Past President; Marlea Tichy, PMP, Director of Business Development and WCDA Past President, Haskell; Leofwin Clark, WCDA Education Director and Past President
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Risk management is a driver that often leads utilities to select collaborative project delivery and is an element that is critical to driving project success. Sessions related to this topic […]
Have you ever been left scratching your head and wondering, “Why is this project over budget? What could have been done better to align project budget and cost?” If the […]
Moderator: Cristina Ahmadpour, Isle: Panelists: Kyle Kruger, PE, Garver; Jeremy McVey, DBIA, Haskell; Aditya Ramamurthy, Raftelis; Nicole Poncelet-Johnson, Fort Collins Utilities
Ballroom and foyer will be closed during this time as we set up for the gala.
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Included with registration
Kick off the symposium’s final day with a session that sets the tone for collaboration, innovation, and impact—setting the stage for a day that looks beyond project and process to […]
Eleanor Allen
CEO, Flourishing Work Alliance
A successful collaborative delivery project depends on more than contracts, risk registers, and budgets; it depends on effective teaming and a high-performing project team. This session explores what it takes […]
Moderator: Courtney Dantone, DBIA, The Walsh Group; Panelists: Dave Lewis, Direct Discharge; Amelia Celoza, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Is your utility ready to deliver a successful collaborative delivery project? This session explores key outcomes from WCDA’s research into utility readiness factors driving project success—people, process, and tools—and describes […]
Moderator: Michaela Rempkowski, PE, DBIA, McCarthy Building Companies; Panelists: Chad Merrill, King County Wastewater Treatment
Wrap up the symposium with an inspiring, forward-looking discussion featuring water sector leaders who are shaping the next era of collaborative delivery. This keynote session brings together visionaries from across […]
Moderator: Barb Martin, WCDA; Panelists: Michael Deane (invited); TBA