Keynote Speakers

 

Keynote speakers will give attendees their predictions on the future of the CM industry and the economy.

 

Gary Heil, noted business futurist and consultant, will speak following the Breakfast on Monday. Heil, who was well received when he first spoke to a CMAA gathering eight years

ago, is an internationally recognized expert on service quality, leadership and change management.

 

Heil is author and/or co-author of The Leader’s New Clothes, One Size Fits One, Leadership and   the Customer Revolution, and other books.

Norbert W. Young, FAIA, President of McGraw-Hill Construction, will be the featured speaker at the Industry Awards Luncheon on Tuesday. Young heads up a publishing enterprise that includes the Dodge Reports, Sweets, Architectural Record, Engineering News-Record, GreenSource, 11 regional publications, and construction.com. He is a registered architect who had extensive construction industry experience before joining McGraw-Hill in 1997.

 

He will update CMAA attendees on the findings of the most recent McGraw-Hill Construction

“Trends and Implications” research.

 

 

Rising costs… materials availability... adequate workforce… weather… financing…

 

Every construction project and program brings a wide array of risks. Which risks do owners identify as most important, and how do they manage those risks? Which risks do owners accept, insure against or transfer to others?

 

The Ninth Annual CMAA/FMI Owners Survey tackles the broad, complex area of risk management, and this year’s panel will present and discuss the survey’s key findings. It’s bound to be among the timeliest and most thought-provoking sessions of the Conference.