Construction is a labor-intensive industry and is facing a significant shortage of current and future skilled workers. Progressive companies understand human capital is an asset to be leveraged and a risk to be managed. Management in construction continues to evolve from traditional human resources to a talent management model. Employee, supervisory, and leadership development is a bridge that leads to effective human capital risk management.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the key trends in health care and their impact to contractors and the construction industry.
• Identify and discuss the trends – and debunk the myths – surrounding health exchanges (both public and private).
• Define the areas of signficant change for contractors – and associated forecasted cost impact – in the health care employee benefits offering.
• Detail best practices on managing the spend through tactical and real-world initiatives: wellness programs, narrow networks, etc.
• Identify the primary areas of financial exposures for self-funded health plans (and those considering self-funded platforms)

Today’s business professionals find themselves contemplating the vulnerability of their data in the cloud. This presentation will highlight the risks of cloud technology as well as identify the resources and best practices to manage those risks. Learn the basics of converting processes to the cloud and how to secure proprietary data along the way.

Learning Objectives:

• Define the cloud, including current platforms, services, and devices.
• Identify the biggest fears of data in the cloud and which ones are justified.
• Explore the Cloud Security Alliance Big 9 Cloud Threats and how they will affect the industry.
• Discuss real case studies of how companies are successfully mitigating cloud threats.
• Learn the technology tools and resources to manage and monitor cloud solutions.

This session will address the issues, successes, and failures of managing construction projects and risks while achieving institutional objectives. Using real construction project case studies, we will highlight the financial and organizational impact of good and bad project control programs. Participate in an interactive SWOT analysis of construction projects that begin at pre-construction and go through final walk-through, including: planning and material take off, billing and receivables, change order controls, and owner communication.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to identify and mitigate the weaknesses in a project management control systems that lead to margin erosion, inefficient delivery, and escalated project risk.
• Learn to evaluate the project controls environment to identify project roles and responsibilities, skills and capacity issues, and potential project risks.
• Understand how to identify risk mitigating and financial project controls.
• Learn collaboration strategies that integrate corporate’s risk mitigation objectives with operations project controls environment.
• Apply strategies and controls to real construction projects and then observe the actual results.

This presentation provides a detailed, data-driven update of the performance of the global, national, and relevant regional economy. Special attention is given to key aspects of economic life, including trends characterizing financial, real estate, energy, and labor markets.