This session will provide roundtable discussions on several trending technologies for Heavy/Highway contractors, including:
• Field reporting for small, medium, and large contractors
• Equipment maintenance and fuel
• Dispatch/GPS/other operational software
• Accounting software
• Electronic Content Management

This is a continued deep dive into cloud computing for new attendees and those who attended last year’s highly ranked session. Join us as we discuss key cloud technologies that will impact your company. You will be able to identify:
• Delivery methods
• Benefits of cloud computing
• Risks and rewards
• SSAE 16 audit reporting requirements

Organizations often have an abundance of raw creativity, but tend to lack a systematic process to harness it. In an era where ideas only count if they drive results, how do you focus your team’s imagination into practical outputs? Josh Linkner will help you make the leap from the whiteboard to tangible results while addressing such questions as:

• How do you ensure your best ideas don’t get lost during execution?
• How do you maintain a creative culture through the realities of our hyper-competitive world?
• How do you drive everyday creativity and direct it toward specific, measurable gains?

You will be energized by the answers to these questions and more in this fast-moving, fun, and interactive session.

The technology landscape is changing. Accessing, viewing, and sharing data from anywhere is easier than ever thanks to today’s cloud and mobile applications. Learn how to stay productive outside the office with:
• The latest capabilities of cloud and mobile technologies
• The simplicity of the Virtual Desktop
• Security and data recovery lessons

This session will enable you to identify:
• Total compensation trends and practices and why each element is important
• The impact additional cash pieces (such as bonuses, vehicle allowances, gas cards, area uplifts, etc.) have on base pay and total compensation
• Ways to design a competitive total compensation package
• Action items to reduce your overall compensation costs

Tier 4 is a government-mandated reduction in harmful exhaust gases for diesel equipment and is made up of two significant phases (or stages) for different engine horsepower ratings. Tier 4’s final regulations, which will further reduce emissions, are scheduled to be implemented beginning in 2014 and 2015.

Learn how to avoid hefty fines, potential increased ownership and operating costs, accelerated enforcement by local and state agencies, possible legal actions and litigation costs, decreased profit margins, and potential job losses from the restrictive compliance associated with Tier 4 conversion of heavy equipment engines.
This session will allow you to:

• Identify Tier 4, its phases, and when they will be enacted
• Prepare for financial implications of compliance and noncompliance
• Recognize ways to offset these costs with equipment strategies

This surety expert will explain how his industry looks at the WIP schedule that we know so well – or do we? This session will help you:
• Relate the significance of the WIP calculations from your surety’s perspective
• Recognize how your underwriter evaluates pure job borrow, overbillings and underbillings, and contract losses
• Evaluate a surety’s WIP trend analysis
• Recognize what underwriters do with WIPs and how they can affect your bonding through real-life examples

With the IRS and state agencies aggressively challenging the classification of independent contractors, this session will enable you to:
• Identify some of the indicators auditors look for
• Effectively defend your company’s position if audited in order to minimize any assessments
• Implement internal policies and procedures to save tax dollars (including best practices)

From changing U.S. GAAP standards to private company reporting, there are myriad accounting developments that continue to bubble under the surface. This information-packed session provides you with the background and status of:
• Key FASB/IASB projects such as revenue recognition and leasing
• Key FASB projects such as reporting comprehensive income and impairments
• Private company reporting in the U.S.

You will be able to identify and discuss the changes that have a direct impact on your company.

Discover the underlying forces of construction companies’ acquisition activity and what will likely happen in the coming years. At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to identify and recognize:
• Reasons for contractor acquisitions
• Foreign involvement and influence
• Financial requirements and surety influence
• Changing markets and the need for diversity