Explore the Agenda

7:30 am Check-In, Coffee, & Networking

8:15 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Demonstrating the ROI of Analytics

8:30 am Bridging the Technical-to-Business Gap to Build the Business Case for Analytics

Chief Information & Technology Officer, Baker Construction
  • Exploring how data and analytics leaders can translate technical concepts into business value, aligning with leadership’s priorities
  • Uncovering how small, targeted pilots can build incremental trust and confidence, demonstrating measurable value that enables larger investments
  • Defining baselines and success metrics for how analytics implementation has created value

CASE STUDY

9:00 am Panel Discussion: Transforming Analytics as a Strategic Asset in Construction

Director of Business Analytics, Primoris Services Corporation
Vice President of Data & Analytics, Crete United
Director of Analytics & Data Science, Suffolk Construction Company
Director of Engineering, Data & Automation, Barton Malow
  • Examining how to scale and evolve from simple reporting tools towards analytics that drive more effective decision making
  • Addressing the challenge of funding analytics in an industry in tight margins and limited overhead, and how creative cost models can drive sustainable innovation
  • Revealing how defining clear responsibilities across data, technical, and innovation teams, integrates analytics into your firm’s DNA
  • Ensuring your analytics practices are aligned with the overall strategic objectives of your firm

9:45 am Morning Networking Break

Track 1 - Data Engineering & Governance

Achieving Future-Ready Data Architecture

11:00 am Restructuring Your Legacy Systems to Be Fit for Modern Analytics

Senior IT Data, AI, & ML Manager, JE Dunn Construction
  • Discussing how decades-old architectures are being restructured through warehouses and lakes
  • Revealing how flexible architecture frameworks enable firms to evolve as emerging technologies mature
  • Selecting foundational models and hyperscalers to build your future-ready architecture

CASE STUDY

11:30 am Creating a Streamlined Data Tech Stack to Reduce Disruptions

Data Management & Analytics Manager, Skanska
  • Ensuring the correct information is being pulled into systems
  • Explaining approaches to managing hundreds of constantly changing API endpoints, leveraging prebuilt connectors, and establishing change management practices with software vendors to avoid dashboard failures and data inconsistencies
  • Highlighting how to, in the absence of prebuilt connectors, you can build custom API adaptors when connecting disparate systems

CASE STUDY

12:00 pm Technology Spotlight to Be Revealed

Track 2 - Analytics Insights & Visualization
Track 3 Modernizing Your Analytics Practice

12:30 pm Networking Lunch Break

Track 1 - Data Engineering & Governance

Ensuring Seamless Data Migration & Testing

1:30 pm Sandboxing to Reduce Disruptions of Data Transformations or Pilots

  • Creating isolated testing environments within platforms to enable experimentation and enrichment of data
  • Demonstrating how sandboxing enables teams to explore data manipulations, build groups, and test reporting scenarios before scaling across the organization
  • Reducing user resistance by building confidence in the reliability of sandboxing

2:00 pm Achieving Data Migration at Scale to Enable Growth & Evolution

Data Product Lead, Burns & McDonnell
  • Showcasing how firms are rebuilding data foundations at scale, including moving on-premises warehouses to cloud locations or adopting new platforms
  • Revealing best practices for phased migration, maintaining old systems until users are acclimated, and creating plans to minimize disruption
  • Exploring innovative ways to shorten migration timelines

CASE STUDY

Track 2 - Analytics Insights & Visualization
Track 3 Modernizing Your Analytics Practice

2:30 pm Afternoon Networking Break

Optimizing Your Technology Stack

3:30 pm Bridging the Past & Future of Data: How Maturity Models & Medallion Architecture Shape Modern Analytics

Data Strategy & Architecture Leader, DPR Construction
  • Exploring 4 maturity level models for data architectures starting with collecting data manually for visualization all the way to enterprise architecture that is built for analytics, self-service, and AI
  • Discussing the historical approaches to data warehousing and analytics and how these used to be “conflicting” viewpoints have merged into widely accepted medallion architecture.
  • Outlining the layers of a medallion architecture (bronze, silver, and gold layers) and how it could be implemented irrespective of vendor platforms to support all the data needs for an organization

4:00 pm Session Reserved for Procore

4:30 pm Panel Discussion: Accelerating the Technology Evaluation Process to Maximize ROI

  • Sharing frameworks for evaluating new technologies, piloting platforms, and determining compatibility with your existing tech stack, including financial considerations, spend analysis, and ROI tracking
  • Examining challenges in aligning naming conventions, project codes, and workflows across departments and regionalized operations to create consistency
  • Evaluating methods to ensure new tools are adopted successfully across departments through accessible knowledge bases and training

5:15 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:30 pm End of Conference Day One