Tracks

NEW TRACK: What Happens in Vegas...
This track explores the unique challenges to managing a facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. From water conservation to alternative power to staffing issues to greening a gambling town, these sessions will demonstrate solutions found by in-town facility professionals -- and provide out-of-towners with an insider’s view of what it takes to successfully manage facilities in a city that accommodates nearly 40 millions visitors per year.

The FM Mission: Managing assets, people and initiatives
This track offers insights on today’s (and tomorrow’s) management challenges, and provides idea-generating sessions to advance an attendee's career and facility’s mission. Sessions will demonstrate how to oversee a prosperous portfolio, staff departments effectively, forecast and budget accurately, plan for relocation or renovation, evaluate contract services, and navigate within an increasingly global real estate market.
 
Building Technology: Applications and innovations
From HVAC to lighting to roofing, new technologies are dominating the marketplace. The Internet’s role continues to grow, and wireless technologies are revolutionizing the industry. This collection of sessions is dedicated to uncovering the key trends and technologies that will direct the industry, highlighting the updates that will affect a facility for years to come.
 
Operations and Engineering: Optimizing system performance and investments
There's a lot to manage within a maintenance and engineering department: benchmarking, training, budgets, code compliance, outsourcing, energy management, grounds care, housekeeping and more. Here, sessions take a closer look at how these key issues play out within commercial and institutional facilities
 
Energy and Power: Ensuring efficiency and supply
Sessions in this track address how facility professionals can better anticipate the energy needs of tomorrow and address power supply issues. Included are perspectives from suppliers and end-users on deregulation, alternative power sources, and technology’s role in improving efficiency.
 
At Work: The practitioner’s perspective
From career development to asset management to energy initiatives, these seminars explore the latest trends in facility management, presented by senior facility executives at major institutions. Attendees will have a ringside seat to learn how facility professionals can further their own potential within their organizations by enhancing efficiency, profitability and operations.
 
Sustainability: Design, operations and interiors
Case studies and educational seminars targeted toward how "green buildings" are evolving to become high-performance facilities that increase ROI while lessening their impact on the environment. This track also highlights the role that interiors and products play in creating an environmentally sound facility from the inside out.
 
Security: Redefining 'safe'
Since 2001, security has become an increasingly prominent issue for building professionals, increasing the focus to include everything from terrorist attacks to workplace violence to theft and even to domestic violence. With sessions on best practices to technology updates to audits and upgrades, this track will provide ample discussion on the options and obligations in safeguarding facilities and the people inside them.