Explore Oracle’s Innovative Idea Incubator
9 – 4 pm CT | August 6 | Additional $75 Fee
Visit Oracle’s Industry Lab in Chicago
In partnership with Oracle, AGC has organized a visit to Oracle’s Industry Lab in Deerfield, IL, just a quick trip from downtown Chicago.
This 30,000-square foot facility provides a job-site simulated environment to develop new ideas and create solutions leveraging technology from Oracle and more than 42 industry partners. This visit will be specific to Engineering and Construction and exclusive to registered conference attendees.
Exclusive to TECHCON ’24 Attendees
At the Industry Lab, you will see how emerging technologies are reshaping job-sites. You’ll have the opportunity to field test the most promising digital solutions for your own project teams, with an emphasis on sustainability, productivity, and artificial intelligence.
This will be a full-day activity – we will drive you from the hotel no later than 9 AM and plan to be back around 4 PM, with enough time to spare so you can join us later at the Conference Reception. We expect this visit will be very informative and an excellent chance to network with a select group of industry practitioners.
Develop Your Skills & Train for What’s Next
August 6 | 1-5 PM | $99
In the fast-paced world of construction IT, you can never afford to stop learning. That’s why we’ve joined forces with industry innovators to offer two new boot camps at this year’s IT Conference for Construction Professionals. We strongly recommend you sign up early to guarantee your seat.
The fee to attend this year’s boot camps is $99. Not sure which one you want to attend? Just register in advance for either boot camp and decide on-site how long you’d like to spend in each session!
Bootcamp #1: Implementing BIM on Infrastructure and Building Projects: Why, What and So What?
Take a deep dive into what drives a successful BIM/VDC practice while staying above the weeds with the expert guidance of Yates Construction’s Greg Smith. In this three-hour boot camp we will go over how to plan and implement VDC across an organization, applying digital workflows to construction projects, and discuss IT considerations for VDC.
Presented by Greg Smith & Dwain Wood, Yates Construction; Will Sharp, HDR, Calvin Kam, Ian Howell
Bootcamp #2: IT Governance
Construction firms and their IT direction are a perennial conversation. How do we lead tech? Who leads? Construction firms have far more reliance on good IT. Topics to deal with abound. How does today’s CIO, working with senior management, determine what to prioritize, how to staff, how to effectively deploy. What is the role of business in IT initiatives and how to create an effective partnership. Alignment of IT with the business is more important than ever. This boot camp will cover the concepts of IT Governance at a foundational level and then build into more intermediate and advanced topics from there. This will include:
- The Business/IT Partnership matrix
- IT decision making
- Measuring and reporting progress
- Developing and communicating an IT strategy
- How to manage innovation
- Role of a PMO
- Structure of today’s IT department
- Managing shadow IT intentionally
If you are trying to decide how IT fits in your organization and how to become a tech forward organization, this intensive workshop is for you.
Presented by: Christian Burger & Angus Frost, Burger Consulting Group
