Past Presentations
DECEMBER 2019 - Flyer
Date: Wednesday, December 11th, 2019
Topic: Holiday Gathering
Location: Golden Road Brewing Pub OC, 2100 E Orangewood Ave, Anaheim CA
NOVEMBER 2019 - Flyer
Date: Wednesday, November 13th 2019
Topic: The Model Based Workflow
Speakers: John Cowles IV, Senior Vice President at Hathaway Dinwiddie
Location: Karl Strauss Brewing Company 600 Wilshire Blvd #100, Los Angeles, CA 90017
OCTOBER 2019 - Flyer
Date: Wednesday, October 23rd 2019
Topic: Building a Digital Twin
Speaker: Frank Peters, cBIM Program Manager at Los Angeles World Airport
Location: Grimaldi's Pizzeria 2121 Rosecrans Ave Ste 1399, El Segundo, CA 90245
SEPTEMBER 2019
Date: Wednesday, September 18th, 2019
Topic: Alignment and Integration of Asset Management and Program Management
Speakers: Robert Raynes, Director – AMCL North America & Duncan Hassall, Motive Power
Location: Karl Strauss Brewing Company, 600 Wilshire Blvd #100, Los Angeles, CA 90017
JULY 2019
Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) Certification Training
Dates: Thursday, July 18th, 2019 Friday, July 19th, 2019 Thursday, July 25th, 2019
Location: Southern California Edison Office
2 Innovation Way, Bldg#2 Room#180B, Pomona, CA 94520
MAY 2019
Date: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019
Topic: USC’s Los Angeles Coliseum Project Tour
Location: 3911 S. Figueroa Street, Los Angeles CA 90037
Date: Wednesday, May 15th, 2019 (DEFERRED TO A FUTURE DATE)
Location: Daily Grill Irvine 2636 Dupont Dr, Irvine CA 90037
Date: Friday, May 17th, 2019
Topic: Utilization and Multiplier–Which to Use and Why?
Speaker: John Kuprenas and Brandon Hays
Location: Virtual Meeting
APRIL 2019
Date: Tuesday April 16th, 2019
Topic: Early Adopter Program of Oracle Prime
Speaker: Ken McBroom - McCarthy Director of Planning and Scheduling
Location: El Torito Grill - Brea 555 Pointe Drive Brea, CA 92621
Date: Friday April 19th, 2019
Topic: Primavera's Float Path Calculation: Review & Analysis of Applications
Speaker: Roger Nelson, PE PSP and Patrick M. Kelly, PE PSP
Location: Virtual Meeting
MARCH 2019
Dinner Meeting
Date: Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Speaker: Steven Feng, PE, LEED-AP
Topic: Basic Methods of Project Controls Reporting With Power BI
Location: DPR Construction, 88 West Colorado,Suite 301,Pasadena, CA91105
*Western Winter Workshop
Date: Thursday 21st thru Sunday 24th March
Location: Harrah's Lake Tahoe CA
FEBRUARY 2019
Date: Wednesday, February 20
Speaker: Stephanie Lightner, PMP
Topic: Long Beach City College's 1.5B Capital Program
Location: Naples Rib Company 5800 E 2nd St, Long Beach, CA 90803
JANUARY 2019
Date: Wednesday,January 30
Speaker: Rick Clarke, LA Metro
Topic: Managing LA Metro’s $160B Transportation Program On-Time within Budget
Location: LA Metro Office, 1 Gateway Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90012
2018 Dinner Meeting
Case Study: Project Controls using CPM|Axis
Adam Trimm, Capo Projects Group (CPG)
NOVEMBER 2018
Speaker: Paul Self, BASIS
Topic: How AI Is Re-inventing The Way We Plan
OCTOBER 2018
Speaker: Ron Miller, LA OC Building & Construction Trades Commission
Topic: Project Labor Agreements: How They Work in the Public and Private Sector
SEPTEMBER 2018
Topic: Long Beach Civic Center Project Site Tour & Social Gathering
Project Location (at 4pm): 114 Chestnut Ave, Long Beach, CA 90802
AUGUST 2018
Topic: Gerald Desmond Bridge Project Site visit
Location: 11 Golden Shore, Long Beach, CA
November 2018 Virtual Meeting
The Ten Biggest Lies in Project Controls by Glen Palmer, PSP CFCC and Chris Carson, FAACE PSP CEP DRMP
November 2017 Dinner Meeting
Brian Criss, DRMcNatty, Schedule Review Tips with Primavera P6
September 2016 Dinner Meeting
Dara Hendrix, FTI Consulting
Slide deck: Scheduling Specifications_DH
November 2015 Dinner Meeting
Los Angeles County MTA
Richard Clarke, Executive Director, Program Management
Presentation slides click here
October 2015 Dinner Meeting
An introduction to MII Estimating software
BMike Nosbisch, VP Hill International
Presentation slides click here
January 2014 Dinner Meeting
The Future of Forensic Schedule Analysis
John Livengood, Managing Director, Navigant Construction
Click here for presentation slides
2013 Fall Symposium
Below includes list of presentations during the 2013 Fall Symposium sorted by presenter name. Please click on title below to view slides:
Ajit Chiplunkar - Application of P6 API for Project Control
Brian Boudreau - Los Angeles Metro’s $36 Billion Measure R Plan & Program Management
Brian Criss/John Blodgett – Integrated Reporting using Dashboards
Chris Keith – Earned Value Management
Dan McNair – Southern California Gas Company’s Pipeline Safety Enhancement Plan
Don McNatty – Overview of Oracle Primavera Unifier & CM
James Johnson – Understanding the Results of an Integrated Cost/Schedule Risk Analysis
Jason Dodds – Navisworks Quantification 2014
James G. Zack – Trends in Construction Claims & Disputes
John Ciccarelli – State of the Association
John Livengood – The Future of Forensic Schedule Analysis
Joseph Poskie – Managing Risk & Contingency from the earliest stages of capital planning
Josh Rowan – The Great Crew Change & the role of Young Professionals
Ken McBroom/Richard Castaneda - Design/build hospital project
Mark Guevara – Contract Interpretation: Whose opinion will prevail?
Mark von Leffern/Vidya C. Dixit – Solar Energy powers the transmission grid in Mojave Desert
Mo Haidar – Sprinting towards digital facilities
Natalie Saylor – Market trends 2013 Construction Forecast
Neil Opfer – Effective construction cost controls methods
Panelist Session – Current & future trends in Project Controls
Razza Samia/Brian Lee – Utilizing robust EVM and schedule data