8:00 AM

Registration, Continental Breakfast & Networking

8:20 AM

Opening Remarks – Means and Methods of Scheduling Control

Speaker: Frank Infusino, Seminar Chairman, AACE Chicago Midwest Section

8:30 AM

Concurrent Delay - The Owner’s Newest Defense

Speaker: James G. Zack Jr- Navigant

9:30 AM

Senior Management Review of Project CPM Schedules

Speaker: Donald McDonald - Fluor Enterprises

10:30 AM

Scheduling, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned (Tricks, Traps, and Ploys)

Panel Presentation: Noel McFarlane - Sr. Controls Manager, URS Corp., Kristie Contreras, Scheduler II - Exelon Generation & Don Giegerich - CCP Critical Decision-Makers Group)

12:00 PM

Lunch & Networking

12:45 PM

Status of the Organization - AACE International

Speaker: John Ciccarelli- President AACE International

1:30 PM

Evolution of Scheduling and Future Applications

Speaker: Krista Lambert - Primavera Global Business Unit - Oracle

2:30 PM

Managing the Complexity in Today’s Software to Produce Practical Scheduling Solutions

Speaker: Robert Birdsall - EPPM Group

3:30 PM

Case Study: Use of Project controls and Defining Work Flow Streams for BP12 Pipe Still Outage Project

Speaker: Dave Koester - BMW Constructors

4:30 PM

Closing Remarks

Speaker: Scott Hollingsworth, President, AACE Chicago Midwest Section