REGISTRATION CHECK-IN AND NETWORKING BREAKFAST

MORNING PROGRAM

WELCOME

Christine Boccia, President, Women Builders Council

WHAT TODAY’S ABOUT

Renee Sacks, Ph.D. Executive Director, Women Builders Council

REMARKS: BUILDING WITH CONSENSUS, COLLABORATION AND CONFIDENCE

Cas Holloway, Chief Operating Officer, Columbia University
Lourdes Zapata, Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer, MTA

FIRESIDE CHAT: FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT

Folasade (Sade) Olanipekun-Lewis, Vice President, Operating & Community Partnerships, Vantage Airport Group
Salimatou Doumbouya, USS Chair / CUNY Student Trustee / Architecture Student / Entrepreneur

BUILDING A VISION FOR CHANGE

REMARKS
Gerrard P. Bushell, Ph. D, President & Chief, Executive Officer of The New Terminal One

A CALL TO ACTION FOR NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR NEW YORK

Kathryn Wylde, President & CEO, Partnership for New York City

MEET NEW YORK’S STRATEGIC THINKERS

This opening session introduces you to several key ‘strategic thinkers’ and how they have created and are creating blueprints for growth and success. Hear from several leaders in enterprise, economic development, education, business development, real estate, housing and more.

MODERATOR
Fred P. Gabriel, Publisher, Crain's New York

PANELISTS
Denise M. Berger, FAIA, FRICS, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, AECOM East Region
Vlada Kenniff, President, NYC Housing Preservation Trust
Alexandria Perotti, Director, Corporate Real Estate, Planning & Development, United Airlines
Francisco Pineda, Executive Vice President, Asset Management, Economic Development Corporation
Palmina Whelan,Director of Capital Programs, the New Terminal One at JFK

NETWORKING BREAK: LOBBY

DIVERSITY DISRUPTION ROUNDTABLE

What Large Organizations Are Doing To Increase Diversity On Their Development Projects and In Their Organizations

What we thought we knew doesn’t work anymore. Learn more about new, innovative and often disruptive strategies leaders are implementing in their organizations to change the diversity quotient in their organizations.

MODERATOR
Tanya Pope, Assistant Vice President University Supplier Diversity, Columbia University

PANELISTS
Amy Cordone, COO, L&M Development Partners
Michael J. Garner, MBA, Chief Diversity Officer, New York City
Glenessa Gordon, P.E., MBA, Assistant Director, Business Diversity Operations, The Port Authority of New York, and New Jersey
Jermaine Huell, NE Diversity Transformation Lead, WSP
Michele Basic Moore, Vice President for Comprehensive Modernization, New York City Housing Authority
Doreen Taveras, Director of Diversity Programs, NY Metro Region, AECOM
Suzanne Veira, Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, NYC School Construction Authority

GAME CHANGERS LUNCH | MEZZANINE

AFTERNOON SESSIONS

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SERIES 1 - PEOPLE, PRODUCTS, PROJECTS AND CLIENTS

Session 1: Designing a New Talent Blueprint

How do we attract, recruit, and retain the next generation of diverse talent for the building industries? With an aging workforce, retiring leaders and new project performance and delivery requirements, how are leading organizations changing the paradigm for building talent and building new teams that work better together?

MODERATOR
Kim Hardy, Senior Vice President, Diversity, Inclusion and Compliance, McKissack & McKissack

PANELISTS
Monique Cole-Green, Program Director, Grant Associates, Workforce1, Industrial & Transportation Career Centers 
Marianne Monte, Chief People & Administration Officer, Shawmut
Natalie Salinas, Founder & CEO, Nth Consulting Group
Marilisa Stigliano, Vice President, Corporate Operations, STV
Marisa Ventura Poisler, Director-HR Shared Services, Skanska USA

Session 2: Business Development Re-Imagined

Your BD strategy must consider more than your next client or project. Developing it will require including organizational, financial, legal, diversity and compliance strategies that will refresh your approach to winning your next assignment. This session explores new markets and what strategies and tools you will need to enter emerging and high demand markets, metrics to measure your performance and the best way to plan your marketing roadmap.

CO-MODERATORS
Jennifer Carey, Vice President, Northeast District Marketing Director, WSP
Maeva Crambert , Assistant Vice President, Senior Marketing Manager, WSP

PANELISTS
Denise M. Berger, FAIA, FRICS, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, AECOM East Region
David Chaves, Vice President, Director, Lendlease
Christine Oates, Vice President, Jacobs Engineering
Loryn P. Riggiola, Partner, Zetlin & De Chiara LLP

Session 3: Scaling Solutions For Small Diverse Businesses

New York State has led the nation in adopting diversity participation goals for its contracts. But how do we move the needle beyond utilization goals to successful performance metrics for small, diverse firms such as MWBEs, DBEs and SDVOBs? This session takes a hard look at what owners and prime contractors need to do to facilitate and support small business growth and at the same time meet compliance requirements.

MODERATOR
John Rooney, Area Director, Economic Inclusion, Gilbane Building Company

PANELISTS
Jason Clark, Executive Vice President, Empire State Development, DMWBE
Gregory Glasgow, Director of Operations, Business Development Department, NYC School Construction Authority
Danielle Grillo Pemberton, Vice President, Sweet Group
Roze Kolaj, Project Compliance Manager, Holt Construction
Tracey Mitchell, Advisor, Gateway Project

Session 4: Building for Sustainability and Profitability

Large firms and global organizations are designing and integrating their environmental, social and governance plan to meet the needs of shareholders, investors, clients, and communities. What’s your strategy for implementing best practices into your company’s operations and construction programs to meet new requirements for sustainable construction?

Challenge your existing building approaches by incorporating new ISO strategies for sustainable procurement in your company and over the life cycle of your projects. Explore EPD and Envision Certification that are increasingly included in contract requirements. This session will help you explore which strategies, tools, and talent you will need to compete in a dynamic market that is focused on ‘Building for Social Good.’

MODERATORS
Melissa Billig, Co-Chair, Construction & Design Practice Group, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt
Felice Farber, Executive Director, Subcontractor Trade Association

PANELISTS
Lauren Alger, Director of Sustainable Design, STV
Amy Canova, Sustainability Technical Leader, New York Metro, AECOM
Hope Kaufman, Associate Vice President, Dewberry
Beatrice Sibblies, Founder, Village Harlem; Managing Partner, BOS Development
Irem A. Yargici, ENV SP, Chief Sustainability Officer, Halmar

Session 5: Megaprojects: Understanding Development Strategies

New York City, known for its ever-evolving skyline, is home to numerous megaprojects representing significant investment that enhance the city’s infrastructure, real estate market and overall urban environment. Join a session with experts who understand the process and the challenges of designing and building megaprojects. The session begins with a case study review of one of the most notable projects in New York: Columbia University’s 17-acre West Harlem Manhattanville Campus Project.

Following the Manhattanville case study, the panel comprised of leading professionals engage in direct discussion addressing development challenges: planning strategies for multi-building, multi-year projects, aligning regulatory and community buy-in and approvals, framework for developing flexible and adjustable agreements over the long-term, and best practices for an integrated development approach that includes design, construction, financing, technology changes, user demand and other critical planning factors.

MODERATOR
Denise Ferris, AIA, AUA, LEED AP, Associate Vice President of Design Management, Columbia University, Manhattanville Development Group

PANELIST
Gina Bigler, Senior Engineer of Construction, JFK Redevelopment Program, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Maria Martinson, Program Director, La Guardia Terminal C Redevelopment, Delta Air Lines
Karla Mayenbeer Cruz, Assistant Director of Legislation and Policy, Greater New York LECET
Francisco Pineda, Deputy Commissioner, Real Estate, NYC Economic Development Corporation
David Varoli, Deputy Commissioner for Legal Affairs and General Counsel for the New York City Department of Design and Construction

BREAKOUT SESSIONS: SERIES 2 - THE POWER OF YOU

Session 6: Wellness 360: Creating a New Construction Culture for Wellness

Do you have a wellness program in your company? Health and wellness are not gender specific, but women, more than men, are often challenged by health and wellness issues because of multi-tasking roles and responsibilities for work, home, childbearing, and other factors.
This session, led by one of the leading national health and wellness professionals, will examine how to build a playbook for implementing Wellness 360 in your organization.

PRESENTER
Debra Wein, MS, RDN, CWWPC, CEO & Founder, Wellness Workdays

Session 7: Are You Happy?

Your next job, your next promotion, your next partner? What really makes you happy, and what’s your plan for achieving happiness? This session will engage leaders at all levels to examine how happiness can become a sustainable strategy for living, working and co-existing in a very changeable world.

MODERATOR
Neva H Alexander, Ed.D., CEO of Nevalliance | Co Director @ Ascend Long Island at Hofstra University

PANELISTS
Christine Boccia, Managing Partner, JD Traditional
Ania DeVita, Senior Cost Control Manager, AECOM Tishman
Roxanne Guerrerio, President, KCM Contracting LLC
Lily Sackman, Project Manager, Sciame

Session 8: Your Best Advocate: You!

This session, led by an experienced and highly recognized marketing specialist and an emerging leader in a national construction firm, explores how to build a plan to advocate on behalf of yourself. The session helps you develop effective strategies for: how to be visible in ‘crowded’ situations; how to increase your presence and voice, without being ‘loud;’ how to ask for a raise or a promotion; how to handle tasks that you consider ‘off-putting’ and not part of your responsibilities; how to create new opportunities, short and long term.

MODERATOR
Jessica Rondash, MBA, Director of Business Operations and Performance, Holt Construction

PANELISTS
Dennelle (Elle) Clarke, Columbia University Facilities & Operations
Kate Goldman, Project Manager, Lendlease
Melissa Steeves, Senior Operational Excellence Manager, Gilbane Building Company
Shivani Patil, CCM, A. DBIA, Project Manager, AECOM

Session 9: Plans, Passions, New Directions

Do you have a job or a career? And have you thought about where you are today, and where you need to be five years from now?

This session will help you create a five-year personal and professional plan – or just one plan that integrates who you are who you want to become. It will help you design your game plan for the future! This session is for everyone who is keeping an eye on the future. See new opportunities and shape the best plan to be the best they can be. From a building trades person to an aspiring C-Suite Executive, join a session to give you the right strategies and tools to navigate the future.

MODERATOR
Audrey Schultz, Ph.D., Chairperson of Construction and Facilities Management, Pratt Institute

PANELISTS
Salimatou Doumbouya, USS Chair / CUNY Student Trustee / Architecture Student / Entrepreneur
Becky Joseph Gomilla, Senior Project Manager, AECOM Tishman
Anna Lawrence, Project Manager, Gilbane Building Company
Sylvie Straus Figueroa, Partner, Rothberg, Straus & Contrubis, LLC
Melanie Villatoro, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Construction Management and Civil Engineering Technology, NYC College of Technology

Session 10: Who’s Your Best Salesperson?

Did you get all that professional training to become your company’s best salesperson? Well maybe you did. But is that enough to create new business opportunities?

This session explores how you can create a sales and marketing approach through the way you manage your projects and your client relationships. At the end of the day, your best salesperson is not you, it’s your client. Learn more about strategies for client satisfaction and service from several of the industry’s top performers in this arena.

MODERATOR
Karen Medeiros, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Gilbane Building Company

PANELISTS
Jayne Czik, Executive Vice President & General Counsel, Citnalta
Raquel Diaz, Vice President, New York Market Sector Leader, Gilbane Building Company
Stephanie S. Koenninger, Senior Vice President, Client Experience, STV Inc.
Chanel Lubin, P.E., Project Manager, AECOM

FORUM CLOSING SESSION

BUILDING YOUR CAREER, MANAGING MILESTONES

Join us in the theater for AIM’s final session – a discussion of strategies to grow your career and at the same time manage personal milestones. Hear from construction industry leaders – emerging and established – who share their experiences and solutions to navigating changing family and work circumstances.

This session is interactive. You will have an opportunity to share your real-life experiences and suggestions for how the building industry needs to evolve to adapt to dynamic work and family demands.

CO-MODERATORS
Denise Berger, FAIA, FRICS, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, AECOM East Region
Peter Rescigno, Executive Secretary, New York Electrical Contractors Association, Inc.

PANELISTS
Deborah Bradley, President, Deborah Bradley Construction & Management Services
Erica Wang, Project Director, AECOM Tishman
Monica Pena, Project Manager, Sweet Group
Angelita Provvisiero, President, Nola Construction Inc.
Sylvie Straus Figueroa, Partner, Rothberg, Straus & Contrubis, LLC
Anthony Campolo, Partner, Construction Practice - White Plains, CohnReznick