Explore the Agenda
8:00 am Check-In & Networking
9:00 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Developing Quality Leaders
9:10 am Building a Robust Talent Pipeline to Future Proof Your Organization & Strengthen Quality Leadership
- Defining the specific experience, requirements and mindset needed to deliver quality
- Strengthening mid-level leadership and workforce motivation by creating a supportive culture
- Exploring innovative tools that optimize staffing, streamline workflows and reduce pressure on overstretched teams
9:50 am Panel: Bridging Generational Gaps & Applying Knowledge Transfer to Sustain Long Term Design Excellence
- Establishing frameworks to accelerate how new hires adapt to your firm’s quality standards
- Empowering senior leaders to share experience-based insights to younger professionals
- Recommunicating core design principles and processes in ways that resonate with an evolving workforce
10:50 am Speed Networking
11:20 am Morning Refreshments
Maximizing Client Satisfaction
11:50 am Balancing Speed & Quality to Maintain Standards Under Accelerated Project Timelines
- Identifying strategies to uphold quality when fast-tracked schedules compress traditional design milestones
- Aligning stakeholders at each milestone of a project to avoid costly rework
- Leveraging experience, collaboration and early design phase integration with construction teams
12:20 pm Facilitated Discussion: Collaborating Early with Clients to Maintain Quality Amid Changing Requirements
- Establishing clear, visual communication tools early in the design phase to help clients understand the impact of change requests on schedule, cost and quality
- Integrating clients, architects, engineers and contractors from day one to align expectations
- Defining quality checkpoints that accommodate client driven adjustments while maintaining project momentum
1:00 pm Networking Lunch
Delivering Smarter Designs
2:00 pm Evolving Constructability Reviews Beyond Checklists to Catch Issues Before They Reach the Field & Preserve the Bottom Line
- Redefining constructability reviews from box-ticking exercises to proactive deep dives
- Incorporating independent reviewers unfamiliar with the project to uncover blind spots that internal teams overlook
- Developing scalable, firmwide review processes to ensure constructability checks keep pace with growing project demands
2:30 pm Panel: Integrating Quality Requirements into Design & Construction Workflows to Minimize Rework & Risk
- Involving construction early in the design process to align on constructability, sequence and budget
- Standardizing how quality requirements are written into technical specifications
- Defining procedures within specifications to strengthen compliance throughout construction delivery
3:30 pm Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
Driving Firmwide Consistency
4:00 pm Scaling Large Firm Quality Frameworks to Build Cost Effective, Repeatable Systems for Smaller Firms
- Translating complex quality programs from large firms into frameworks smaller firms can realistically implement
- Leveraging low cost, accessible tools to create repeatable QA processes that drive consistency across projects
- Adopting scalable data and training approaches that maintain performance structures, without requiring dedicated quality teams
4:30 pm Displaying Information Easily to Engage & Educate the Next Generation of Designers
- Transforming written resources into short, visually engaging content to relay information easily
- Developing learning libraries that make education accessible and scalable across teams
- Embedding a culture of continuous learning to help emerging designers upskill faster and align with expectations of your firm