Explore the Agenda
9:00 am Check-In & Networking
Track 1: Emerging Programs – Building a Quality Program
10:00 am Workshop A: Securing Firmwide Buy-In to Quality Processes to Improve Collaboration and Drive Project Success
- Uncovering practical strategies to inspire enthusiasm for quality processes across all levels
- Discovering communication techniques that build clarity and trust between architects, designers and project managers
- Developing roll-out approaches that align leadership and project teams behind a shared culture of accountability
Track 2: Established Programs – Driving Consistency at Scale
10:00 am Workshop B: Unifying Quality Programs Across Regions to Improve Firmwide Delivery
- Aligning regional and office specific quality practices under a single framework to balance local flexibility with consistent delivery standards
- Improving communication and knowledge sharing between distributed teams to elevate performance across all locations
- Measuring and maintaining consistency in quality programs across diverse project types, markets and locations while sustaining innovation
12:00 pm Networking Lunch
1:00 pm Workshop C: Reframing Quality as Organizational Excellence to Build a Culture of Continuous Improvement
- Embedding improvement and accountability across every stage of project delivery
- Learning how to build processes that empower project leads to document, verify and standardize best practices
- Exploring strategies for aligning technical quality frameworks with real world client demands and hybrid design work realities
1:00 pm Workshop D: Embedding Delegation, Standards & Collaborative Reviews to Provide Accountability and Ensure Design Quality Across Teams
- Delegating design responsibilities with intention and encouraging quality awareness
- Implementing and upholding firmwide standards across disciplines and project types to ensure consistency and clarity
- Replacing isolated markups with collaborative review sessions in real time
3:00 pm Afternoon Refreshments & Networking
3:30 pm Workshop E: Leveraging AI Agents & Machine Learning to Automate Quality Workflows
- Exploring how AI agents and machine learning can be embedded within quality management systems to detect risk and drive improvements in QA performance
- Gaining practical insights into creating custom AI agents, that transform manual reviews into self-learning automated workflows
- Knowing how to evaluate and partner with credible AI suppliers, by separating genuine capability from overhyped claims