IFMA Utah – Spring Conference

7:15 am – 8:00 am                   Registration/Check-in

7:15 am – 8:00 am                   BREAKFAST: Continental Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:15 am                   Opening and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Dean Kashiwagi

9:15 am – 9:30 am                   Visit Vendor Booths

9:30 am – 10:15 am                  Breakout Sessions #1

10:15 am – 10:30 am                Visit Vendor Booths

10:30 am – 11:15 am                Breakout Sessions #2

11:15 am – 12:00 pm               Visit Vendor Booths

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm                 LUNCH: Keynote Speaker, Sam Bracken (sambracken.com)

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm                   Breakout Sessions #3

2:00 pm – 2:40 pm                   Vendor Prize Drawings / IFMA Bucks Auction & Conference Wrap-up

Dean T. Kashiwagi, PhD, PE, IFMA Fellow Director, Professor, Professional Engineer

Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Performance Based Studies Research Group (PBSRG)

A thought leader in the facility management (FM) and construction industries for more than two decades, he’s a respected adviser and mentor within the association, the public sector, and academic circles. He is a past recipient of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA)’s Distinguished Educator award (2009). He is credited with establishing FM programs at six universities around the world. This includes receiving a Fulbright Scholar award to share state-of-the-art facility and project management research and practices with the people of Botswana, Africa. Dean’s groundbreaking FM Model of the Future graduate program into practice at ASU and was instrumental in the investment of $100 million in the institution for outsourcing food services. A powerful force in the Greater Phoenix Chapter of IFMA, as well as Arizona State University, he has championed programs to advance the FM profession, and continues to prepare the next generation of FMs.