| 8:00am–8:45am | Keynote Presentation: New Strategic Alliances and Partnerships
Oren Harari, Professor, Graduate School of Business, the University of San Francisco |
| 8:45am–10:00am | General Session Panel: Acquisition Teams and Tools—Better, Smarter, More?
Pat Garcia, Vice President of Contracts, Intelligence and Information Systems Business, Raytheon Company; Cristina Chaplain, Director, Acquisition and Sourcing Management, GAO; Dr. Francis C. Spampinato, CPCM, Chief Acquisition Officer, Department of Energy; and Laura Auletta, Policy Analyst, OFPP, OMD
Spampinato Presentation |
| 10:00am–10:45am | Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall (Sponsored by BVTI) |
| Track Sessions | 10:45am–11:45am | 11:45am–1:30pm | 1:30pm–2:00pm | 2:10pm–3:10pm | 3:20pm–4:20pm | 4:30pm–5:30pm |
| Alternate Disputes Resolution | 104
Advanced Negotiation Techniques—Dealing with Negotiation Fears | Lunch in Exhibit Hall (Sponsored by IBM) | Dessert and Coffee in Exhibit Hall (Sponsored by BVTI) | 105
Keeping Them Honest: Drafting Binding and Effective Arbitration Clauses | 106
ADR: Face to Face or Cyberspace | 107
How ADR Resolves Construction Disputes |
| Commercial Contracting | 204
Why Service Levels Don't Work | 205
Can Contracting Be "Leaned"? | 206
World-Class Procurement Performance | 207
Maximize Business Terms Through Enterprise Contract Management (ECM) for Dramatic Business Results |
| Contract Basics | 304
Value-Added Contract Management: Earning Trust and Bringing Value | 305
Basics of Subcontracting | 306
The Basics of Export Control: Raise Your Awareness
Presentation Notes | 307
Contracting for Services |
| Department of Energy (DOE) | 504
How DOE Assesses its Acquisition System under OMB Circular A-123 Using the GAO Framework | 505
It's Not Just Training: The World of DOE's Acquisition Career Management Program | 506
Introduction to Energy Savings Performance Contracting (ESPCs) | 507
Environmental Management Contracting—Addressing the Legacy of the Cold War |
| Executive and Leadership 1 | 604
Presentation by Vic Avetissian, Fellow, President, Avetissian and Associates, LLC | 605
Presentation by Bruce Sullivan, Vice President, Visa Inc. | 606
Presentation by Steve Grumbach, Director, Procurement, Battelle Memorial Institute | 607
Presentation by David Drabkin, Fellow, Acting Chief Acquisition Officer, GSA |
| Executive and Leadership 2 | 704
Presentation by Karen Pica, Director, Federal Acquisition Institute | 705
Presentation by Steve Kelman, Weatherhead Professor of Public Management, Harvard University | 706
Presentation by Theresa Everett, Senior Procurement Executive and Dan Nielson, Deputy DNI Senior Procurement Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence | 707
Presentation by Steven Schooner, CPCM, Fellow, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School |
| Federal Government Contracting | 804
Government Property for Contracting Professionals | 805
Subcontractor Issues Under T&M Contracts | 806
A Blueprint for Success: The Contractor Code of Ethics and Business Conduct | 807
Partnering for Success: Getting Contract and Project Management Together on the Same Page |
| Human Capital and Career Management | 1004
Service Acquisition Mall Workshop | 1005
Keeping Your Company’s Key Assets: Its Employees | 1006
Preparing and Educating the New Acquisition Workforce | 1007
The Contracts Professional as Entrepreneur |
| Knowledge Management | 1204
Knowledge, People, and Risk | 1205
Knowledge Enabling Tools: Wikis, Blogs and Other Ways to Connect the Workforce to Share What They Know | 1206
Reducing Risk in USAF Operations Through Collaboration | 1207
Export Control of Data Under the ITAR |
| Legal (Contract Law) | 1304
Ethics and Compliance in Government Contracting | 1305
Service Contract Act and Davis Bacon Act: Compliance and Audit Survival Tips | 1306
Critical Decisions of GAO, BCAs, and the Courts in 2007 | 1307
Protecting Proprietary Information in the Federal Workspace |
| Performance-Based Service Contracting | 1404
Skills and Processes Necessary to Successfully Implement Performance-Based Management In an Acquisition | 1405
Project Management for Services Acquisition | 1406
Managed Services | 1407
Contract Management and Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans: The Why and How of Measuring Contracts
Presentation Notes |
| Project Management | 1504
Project Management for the Contracts Professional | 1505
Project Orion: An Acquisition Overview of NASA’s Next Human Spacecraft, the Crew Exploration Vehicle | 1506
The Value of Risk Management in Acquisition Planning | 1507
Project Control—What is it? And why the Project Controller’s Role is Important to the Contract Manager |
| Small Business | 1704
DOD Small Business Executive Panel | 1705
The Demise of the Small Business Program | 1706
Contract Negotiations… Funding… Invoicing… and Audits… CONNECT THE DOTS | 1707
Small Business is Everybody's Business: What You Need to Know Inside and Outside the Federal Government |
| Supply-Chain Management and Logistics | 2004
Legal Process Outsourcing, Implications for Contracts Management | 2005
Strategic Supplier Management | 2006
Building a Spend Analysis Program | 2007
Strategic Contracting |
| 9:45am–2:00pm | Exhibit Hall Open
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| 7:00pm–10:00pm | Hofbräuhaus* |
