SMS Summit 2024

EVENT DETAILS

The Menger Hotel
SAN Antonio, TX

April 2-4, 2024

SUMMIT HOURS

April 2, Tuesday: 8 – 5

April 3, Wednesday: 8 – 5

April 4, Thursday: 8 – 3

CENTRAL TIME ZONE

Conference Location

Grand Ballroom

Coffee, Tea, & Water Provided

Happy Hour Social April 3rd @ 4pm

Discounted Room Rates

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TUESDAY, APRIL 2

TRAINING DAY

Morning Sessions

8:00 – 8:30
Coffee & Networking

8:30 – 11:30
BUILDER Training – Inside the Assessor
The Million and a Half Things You Need to Remember
Paul Schowalter (DIGON)

Synopsis: This session will cover the basics for assessors: Sectioning the inventory, preparing for inspections, Direct Ratings, Age-Based Ratings, what to look for, comments, photos, and Section Details as well as how to review your data for quality assurance. The focus will be on the mindset and thought process rather than the clicks. • Assessor 101 Training • Data Quality Assurance

11:30-1:00
BREAK FOR LUNCH (Independent)

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 4:00
ESMS Training Kurt Sorensen (DIGON)

Synopsis: The basics of ESMS Facilities domain. This will include inventory and assessment overviews with key attention to terminology changes that are required for this new system. Additional time will be spent highlighting new capabilities around permissions, document management, and logical groupings. • Overview • Terminology Updates • New Capabilities

4:00 – 5:00
Open Networking (Foyer)

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3

SUMMIT DAY 2

Morning Sessions

8:00 – 8:30
Coffee & Networking

8:30 – 9:00
Welcome: Agenda Review & State of BUILDER

9:00 – 10:15
ESMS Progress & Updates
Matt Walters (ERDC-CERL)

10:30 – 11:30
Tale of Two BUILDERS: Case Comparison (Navy vs. Marine Corps)

Presenter: Stantec – Robin St. Charles | Doug Barnhard

Panel: Jon Crittenden (NAVFC), James Taylor (Marine Corps)

Synopsis: A common vision among facilities professionals using BUILDER is integrating the BUILDER process into their maintenance work management processes. In this case study, we will look at two organizations, the Navy and the Marine Corps, and their approaches to process and systems integration. Both have long histories with BUILDER. The Navy has worked to integrate BUILDER into their maintenance processes from the outset of their implementation. The Marine Corps worked to establish a functioning BUILDER process and is now in the planning stages of integrating it into their maintenance processes. We will compare these two approaches from an outside participant’s perspective.

11:30-1:00
BREAK FOR LUNCH (Independent)

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 2:00
Facility Sustainment Investment Strategies (Panel)

Moderator: Joe Allison – Alpha
Panel: NNSA (Julie Krebs), NAVFC (Jon Crittenden), USDA (Tyler Jones), Air Force (Bil Hawkins)

Synopsis: This session will explore facility sustainment investment models from multiple agencies and the usage of BUILDER data to support those models.

2:00 – 3:00
BUILDER Vision – Using Army Vantage to unleash the power of BUILDER

Presenters: Jacobs: Frank Mondo, Jared Huffman, Zachary Carper

Synopsis: Federal Agencies face increased mission demands on constrained resources. A plethora of data is readily available at the facility level for the Department of Defense users but falls short of providing an integrated prioritization for decision makers based on operational risk. Using Army Vantage to unlock BUILDER’s power provides a better real time sight picture for data-driven decisions. The presentation will provide participants a current look at how the Army is using emerging technologies available within the Army enterprise (e.g. Army Vantage) to provide decision-makers and installation level BUILDER end-users the tools needed to improve the existing Army BUILDER process that will benefit other agencies and services.

3:15 – 4:00
SMS & AI Innovations
Presenters: DIGON: Kurt Sorensen, Chris Piekarz, Gizmo

4:00 – 6:00
SUMMIT SOCIAL
(Foyer) Bar & Food Hosted by WSP

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

SUMMIT DAY 3

Morning Sessions

8:00 – 9:30
Light Breakfast (provided) & Capabilities Showcase

9:30 – 10:30
Bad BCI, Good FCI. Normal or Abnormal?

Presenter: Steve Desrosiers (Alpha)

Synopsis: This presentation will take a deep dive into the BCI and FCI and their relationship. While the dive will be in depth, the explanations will be based on a concept that all attendees are familiar with, school grades. The presentation will first describe how school grades can be an accurate metaphor for both the BCI and FCI calculations. Then the calculations will be compared to understand their relationship. Finally, data from real buildings will be used to validate the findings.

10:45 – 11:30
Using Enterprise Sustainment Management System (ESMS) for Post Disaster Assessment, Using BUILDER as a case study

Presenter: TetraTech – Jacene Witzel & Sarah Deane

11:30-1:00
BREAK FOR LUNCH (Independent)

Afternoon Sessions

1:00 – 1:40
Keeping BUILDER Green
Presenter: Tyler Jones (USDA)

1:40 – 2:50
ESMS Migration Workshop – Let’s Get Ready to Get Ready

Moderator: Paul Schowalter (DIGON)

Panel: Scott Lehmkuhl (DHA), Julie Krebs (NNSA), Bil Hawkins (Air Force), John Dulin (DeCA)

Synopsis: The move to ESMS won’t happen with just a few clicks. There will be several things to revise (scope of work language, assessment guides, training materials, etc.) and several things to do (backups, data confirmation, testing, and troubleshooting, etc.). Let’s workshop some ideas to get you ready.

2:50 – 3:00
Closings