Industry Advisory Board Meeting 2015

Thursday, October 15th
The Jerry Yang & Akiko Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building (Y2E2), Room 292A

Agenda

8:00	-- Continental Breakfast --
8:30	Welcome - Martin Fischer CIFE updates including strategic issues (see below)
9:40	Member updates (successes, opportunities, challenges)
10:00	-- Break --
10:30	Member updates
12:00	-- Lunch --
13:00	Discussion of strategic issues in light of member updates
13:30	Breakout group to develop strategic opportunities for the CIFE community
14:30	-- Break --
14:50	Presentation and discussion of strategic opportunities
16:00	Prioritization of strategic opportunities
16:30	Conclusion, next steps, calendar for 2016
17:00	-- Social Hour --
18:00	Transfer to dinner
18:15	-- No-host dinner at Arte Ristorante, 473 University Avenue, Palo Alto --

Key update topics and strategic issues:

Focus on buildability, usability, operability, and sustainability objectives for integrated facility engineering (review 2014 call for seed proposals)
VDC certificate program outsourcing
VDC 2.0 certificate program focused on computational and multi-dimensional design optimization
1-week education program for top construction industry executives in collaboration with the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Role of big data and data science
Facility management and operations focus
Sustainable Urban Systems initiative
VDC software