Calendar of Events for FM Professionals

CaGBC’s annual Building Lasting Change conference and expo is billed as Canada’s largest green building event. From engineers, architects, and designers, to builders, manufacturers, policy advisors and real estate decision makers, BLC is where Canada’s building sector is inspired to do more, go further, and aim higher in sustainability efforts. For Canada to meet its climate goals, the building sector must focus on decarbonization as part of their green building strategies. BLC’s targeted sessions will encourage active participation as we uncover and demystify the solutions needed to significantly reduce carbon emissions in Canada’s large buildings. Recognized experts will share their knowledge, examine practical solutions, and explore the policies, standards, and strategies needed for decarbonization. Topics include decarbonizing the value chain, strategies for resiliency and risk mitigation, the impact of standards, codes and carbon valuation on decision making, and accessing capital to accelerate retrofits. Also featured are green building tours, networking opportunities and a Gala Dinner and Celebration. Attendees can join in person at the LEED Gold certified JW Marriott Parq in Vancouver or online as a virtual attendee.

CaGBC’s Building Lasting Change (BLC) 2023 (green building)

Titled “Growth Through Infrastructure and Opportunity” for 2023, this 95th annual event traditionally attracts over 2,000 airport and aviation-related professionals, from some 850 large, medium, and small hub airports, to source resources and solutions to help elevate their airports’ operations and achieve results. The conference offers education sessions in a variety of formats, with CEUs available and complete, up-to-date information on rules and regulations. An extensive exhibition showcases cutting-edge products and services to save airports money and keep travelers happy. Invaluable networking events are offered.

AAAE 2023 Conference and Exposition (airports)

The renowned Hospital, Outpatient Facilities & Medical Office Buildings Summits have hosted over 5,000 attendees in 25 major healthcare markets over the past five years. “Healthcare Hits the Reset Button” will cover the planning, real estate, design, construction and operation of Hospitals | Clinics | ASCs | MOBs | Retail | Telehealth | Hospital @ Home | Mobile Care | Non-Clinical | Academic & Research Facilities at healthcare locations in cities nationwide.

Professionals who own, operate, design, build and finance medical buildings will explore how healthcare design, construction, operations and regulations have changed during the past two years. Examine the trends and technologies reshaping existing and future healthcare facilities. Gain valuable insights you can put to work the next day. A Summit summary/recap and presentation materials will be provided to all attendees.

Presented by CRDMI and its educational partner AMFP, the summits address key influencers and decision makers, including senior healthcare leaders, architects, designers, engineers, developers, contractors, facilities managers (FMs), security directors, real estate brokers, property managers, attorneys, investors and lenders. See detailed sessions and speakers, CEU certifications (5 CEU hours: AIA HSW | AHA | CHFM | CHC | CHESP | Engineers PDH), and programming information for the Chicago Summit online.

For Recaps & Takeaways from Past Summits, visit SquareFootage.net.

The McMorrow Reports Healthcare is a Media Partner for the Summits.

Hospital, Outpatient Facilities & Medical Office Buildings Summit: Chicago

Titled “Securing a Sustainable Future” for 2023, AEE East brings together energy professionals from commercial, industrial, institutional and governmental sectors to learn about the latest energy-saving strategies, products, services and technologies for a sustainable energy future. Join your peers to discuss energy management, efficiency, automation, data analytics, policy, supply, procurement, resiliency, sustainability, and more, with multiple opportunities to network with peers, potential vendors and business partners. The conference opens with leaders from the region speaking on important energy topics. They provide insight into their company’s operations, what it takes to lead, or how they innovate. Over 60 qualified speakers present case studies, application success stories, innovations in technology, energy service improvements and much more. Each session is designed to give you objective, valid information you can apply to your business projects as soon as you leave AEE East. CEU / PDH / AEE Credits are available. The Technology Expo features a wide range of industry-leading companies presenting energy-efficient products, energy management services, and solutions. Register for free to attend the two-day Expo. Optional Special Events include the networking reception, the local AEE Chapter Luncheon, or the CWEEL Breakfast. Attendees can also network at the Expo Hall luncheons or attend a free Exhibitor Forum presentation.

AEE East Energy Conference & Expo 2023

AIA’s annual architecture and design conference and expo A’23 is where the AEC industry gathers to define the future, design it, and connect across industries to build it. The designed world is getting more complex. A’23 delivers the path forward. Acclaimed architects, designers, building product manufacturers, and allied professionals deliver best-in-class CE. Earn your HSW, GBCI, RIBA & AIA LUs for the year! Discover what’s new, next and cutting edge at the Architecture Expo.

• Seminars: 165+ seminars explore the topics, projects and trends that are redefining the industry.
• Practicums: Develop practical knowledge and skills through 20+ workshop-style sessions, free with registration.
• Tours: Explore San Francisco’s iconic architecture through 110+ expertly curated, architect-led, conference-only tours.
• Expo CE: Learn about new solutions from leading building product manufacturers through 60+ sessions on the Expo floor.
• The Architecture Expo: The Expo is the networking hub for the AEC industry, and it’s packed with 500+ brands, thousands of experts, the newest products and materials, and pioneering project solutions you won’t find anywhere else.

AIA Conference on Architecture 2023 (A’23)

A premier event exclusively focused on the development, operation and expansion of industrial real estate, I.CON is billed as the nation’s largest gathering of industrial real estate professionals. Hear the big ideas, trends and new technologies in industrial development from leaders in the business, and make new professional contacts in an enthusiastic networking environment.

I.CON East 2023 (industrial real estate)

This 55^th annual major commercial interiors event attracts architecture, design and FM professionals and specifiers from around the world who design, plan, or manage any type of commercial interior, to experience product innovations and developing industry macro-trends. A launch pad for innovation, NeoCon offers ideas and introductions that shape the built environment today and into the future. The exhibition comprises nearly 1 million sq. ft. of exhibition space, covering a spectrum of vertical markets including workplace, healthcare, hospitality, retail, education, public space and government. Over 400 of the industry’s major manufacturers as well as hot emerging companies will showcase thousands of game-changing new products and services in categories including furniture, fabrics, flooring, interior building products, interior finishes and technology. The exhibition of NeoCon is complemented by first-class educational programming featuring daily keynotes and array of accredited seminars and special programs. In addition, NeoCon will offer a series of CEU virtual programming throughout the year.

The Best of NeoCon awards program, held annually since 1990, continues honoring outstanding new products from NeoCon exhibiting companies. The Best of NeoCon 2023 will feature entries in 54 product categories evaluated by a diverse jury of leading architects, designers, specifiers and facility managers with expertise spanning commercial, healthcare, education and hospitality sectors. The product submissions site opens March 1, 2023. Winners will be announced at an awards event when NeoCon 2023 officially opens the morning of June 12 at theMART. Eileen McMorrow, editor-in-chief, The McMorrow Reports, continues as the director of The Best of NeoCon for 2023.

NeoCon 2023 (commercial interiors)

ISSA Show Canada 2023 is the result of a partnership between ISSA and MediaEdge’s Real Estate Management Industry (REMI) Network. In an effort to further unite the industry and raise the bar to achieve healthier and sustainable buildings, ISSA Show Canada promises property and cleaning professionals from across the country a firsthand look at the innovative technologies available in the industry. It also provides an outstanding platform for informed insight on best practices, industry certifications and training, as well as educational programming that touches upon relevant and emerging topics within the Canadian facility and cleaning markets. The collaboration creates a forum for facility, property and operations managers, as well as environmental services executives and facility managers in the healthcare, education, government, hospitality and building service sectors to meet leading suppliers of cleaning products, services and technologies; keep up with industry trends; and share experiences with industry peers to benefit their buildings, staff and tenants.

The leading Canadian Cleaning Exposition focuses on educating and inspiring the industry following the transformation experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic. No longer just a sundry duty, the focus on cleaning and disinfection has transcended all industries who have the common goal of keeping facility occupants and workers in offices, industrial plants, retail facilities, schools, hospitals, long-term care homes and residential buildings SAFE! ISSA Show Canada is committed to ensuring facilities are kept clean, healthy, sustainable and operating smoothly by highly educated and motivated cleaning professionals, and offers ISSA CMI Certification training

The REMI Show ‘23 (Real Estate Management Industry) is geared toward building owners and property, facility and operations managers. The event serves as a platform to connect, while delivering practical and timely information to Canadian real estate professionals and their valued service providers.

ISSA Show Canada; REMI Show (cleaning, FM, real estate)

Titled “Stay on the Right Path in the Smokies” for 2023, this annual conference focuses on equipping church facilities professionals for the unique care and management challenges they face through continuing technical education, advisement of current industry/product trends, leadership development and peer support. The event addresses leadership, team-building, the worship environment, church security, budgets, and other trending worship facilities topics. The members-only, family-oriented event features general sessions, small groups on trending topics, and more.

NACFM Annual Conference 2023 (worship facilities)

The 2023 ASHRAE Annual Conference will again be a hybrid experience, offering both in-person and virtual options for attendees. The in-person conference will be held in Tampa. Virtual attendees will have access, in real time, to 10 livestreamed technical sessions, with technical session recordings and downloadable conference papers available on-demand after the conference for one year. The conference will include tours, social events, award recognitions and a Technical Program featuring more than 90 sessions on seven conference tracks. Earn Professional Development Hour (PDH) Credits by attending sessions listed in the Technical Program, including forums and other one-hour sessions. State PDHs, AIA LUs and LEED AP credits are awarded for select sessions. Technical sessions will focus on the urgency of addressing the climate crisis, including measures to reduce human impact on the natural environment and strategies for making the built environment more resilient and sustainable.

Conference tracks addressing climate change are as follows:

• Pathway to Net Zero and Decarbonization — Highlights case studies, research, tools, and strategies to reduce carbon impact and achieve net zero energy communities.
• Future Proofing the Built Environment — Focuses on innovative technologies and strategies to reimagine the relationship with the built environment in the wake of weather extremes affected by climate change, as well as energy supply disruptions and shortages, methods of designing, constructing and operating buildings and HVAC&R systems for resilience and sustainability.
• Research Summit — Features active research, and the exchange of research findings, critical to the development of the HVAC&R industry and built environment. The track includes a partnership with ASHRAE’s archival journal, Science and Technology for the Built Environment.

Remaining tracks are:

• Building Automation and Control Systems
• Professional Development and Education
• Fundamentals & Applications
• HVAC&R Systems and Equipment Fundamentals & Applications

The plenary session will feature a keynote presentation from David Dylan Thomas, author of Design for Cognitive Bias and creator and host of The Cognitive Bias Podcast. ASHRAE Learning Institute (ALI) will offer full-day seminars and half-day courses, and ASHRAE certification exams will be administered during the week. The Society will conduct business, committee and technical meetings in the weeks leading up to and during the conference. Early Bird registration ends April 30.

ASHRAE 2023 Annual Conference

Commercial real estate isn’t slowing down — and staying relevant means staying ahead of the changes on the horizon. From groundbreaking building technologies to new occupant expectations, the next phase of hybrid work environments to promising decarbonization efforts, the BOMA International Conference & Expo helps you keep up on the things that matter, delivering what you need to keep advancing with your industry. You may have heard terms like “sustainability” and “flexible spaces” for a while now, but what those ideas look like in practice today is very different from a year ago — and the industry will continue to transform, on all fronts. The BOMA 2023 International Conference delivers the insights and skill-building opportunities that property professionals need to not just keep up but stay on the cutting edge. Explore topics relevant to your goals (for your property and your career) with more than 40 education sessions presented by forward-thinking experts, get reinvigorated for the road ahead with special keynotes and learn from your peers at networking events — all at the conference presented by the industry’s trusted information source.

BOMA 2023 International Conference & Expo

The renowned Hospital, Outpatient Facilities & Medical Office Buildings Summits have hosted over 5,000 attendees in 25 major healthcare markets over the past five years. “Healthcare Hits the Reset Button” will cover the planning, real estate, design, construction and operation of Hospitals | Clinics | ASCs | MOBs | Retail | Telehealth | Hospital @ Home | Mobile Care | Non-Clinical | Academic & Research Facilities at healthcare locations in cities nationwide.

Professionals who own, operate, design, build and finance medical buildings will explore how healthcare design, construction, operations and regulations have changed during the past two years. Examine the trends and technologies reshaping existing and future healthcare facilities. Gain valuable insights you can put to work the next day. A Summit summary/recap and presentation materials will be provided to all attendees.

Presented by CRDMI and its educational partner AMFP, the summits address key influencers and decision makers, including senior healthcare leaders, architects, designers, engineers, developers, contractors, facilities managers (FMs), security directors, real estate brokers, property managers, attorneys, investors and lenders. See detailed sessions and speakers, CEU certifications (5 CEU hours: AIA HSW | AHA | CHFM | CHC | CHESP | Engineers PDH), and programming information for the Houston Summit online.

For Recaps & Takeaways from Past Summits, visit SquareFootage.net.

The McMorrow Reports Healthcare is a Media Partner for the Summits.

Hospital, Outpatient Facilities & Medical Office Buildings Summit: Houston

ArchLIGHT Summit is a new commercial and architectural lighting event dedicated to delivering a dynamic, interactive, inclusive and collaborative experience for lighting designers and specifiers, interior designers and architects. Created and hosted by Dallas Market Center, ArchLIGHT Summit will showcase new products from leading commercial brands reflecting the latest lighting trends and technologies, combined with a full slate of accredited educational and hands-on experiential sessions facilitated by the sharpest minds in design and lighting. Dallas Market Center is already known as “the home of lighting” for its 1 million square feet of inspirational permanent showrooms that encompass Lightovation, touted as the largest residential lighting show in North America. ArchLIGHT Summit will combine these resources with a temporary marketplace of commercial lighting lines for a comprehensive collection of solutions for any project. Admission to ArchLIGHT Summit exhibits is free (with pre-show registration) for qualified attendees.

Association Sponsors now include: American Institute of Architects Dallas Chapter, American Lighting Association, Illuminating Engineering Society Dallas section, Light Justice, Lighting Controls Association, National Association of Innovative Lighting Distributors (NAILD), National Lighting Bureau, North American Coalition of Lighting Industry Queers, and Women in Lighting + Design international and local chapters. For the second year in a row, the September 19-20 ArchLIGHT Summit will overlap and co-locate with NAILD’s annual Convention, scheduled for September 17-19, as well as Dallas Design Week, September 18-21, which welcomes hundreds of interior designers.

ArchLIGHT Summit 2023

IFMA World Workplace is a comprehensive facilities management (FM) event for all facility professionals working in the built environment. Whether you’re a facilities manager, property manager, work in human resources, construction, or are a vendor or service provider to the FM industry, World Workplace offers thought leadership and education on facilities and how to manage them, as well as networking and lead-generating opportunities. Educational sessions address cutting-edge issues and trends along with proven techniques and best practices, in several tracks and at all knowledge levels, with CEUs and CFM maintenance points available, as well as training for IFMA’s three credentials: CFM, FMP, and SFP. The comprehensive expo provides the latest products and solutions from hundreds of companies for every facet of every built environment, with product demonstrations for practical application of FM tools. Awards of Excellence are presented, and back-of-house facility tours provide insight.

FMLink and The McMorrow Reports are Participating Partners for World Workplace 2023.

IFMA World Workplace 2023 Conference and Expo

A Digital Built Environment Institute event co-sponsored by AEC Science & Technology, BILT AEC-ST Federal is in the heart of America’s AEC Infrastructure Revitalization. With the addition of the BILT conference from the Digital Built Environment Institute (DBEI) to AEC Science & Technology’s (AEC-ST) line-up, the event will offer a cutting-edge slate of emerging technology for the important design, building, infrastructure, construction and facilities management (FM) marketplaces. BILT AEC-ST Federal will feature an extensive conference program focused on:

• BIM, Interoperability & Integrated Project Delivery
• Building Performance, Energy & Health/Safety/Welfare
• Emerging Technologies, Drones, Mobile Solutions & 3D
• Facility, Asset & Life-cycle Management
• Green/Sustainable Design & Construction
• Project, Financial & Construction Management
• Smart Cities & Connected Communities
• Specs, Codes, Standards, & Document Management
• Sustainable Sites, Mapping & Infrastructure

BILT AEC-ST Federal 2023 (digital built environment)