Calendar of Events for FM Professionals

Major facilities management (FM) show in Panama for Latin America, VIRTUAL for 2021, titled “Knowledge – Practice – Delivery.” Site in Spanish.

FACMAN LatAm Virtual Show 2021

The Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease strives to reduce the overall occurrence of Legionnaires’ disease. While we most often hear about outbreaks, sporadic cases of Legionnaires’ disease comprise the vast majority of all cases. In fact, 96% of Legionnaires’ cases are individual and not associated with an outbreak of two or more cases from a common location and timeframe. Unfortunately, individual cases do not receive the investigations, media coverage, or policy response that outbreaks do, despite accounting for virtually all cases each year. The only meaningful way to reduce cases of Legionnaires’ disease is to better understand what drives sporadic Legionnaires’ disease and address by prioritizing root cause water management awareness, practices, and policies. The free, virtual conference is scheduled for October 19, 2021, from 1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT. Participants can expect to gain a greater appreciation and understanding of sporadic Legionnaires’ disease, the current gaps in research and response to sporadic Legionnaires’ disease, and root-cause prevention approaches that seek to address these individual cases — as well as outbreaks.

Turning the Tide on Legionnaires’: Tackling the 96% [APLD WEBINAR]

Uptime Institute’s comprehensive 11^th annual survey’s findings reveal significant growth but also increasing complexity and challenges for owners and operators of mission-critical digital infrastructure, and for the suppliers that serve them. Uptime Institute will discuss this year’s survey results and reveal what operators around the world are thinking, doing and planning in the areas of resiliency, sustainability, efficiency, staffing, using the cloud, edge, densities and new technology adoption.

Register for the upcoming presentation in several convenient languages and time zones:

The Annual Survey report will be available for download beginning September 16th online and via the Uptime Institute BrightTALK channel.

Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2021 [WEBINAR]

(#2 of 3 Webinars) Local governments are increasingly exploring new requirements for improving the energy performance of buildings in the community through policy tools such as Building Performance Standards (BPS). In Webinar 2, USDN invites community-based organizations and frontline communities to learn more about the BPS Framework and implications for community, including potential benefits and harms. To support community organizations in engaging with cities on a BPS-type policy, the group will discuss different components of BPS policy development and how communities can engage to center community priorities.

• Webinar 1: Building Performance Standards for Local Governments: Thursday, September 16 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM Eastern
• Webinar 2: Building Performance Standards for Community: Thursday, October 21 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM Eastern
• Webinar 3: Building Performance Standards for Industry Professionals: Thursday, November 18 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM Eastern

Building Performance Standards (BPS) for Local Governments [USDN Webinar 2]

HCD 2021 focuses on how the design and operations of responsibly built hospital and clinic environments directly impact the safety, operation, clinical outcomes, and financial success of healthcare facilities now and into the future. It convenes over 4,000 professionals from across the nation who are involved in the design, construction and management of healthcare facilities to learn and help shape the future of healthcare facility design. The multi-track agenda offers 100+ educational sessions with the latest research, trends, and strategies, including a Facilities and Project Management track and Technology and Innovation track, along with pre-conference workshops, with CEUs available. The event also features networking sessions, facility tours, and an exhibit hall, with 200+ exhibitors showcasing the latest products and services.

Healthcare Design Expo + Conference (HCD 2021) (also FM & PM)

LightFair is a premier annual architectural and commercial lighting trade show and conference where light, technology and design converge. This year’s event will feature an in-person conference with a livestream component at the same price. LightFair alternates between East Coast and West Coast sites, normally convening some 28,000 lighting designers, specifiers, architects and engineers from 80 countries, with numerous networking opportunities available. For 2021, expert speakers from diverse disciplines will offer 40 accredited sessions at all levels, covering a broad spectrum of educational topics in six tracks. Over 500 exhibitors from the US and abroad will present new advancements in lighting and technology.

LIGHTFAIR International (LFI 2021) (lighting design, products, tech) [HYBRID]

CleanExpo Moscow | PULIRE, organized by MVK with the assistance from the ISSA Pulire network, is a key event of the cleaning industry in Russia and CIS countries. Visitors discover industry trends and innovations, connect with market leaders and key distributors, attend the business program by the CleanExpo Academy, and attract new business partners. Representatives of cleaning companies, dry cleaners, laundries, HoReCa enterprises, food production, medical institutions, car washes, shopping malls, transport infrastructure facilities, and other companies will attend the exhibition. 150 companies exhibited at the last edition, with over 4,500 trade visitors attending from 29 different countries.

CleanExpo Moscow | PULIRE

IFMA’s premier annual facilities management (FM) workplace conference and expo World Workplace will resume its full-fledged program for 2021, offering nearly 50 educational sessions, keynote speakers, a Welcome Reception, an expo hall, education arenas and IFMA’s Awards of Excellence. This year’s conference starts off with a Deeper Dive Session as well as IFMA Foundation’s Pirate Regatta, an evening of fun and games and pirate competitions.

Now more than ever, coming together to exchange experiences and viewpoints on managing through crisis, anticipating and mitigating risks, developing plans for resilience and forecasting the future of the built world is of the greatest importance to the FM industry. IFMA’s World Workplace is an all-encompassing learning and networking event on facilities and how to manage them, offering FM education, knowledge exchange, career development and professional network building among all professionals who support the built environment.

IFMA lists these five ways benefits of attendance for you and your team, facility and entire organization as you boldly embrace new mindsets on the new world of work:

1. Manage and master change through better FM processes.
2. Prepare for the unexpected and emergency situations with greater confidence.
3. Get answers to big questions for your facility.
4. Create healthy, sustainable space that supports human and environmental wellness.
5. Smoothly integrate ever-changing technology for better facility control.

Deeper Dive Session: “The Disaster Experience — When Your Facility Gets Hacked.” Are you prepared to handle a disaster at your facility? This customized, interactive mock-disaster tabletop exercise was designed to put you in the throes of a real-life disaster situation as it unfolds. You will make the critical decisions any FM will have to make — and deal with the consequences of those decisions! After you’ve finished, you’ll understand the importance of advance disaster planning, effective communication protocols, and understanding the inherent risks in your facilities.

This year’s education sessions offer critical information and insight, including:

• Four Views on PropTech and How it Impacts CRE and FM
• Work on the Move 3: Building Better Workplaces after the Pandemic (based on IFMA Foundation’s book: the new hybrid workplace, design for post-pandemic workplace, sustainability and planetary health, and our growing dependence on technology, all integrated with safety, health, well-being, diversity and inclusion)
• Women in FM: A Panel Discussion
• Office Furniture Built for Today’s Circular Economy
• You’ve Got a Seat at the Table — Now What? How to Think More Strategically and Holistically About Your Facility
• Business Continuity Planning from the FM’s Perspective: How to Keep Facilities Running (including a case study of Yamaha Motor Corporation)
• Expanded Commissioning Framework to Support a Healthy and Enduring Interior Environment
• Procurement Test Results Prove FMs Can Slash the Cost of Services
• Wake Up Call: Minimizing the Impact of Retirement on Your Facility Team
• Building a Better Business Case for Your Facilities Master Plan
• Facility Management, Business Continuity and COVID-19: What Have We Learned?
• Where Am I? Where Are My Assets? Leveraging Indoor Positioning with Existing Floor Plans for Wayfinding and Asset Location
• How IoT and Data Can Help Facility & Property Managers Manage Differently (make faster decisions, design new business models and anticipate customer needs)
• FM Salary, Compensation, and Facility Operations Benchmarks: Results from RBI’s Latest Research Projects
• Epic Intergalactic Headquarters Case Study: Achieving a Net-Zero Campus and Beyond (Epic’s high-performance, autonomous corporate campus in Verona, WI)
• Your Goldilocks Moment: Getting Amenities Just Right!
• How Amazon Scaled the Gargantuan Task of Implementing Asset Management Across 100+ Buildings
• Tips for Designing Agile Commercial Interior Spaces in a World of Fixed Assets
• An IWMS that Delivers a Fully Connected Workplace
• FMs as Disruptors: How We can Positively Influence Our Organizations
• Six Steps to Effective Capital Planning
• Stop the Spread: Improve IAQ & Protect Building Occupants from Airborne Microbes Using UV Air Disinfection

The keynote speakers are:

• Simon T. Bailey, breakthrough strategist, motivational change agent, author, and former sales director for Disney Institute, will open the conference with “Leading with Spark: Create a Culture where Everyone Matters.”
• Dr. Joseph G. Allen, associate professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-author of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, will address the issues raised in his book.
• Robert Glennon, internationally renowned water resource expert and best-selling author of Unquenchable, will close the conference with “Imagining the Water Future.”

IFMA credential courses: IFMA will offer a one-day Certified Facility Manager (CFM) Optional Exam Prep Course to prepare attendees to earn the respected CFM. A one-day Exam Prep Workshop offers insight into exam-taking strategies.

IFMA’s World Workplace 2021 Conference and Expo

The Getting to Zero Forum is a solutions-focused event dedicated to net zero energy and zero carbon buildings, which are seen as a critical solution to reducing energy demand and curbing the emissions that are fueling climate change. The 2021 Forum will convene 800 policymakers, design professionals, building owners, systems manufacturers, commercial real estate representatives and others working to define a new energy future for the built environment. With both IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL options for 2021, the event is focused on developing tangible pathways for building owners, cities, communities, and states to meet their energy and climate goals, boost economic growth, and achieve the goals set out in the Paris Accord. Optional tours are available.

Getting to Zero Forum (zero energy buildings) [HYBRID]

Focused on facilities management and free to all qualified professionals, the MABFM educational conference offers sessions covering a wide range of topics: LEED, Green, Sustainability, Energy, Building Commissioning, Facility Maintenance, Construction and Design and more, with CFM credits available from IFMA, CEU credits from AFE, and CPD credits from BOMI. Over 120 exhibitors display innovative products and services necessary to operate, manage, maintain and renovate all types of buildings and facilities, focused on the Tri-State area of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.

Mid-Atlantic Buildings and Facilities Management Show and Conference (MABFM2021)

Themed “Design and Operation for Resilient and Healthy Buildings,” this annual conference will be hybrid for the first time for 2021. Practitioners, vendors, researchers, utility and government officials and owners will address the practices of energy modeling and building performance simulation (addressing embodied energy and operational emissions) using existing simulation tools, software development, and future simulation research and applications. The conference will offer Keynote Speakers, Invited Speakers, a Call for Presentations and the seventh ASHRAE LowDown Showdown. Special panels may be offered by industry leaders and organizations. Conference attendees will have the option to gather in-person under CDC, hotel and ASHRAE Covid-19 safety restrictions and guidelines, or attend the conference live via a virtual platform. The virtual format will include a mixture of live and on-demand technical and interactive sessions.

ASHRAE Building Performance Analysis Conference 2021 [HYBRID]

“Bringing the Facilities Industry Together Again” — NFMT Remix Conference and Expo and ConnexionFM | Orlando will be held jointly for 2021. NFMT Remix will be held November 10 and 11, while Connexion FM | Orlando will take place November 11 and 12. The two organizations will host joint educational events November 11. Facilities professionals can attend either or both events for free.

NFMT Remix

Since NFMT Orlando last convened in 2019, the world has changed dramatically. Facilities professionals have stepped up to the plate to learn new skills, expand your knowledge set, and inspire your front-line workers. NFMT’s conference agenda will review the new skillsets needed to reopen and successfully manage facilities during these changing times, offering access to subject matter experts and real-world scenarios for the current and future needs of commercial built environments.

NFMT Orlando (which alternates with NFMT Vegas) is a trade show and educational conference for both experienced and new facilities professionals responsible for the management, operations, maintenance, renovation and construction of all types of non-residential buildings.

This year’s “one-of-a-kind” hybrid event will incorporate both free in-person and low-cost digital opportunities for all attendees, bringing the best of both worlds. The two-day event convenes facilities professionals from throughout the US and abroad to find the latest FM strategies, solutions and best practices, and to network with peers — this year with safety protocols in place.

Education tracks for 2021 are:

• Re-opening Safely
• Excellence in Maintenance and Operations
• Technology for Business Advancement

FMs and other building professionals will find information and inspiration in CEU-earning education sessions such as these:

• Coil Restoration & AHU Sanitization: Driving Improved IAQ and Energy Savings through Innovation
• Fire Protection & Life Safety Code Considerations for Reopening
• The Reservable Workplace: Desk, Spaces, and Things
• Let’s Get Back to Business: Future-Proofing Your Facility for Pandemics and Pathogens
• Decision-Maker’s Guide to Facility Management Technology Solutions
• Dealing with Pandemic Pathogens and Other Infectious Agents Where People Live, Work and Gather
• Systems Integration in the Built Environment Drives World-Class Communications and Engagement
• Balancing Remote Work for Maintenance & Operations Teams
• Back to Basics — Hardening the Ordinary to Prepare for the Unordinary
• The Future of BACnet Networking Topologies
• Best Practices for Maintaining Building Water Systems During Low to No Use
• Funding Your Energy Project with Newly Extended Tax Incentives
• COVID-19 — After the Curve… — A Building Engineer’s Perspective
• Building Health as Measured by Efficient Operations
• Are Your Electrical Qualified Workers Truly NFPA 70E Qualified?
• Rapid ROI Facility Retrofit Efficiency

ProFM course: Arrive prior to NFMT Remix to start earning your ProFM credential to verify you possess practical and complete FM knowledge and skills.

The NFMT Remix Expo Hall is the place is to see, touch and try out the newest products and technologies and find solutions to help make your job easier.

NFMT Remix; ConnexionFM | Orlando [HYBRID]

This combined international event for the entire cleaning industry focuses on the latest solutions and trends in the areas of cleaning, maintenance, and facilities management, with a focus on learn pandemic cleaning essentials for 2021. ISSA Show North America 2021 will feature more than 100 education sessions, workshops, panels, training and certification courses over four days. Build your skills, boost your customer knowledge and improve your business, all under one roof. Education tracks include Business Development & Leadership Track, Commercial Cleaning Track, Facility Health & Management Track from GBAC, Hospitality track by IEHA, Healthcare track by IEHA, and K-12 & Higher Education track by Healthy Green Schools & Colleges. An extensive Expo Hall showcases the latest cleaning solutions, along with education. The show will feature workshops such as Master Environmental Services Executive – Certification Course from IEHA and Audits and Inspections from GBAC for an additional fee. Registration is open now. To ensure the early commitment is risk-free, all attendees taking advantage of early registration until October 31 will receive a 100% refund if for any reason they need to cancel.

ISSA Show North America 2021

Counterpart to ISC West in the spring, ISC East is a major annual security and public safety industry event for the East Coast, hosted in collaboration with premier sponsor Security Industry Association (SIA) and in partnership with ASIS NYC. Security dealers, installers, integrators, and consultants, along with corporate, government and law enforcement/first responder practitioners, convene in New York City to network, learn and evaluate the latest technologies and solutions from leading exhibiting brands. The combination of one-on-one conversations with top innovators, high-quality special events, and cutting-edge education and training make ISC East a comprehensive event to guide the industry in getting back to business.

International Security Conference and Exposition East (ISC East) 2021

CxEnergy 2022 convenes FMs, engineers, service providers, building owners, energy managers and others engaged in building commissioning, energy management and test & balance, providing information on the latest trends, technologies and regulatory developments. Attendees will earn AIA (LU), USGBC LEED General Education CE, CxA CE, EMP CE, and AABC (TBE & TBT) CE credits for 30+ presentations covering such topics as commissioning and energy management, building envelope/enclosures, building automation and control technologies, cybersecurity, distributed energy resources, wellness issues related to HVAC, water management and more. CxEnergy also offers pre-conference training; networking events; and an Expo Hall showcasing technologies for commissioning, energy and testing.

CxEnergy 2022 Conference and Expo (building commissioning, energy mgmt.)