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Developing Leaders Within Your Organization: A Guide Establishing a Leadership Development Group at Your Local Agency

In 2018, the City of Des Moines Public Works Department faced the impending retirement in a few years of many seasoned and long-serving supervisors, representing more than 280 years of…

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Building Resilience: How to Get Ahead of the IT/OT Threat

As Information techlogy (IT) and operational techlogy (OT) have become more interconnected, public works entities have become highly desirable targets for cyberattacks. But as we’ve seen, threats to public works’…

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Drones for Large-Scale Public Works Projects’ Asset Inspection and Condition Assessment

This educational session will address software and database solutions, mobile techlogies, web-based tools, cloud techlogy, 3D modeling, and enterprise solutions as it relates to remote data collection techlogies using Unmanned…

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Building Understanding: How to Effectively Work With Your Agency’s Financial Officer

It is essential that public works professionals have a good working relationship with the agency’s financial officer. To have an effective relationship, public works professionals need to understand how to…

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Drones, Roofing Safety, and Maintenance Strategy: The Trifecta of Excellence!

Drones or UAVs are gaining significant traction in construction and, more recently, facility management. Drones can be used to conduct inspections of roofs or other hazardous areas, survey overall site…

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Business Process Transformation through AI-based SmartCity Techlogies

Optimizing business processes and delivering citizen satisfaction are two key components of developing an effective public works organization. The City of Vaughan will showcase its AI-enabled Road Patrol Management solution…

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Central Irrigation Control and Flow Sensing to Save Water, Time, and Money

In this session, attendees will learn what central control is relative to irrigation management and how it can address inefficiencies in managing landscape water use. We will also address flow…

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Circularity Centers – The Future of Waste Management for Zero Waste Cities

Waste management is t only costly, it’s often wasteful. Many of the materials commonly sent to landfills can and should be repurposed to reduce or eliminate waste. Circularity centers can…

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City of San Diego: Getting to Zero Emissions by 2035

Leaders from the City of San Diego departments of Engineering & Capital Projects (E&CP), General Services (DGS), and Sustainability & Mobility (SuMo) will discuss the City’s goal to bring municipal…

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Climate and Community in Infrastructure Planning: Lessons from Sweden

Our infrastructure helps to shape our communities; our communities, in turn, have a role in shaping the infrastructure that serves them, identifying t just core service levels, acceptable levels of…

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