It is a privilege to welcome you to FIATECH's 2007 Technology Conference & Showcase - Where the Best Get Better.

Will Rogers, America's great humorist and philosopher, once cautioned that "even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."  FIATECH's unique focus on sharing and demonstrating emerging technologies that significantly improve the design, construction, and maintenance of large capital assets, will help ensure each attending organization is not only "on track" but is accelerating at full speed.  Indeed, it is FIATECH participants who "overtake, surpass, and run over" those mired in the status quo.

I am confident that the ideas, innovations, and initiatives presented at this year's conference will be instrumental in enhancing every organization's ability to deliver true excellence in design, engineering, construction, and operations.  You need only to absorb, reflect, and share.  Thanks.

Tom Hannigan
VP Industrial Services Division
Zachry Construction
PO Box 240130
San Antonio, TX 78224-0130
210-475-8118

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2007 Conference Highlights

Tom Hannigan of Zachry Construction and member of the FIATECH Board of Directors will be chairing this conference, which will focus on emerging technologies to improve your company's bottom line and will feature keynotes such as:

Alfonso "Al" Martinez-Fonts, Assistant Secretary for the Private Sector Office, Department of Homeland Defense (DHS)
Dr. William Jeffrey, Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Dr. Shyam Sunder, Acting Director, Building and Fire Research Laboratory, NIST
Dr. Edward Jaselskis, Program Director for Information Technology and Infrastructure Systems, National Science Foundation
William W. Brubaker, Director of Facilities Engineering and Operations, Smithsonian Institution
Donald J. Frieden, Founder, President and CEO, SAT Corporation

It will be a great balance of valuable content, exciting technology demonstrations and networking opportunities for attendees and members. For information on the Conference and conference registration, please visit the FIATECH website or click here.

If you are interested in gaining greater exposure and providing one-on-one, hands on demonstrations of your technology at this event, see below for more information about the Technology Showcase exhibit space and sponsorship opportunities. (Please note: Technology Showcase exhibit space includes 2 complimentary registrations for attendees. Showcase exhibit hours do not conflict with conference sessions.)

If you are interested in exhibiting and/or sponsoring or have any questions, please contact Tara Wilson at 713-337-1600 or twilson@EventsiaGroup.com  Registration will be available via the FIATECH website in late January.

Thank you for your consideration and we hope to have you participate in this valuable event.

Capitol Steps to perform on Wednesday evening, April 11th, in the Conference Hotel. The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. In the years that followed, many of the Steps ignored the conventional wisdom ("Don't quit your day job!"), and although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of eighteen Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

And note that the Technology Showcase coincides with the 2007 National Cherry Blossom Festival in DC, which will last from March 31 – April 15, 2007. Ninety-five years ago, the people of Japan gifted the city of Washington, DC with over 3,000 flowering cherry trees that were then planted around the Tidal Basin. Each spring, the trees bloom with their pink and white-petaled flowers, dropping a rosy cloud around the Jefferson Memorial and throughout Washington. The National Cherry Blossom Festival® (NCBF) was created to honor this spectacular arrival of springtime to our nation's capital and to celebrate the cross-cultural exchange between Japan and the United States. It is an amazing two week celebration and the most beautiful time to visit DC!

Attendees

Attendees to this event are decision makers from leading owner and contractor organizations, typically responsible for the introduction of new technology in their organizations.

Look who is registered already for this year's conference! Have you registered yet?

Adobe * AEC Systems * Alliance for Building Reg. Reform * Anheuser-Busch * ASCE
Asset Performance Networks * Autodesk * AVEVA * Bechtel * Bentley Systems
Broccolini Construction * Burns and Roe Enterprises * CADD Microsystems* CBS Homes * CH2M Hill * COADE * COMIT * CSA * DB02 * Dept. of Defense * Dept. of Homeland Security * Design and Construction Strategies * DKS Consultants * Dow Chemical * DuPont * EPM Technology * Fluor * GSAA * Hitachi, Ltd. * Intel * Intergraph * International Code Council * James David Construction * KBR * Kristine Fallon Assoc. * Latista Technologies * Mammoet * McLaren * Meridian Systems * Metegrity * NASA * NIST * National Research Council Canada   * National Science Foundation * Noumenon Consulting Ltd. * NRX Global * Ontrack Engineering * Onuma * Oracle * Onyx Group * Pankow * Petronas Carigali * Primavera * ProExecute * Psychology of Setting * SAT Corporation * Skire * Smithsonian Institution * Software Innovation * Target * Texas A&M University * University of Kentucky * University of Nebraska - Lincoln * USA - VA / 3M * United States Coast Guard * Utility Engineering Corporation * Vela Systems * Ventro * Victaulic * VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland * Woolpert * Worley Parsons * Zachry Construction

You can earn up to 25 PDH's if you attend all four days!

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