Josh Ramsey - Fractional CMO, Marketing & Communications Strategist

With AI search tools now shaping how customers find service providers, many businesses face two challenges: not being discovered and failing to convert visitors into leads. This session explains practical strategies to improve AI visibility and website conversions. Learn how to implement these tactics yourself or confidently evaluate agencies to execute them effectively—without hype or sales pitches.

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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Saleh Mubarak - Professor and independent consultant

Accurate cost estimating is critical for winning work and protecting profit, yet small oversights can create major risks. This session walks contractors through the estimating process from project start to finish, highlighting key factors that impact accuracy. Learn practical tips to reduce uncertainty, avoid costly omissions, improve competitiveness, and create estimates that maximize margin and minimize risk.

Target Audience: All building and construction professionals

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Shawn Stinson - Business Coach

What if you could hire a world-class assistant—one that never sleeps, never forgets, and never burns out? Now you can. In this groundbreaking talk, we'll show you how to build a simple, fully customized AI agent that can think like you, speak like you, and help run your business with precision. No coding required. This is not the future—it's now, and it's built for contractors. 

Target Audience: Homebuilders, remodelers, contractors

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Amy Yan - Founder & CEO

Cyberattacks hit over half of construction firms each year, causing costly delays and lost contracts. With CMMC 2.0 requirements taking effect January 1, 2027, contractors handling CUI must prepare now. This session explains the CMMC framework, key security controls, and practical steps to reach compliance efficiently—helping your company reduce risk, protect projects, and stay competitive in federal and private bids.

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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Noah Gear - Outreach Specialist

This session explains how registering with the Centralized Master Bidders List (CMBL) helps vendors receive bid invitations. Learn how to apply, identify relevant highway districts for delivered products or services, and search the NIGP Commodity Book. Attendees also receive an introduction to the Electronic State Business Daily (ESBD) and the Vendor Performance Tracking System (VPTS).

Target audience: Business Owners, Home Builders, Construction Managers

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Sam Hallburn - Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor

This class is an overview of how contractors can utilize the QuickBooks functionality to facilitate job costing, payroll, receivables and the overall benefits of either the online or desktop applications.

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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Daniel Morton - Founder, JACK App

Join Daniel as he shares his journey from swinging a hammer to managing $70M in builds. Learn the common challenges builders face when scaling and the proven systems, strategies, and technologies that streamline operations, improve communication, and protect profit margins. Includes a real case study on how JACK App helps builders scale successfully.

Target audience: General contractors, Home builders, Remodelers, Trade business owners, Construction managers, Building industry entrepreneurs looking to scale profitably

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Sam Hallburn - Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor

This class is an overview of how contractors can utilize the QuickBooks functionality to facilitate job costing, payroll, receivables and the overall benefits of either the online or desktop applications.

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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LaQuia Howard - CEO, The QC Network

Got MICS? - Does your HR Dept. have your MICS (Mental Health In Construction Services) covered?? Do you have support systems in place for your A-Teams?? Get coverage..Stay In Compliance. Join QCN and grab your FREE wellness gift along with " Quick-Tips " on site today!

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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Josh Ramsey - Fractional CMO, Marketing & Communications Strategist

Choosing the right marketing agency requires more than checking boxes. This session breaks down five simple steps while revealing where agencies often fall short—especially in addressing the customer “confidence gap.” Learn how to reframe expectations, help agencies overcome buyer objections, and get better performance from your marketing team without hype, sales pitches, or guesswork.

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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Paul Wurth  - CEO & Founder, Assembli AI

This session explores today’s challenges in construction estimating—time demands, inaccuracies, outdated pricing, and labor shortages—and how AI can solve them. Paul will demonstrate frontier models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini for material calculations, document review, and visual analysis. Learn practical applications, see AI-driven takeoffs in action, and discover the future of purpose-built construction AI.

Target audience: All building and construction professionals

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Ron Imbach - Executive Director, International Association of U.S. Government Contractors (IA U.S. GC)

An introductory class explaining “no-bid” pathways in federal contracting, with definitions, eligibility, where they appear, and compliance basics. Participants will learn how relationships and market research factor in, and where to find authoritative rules and examples to capture government contracts.

Target audience: Small to midsized commercial construction and related trades seeking an overview of government contracting pathways.

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