Advance Your Construction Scheduling Skills & Improve Project Delivery

Whether you're developing project schedules or supporting project delivery in the field, this track is designed for schedulers looking to strengthen field alignment, improve schedule accuracy, identify risks earlier, and drive better project outcomes. Learn directly from contractors delivering these results on live projects.

Book-Meetings

Essential Insights to Strengthen Field Alignment, Improve Schedule Accuracy & Drive Better Project Outcomes

Construction Schedulers & Planning Professionals

9:20 am AI Use Case Exchange: Applying Agentic AI to Reduce Reporting Burden, Identify Risk & Improve Scheduling Efficiency

  • Building better scheduling prompts to interrogate updates, meeting notes, reports, and schedule data
  • Using AI agents to simplify complex information, support analysis, and surface relevant actions faster
  • Identifying practical use cases for reducing manual reporting, spotting schedule impacts, and improving risk visibility
Practical Takeaway: Leave with practical insight into how peers are experimenting with prompts, AI agents, and automation in real scheduling workflows,  giving them ideas they can take back to their own firms to save time, surface risk earlier, and improve schedule decision-making.

10:00 am Building Confidence as a Scheduler by Strengthening Fundamentals, Field Awareness & Communication Skills

Senior Manager, Holder Construction Group
  • Growing confidence without over-reliance on software by strengthening core scheduling fundamentals
  • Learning how to grow beyond a desk-based reporting role by gaining site exposure, reading drawings and understanding how work is built
  •  Developing communication, ownership, and meeting leadership skills needed to engage multiple stakeholders

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a personal development roadmap for becoming a more confident, field-aware scheduler who can contribute beyond updates and reporting

11:00 am Securing Superintendent Buy-In to Turn the Schedule into a Shared Planning & Accountability Tool

Scheduler, ANF Group
Director of Construction, ANF Group
  • Exploring how schedulers are shifting superintendents from passive input to active ownership of the schedule 
  • Sharing real project examples of what built trust, what created resistance, and how teams worked through it 
  • Understanding how superintendent buy-in strengthens team alignment, trade accountability, and schedule reliability 

Practical Takeaway: Leave with practical lessons from schedulers and superintendents on how to build genuine field ownership of the schedule, rather than relying on updates that teams do not fully trust or use

11:30 am Running Effective Pull Planning to Improve Trade Coordination, Field Engagement & Schedule Reliability

Co-Founder, Design and Construction Excellence Exchange
  • Practicing how to run a mock pull plan by assigning trade roles, mapping activities, and working backwards from key milestones
  • Comparing different pull planning approaches, from traditional sticky notes to more detailed activity-based and digital workflows
  • Improving trade partner engagement by creating more collaborative planning conversations that expose handoffs, constraints, and sequencing issues earlier

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a clearer structure for running pull planning sessions that are more engaging, better aligned with the schedule, and easier for field teams and trade partners to act on

1:40 pm Embedding New Schedulers in the Field to Build Jobsite Understanding & Strengthen Project Team Support

Senior Scheduling Engineer, Rudolph & Sletten Inc.
Senior Field Engineer, Rudolph & Sletten Inc.
  • Creating practical ways for entry-level schedulers to spend meaningful time on site without disrupting field teams or slowing daily work
  • Clarifying how superintendents, PMs, and project teams can involve junior schedulers in meetings, trailer discussions, and site walks to improve their construction understanding
  • Building scheduler confidence through consistent field exposure so they can provide more accurate updates, better questions, and stronger support across multiple projects

Practical Takeaway: Leave with a simple field-integration approach for turning junior schedulers into more useful project team partners, while helping field teams receive better schedule support earlier

Explore the 2026 Event Guide

  • 30+ Expert Speakers from leading GCs, clients & trades
  • 3 Action-Packed Days dedicated to making schedules work in real execution
  • 2 Tailored Pre-Conference Workshop Day Tracks
  • Exclusive AI, Analytics, Project Controls & Field Execution Content 
  • Real-World Case Studies and Practical Strategies
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