Howard W. Ashcraft, Jr.
“New Models for Integrated Design”
Mr. Ashcraft is a senior partner in the San Francisco law firm of Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos and Rudy.  A graduate of Stanford University and the University of California School of Law (Boalt Hall), He is the firm’s technology partner and has long had an interest in the application of technology to design and construction. 

Henry C. (Peter) Beck
Managing Director – The Beck Group
“Interoperability: Reshaping the Tower of Babel”
The Beck Group is an integrated builder offering project finance, design, construction and development services.  The firm completed transactions in excess of $780 million in 2006.  Beck’s mission is to integrate the building disciplines, through unique processes and technologies, resulting in order of magnitude improvements in design, cost and schedule.

Jim Bedrick, AIA
Jim Bedrick, AIA, is Vice President for Virtual Building and Design for Webcor Builders.  A registered architect, Mr. Bedrick holds degrees in both Architecture and Electrical Engineering, and has over 25 years’ experience in the AEC industry.  After practicing architecture for ten years, he moved into the design and management of information systems for architecture firms.  In 1998 he joined 3Com Corporation, directing information technology for their worldwide construction and facilities management division.  In 2001 he joined Webcor, where his focus has been the use of information technology for simulation, coordination, communication, and knowledge sharing in design and construction teams.  Mr. Bedrick is active in many organizations working to advance information technology in the AEC industry, including Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facilities Engineering (CIFE) and the International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI), and the American Institute of Architects.

J. Stuart Eckblad, AIA
Over 30 years experience as an owner responsible for the planning, design and construction of major hospitals and medical facilities.  Extensive experience in creating and implementing Integrated Project Delivery methods for major capital programs. Methods include new models for team building, roles and accountabilities, risk sharing, process management, electronic systems and contracts to optimize project results.

A founding member and past President of The Collaborative Process Institute, an organization created by owners, designers and builders to energize the design and construction industry to reinvent traditional processes and business structures, mix alternative delivery methods and optimize innovation in building design and construction projects. 

Licensed Architect in California. Chair of the CCAIA Integrated Practice Definition Committee formed to help define the principles of integrated practice. Current position is Director of Design and Construction for University of California, San Francisco Medical Center.

Armen Gekchyan
“New Models for Integrated Design”
(Associate) born 1976; admitted to bar, 2002, California and U.S. District Court, Central District of California. Education: University of California at Los Angeles (B.A., History, 1998); University of California School of Law (J.D., 2001). Member: Pasadena and Los Angeles County Bar Associations; State Bar of California.

Jim Hammer
Mr. Hammer is the Deputy District Director for Administration for Caltrans District 7, which includes Los Angeles and Ventura Counties. He holds a BS degree in Engineering, a Masters Certificate in Project Management, is PMP certified, and is a Registered Civil Engineer in the State of California.

George Hurley
“Stories From the Front Line”
George Hurley, Project Executive for DPR Construction, Inc., has been building great things for customers in the healthcare, education, commercial office, microelectronics and data center markets for more than 30 years.

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones, Senior Director, Business Development, leads McGraw-Hill Construction’s initiatives in Building Information Modeling, Interoperability and Integrated Project Delivery.  Steve has spoken on topics of technology in AEC at dozens of industry events globally.

Kevin Kelley, AIA
Kevin Kelley is the Principal & Co-Founder of Shook Kelley, an atypical architecture and design firm that specializes in consumer behavior and consumer psychology for retail, food and consumer-based companies.

Maurya McClintock
Closing Session
Lecturer, Architecture and Master of Architecture. BArch, University of Colorado; MS, MArch, University of California, Berkeley.

David Martlett, AIA
Prior to creating DNM Architect in 1999, David Marlatt, AIA, spent more than 12 years on the cutting edge of 3D CAD and computer visualization technology. DNM Architect is today a 4 person practice specializing in residential design throughout the Bay Area.

Henry Mahlstedt, AIA
Henry Mahlstedt, a Senior Associate and Healthcare Studio Director of Hawley Peterson & Snyder Architects, has over twenty years of experience on a wide range of project types.  For the past fifteen years, he has dedicated himself to outpatient healthcare projects for clients including Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health and affiliates, University of California at Santa Cruz and Princeton University with the philosophy of healthcare facilities as warm, healing and friendly environments.

Thom Mayne, FAIA
Thom Mayne founded the Los Angeles-based firm Morphosis in 1972. He currently teaches at UCLA, and was a founder of SCI-Arc. Mayne's distinguished honors include the 2005 Pritzker Prize.

(photo by: Reiner Zettl)

Kimon Onuma, AIA
One of the leading architects / technologists using Building Information Modeling  since 1994. Onuma lectures worldwide on integration, open standards and BIM. Onuma received the 2007 CETI Award from Fiatech and also received two BIM Awards in 2007 from AIA National.

Timothy M. Rice, AIA
Tim is the Principal and Director of Information Technology of LMN Architects, a firm of 100 in Seattle.  LMN has been involved in alternative delivery methods for a number of years including design-build and GC/CM. 

Zigmund Rubel, AIA
Mr. Rubel is a Principal at Anshen + Allen Architects, leading large and small scale healthcare projects.  He is the 2007 President of the AIA San Francisco Chapter.

Alan Turner, AIA
“Stories from the Front Line: Case Studies”
Mr. Turner joined Hawley Peterson & Snyder in 1985. He has served as Principal in Charge and played a major role in the success of many of the firm's largest and most complex projects, interfacing with the client from initial programming and design phases through construction and occupancy. Bachelor of Science in Architecture, University of Notre Dame, 1976.