Mark your calendar! Join in on the fun for IFMA Seattle’s night out with the Tacoma Rainiers! You will be enjoying the game in style from our Luxury Suite with dinner and drinks. The Tacoma Rainiers take on the El Paso Chihuahua’s.

Gates Open: 5:30 PM | First Pitch: 7:05 PM

Cost: Facility Professional Member - $15 | Associate Professional Member - $50

Sponsor Opportunities:

• Grand Slam Sponsor - $750 (SOLD OUT): Includes 2 VIP parking passes, 2 representative admissions, speaking time in front of the group, the option to hand out giveaways, website/email marketing, and recognition in the suite.

• Bar Sponsor - $500: (One Available): Includes 1 VIP parking pass, 1 representative admission, website/email marketing, and signage at the bar.

• Concessions Sponsor - $300 (SOLD OUT): Includes 1 VIP parking pass, 1 representative admission, website/email marketing, and signage at the table with dinner.

• Rainiers Rally Cap Sponsor - $400 (SOLD OUT): Includes 1 VIP parking pass, 1 representative admission, Rainiers Hat for attendees with your "Company Baseball Card" attached, and website/email marketing.

Thank you to our Sponsors!

Grand Slam Sponsor

Bar Sponsor

Rally Cap Sponsor

Concessions Sponsors

Climate Pledge Arena Tour

The IFMA team is excited to host you for a special private tour of Climate Pledge Arena on May 13th. You'll get to see some "behind the scenes" areas and hear what made this historic project a success. We will be joined by Brianna Treat, Director of Sustainability and Kevin Melsby, VP of Arena Events & Operations, as well as Michael Dunford and the Catalyst Workplace Activation team to help guide us through the arena. Space is very limited so sign up soon!

Presenters:

Brianna Treat

Director of Sustainability for both the Seattle Kraken + Climate Pledge Arena 

Brianna Teat is a life-long sustainability advocate with a decades spanning career focusing on large scale waste reduction projects, corporate ESG reporting (Environmental, Social, Governance), green building certifications/implementations and carbon accounting.

Upon graduating with a degree in Sustainability from the University of Oklahoma, Brianna started her career in Baltimore, MD where she got her hands dirty as a waste reduction specialist (or as she likes to joke: ‘professional trash talker’) for large hospital branches/commercial buildings as well as a few notable sports venues in the area. 

After a few years of her direct impact work with trash and waste management in Baltimore, Brianna found a new challenge as the lead Sustainability Consultant for several global commercial real estate firms. Here she developed key sustainability/Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting skills that assisted in providing these clients with their annual GRI reporting and GRESB submissions.

Through this, and through championing sustainability reporting on a building level, Brianna became interested in Green Building Certifications such as LEED, WELL, and TRUE. She took another leap to work for a tight-knit consulting firm out of Atlanta that was at the forefront of green building certifications, and it was here that her love for sustainability and sports aligned. Brianna was one of the lead consultants who worked to certify not only the first zero waste NBA game in the world but certifying the first Arena in the world as a zero-waste facility. This achievement brought her previous work full circle to her waste management roots, and began to highlight the concept that sports and venues are pillars of strength and change in communities; a concept that Brianna wanted to keep pursuing. 

It was through all her past experiences that have now led her to her dream job at the Climate Pledge Arena and with the Seattle Kraken. As Director of Sustainability for the Climate Pledge Arena & the Seattle Kraken, Brianna Treat has embedded environmental sustainability across both organizations. She has developed and implemented a multitude of sustainability initiatives onsite, tracking all operational carbon and utility data at the Arena and assisting in achieving the Arenas 95% waste diversion goal, leading the charge on banning single use plastics in the building by 2024, and working across all departments to ensure that sustainability is integrated into the backbone of both organizations. Each piece of her past has built her skillset to now ensure that the Climate Pledge Arena and the Seattle Kraken maintain their commitments to the Climate Pledge. 

Michael Dunford

Strategic Market Manager, Catalyst Workplace Activation

As the Strategic Market Manager at Catalyst Workplace Activation, Michael is tasked with understanding key trends in workplace strategy, collaborating closely with clients to tackle their challenges, and convey Catalyst's value proposition to the market. Through compelling customer stories, he champions workplace transformation, showcasing the tangible impact that space can have on an organization’s success.

With nearly two decades of experience in the furniture and design industry, and a Design Thinking certification from IDEO, Michael infuses a human-centered approach into every facet of his work, passionately helping organizations shape exceptional spaces and navigate complexities.

This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals Only.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

One of the largest cost components during the facility life cycle is the salaries and benefits of occupants. When considered with this perspective, FM practices that support the productivity of people, organizational effectiveness, and minimize risk and liability is critical to the success of the demand organization.

Occupancy and Human Factors, address the people element in the FM model. This focuses on employee engagement and culture and crafting workplace experiences that reinforce the demand organization’s value proposition.

Facility managers demonstrate competency in Occupancy and Human Factors by mastering the knowledge and skills necessary to:

• Support organizational and individual occupant performance.

• Provide a quality workplace environment that includes occupant services, health, safety, and security.

• Develop and implement practices that support the demand organization’s performance.

May Lunch & Learn

Proven Technologies and Approaches for Healthy, Efficient Buildings

About the Event:

By understanding available, high-performance technologies and the ways each aspect of a building works together, building owners, designers and operators can plan improvements that not only save time, money, and energy—but also improve occupant health, comfort, wellbeing, and productivity. This range of positive health outcomes is supported by recent peer-reviewed research studies on the benefits of daylighting, lighting, and ventilation on a variety of health aspects including cognition, sleep, and absenteeism.

This session will introduce building-industry decisionmakers to several energy-efficient technologies applicable to retrofits and new construction, with an emphasis on approaches to upgrading existing buildings to meet current and emerging building performance standards, such as the Washington State Clean Building Standard.

Learn Objectives:

• Understand the value of sequencing building upgrades and integrating the following emerging technologies to maximize cost and energy savings.

• Learn how energy-saving technologies can further benefit occupant health and well-being.

• Understand some of the primary considerations and best practices when deciding what upgrades to employ in your building(s).

Speakers

Chris Wolgamott

Senior Product Manager, NEEA

For over 25 years Chris Wolgamott has worked in the utility business in the Northwest, as a program manager, energy efficiency engineer, and product manager. Chris is recognized as a subject matter expert for luminaire level lighting controls and works extensively with lighting manufacturers to guide the future of lighting and controls. His work in the utility sector has allowed him to gain vast knowledge on how incentive programs are developed and run. As a Senior Product Manager for NEEA’s Lighting and Commercial HVAC programs, including Efficient Rooftop Units and High-Performance HVAC, Chris works with manufacturers on increasing the efficiency of lighting, lighting controls, and commercial HVAC units and controls. Chris further leads NEEA’s emerging technology research to support transformation of the lighting and commercial HVAC markets.

Warren Fish

Program Manager, NEEA

As a Program Manager for NEEA, Warren helps develop and advance energy efficiency market transformation initiatives for the Northwest region. He joined NEEA in 2013 after gaining energy efficiency and program management experience through various roles in the public and private sectors at Multnomah County, Willamette Week, Peace Corps, and Progressive Insurance. His primary focus at NEEA currently is the Extended Motor Products (XMP) program, which aims to increase the market penetration of energy efficient pumps and circulators. To learn more about about Smart Pump installations across the Northwest and the benefits they bring to building owners, tenants, and facility maintance teams, please visit our BetterBricks page.

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This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals and Associates.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

The primary role of facility managers is to manage/oversee an operating facility. To do this, facility managers must have a working knowledge of building systems, structure, interiors, and exteriors and grounds so the facility and all of its required systems function efficiently, reliably, safely, securely, and in a manner consistent with existing regulations and standards. In addition, the various aspects of operations and maintenance (O&M) are constantly changing due to wear or deterioration, new regulations or requirements, operational modifications, occupant expectations, and many other individual but interrelated circumstances. Managing a facility means continually managing change.

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This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals Only.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

Performance and Quality Core Competency will help facility managers to develop a “systems thinking” perspective and provide critical insights that apply to quality-related FM practices.

Topics may include:

• Working with their stakeholders to understand the needs and expectations of the facility and related service requirements.

• Understanding and documenting the processes used to deliver these services.

• Measuring the performance of the facility management (FM) organization and service providers to make continual improvements.

• Understanding and describing what comprises a comprehensive Facility Management Quality System

• Using the basic quality tools and basic statistical tools for better analysis of data with a quality system

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This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals Only.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

Facility managers play a major role in all aspects of project management beginning with planning, scoping, scheduling, and evaluating. Project planning and management are core skills in FM. The skills are particularly important because of the wide range of projects assigned to the FM organization. Projects vary in scope, complexity, duration, and financial risk. Facility managers’ project roles involve planning organizing, delegating, monitoring, and controlling projects and ensuring that the interests of the FM organization and its customers are represented throughout the life-cycle of a project. However, a facility manager’s role may vary depending on the specifics of the project and his or her capabilities and availability.

Topics may include:

• Describe the common projects in facility management, the role of the facility manager and project manager in projects, and the different project management processes and models.

• Explain the inputs, processes, and outputs related to:  

• The Initiate phase of a project.

• The Plan phase of a project.

• Acquiring a team and resources and executing and controlling a project.

• Accepting deliverables, closing contracts and the project and evaluating outcomes.

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This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals and Associates.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

Facilities represent a large part of any organization's assets – whether small or large, incorporated or unincorporated, public or private, profit or not-4-profit, domestic or international. There are many significant costs, risks, and opportunities associated with owning and leasing facilities. Facility Managers need to understand the principles and practices of real estate and how these contribute to achieving the core business strategies of the demand organization.

This Real Estate Core Competency examines the interface between real estate decisions, facility management functions, and the ability of the demand organization to achieve its goals. Facility managers will learn how to develop and implement a real estate strategy that includes methods to access, acquire, manage, and dispose of physical assets.

This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals Only.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

Risk management has become a critical component of strategic management. It is the way an organization can live with the uncomfortable reality of risk. The facility manager’s role in risk management is to understand the vulnerabilities of the organization’s structures and infrastructure and balance the critical nature of the demand organization’s mission and functions against the possible occurrence and impact of a risk event.

Topics may include:

• Identify human and physical assets that would be at risk should a threat occur.

• Assess and evaluate the level of vulnerability should a threat occur.

• Prioritize the severity of each occurrence.

• Prepare a plan to mitigate as much risk as possible.

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This Meeting is Intended for Facility Professionals and Associates.

Interested in Giving a Presentation? Please Contact Adam Thordarson.

About the Event:

An organization today is judged not just based on the quality of the goods and services it produces but also on the care it shows people (both inside and outside the organization) and the environment. Additionally, many global drivers are pushing sustainability to the forefront of business, government, and social conversations throughout the world. These drivers include:

• Awareness of the finite nature of resources available to support a steadily growing world population.

• Increasing use by governments of incentives and penalties to change corporate and individual behavior.

• The speed and breadth of information have placed every organization under a microscope of public opinion about what constitutes acceptable corporate behavior.

As business leaders step up the corporate response to the sustainability agenda, facility managers are increasingly being asked to deliver support service that is broader and deeper than ever before. Sustainable development, as a concept, forces organizations to shift their focus from short-term to long-term. Facility management is a vital function, a service that supports the people who deliver the core business and is essential to the demand organization’s aspirations for corporate social responsibility.

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