Tuesday | 1 May, 2018

9:15-10:15

Gaining Senior Management Support for Building a High-Quality Cost Estimating Team (Not Released)

by Claude Rochette

10:30-11:30

Cost Estimating: Concept of Operations (Not Released)

by Alan Mayer

11:30-12:00

ICEAA Professional Development and Accreditation (Not Applicable)

by Peter Weltman

12:45-13:30

Lunch Speaker: The Phoenix payroll system: An investigative journalists's perspective (Not Applicable)

by Julie Ireton

Cost Estimating Basics

Tools and Methods

Special Topics in Cost Estimating

Project Cost/Risk

13:30-14:15

Introduction to the Cost Estimating Book of Knowledge

by Francois Levesque

Regression Analysis and CER Development

by Peter Braxton

Pricing for Value

by Brian Gifford

Integrated Cost-Schedule Risk Analysis

by Keith Hornbacher

14:15-15:00

Data Collection and File Restructuring

by Rick Collins

Controlling Software Acquisition Costs with Function Points and Estimation Tools (Not Released)

by Ian Brown

Pricing for Value

by Brian Bost

Earned Value Management

by Peter Braxton

15:15-16:00

The Business Process of Cost Estimating

by Juana Collymore

Integrating Specialized Cost-estimating Models into a User-friendly Front-end

by Joe Bauer

How to Price Risk in Contracting Negotiations

by Chris Gauer

Integrating Cost-estimates into a Performance Measurement Framework (Not Released)

by Suzanne Nickerson

16:00-16:30

The Business Process of Cost Estimating

by Juana Collymore

Monte-Carlo Simulations for Confidence-based Estimates

by Tania Yazbeck

Pricing Proposal Risk - Industry/Government Perspective Panel (Not Available)

by Troy Crosby, Peter Braxton, Brian Bost

Project Cost/Risk

by Nick Grondin

09:15-10:15

Public Trust in Crisis: 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer

by Lisa Kimmel

10:45-11:45

Considering Cost at the Forefront of Decision Making (Not Released)

by Dale Shermon

13:30-15:00

Normalized Deviance in Teams: The Space Shuttle "Challenger" Disaster Explained (Not Released)

by Mike Mullane

15:15-16:15

Panel Discussion: What does it mean to play your position (Not Applicable)