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PDF Boring Logs to 3D Models: A Demonstration of AI Digitization Today

PDF Boring Logs to 3D Models: A Demonstration of AI Digitization Today

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About BoreDM (short for Boring Data Management): BoreDM is a market-leading, modern solution for borehole data management which has been selected by over 15 state departments of transportation and industry-leading firms to replace gINT in its first two years on the market. Under Louis’s leadership, BoreDM has quickly established itself as a key player in the space by working with state DOTs, small geotechnical shops, and large, internationally operating firms to enhance time-tested workflows and develop modern efficiencies.

Key Points:

1. Digitization of historical PDF boring logs is now commercially available.
2. Robust quality-checking processes are available for AI-based digitization.
3. Historical data is valuable not only in its original form, but also when integrated into newer tools and models.

Digitizing historical PDF logs has long been a goal of the geoprofessional community. While OCR technology can extract text snippets from pages, it does not have the spatial understanding required to structure data from highly-varied boring log formats.

Rapid advancements in AI-based computer vision models have changed that paradigm, and cutting-edge platforms are now able to recognize concepts like “surface elevation” without being pre-configured to search a certain part of the log for that value.

Data Management and Reporting for Geoprofessional Firms

Data Management and Reporting for Geoprofessional Firms

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This webinar explores the future of data management and reporting with modern software. As geotechnical and CMT projects become more complex and fast-paced, firms still relying on manual workflows risk falling behind. Join GBA and Adam Loewentheil, CEO at Aldoa, for a practical session, including Q&A, on how to eliminate inefficiencies, improve accuracy, and produce faster, more polished technical reports.

What you’ll learn:

• Why now is the time to modernize data management workflows: Outdated practices like paper notes, spreadsheets, and manual report formatting are costing firms time and money. Learn about the top industry pain points, from data entry to report generation, and what leading firms are doing differently.
• What’s the best Bentley gINT alternative: As the geotechnical engineering industry evolves, so must the tools we rely on. With Bentley gINT entering its sunset phase, many firms are facing a pivotal question: What’s the best alternative? We’ll explore what this shift means for your firm and why it’s the perfect opportunity to adopt a more modern, integrated solution for field data management and geotechnical reporting.
• How to empower your team at every level: From field techs to firm owners, see how streamlined field-to-office data capture and reporting eliminates double entry, reduces errors, and speeds up delivery.

Eric Saperston: Wake Up Excited, Go to Bed Fulfilled

Wake Up Excited, Go to Bed Fulfilled

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Eric Saperston is an unsinkable optimist who believes everyone can live an extraordinary life. He is an internationally recognized leader in professional development who empowers CEOs, executives, and audiences to Wake Up Excited and Go to Bed Fulfilled.

With a vision to change how businesses think, act, and operate, Eric works with leaders and organizations in nearly every industry to help transform company culture and create a better working world. Saperston has interviewed thousands of leaders, entertainment icons, and business tycoons to discover the common traits and differences which separate ordinary performance from legendary success. Saperston has earned a reputation as a standing ovation keynote speaker

Lessons Learned:

Leaders often learned from others who have more experience and referenced a quote “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” Engage with elders

Leaders clearly understand their core purpose. To identify your core purpose, ask yourself these three questions.
• What is the problem? – Define what I really care about, what is at the core of my soul.
• What is the need? Identify what needs to be changed or what is the best outcome for the problem.
• What is the solution? How am I part of the solution? How can I apply my skills to the solution?

Leaders can elevate their influence by asking one question. How can I help? Provide value wherever you are and whomever you are with by serving. This will increase your value and your influence as a leader.

Gloadean Champion: The Anti-DEI, DEI

The Anti-DEI, The DEI

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Glodean Champion is a Transformational Leader who specializes in personal growth, leadership development, and diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI). She works with individuals and organizations to get to the root cause of culturally based challenges by transforming beliefs, behaviors, and assumptions. Glodean’s unique approach to this centuries-old endeavor is rooted in the practice of engaging with people’s core emotions, cultural competencies, and situational and self-awareness through coaching, training, and workshops. She believes in meeting people “where they are” and leading them where they want (or, possibly, need) to be.

Glodean is the author of Salmon Croquettes, a coming-of-age story about a 12-year-old girl’s journey to self-discovery and sexual identity. It’s set in 1965 Watts, Los Angeles and is historical fiction about the true catalyst for the Watts Riots. She’s currently working on the sequel to Salmon Croquettes, as well as a memoir, Tough Love: Sh*t My Momma Used to Say, which chronicles her life and loving relationship with her first intentional leader, her mother, Frances Champion.

Glodean is also a keynote speaker who speaks professionally on issues relating to diversity and inclusion. She is exceptionally engaging, funny and passionate, and pulls from her upbringing and the influence of her mother to create stories that connect with her audience. Her approach to delicate subjects is with honesty, authenticity, and vulnerability and she is a master at challenging and captivating audiences of all kinds in a way that forces them to take pause and listen from the heart, something she believes we need more of if we want to make the world a better place.

This webinar is designed for leaders of all levels. Glodean Champion reviews the basic concepts and topics of diversity, equity, inclusion, and bias and why they don’t work, long-term, without a strong foundation of L.O.V.E. and CARE. Participants explore how implicit attitudes and socializations impact our decisions and the interactions we have with one another. By the end of this foundational session, participants will have the power of self-awareness and the importance of connection in the workplace and beyond.

Here are three takeaways:
– Explore the reasons the old approach to DEI hasn’t worked.
– Understand the distinction between bias and choice.
– Learn how to create opportunities to lean into L.O.V.E. to strengthen your relationships

Val Ries: How to Lead the Team Everyone Wants to be on

How to Lead the Team Everyone Wants to be on

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Val Ries is the author of the #1 new best selling book: Chief Inspiration Officer – How to Lead the Team everyone wants to be on. She is the owner of Executive Muse, a training and mentoring organization designed to help leaders create teams that stay.

Ries holds a Bachelors in Nursing and Masters in Business. She has certifications in leadership coaching and organizational culture and has worked with hundreds of tech startups to Fortune 500 companies across the US to take their culture, employee engagement and productivity to the next level.

In this webinar Val, explains how loyal employees contribute differently than everyone else. They work harder, stay later and recommend friends to the organization – and not because they are paid more. During this workshop, Val explores how to create a culture where people are inspired to be a loyal part of your organization by leveraging her proprietary CRAVE® model and lessons from her book: Chief Inspiration Officer. You’ll see the latest statistics on employee engagement and come away with actionable ideas you can apply right away.

For reference, Ms. Ries’ CRAVE® model includes:
Connection
Reliability
Appreciation
Value
Effective Communication

Michael Allosso: You on your Best Day

You on your Best Day

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Michael Allosso is a master communications expert and self-awareness specialist who coaches CEO’s, teams and individuals in day-to-day communications, dynamic presentations as well as leadership excellence. He has led award winning workshops for leaders and sales teams all over the world and is a much sought-after personal coach. His client base ranges from insurance producers to construction managers, doctors to bankers, actors to politicians. As a professional theater and film director, Michael’s keen sense of observation enables him to immediately provide his clients with practical tools to fortify their strengths and refine their weaknesses.

Michael has traveled the world bringing his You on Your Best Day® program to a wide variety of organizations and businesses and has transitioned his program seamlessly to You on Your Best Zoom Day. He is a speaker and entertainer who brings life to any in-person or virtual event.

In this webinar Michael Allosso identified skills that individuals can utilize to enhance and upgrade their communications in both business settings with associates, employees, and clients, and with their personal relationships. Focus, concentration, observation, feedback, and micro-messaging are just a few of Michael’s 36 secret weapons that are needed to maximize communication effectiveness. (45 minutes)

Multi-Level Leadership: Stop Waiting, Start Leading – Lynn Price

Multi-Level Leadership: Stop Waiting, Start Leading

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Leadership is not a position, it’s a mindset! It’s looking for opportunities to influence others. Multilevel leadership means leading your peers, your superiors, people outside of your organization, and those within your community – not just your subordinates. Don’t wait to get a new title or a new position to start being a leader. Instead, learn how to focus on leadership opportunities that are surrounding your right now.

And here are three key learning objectives:

1. Why leadership is about your mindset, not your title or job description.
2. Where to find opportunities to “Lead Up” and provide unexpected value to your managers, directors, etc.
3. How to engage in “Lateral Leadership” among your peers without creating animosity.

(40 minutes)

John Doehring: Rocket Firm, Rocket Success!Building Transformative Practice Foundations for Transformative Business Results

Rocket Firm, Rocket Success! Building Transformative Practice Foundations for Transformative Business

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Yes, we are living and working in extraordinary, exponential times. Extraordinary challenge, indeed: global pandemic, emotional distress, supply chain disruptions, high energy prices, accelerating inflation, sliding stock market, polarized politics, and a stupendously tight employment market. And yet, even still, professional business fundamentals remain extraordinary as well: soaring demand, burgeoning backlogs, value of expertise, transformational technology, demographic shift, and scarcity of talent. Most professional firm practices are busy, profitable, and strong. So now is not the time for pause, complacency, or inaction. Forward-thinking and future-focused leaders today are aggressively pursuing new ideas, new approaches, and new methods – to accelerate their success into the Fast Future world ahead. Please join us for a high intensity, engaging, and entertaining, look at how these new, innovative approaches to strategic planning, leadership development, and operational execution can lift your firm beyond well the good – and blast off to extraordinary!

Learning Objectives:

1. Catch up now on what’s happening and what’ ahead in our early 21st century, Fast Future adventure.
2. Discover what is working (and what isn’t) in strategic planning, leadership development, and operational execution in the progressive professional firm today.
3. Commit to developing a new plan for your firm (or level up the one you have now) – for extraordinary growth, profit, and sustainable business success!
4. Leave with a tangible, tactical, action-focused, and crystal-clear plan for your next steps – and get going now!

(49 minutes)

June Jewell: Leading Profitable Businesses

Leading Profitable Businesses

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Leaders must understand how to optimize business performance. No A&E professional wants to become a commodity – viewed as the same as everyone else. When two or more firms appear to be the same, price becomes the key differentiating factor. A&E services have become commoditized due to heavy competition, fee pressure, and self-sabotaging behaviors motivated by negative, self-limiting beliefs. Fear of losing, fear of upsetting clients, even fear of being “too expensive” are causing your firm to lose out on higher fees, change orders, and upsells.

In this presentation, June Jewell reveals her 5-Step process all business leaders can use to help you break the trap of commoditization, stop competing on price and embrace your true value so you can get better clients and higher fees.

Leadership Learning Objectives:

• Learn why selecting the right clients is the number one factor for your success
• How to get your team to STOP competing on price and start winning on value
• The exact steps to uncover your hidden value and leverage it into a Winning Advantage
• How to develop a value-driven strategy to get better clients and raise your prices

(54 minutes)

Steve Farber

Love is a Good Damn Business

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In this webinar Steve Farber provides proven strategies, shares inspiring case studies, and teaches practical steps on how to build a corporate culture that operationalizes love as a significant competitive advantage. Operationalize love as a core business practice; it’s about love as a discipline, as a practice.

When love is part of an organization’s framework and operationalized in its culture, employees and customers feel genuinely valued. Employees who are passionate about the work that they do are more loyal, innovative, creative, and inspired, and that translates to great customer experience. They don’t serve others out of obligation, but because of a genuine desire to improve people’s lives. And when customers reciprocate by loving your products, your services, and your people, that’s when something great happens. That’s when you get loyalty. That’s when you get raving fans, and that’s where the money comes from. It’s a refreshingly human way of doing business.

(54 minutes)

Adam Markel: Build Resilient Leaders and Change Proof Cultures

Engagement Trends for 2022 and Beyond

Engagement Trends for 2022 and Beyond
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This presentation outlines today’s most pressing workforce trends, including workforce demographic changes, generational differences (the impact of Gen Y), globalization, employee engagement, corporate social responsibility, social networks, and innovation. The themes of this presentation are especially relevant in these economic times, as it reminds leaders of the need to balance the realities of today with the sustainable organizational needs of tomorrow. In addition to current statistics and data, Mr. Bob Kelleher gives real-life examples of how A/E employers can manage personnel, improve engagement, and increase retention during this dynamic and difficult business climate. Hear the responses to attendees’ many and most pressing questions by Mr. Kelleher. (59 minutes)

What It Takes to Be CEO

What It Takes to Be CEO
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What does it take to get the promotion you deserve and what does it take to be the CEO? Are you hard working and creative and looking for more senior roles? Or, are there others in your firm you want to promote, but can’t bring yourself to do so?

Discover firsthand the six behaviors that keep you stuck, and how to get unstuck.

In this webinar presented by Eric Kaufmann, you will learn about how to:

• Manage your emotions for executive presence
• Serve your Ecosystem instead of your Egosystem
• Honor and value politicking
• Access cross-functional mindset
• Honestly evaluate your competencies

Promote others to amplify your leadership power. (41 minutes)

Resolving to Win the War against Commoditization

Resolving to Win the War against Commoditization
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Commoditization. Marginalization. These are issues reputable geoprofessionals confront every day, thanks to not just a few “bad apples.” And because we are not yet winning the battle, subsurface issues are the most common cause of construction-industry disputes. Don’t give up! We can win the battle against commoditization and marginalization, providing you know what the tools are and how to apply them. Vic Donald does! Terracon’s National Director of Geotechnical Services, Vic says that the commoditization/marginalization battle is one that he wages every day, and frequently wins! Learn how. (39 minutes)

Maximizing Value by Consulting with Clients about Project Risk

Maximizing Value by Consulting with Clients about Project Risk
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Michael J. “Mike” Yost, Esq. (Terracon) discusses how firms can seize opportunities to increase their value by effectively consulting with clients about project risk. The presentation focuses on how to view risk in a preventive way, from a client representative’s perspective, and apply the firm’s expertise to help the client make better decisions. Such proactive consulting helps the firm lower project risk while distinguishing itself in the marketplace, enhancing its value to the entire project team. (46 minutes)