Design & Build

2021 Fall

Conference:

The Business of Building Design

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Need technical help? Are you a speaker wanting to check your mic, video, and screen? Join Raven, the A-Team member available for help and informtation.

Open to ALL ticket holders, this is a short pre-conference get together. See who's attending, schedule your personal meet-ups, and get orientated with Hopin.

Kick off the conference with an interactive session that's a mix of ice breakers, networking, and intention setting for what you want to learn at the event. Learn to navigate the Hopin platform, reach out to others, set up your own meetups, and more.

Learn how to find the right players, stop what destroys team spirit, create a culture of winning teamwork, and keep your A-Players. There you have it, the four steps. Sounds simple, but it's not easy.

Meet Ben Tabolt. Starting soon after college, he built a small but mighty team that provides support services to designers around the country. Through sales and acquisitions, his team has grown to hundreds, scattered throughout the world, capable of servicing the universe. The virtual universe, that is. At least, for now.

Meet our AIBD Prez and 1st VP and learn about one of our featured attendees as this fast-paced and fun networking event between sessions.

Design agreements can be either written or oral and still be legally enforceable, but some contracts must be in writing in order to be binding. However, oral contracts are very difficult to enforce. It's important to understand which types of contracts absolutely must be written in order to be valid.

AIBD provides its members, Designer Docs, a crowd-sourced library of building design business forms and templates. Meet Ed Nagorsky, AIBD's attorney on-call who reviews the Designer Docs and can advise you on how to use them.

Take advantage of this opportunity to ask Ed questions about types of business organizations, contracts in the information age, IP rights, protecting customer data, and more.

Don't miss a thing. 30 minutes after a session is complete, here's where you'll find the replay. Replays are available right here until 12 PM ET on Sunday, December 12.

Meet our AIBD Prez and 1st VP and learn about one of our featured attendees as this fast-paced and fun networking event between sessions.

Would you like to speed up your learning by getting quick, accurate feedback and advice? Talk with someone who provides the same services and performs the same job functions as you? The AIBD College of Fellows is making itself available as business mentors and coaches to help you improve and advance your career.

Meet our College Chancellor, James Wright, a former AIBD President and 30+ year, business veteran. Jim will discuss how to build camaraderie, and develop a sustainable change in your career, by working with a mentor. Join him on screen, and any other Fellows who join him, and be mentored, today.

Don't miss a thing. 30 minutes after a session is complete, here's where you'll find the replay. Replays are available right here until 12 PM ET on Sunday, December 12.

The conference stays open all night and into tomorrow morning. Plan to hook up with others here, or visit the exhibit booths.

Don't miss a thing. 30 minutes after a session is complete, here's where you'll find the replay. Replays are available right here until 12 PM ET on Sunday, December 12.

Would you attend this chat if you were guaranteed to increase in new projects by following a few simple tips?

Fresh from the Darren Hardy Business Master Class, Bernie will be sharing tips he learned that are not common in a typical residential design firm. Apply these tips and elevate your business above your competition.

In addition, Bernie has invited AIBD members to provide something special that lands them the contract agreement with their clients. They are going to share with us the tips they use that help their successful residential design firms.

Open to ALL ticket holders, this is a short pre-conference get together. See who's attending, schedule your personal meet-ups, and get orientated with Hopin.

Need technical help? Are you a speaker wanting to check your mic, video, and screen? Join Raven, the A-Team member available for help and informtation.

Kick off the conference with an interactive session that's a mix of ice breakers, networking, and intention setting for what you want to learn at the event. Learn to navigate the Hopin platform, reach out to others, set up your own meetups, and more.

Whether you own your own design business, work for a firm, or have a side-hustle and do both, if there's no money, there's no mission. As technicians and not business people, we often use our checkbook as our balance as our financial statement. There's money there, things must be going well. But is it?

AIBD has partnered with the Great Game of Business to provide education and resources to help its members succeed as leaders in our business, families, churches, sports leagues, associations, basically our lives. At the foundation, is financial literacy. Join our Executive Director, Steve Mickley, as he provides you a snapshot of those resources and shares how he's available to help you implement the Great Game in your business.

Meet our AIBD Prez and 1st VP and learn about one of our featured attendees as this fast-paced and fun networking event between sessions.

Help protect your family's future. Probate court proceedings (during which a deceased person's assets are transferred to the people who inherit them) can be long, costly, and confusing.

It's no wonder so many people take steps to spare their families the hassle. Have you?

Learn estate and asset protection planning techniques, the risks and benefits of avoiding probate, the best forms of real estate ownership, the most common estate planning mistakes, recent changes in estate and gift tax laws, the duties of trustees and executors, myths about living trusts, when to update your will, and how to prevent will contests.

Meet our AIBD Prez and 1st VP and learn about one of our featured attendees as this fast-paced and fun networking event between sessions.

There is a good explanation for why we get stuck trying to simply make money and rarely get around to building a life that matters. We are constantly fighting to balance two opposing daily realities: The Tyranny of the Urgent vs. The Priority of the Important.

Our Keynote Speaker, Chuck Blakeman, will help you figure out the "why" of what you do and then show you how to live life for that.

Don't miss a thing. 30 minutes after a session is complete, here's where you'll find the replay. Replays are available right here until 12 PM ET on Sunday, December 12.

Don't miss a thing. 30 minutes after a session is complete, here's where you'll find the replay. Replays are available right here until 12 PM ET on Sunday, December 12.