HKA Tech 2019 conference

Thursday December 12th, 2019 saw the largest gathering of HKA Tech consultants to date, with team members from the USA, UK/Europe and Oceania meeting at the Granite Bay office in California. 

Gino Wideen, original founder and now Partner responsible for HKA Tech globally, opened the meeting. After introducing a key safety tip for teams to be aware on site, Gino proceeded to share his thoughts on both the results for 2019 and plans for 2020.

Although 2019 was a strong year in which targets were met, 2020 is shaping up to be even stronger, with recent kick-offs for many major clients with large user numbers and extensive programs of capital works.

Michael Konieczka, HKA Tech Regional Director for EMEA, joined the meeting online from London. Both Peter Aynsley, HKA Tech Regional Director for Asia Pacific; and Shuva Basu - Senior Project Controls Specialist - both from the Sydney Office - travelled from Sydney for the meeting. Both Peter and Shuva are working on projects such as Las Vegas Sands Corporation for their Las Vegas, Singapore and Macau operations; and Peter was in Denver for 6 weeks on HKA Tech's PMWeb implementation for the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The majority of the day's sessions were devoted to HKA Tech's tools for managing PMWeb implementations, with a focus on increased standardisation, increased efficiencies and lessons learned from the 2019 implementations. Tyler Monson, HKA Tech's Director of Professional Services, had set everyone a task to read selected sections from Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - and there was a great discussion around these sections. The sessions then explored key tools used by HKA Tech, including Trello - including standardisation of approaches and a number of customizations designed to streamline service delivery.