LCI Lean in Design Forum 2025

Top Five Reasons to Attend:

• Engage on Lean design principles and practices presented by industry leaders.
• Gain ideas and implementable tips to improve your workflows.
• Connect with other professionals interested in Lean design.
• Gain Lean tools to transform your career and practice.
• Get a competitive edge by adopting Lean in your work.

Attendees from every area and phase of the design and construction industry gather at the LCI Lean in Design Forum, including:

• Architects, engineers, and designers
• Owners, owners’ reps, and general contractors
• Trade partners engaged in Design/Build and Design/Assist
• Preconstruction managers, Design managers, and BIM/VDC managers
• Estimators
• Anyone interested in or impacted by Lean in Design!

FEATURED SPEAKERS [Thursday, May 1st]:

• Keynote Address
  Eric Cesal
• Applying AI to the Design Process - Analog vs AI
  Brendan Mullins, Stantec | Troy Hoggard, CannonDesign | Tony Montalto, HKS | Matt Goldsberry, HDR | Hal Brothers, AutoDesk
• TVD: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly of Providing More Predictable Outcomes
  Annmarie Thurnquist, Jacobs | James Pease, UCSF | David Wyatt, Brasfield & Gorrie | Christian Pikel, The ReAlignment Group | Stan Chiu, HDR
• Meet the 2025 Design Award and Engineering Design Award winners
• Mediated Agency and Collective Intelligence: the Emergent Future of AI and Lean
  Phil Bernstein, Yale School of Architecture
  

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Please select three Learning Round Table Discussions during your registration submission:

12:45-1:30 PM

• Kit of Parts: Digital Twin - Megan Burns, Boulder Associates | David Lerdahl, Lerdahl
• Leveraging P3 Collaboration to Expand Across to Care - Thomas Longhi, Stantec | Dan Myers, Pepper Construction | Julia Louie, UI Health Systems
• It's a Bird!  It's a Plane! It's Lean to Save the Day! -  Heather Kilday, Sutter Health | Juan Restrepo, The Boldt Company | Nancy Vongphasouk, SmithGroup
• Adapting Lean Tools to a Program Management Approach - Alison Lunny, WSP | Ryan Couto, WSP
• Using Project CoS and CBA for a Net Zero Design Challenge - Luciana Burdi, Massachusetts Port Authority | Cynthia Tsao, Navilean

1:45– 2:30 PM

• Set Based Design - Conversation Continued - Stan Chiu, HDR | Michael Williams, Stantec | Justin Wise, Stantec
• Using Value Stream Mapping to Reduce Bumps in the Design Road - Robin Anderson, Zimmerman Architectural Studios | Steve Mumm, UW Health | Tony Sullivan, Findorff
• Prefabricated Cladding: United Airlines Case Study -  Donald Henke, Turner Construction Company | Ken Lowery, BRPH | Michelle Martin, Civil Innovation
• VDC for Lean Design: Unlocking Projects' Efficiency -  Diana Gasca, Hermosillo | Pablo Buensuceso Pina, Hermosillo
• Inner Workings of a TVD Collab Trifecta - Brad White, Gensler | Christopher Payne, Gensler | Diane Anglin, Carta Advisors

3:00– 3:45 PM

• Big Room Magic: Choosing By Advantages in Design -   Ned McKnight, DLR Group | Fernando Rivas, McCarthy | Scott Carfi, McCarthy
• Optimizing Design for Speed to Market - Madison Agnew, HGA | Isvet Paz, HGA | Varun Raja, DPR
• Resetting the Strategy: Laying the Groundwork for Innovation - Angela Bowman, Boldt | Stan Chiu, HDR | James Pease, UCSF
• Transforming Structural Engineering with AI: A Design Genie - Nafisul Hasan, SSOE Group
• Making DfMA a Real Thing Using a Manufacturing Mindset - Andrew Rhodes, Southland |  Nelson Beaver, Southland

Expand your Lean learning with optional Learning Day sessions (Wednesday, April 30th) for an additional fee. Each class is registered with AIA CES for 4 LU credits, unless otherwise noted.

• Getting Decisions that Stick
• LCI TARGET VALUE DELIVERY Module 2:  Setting the Stage for Success
• LCI TARGET VALUE DELIVERY Module 3:  Organizing for Flow and Efficiency
• LCI TARGET VALUE DELIVERY Module 4:  Modeling for Predictable Outcomes
• LCI LAST PLANNER SYSTEM ® IN DESIGN
• LCI AI-POWERED SCRUM:   STREAMLINED SUCCESS IN CONSTRUCTION
• LCI INTERMEDIATE LAST PLANNER SYSTEM® FOR DESIGN PRACTICAL APPLICATION
• LCI LEAN IN THE DESIGN PHASE
• LCI BUILDING FOUNDATIONAL BEHAVIORS FOR LEAN LEADERSHIP [8 LU credits]