Breakout Sessions

2025 Breakout Schedule

Discover the pivotal advantages of participating in breakout sessions! These sessions offer attendees the opportunity to glean insights from a diverse array of presenters spanning a wide spectrum of topics. This year, we're taking things up a notch by introducing specialized "how-to" sessions that are tailored to maximize your grasp of facilities management systems. 

 

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How To: Leverage the APPA Staffing Model and FTE Planner in Facilities Services

Discover strategies for creating effective staffing models for cleaning operations. This session will walk through the APPA calculation workbook, work through example scenarios, and demonstrate how to load data into the FTE Planner. Using AssetWorks Facility Services as a case study, you'll gain insights to help you plan and manage staffing more confidently.

How To: Create and Deploy a BIRT Report

Unlock the process of crafting and deploying BIRT Reports in this informative session. Begin with an introduction to the BiRT Report Designer, followed by the creation of data sources. Learn how to seamlessly incorporate parameters and fields into your reports, and gain the expertise to upload your completed BIRT report to AiM effortlessly.

How To: Configure and Deploy Meaningful WorkDesks

Unlock the full potential of WorkDesk Dashboard Widgets by learning how to plan, configure, and deploy a new WorkDesk that enhances user experience and productivity. This session will walk you through creating and managing groups, crafting custom widgets, and seamlessly integrating them into your dashboard.

As part of this session, we’ll explore a real-world example of a well-designed WorkDesk tailored to streamline operations and improve decision-making. Using a Preventive Maintenance (PM) & Inspection WorkDesk as our case study, we’ll cover:

 

Custom Queries and Reports: Build a PM dashboard with actionable insights into upcoming, overdue, and projected tasks.

Data Visualization Tools: Utilize grids, charts, and widgets to monitor asset health, workload distribution, and high-maintenance assets.

Inventory Integration: Add widgets to track critical spare parts and prevent PM delays.

Inspection Dashboards: Effectively oversee compliance, schedule resources, and analyze findings.

 

This session combines foundational knowledge with practical applications to help you create WorkDesks that drive efficiency and informed decision-making across your organization.

How To: Bulk load and Update Data

Discover how to streamline data management with powerful bulk-loading and updating techniques. This session will guide you through leveraging tools like AssetSync and SpaceSync, understanding SDCs and ABPs, and implementing effective data migration strategies. Learn how to choose the right tools and approaches to suit various scenarios and requirements, ensuring data efficiency and accuracy.

How To: Eliminate Paper from your Material Management Process

Learn how to transform your material management process by eliminating paper-based workflows. This session covers essential concepts and transaction types, introduces Go Purchasing for initiating material requests, and demonstrates how to efficiently fulfill them using Go Inventory. Discover how to simplify physical counts within the same platform, creating a seamless, sustainable, and efficient approach to material management.

How To: Effectively plan and schedule PM's in 45 Minutes

Learn practical techniques for efficiently planning and scheduling preventive maintenance tasks. This session will guide you through using AiM's built-in tools, automating PM schedule generation, estimating labor, material, contract, and equipment costs, and reviewing a sample report to better understand PM labor and cost projections, helping you enhance maintenance planning and execution.

How To: Harness IQ ReST APIs with PowerBI

Explore how to integrate IQ REST APIs with PowerBI for powerful data insights. This session covers foundational concepts of REST API composition, guides you through creating data sources within PowerBI, and helps you enhance your analytical capabilities by combining these tools for dynamic reporting and decision-making.

How to: Build Better ReADY Request Forms

Learn how to take your ReADY Request forms to the next level with best practices for setup and configuration. This session will cover the essentials of creating tiles to streamline processes, explore various generator types and their applications, and provide actionable insights to ensure your forms are designed for maximum efficiency and user satisfaction.

How To: Implement and Utilize Team Scheduler

Discover how to effectively implement and use Team Scheduler to enhance planning and collaboration. This session will guide you through the setup and configuration process, share best practices for smooth integration, and explore innovative strategies to incorporate Team Scheduler into your existing workflows, boosting teamwork and productivity.

How To: Optimize Scheduling and Workloading with Facility Services

Learn how to leverage the advanced scheduling and workloading features of the all-new Facility Services module. In this session, you’ll create a service assignment for a preexisting building, review staffing resources and weekly workloads, and adjust service assignments to ensure evenly distributed workloads. Discover practical strategies for streamlining operations and maximizing efficiency in facility management.

How To: Build and Automate Your Inspection Process

This practical session will teach you the essentials of creating and streamlining your inspection workflows. You will explore inspection types, results tracking, and reporting while also discovering how to automate processes—from customer requests to work order creation. This session provides actionable steps to enhance your inspection management in just 60 minutes.

Roundtable: What should we build next?

Help shape the future! In this collaborative roundtable, we'll think outside the box to brainstorm the next big thing in facilities management. What gaps can we address to make a real difference in your day-to-day operations? Share your ideas, discuss opportunities, and inspire the innovations that could transform our industry. Your input drives what's next!

Best Practices: Optimizing Space Management: A Guide to AiM and ReADY Solutions

Take a guided tour of the powerful space management tools in AiM and ReADY. This session will break down the design intent behind each solution, explain their primary functions, and show how they address key challenges in space management. Learn how to maximize their potential to meet your organization’s needs effectively and efficiently. Perfect for those looking to align with AssetWorks’ best practices!

Best Practices: Exploring Go Apps: Role-Based Solutions for Your Team

Take a guided tour of the role-based Go applications available in AiM. This session will cover the primary functions of each app, the challenges they address, and how to deploy them effectively according to AssetWorks’ design intent. Discover how these tools can streamline workflows and support your team’s unique needs. Ideal for those looking to enhance operational efficiency!

Best Practices: Is Your AiM/ReADY Configuration Keeping Up?

Discover how to assess whether your AiM/ReADY configurations are meeting today's business needs. This session will explore how to identify outdated configurations, manage changes effectively, and ensure your system aligns with evolving operational demands. Learn best practices for maintaining a system that supports your goals and drives efficiency. Bring your questions and experiences for a collaborative discussion!

And more! We are cooking up several other sessions. Details to be shared soon. 

Is there something you would like to see added to the schedule? Let us know HERE.

 

Note: The schedule is subject to change at any time. 

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