8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Julia Landauer

What drives success? How do you position yourself to maximize your potential? How can you reframe your mentality to thrive? Does practice really make perfect? Julia Landauer addresses these questions and more in a thought-provoking and entertaining narrative, taking the audience behind the scenes into what enables success in any career. Although only 27 years old, Julia has been explicitly molding her career for over a decade. She has experienced success, as well as fought through adversity, gaining knowledge from every experience. Via experiential learning and research, Julia explores what every person can do to achieve the success they want.

9:45 AM – 10:30 AM

Christopher Cervellera, Esq.

In this interactive session, CSDA’s outside General Counsel, Christopher Cervellera, Esq. will facilitate a discussion on how business owners and stakeholders of CSDA member companies can plan for long-term success in today’s ever-changing business environment. 

Together, we will explore strategies for success that CSDA members can employ in the areas of: 

• Leadership, corporate governance and oversight;
• Succession planning and key employee retention;
• Estate planning and asset protection;
• Risk management and mitigation; 
• Business continuity and planning; and
• Navigating economic and technological disruption. 

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM

Presenter: Bill Fisher, National Research Company

It’s no secret to the industry that each year hundreds of thousands of saw segments and coring crowns enter the marketplace with intensions of building and maintaining our nation’s infrastructure. However, these segments are doing more than simply building America; they are helping to rebuild our independence from foreign supplies of strategic minerals. This presentation looks to give a broad overview of what impact the recycling of saw segments and core crowns can have to our nations’ growing reliance on foreign minerals, the establishment of new electrification technologies, and overall sustainability of our natural resources.

11:15 AM – 12:00 PM

Presenter: John van Dyk, Canadian Concrete Cutting

This presentation will outline the various key elements to consider when adding concrete scanning services to your concrete cutting business.  Topics reviewed will include: understanding your market and services, selecting equipment, use of existing staff, training operators, educating customers and engineers, providing reports and how to grow your scanning business once established. Presentation will provide a perspective from a contractor using lessons and best practices learned from the trenches. 

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Moderators: Mark DeSchepper, Bruno Silla and Chris Cervellera, CSDA Legal Counsel

This roundtable will address and discuss how concrete sawing and drilling operators should approach and operate in a job where GPR scanning has occurred. This will address the approach of the GPR operator and how he/she should properly mark out, how the concrete operator should successfully operate around those markings and how to address the legal and liability aspects for all parties involved.