2010 Session Descriptions
*Sessions are subject to change.
| Monday, June 21 | Tuesday, June 22 | Wednesday, June 23 | Thursday, June 24 |
| Training Theatre: | NGVAmerica | INVERS | GPS Insight | U.S. EPA | PERC | AssetWorks |
Monday, June 21
10:00am - 12:00pm
100 Best Fleets Seminar
Judges from the 100 Best fleets contest will go over the applications and discuss the best-in-class-practices from the most outstanding applicants. The 2 hour session is designed as a roundtable forum, completely interactive with additional ideas coming form the 100 Best fleet managers and honorable mentions in attendance. One judge, a former #1 fleet manager, has over 8 pages of new, fresh ideas to implement in your own operation the next day. Another fleet manager has cracked the code on revenue sharing for public employees, incentivizing them for their best cost saving ideas. Many fleets are consolidating, you want to be ahead of the curve on this trend.
This is a session worth coming in early for to learn from the very best-of-the-best fleet managers in North America and network with them.
Presenter: Tom Johnson, 100 Best Fleets
10:00am - 12:00pm
PERC Propane Seminar
Looking for ways to cut your fueling costs, green your fleet and still drive the work vehicles you want to have in your fleet? You’ll hear from leading vehicle manufacturers and propane fuel suppliers that will make your switch to clean abundant propane easier than you think! Complimentary lunch provided.
2:15pm -3:15pm
Opening Keynote Address -Taking the Reins: Leading Your Fleet to the Next Level
Hillsborough County Fleet Management was named #1 of the 100 Best Fleets for two consecutive years - 2008 and 2009. Fleet Director Sharon Subadan, CAFM, CPFP will provide insight into how Team Fleet continues to demonstrate organizational performance excellence while Hillsborough County faces significant fiscal challenges.
Keynote Speaker: Sharon Subadan, Hillsborough County
5:00pm -5:30pm
Training Theatre: NGVAmerica
"The Compelling Case for Natural Gas Vehicles"
This presentation encompasses why so many public and private fleets are converting to natural gas as a transportation fuel. Topics covered include: market drivers and economics, facts and benefits, vehicles and fleet applications, fueling station options, tax incentives and grants, components factored to determine fuel costs, and examples of life cycle costs and simple pay back calculations.
8:30am - 9:30am
Keynote Address - Filling the Glass-Real World Tactics for Improving Leadership and Increasing Productivity
One of the Seven Essential Popular Business Books.” That’s how Today’s Librarian magazine described Barry Maher’s “leadership classic” that inspired this session. Filling the Glass is the antidote to presentations that are entertaining but full of “let’s all think happy thoughts and everything will be wonderful” fluff. It’s chock full of nuts and bolts content to help improve the leadership skills of any government fleet manager, from the most cynical veteran to the most starry-eyed (or the most discouraged) novice. Yet it’s real-world motivational, even inspirational.
Keynote Speaker: Barry Maher, Barry Maher and Associates
9:45am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session 1: Improving the Safety In Your Shop
This session focus on the ways that we "Make Safety a Priority" - this is done by developing and updating an "Annual Strategic Safety Plan", setting realistic goals and creating "vision" for all employees to understand where we are going as an organization. Your organization must develop a monthly training program and the most important component of your program is to track monthly, quarterly and annual progress. Training should include weekly "shop talks" and most certainly using your own "incidents" on the floor as training tools. Finally, every organization should have an Employee Safety Committee that meets monthly and one should find ways to reward good behavior. Remember the ultimate goal is not to save money, but to save lives and send every employee home with all the pieces and parts he/she came to work with, in tact and in one piece.
Presenters: Kelly W. Reagan, City of Columbus, OH; Mitch Weller, Mohawk Resources Ltd.
9:45am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session 2: How to Conserve Fuel Without Really Trying
Attendee’s will learn about a comprehensive fuel conservation program implemented by Polk County in 2008 that continues today. The program achieved tremendous success and cost almost nothing to develop and implement. It’s directly transferrable to any entity. Attendees will learn of the results of the program and the steps to implementation so that when they leave they’ll have a tool kit to use should they wish to implement a similar program.
Presenter: Bob Stanton, Polk County Florida Board of County Commissioners
9:45am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session 3: How to Get the Highest Productivity from Your Staff
It’s been a tough time for everyone with the downturn in the economy. When raises are not an option and budgets are cut, company and staff moral tend to drop. This session will teach you how to successfully motivate your staff. You will also gain the knowledge needed to measure and demonstrate your team’s productivity.
Presenter: Rick Longobart, City of Santa Ana, CA
11:00am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session 1: Implementing a Successful Green Fleet Program
How do you implement new best business practices and create your vision while developing your green fleet goals and objectives? What does it mean to be the best? How do you create and achieve the best green fleet policies possible? Greening a fleet often starts with implementing mandated measures that have a direct impact on reducing costs and emissions. We will provide you with some insightful ideas to assist you promote the use, application and understanding of green technologies, and also to assist your participation and recognition as a Green Fleet leader.
Presenter: Paul Condran, City of Culver City, CA
11:00am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session 2: Using Your Fleet Data to Make the Case for Organizational Change
What's the most important aspect of controlling fleet costs? Fleet managers today are faced with many difficult decisions to continue operating their fleets effectively in this economy while controlling costs. With over 30 years of fleet management experience Mr. Saltzgiver will share his ideas and successes on how a fleet administrator can focus their attention on what's most important. During his career in fleet management ranging from transit to municipal government Mr. Saltzgiver has developed several techniques and strategies to reduce fleet costs, maximize efficiencies and increase communication with management and users. This session will provide attendees with some of the most effective strategies to reduce and control your fleet costs.
Presenter: Steve Saltzgiver, State of Georgia
11:00am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session 3: Business Practices for a Tough Economy
In this session you will discover new ways to efficiently operate when staff and budgets are cut. You will learn how to demonstrate the value of fleet with dwindling resources and new ways to provide much needed services on a lean budget. The economic pressures are present but there are numerous ways to thrive and justify your fleet’s existence.
Presenter: Kenneth Bernard, City of Roanoke, VA
1:00pm -1:30pm
Training Theatre: INVERS
"Fully Automated Motor Pool Management"
Learn how fully automating your pooled, assigned and rental vehicles using the latest car share/key management technology can maximize your fleet dollars even when budgets are tight or non existent. Learn how to overcome objections from management and your customers and achieve ROI at the time of installation.
1:30pm -2:00pm
Training Theatre: GPS Insight
"Achieving Extreme ROI with GPS Tracking"
Robert Donat, Founder and CEO of GPS Insight, will be discussing how fleet professionals can deliver extreme ROI with GPS Tracking. He will provide real-life examples, demonstrating going beyond “dots on a map”, how to think outside of the box, and how you can customize a solution to meet your most costly business challenges.
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Concurrent Session 1: Grant and Funding Workshop
Stymied by unfunded emission reduction mandates? Facing the complex challenge of meeting regulations with fewer available dollars? Grant Writing 101 provides fleet professionals with dynamic tools to identify collaborative and funding resources, develop relevant projects, and successfully manage grant contracts from application through completion. Presenters from the City of Culver City and the City of Long Beach will also demonstrate their own models for success with attendees.
Presenters: Jane Leonard, City of Culver City, CA
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Concurrent Session 2: Making the Case for an Effective Fleet Replacement Program
A sound replacement program is critical for managing a fleet effectively. Simply put, no organization can optimize fleet performance or costs if it does not replace its vehicles and equipment in a timely manner. Unfortunately, economic downturns often undermine fleet replacement programs as organizations slash replacement funding in an effort to balance their budgets. In this session, you will learn a step-by-step approach for developing a compelling business case to decision makers for properly funding fleet replacement. If your replacement program has been sidetracked by the Great Recession, this approach will help you get it back on track.
Presenter: Paul Lauria, Mercury Associates
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Concurrent Session 3: What Your Team Needs to Know About the Boss!
What do you need to know about the person you work for; what makes them tick; what are their pet peeves; how will they react in certain circumstances; how do they deal with mistakes; where do they come from; what are their values and goals in life; what are their priorities in the organization; and what can I expect from my boss when I have bad news? This are some of the situations and difficulties in learing what to expect from someone you have never met or work with before. Come and see how you can map out your own personal philosophy and inform your team members on who you are and what they can expect from you!
Presenter: John E. Alley, City of San Diego, CA
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Concurrent Session 1: Fleet Facility Programming and Planning
In this seminar attendees will learn about operationally based facility planning and focuses on proper facility design and/or renovation with a strong emphasis on enhancing operations, increasing mechanic productivity, increasing safety and reducing building maintenance and energy cost. Operational based planning does not only focus on today’s mode of operation but how services will be delivered in the future. It takes into account trends in the industry and focuses on how the facility will need to accommodate looming technological changes.
Presenter: Roger L. Thompson, Effective Management Decisions LLC
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Concurrent Session 2: The Truth About Oil
The old rules don't apply any longer. Learn the truth about oil life extension programs, re-refined oil and the latest oil filtration technology.
Presenters: Steve Kirchner, SOMS Technologies LLC; Rodney Walker, Safety-Kleen; Colin Colvin, Safety-Kleen
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Concurrent Session 3: Downsizing Your Fleet: A New Approach
Learn about DC Fleet Share and how it changed the fleet paradigm for real cost reduction in the District of Columbia.
Presenter: William O. Howland, Jr., District of Columbia
4:20pm - 5:45pm
Big Challenges and Big Solutions Networking Roundtables
Moderator: Mike Antich, Government Fleet Magazine
6:30pm - 7:00pm
Training Theatre: U.S. EPA
"SmartWay Certified Vehicles"
Purchasing new vehicles for your fleet? When you buy SmartWay certified vehicles, you are helping to reduce air pollution and improve energy efficiency. Learn more about the smart way to make an important contribution to a cleaner environment and our energy independence.
7:00pm - 7:30pm
Training Theatre: PERC
"CleanFUEL USA"
CleanFUEL USA is recognized by fleet managers, fuel equipment manufacturers and distributors throughout the world for building safe and reliable equipment that satisfies environmental regulations and U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Topics covered will include: Autogas (LPG) refueling and station equipment, engine systems and fleet management programs. CleanFUEL USA provides the "Total Alternative Fuel Solution" with superior economic and environmental advantages.
Wednesday, June 23
8:30am - 9:30am
Keynote Address - If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Government
The American people are frustrated with their government-dismayed by a series of high-profile failures (Iraq, Katrina, the financial meltdown) that seems to just keep getting longer. Yet our nation has a proud history of great achievements: victory in World War II, our national highway system, welfare reform, the moon landing. We need more successes like these to reclaim government's legacy of competence. In If We Can Put a Man on the Moon, William Eggers and John O'Leary explain how to do it. The key? Understand-and avoid-the common pitfalls that trip up public-sector leaders during the journey from idea to results. At a time of unprecedented challenges, this keynote, with its abundant examples and hands-on advice, is the essential guide to making our government work better.
Keynote Speakers: William D. Eggers, Deloitte Services, LP and John O'Leary, Harvard Kennedy School
9:45am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session 1: Successful Parts Room Management
Are you ready for a parts room audit? In this seminar, you will discover the true cost of inefficiencies, view the business perspective, learn the creative options that have worked and how to work with vendors and suppliers.
Presenter: Sam Lamerato, City of Troy, MI
9:45am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session 2: Grant and Funding Workshop
Stymied by unfunded emission reduction mandates? Facing the complex challenge of meeting regulations with fewer available dollars? Grant Writing 101 provides fleet professionals with dynamic tools to identify collaborative and funding resources, develop relevant projects, and successfully manage grant contracts from application through completion. Presenters from the City of Culver City and the City of Long Beach will also demonstrate their own models for success with attendees.
Presenters: Jane Leonard, City of Culver City, CA
9:45am - 10:45am
Concurrent Session 3: Panel-Eliminate RFP's
Are you tired of spending countless hours and bundles of money on RFPs? Learn how to purchase more efficiently using unique strategies that are already working for fleets across the country. Our panel of fleet managers will share their insights into effective purchasing practices.
Moderator: Greg Haglin, NJPA
Panelists: Rick Longobart, City of Sana Ana, CA; John Hunt, City of Portland, OR; Craig Croner, City of Boise, ID; David Kilbourne, San Antonio Water System; Steve Riley, City of Coral Gables, FL
11:00am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session 1: 10 Innovative Solutions in 60 Minutes
Join this fast-paced session and learn about the latest solutions that need to be on your radar. From fuel savings to time savings, these technologies can benefit you immediately.
11:00am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session 2: How to Conserve Fuel Without Really Trying
Attendee’s will learn about a comprehensive fuel conservation program implemented by Polk County in 2008 that continues today. The program achieved tremendous success and cost almost nothing to develop and implement. It’s directly transferrable to any entity. Attendees will learn of the results of the program and the steps to implementation so that when they leave they’ll have a tool kit to use should they wish to implement a similar program.
Presenter: Bob Stanton, Polk County Florida Board of County Commissioners
11:00am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Session 3: Panel - Everything You Need to Know About Wireless Vehicle Management
Learn how telematics solutions are changing the way fleets work. Our panel of experts will go beyond the basics and share how this technology can impact routing, fuel costs, idle times, safety, maintenance management, data input, exception reporting, take-home usage and much more.
Moderator: Rick Longobart, City of Santa Ana, CA
Panelists: Chris Merrill, Trimble Navigation; Troy Goldhammer, E.J. Ward, Inc.; Robert Donat, GPS Insight; Aaron Denton, Zonar Systems; Brian Miles, Networkfleet
1:00pm - 1:30pm
Training Theatre: AssetWorks
"The Next Generation of Business Intelligence"
Bob Sparks will present an overview of computer-based techniques to support better fleet decision making. His presentation will cover Telematics, Performance Metrics, Dashboards, Exception Reporting, and Benchmarking.
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Concurrent Session 1: USMC Fleet: What You Can Learn From the Marines
Discover how the Marines manage their fleets! Receive first-class knowledge on the use of petroleum reduction and alternative fuels, and how it has brought success to the Marines' fleets.
Presenter: James Gough, U.S. Marine Corps
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Concurrent Session 2: Preparing for a Fleet Audit and Case Study Analysis
This session will provide you with the knowledge to properly prepare for an internal or external audit of your fleet. You will be given a 47 page self-assessment guide that is comprised of audit criteria derived from hundreds of public fleet audits. Additionally, the speaker will discuss a case study of Atlanta’s internal fleet audit that was conducted by their city auditors. The audit compared Atlanta’s cost structure to similar sized fleets from across the country. This case study is designed to enhance your critical thinking and analytical skills in order to successfully challenge the data and make sure your organization is being properly compared against others.
Presenter: Steve Riley, City of Coral Gables, FL
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Concurrent Session 1: Great Ideas from the 100 Best Fleets
“100 Best Ideas From the 100 Best Fleets, that Cost Nothing to Implement”
Funding is a scarce, competitive commodity for fleets in 2010. Only productivity and creativity will enable us to survive this current deep recession. Tom is the Author of the 100 Best Fleets contest and travels around the country to meet the very best-of-the-best fleet managers through his 100 Best Fleets seminars.In this one hour session Tom will endeavor to give you as many, as he can, of the best ideas from each of the top 100 Fleets in 2010. (yes, he will talk fast) One fleet manager in Florida was able to save $450,000 in three months with his idea, another fleet manager in Michigan was able to contribute over $500,000 to the general fund in one year with his idea. Several municipalities were able to receive over $600,000 in grant money just for creative ideas in their operations. Another fleet manager in California was able to invest $20,000 with a return of $3.5 million dollars for replacements in 36 months.
THIS ONE SESSION COULD PAY FOR YOUR WHOLE TRIP; YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS ONCE-ONLY SPEED DATING FOR FLEET MANAGERS
Presenter: Tom Johnson, 100 Best Fleets
4:30pm - 5:30pm
Concurrent Session 2: Business Practices for a Tough Economy
In this session you will discover new ways to efficiently operate when staff and budgets are cut. You will learn how to demonstrate the value of fleet with dwindling resources and new ways to provide much needed services on a lean budget. The economic pressures are present but there are numerous ways to thrive and justify your fleet’s existence.
Presenter: Kenneth Bernard, City of Roanoke, VA
8:00am - 5:00pm
FASTER Fleet University
The morning session is tailored to help fleet professionals focus on current issues and best practices in the fleet industry. The afternoon session, focuses on the needs of Fleet Managers, Assistant Managers and Administrators who use FASTER allowing them take their operation to the next level. Read more
8:00am - 5:00pm
AssetWorks Fleet Software Workshop
Learn about the latest features and functionality in their market leading fleet management software application. AssetWorks implementation personnel will review the latest and greatest features with the most recent software release, review what's in the pipeline for our next release, and help with any and all functionality questions during this session. Read more
9:00am - 1:00pm
INVERS Motor Pool Workshop
This is your opportunity to explore the world of motor pool automation for assigned, pooled and rental vehicles. Learn from INVERS staff and experienced customers first-hand how INVERS products and services may help you to maximize your fleet management potential even when budgets are tight or non-existent. Read more
