Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC)

Spring 2004 IAMC Professional Forum
Tucson, Arizona: Program Highlights

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Kick it Up a Notch:

Blending Best of Class
Business Practices to
Maximize Corporate Growth.

Photos © Metropolitan Tucson Convention & Visitors Bureau

The 3 1/2-day meeting will include high-quality networking opportunities and an ever-timely learning experience that:

• Emphasizes the relationship between global economics, a sound financial matrix and corporate growth or shareholder wealth.

• Showcases Best of class corporate business practices.

• Explains how to develop, implement and manage corporate specific growth strategies.

General Session and Luncheon presenters will address a variety of topics relevant to corporate real estate and asset management in the industrial and manufacturing sectors. The popular Peer-to-Peer Session will provide an opportunity for corporate, economic development and service provider professionals to talk candidly in their respective groups and collectively about their expectations of each other. Workshops will offer how-to instructions for a variety corporate real estate activities including design build, project management, lease management, and capital appropriations.

Tuesday evening promises to be memorable in Tucson

A spectacular dinner will be served under the wings
of the B-29 Bomber, "Sentimental Journey."

The education sessions will end at 3 p.m.
on Tuesday in order to transport IAMC attendees to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center "Boneyard" for a docent-guided tour of over 5,000 retired military and commercial aircraft. After this tour, IAMC attendees will be taken to Pima Air and Space Museum for a reception and dinner and a host of entertaining and educational activities, including:

a guided tour of President Kennedy's Air Force One
an experience on the Morphis
flight simulator
an opportunity to explore over
100 years of aviation history
a narrated tram tour of the museum grounds with over 250 aircraft on display
a picture made in the cockpit of an F-15 Eagle, a supersonic SR-71 Blackbird or an A-10 Warthog

The evening will culminate in Hangar 4 with a spectacular dinner prepared by Tucson's finest caterer and will be served under the wings of the B-29 Bomber, "Sentimental Journey." This promises to be an afternoon and evening that will not soon be forgotten.

23 Reasons to Attend the
Spring 2004 Professional Forum in Tucson

Learn from Top Management Thinkers and Your Peers

Learn about the balanced-scorecard technique from its management guru co-developer Robert Kaplan.
Get a glimpse of how business is changing and where it is headed from futurist Jim Carroll.
Experience peer-to-peer knowledge exchange.
Hear about the latest in design-build construction techniques in workshop M1.
Participate in a lease-management workshop T1.
Explore strategic planning capital appropriation systems in workshop T2.

Network with Friends and Business Associates

Have dinner with friends from previous Professional Forums.
Schedule meetings with important business associates.
Meet current clients.
Cultivate potential new clients.
Find out who's hiring.
Interview potential additions to your staff.
Enjoy the evening networking receptions and dinners.
Interview potential service providers.
Find people with similar professional education interests.

Enjoy the Historic and Picturesque Arizona High Country

Escape winter's cold and damp for warm, dry and cloudless Arizona.
Play golf at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort's two Tom Fazio-designed PGA courses.
Enjoy the service and ambiance of one of the nation's top-20 resorts.
Play tennis in the crisp, dry desert air.
Visit the site of over 5,000 historic aircraft, and have dinner at the Pima Air & Space Museum.
Explore the picturesque countryside by Jeep, horse, mountain bike or on foot.
Check out historic Tucson.
Participate in the personal guest tour of the Old Town Artisans marketplace.