WELCOME TO INGENIUM 2024

Over the last decade employee and leader well-being has been declining with many folks experiencing their own personal levels of burnout.

According to Gartner research, in 2022, employees' stress and worry grew above even 2020 peaks and nearly 60% of employees indicated they are stressed at their jobs every day. Where organizations previously focused on the ‘wellness' of the employee with the primary goal of ensuring employees were productive at work, we are not seeing the movement towards holistic well-being that impacts employee's life as whole.

In this session, we will explore how employees can move towards well-being and how we can advocate for and build a culture rooted in well-being in our workplace.

The interview process is a key part of recruitment, but it can often feel complicated or confusing for both companies and applicants. Let's change that! This session will focus on insights to support both hiring managers and candidates seeking advancement or specifically their next leadership opportunity. We'll increase your confidence in interviews by demystifying phone screens & in-person interviews and covering: Interview process design for employers and Coaching tips for candidates to support success in interviews for leadership roles.

Mass Timber is emerging as a safe, strong, reliable, beautiful and renewable structural material. However, many engineers may not have had mass timber included in their formal education due to past limitations in resources in Canada's post secondary education system.

This presentation will cover the following topics:

• Basics of mass timber: what is it and how is it created?
• Differences between working on mass timber building and working on a steel or concrete building during the design and construction phases
• Other special considerations in working with mass timber
• Benefits of embodied carbon in the structural system
• Benefits of typical delivery methodology for a mass timber building including speed of construction due to pre-fabrication
• Considerations of fire rating for members and connections
• When to delegate design, what design, and why?
• Resources for when it is time to design your first, second…. Or tenth mass timber building

This session delves into the transformative power of cultivating a dynamic coaching culture that empowers individuals, fosters growth, and drives sustainable success.

In today's competitive landscape, organizations that prioritize coaching stand out. A coaching culture emphasizes continuous learning, open communication, and mutual respect. It encourages employees to take ownership of their development, enhances collaboration, and increases engagement and retention rates.

During this talk, you'll discover practical strategies to embed coaching into your organization's DNA.Learn how to equip leaders with the skills to coach effectively, create a supportive environment that values feedback, and implement structured coaching programs. We'll share real-world examples and case studies that illustrate the tangible benefits of a coaching culture, from improved performance and innovation to enhanced job satisfaction and team cohesion.

Manitoba's engineering sector faces increasing demands to adapt to rapid technological changes and environmental challenges. This presentation discusses practical applications of AI in engineering, focusing on its integration into current workflows to enhance decision-making, efficiency, and sustainability.

A retirement income plan combined with an investment plan work together to be immune to market changes. There are many risks associated with retirement planning and investment management and all need consideration, not just the obvious ones.

Using the presenter's own experience and knowledge helping numerous clients create and implement a successful retirement income plan, this presentation will provide an overview and discussion about key considerations facing those preparing to enter retirement. There will be a focus on the retirement planning process and discussion of the implementation options of the retirement income plan to reduce risks and create certainty in all market conditions. Whether you prefer a do-it-yourself approach to managing your own assets or using a professional institution, this session hopes to illuminate some common considerations that need to be addressed when retirement planning, both practical and psychological, to ensure successful implementation.

The key goal is to learn how to plan for and sustain an efficient long-term retirement income that is not going to be changed due to market conditions. The reality is all investors will go through difficult market periods every seven years on average, this means at least four market "crashes" during retirement for most people.

This talk will provide an introduction to geothermal energy, including an overview of subsurface components of geothermal systems, the applications of geothermal energy for power generation and direct use, and the diverse ways that engineering and geology is impacting projects. We will show examples of local and regional developments in Manitoba and beyond.

As the Architect of Record, Grant spent over 10 years working on the design, contract documents, and construction of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, including several years on site as construction proceeded. This is a landmark project that is worthy of a retrospective view 10 years after initially opening to the public. It has an inspirational story and an equally interesting development process through design challenges and final realization - from both an architectural and engineering perspective. In addition to the award-winning efforts of the consulting engineering team, the building is notable for its innovative construction engineering. It is also a project of national significance, appearing on the current Canadian ten-dollar bill.

Whether you are an executive or starting out in your career, having a solid network that you can leverage is vital. Yet few schools include courses about building and maintaining relationships. Effective networking is more than handing out business cards, having a LinkedIn profile, and hoping the phone rings. Whether you're looking to connect within your organization, your industry, or are looking to get on boards, knowing who to contact—and having them return your call—is essential.

In this session, you'll better understand how to create and maintain an effective network both in-person and online.

Learning Objectives

• Better understanding of what networking is (and isn't)
• Ways to get started when you haven't been in touch with people in your past
• Tools and apps to organize your contacts so you can stay in touch
• Overview of LinkedIn, how to set up a profile, and elements to include
• Identifying organizations and events that are worth your time, money, and effort
• Clarifying the results you can expect from networking
• Building alliances with others who can help you advance your career

In the words of the singer "Lady Gaga": We were born this way! Each of us enters this world with an innate personality that determines how we interact, engage, energize, think, and navigate our surroundings. Understanding who we are and being able to recognize traits in those around us can help make our teams and relationships more effective. Have you ever come away from a meeting with a completely different understanding of the outcomes than those of others who attended? What we hear, perceive and decide is affected by our personality.

This session will introduce you to the Myers Briggs Type Indicator tool and walk you through a self-assessment. You will also learn about additional resources to help you further your knowledge in this vast field and apply type research to conflict, team building, communication, and leadership.

Professional Engineers and Geoscientists are required to meet high standards with regards to records management as per the Engineers Geoscientists Manitoba Authentication of Electronic and Hardcopy Documents Guideline. Whether you are a self employed professional, working within a small medium business or a larger enterprise, more and more your work environment is moving away from paper records management, printing, shipping, and handling in favor of electronic records management.

What are the key elements to look for with regards to having a robust electronic records managements system in place and maintained.What are the key ingredients of the records reliability that are managed by this system.Finally, what is the importance of leveraging tools that allow collaboration between professionals, employes and third parties.Digital transformation is anything but individual; it is collective and calls for easy to use collaborative tools.

With research being very minimal in effects of cold environment exposure to steel I girder and reinforced concrete deck composite bridge structures, Anthony aimed at designing and testing a structure that could be used as a baseline for future work. His objective was to construct a replicable 1:6 scale model of a typical steel I girder bridge structure and subject it to ultimate structural failure to determine baseline physical behaviors of the structure. Anthony's work is already being used for additional experiment setups in a larger project to understand environmental effects on steel I girder and reinforced concrete deck composite bridge structures colder temperatures.

Few universities in Canada offer formal engineering training in arctic and permafrost engineering, and unfortunately very little of classic engineering training is of use when engineering in permafrost. This presentation will begin with a basic primer in permafrost engineering, including what is permafrost, what can go wrong in permafrost engineering, what are some of the innovative design solutions, and what are the future challenges facing permafrost engineering in light of current climate changes.

This conference session will examine the critical weaknesses and failures in various risk management system elements that ultimately caused a disaster through the Boeing 737 case study. It will discuss lessons learned for leadership in engineering safety and risk management in any organization. This case study will underscore the importance of proactive risk management, robust engineering practices, and regulatory oversight in preventing harm.

With over 35 years of experience in studying and interpreting Manitoba weather, John Sauder joins us for an exclusive presentation on current local weather patterns, and why weather apps provide different forecasts based on their different weather modelling systems.