APRIL 14-16, 2025
WASHINGTON D.C.
HAMILTON HOTEL
Now available to guests who book with the online link after registering, or by mentioning Quanta Services when calling the hotel directly at 202.682.0111 – April 14th through April 16th 2025.
Agenda
MONDAY APRIL 14TH
TUESDAY APRIL 15TH
7:00 - 8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Welcome to DC
WHERE THE FUTURE OF SAFETY SPEAKS
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Welcome Reception: Via Sophia at the Hamilton Hotel (1001 14th St NW, Washington D.C. 20005)
8:05 - 8:30 a.m. Opening Remarks: SVP, Safety, Health & Environmental (Quanta Services)
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Ivan Pupulidy (Professor & HOP Coach)
THEME: Prevention Through Learning. How do we move an organization that is pretty darn safe to become a learning organization? Explore what blocks learning in comparatively safe work environments and discuss how learning at all levels of an organization can result in safer outcomes.
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. PANEL: Crucial Conversations with Executives
THEME: Join executives as they share their insights on the key challenges, emerging opportunities, and strategic imperatives shaping the energy transition.
12:45 - 1:30 p.m. PANEL: Powerful Partners: how does the partnership align between Safety and Operations?
THEME: What should the relationship between operations and safety look like? How does a safety organization add value to operations? How can operations best use a safety staff to help them succeed?
1:30 - 2:15 p.m. PANEL: Breaking Through the Clay Layer
THEME: Learn how can organizations work to gain alignment around their vision from the executive team and down through the clay layer where execution of the vision takes place.
TUESDAY (CONTINUED) APRIL 15TH
2:45 - 3:30 p.m. PANEL: Beyond the Grid – HOP Perspectives from Diverse Industries
THEME: Gain insights into what’s working—and what’s not—with human & organizational performance at the field level from partners outside the utility sector.
3:30 - 4:15 p.m. PANEL: Accountability with the New View of Safety
THEME: Balancing accountability while executing the new view of safety.
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. DINNER at Hamilton Live (600 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20005)
WEDNESDAY APRIL
16TH
7:00 - 7:55 a.m. Breakfast
7:58 - 8:00 a.m. Opening Remarks: SVP, Safety, Health & Environmental (Quanta Services)
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Andrea Baker (Human and Organizational Performance Mentor)
THEME: Operational Learning is a technique of learning from those closest to the work, which has proven to lead to the development of improvement actions that increase system resilience to human error by: addressing deviation prone rules, identifying error traps, and improving or adding defenses that reduce the consequences of human error.
9:00 - 9:45 a.m. PANEL: Learning from STKY Events
THEME: As an industry aligned around the elimination of Life Altering, Life Threatening and Life Ending events, it is important that we learn from each other’s experiences and maximize our ability to share. This panel will review 2 fatal events that occurred in the industry and focus on the learning take aways.
10:15 - 11:00 a.m. PANEL: AI in Safety
THEME: Transforming Safety with Artificial Intelligence & Emerging Technology – what’s coming in the near future?
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. PANEL: Field Perspectives - WTF does it all mean?
THEME: The PowerLine Podcast host, Ryan Lucas, gleans craftworkers’ insights on the topics discussed during the symposium.
11:45 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Call to Action / Closing Remarks: SVP, Safety, Health & Environmental (Quanta Services)
Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) founded the Infrastructure Safety Symposium to further advance the health and safety of the energy infrastructure community. As the leadingspecialty contractor with the largest and highly trained skilled workforce in North America, Quanta Services provides fully integrated infrastructure solutions for the electric power, underground utility and communications industries. At Quanta, safety is a core value and it is our mission to provide and maintain a safe work environment for our family of employees.