Global Asset Management Summit:
Repeatable Success Stories
International, Federal, State, and Local Government Case Studies
Washington, D.C.
April 27 – 30, 2026
Overview__
April 27, 2026
International Asset Management Success Stories
Launch of
Asset Management Best Practices Exchange – Capital Cities
Afternoon Summit at DC Government Conference Room and Reception
1101 4th Street, SW – next to Waterfront Metro Green Line Station – Parking Available
1101 4th Street, SW – Station 4 – Reception – No Host Dinner
April 28, 2026
Asset Management Success Stories:
Government Executives Sharing Repeatable Processes
All-day event at DC Government Conference Room
1101 4th Street, SW – next to Waterfront Metro Green Line Station – Parking Available
April 29, 2026
AI and Federal Asset Management Summit – Inaugural Event
Rayburn House Office Building – Room 2060
April 30, 2026
Simple Asset Management Legislative Language for Appropriation Bills
Legislator staff education on Capitol Hill
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Detailed Agenda__
April 27, 2026
International Asset Management Success Stories
Launch of
Asset Management Best Practices Exchange – Capital Cities
Afternoon Summit and Reception
Repeatable Success Stories from the United Nations, Washington, D.C., Australia, Canada, and other participating countries. Announcement of how multiple Asset Management associations will assist the United Nations, DC Government and its 14 Capitol Sister Cities in implementing Asset Management Best Practices. DC Government CFO, Glen Lee, will attend the reception. He will invite DC Secretary Kimberly A. Basset, and DC City Council Chair Phil Mendelson to the reception. We also will invite officials from the Embassies of 14 Sister Cities and officials from other Embassies. Officials from the Embassy of Australia have said they will attend.
12:00 pm – Registration and Continental Lunch – Networking
1:00 pm – Welcome and Overview – David C. Clark, Program Manager DC Government Office of the CFO; Wendy McPate, Chair, Australian Asset Management Council; ALN Executive Director, Mike Bordenaro; and event MC, Christina Benty, Former, 2-term Mayor, Golden, British Columbia and President, Strategic Leadership Solutions, an ALN Organizational Member.
1:15 pm – Tiffany Batac, United Nations Infrastructure Asset Management Reference Group, Secretary; KPMG, Director, Infrastructure Advisory – Introducing Eng. Horace Muhamya, South Western Umbrella of Water and Sanitation, Ministry of Water and Environment, Uganda and founder of Africa’s first IAM Chapter
2:00 pm – Wendy McPate on the Asset Management Council and how the VBAM demonstrates the global leadership position they have always advanced
2:30 pm Break
2:45 pm – Values and Benefits from Asset Management: One Template for Rapid Best Practice Sharing – Christina Benty, President, Strategic Leadership Solutions.
3:00 pm – Australia’s Torres Cape Council Asset Management Platform, Jennifer Zach, CMO, MentorAPM and ALN Board of Directors Member
3:30 pm – Enbridge Pipeline, Canada Case Study with Brian Haines, VP of Strategy, Asset Centric, Kahua
4:00 pm – Zahra Ghorbani, PhD, ALN Sole Practitioner Member, Research Director, Ethical AI and Digital Tools Task Force, of the United Nations, Infrastructure Asset Management Informal Reference Group – How the Informal Reference Group is shaping use of the Value and Benefits from Asset Management (VBAM) template
4:15 pm – Influencing the Global Asset Management Movement – Association Panel – Creating a Library of Global Asset Management Success Stories – Value and Benefits from Asset Management (VBAM) as a Best Practices Sharing method – with support from AMC, ALN; Christian Roberts, Principal, Infrastructure and Projects Advisory KPMG LLP and former President, the Institute of Asset Management. Alex Barrenblitt, National Property Managers Association; Government Finance Officers Association and other associations
5:00 pm – End
5:30 pm – Reception at Station 4 restaurant in the building
April 28, 2026
Asset Management Success Stories:
Government Executives Sharing Repeatable Processes
DC Government CFO, Glen Lee, will provide the opening keynote on continued leadership of Asset Management best practices for government executives to replicate. His staff will provide detailed explanations. Other government executives will share their repeatable success stories. Asset Management and insurance will be addressed.
7:30 am – Registration and Networking continental breakfast
8:15 am – Welcome and Overview – Christina Benty, Former Mayor, Golden, British Columbia
8:20 am – Glen Lee, Chief Financial Officer, D.C. Government
8:40 am – D.C. Gov 1 – Dave Clark, Program Manager, DC Gov OCFO
9:00 am – D.C. Gov 2 – Richard Dietz, Project Manager, CARRS, DC Gov OCFO
9:20 am – D.C. Gov 3 – Darryl Street, Associate Treasurer, DC Gov OCFO
9:45 am Break
10:00 am – Wendy McPate on Repeatable Asset Management Processes: Perspectives from Australia
10:45 am – Nicholas Johnson, Chief Evangelist, Kahua, Inc., Brian Haines, Vice President, Kahua
11:30 am – Networking Lunch
12:30 pm – Nancy Skinkle, AIA, LEED(r) AP, Director, Asset Management, Architect of the Capitol
1:15 pm – Art Kurland, Director, Asset Management, University Health, San Antonio, Texas
2:00 pm – Australian Asset Management Legal and Insurance Approaches – Wendy McPate with ALN Insurance Asset Leadership Board Members Jennifer Posten and Paul Chaben, both from GA Group
2:30 pm – Coffee Break
2:45 pm – Human Factors of AM, Christina Benty and Steve Course, Facility Manager, Mid Atlantic Retina
3:15 pm – Association Panel with Government Finance Officers Association, Linux Foundation, Asset Management Council, Institute of Asset Management, and others
4:00 pm – Kerry Lowman, Asset Management Program Director, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
4:30 pm – Wrap-up Panel – Australian Colleagues, Christina Benty, DC Gov
5:00 pm – Program Concludes
April 29, 2026
AI and Federal Asset Management Summit – Inaugural Event
Working with our colleagues at the Linux Foundation’s Coalition for Smarter Buildings, we will showcase the repeatable success of AI approaches as demonstrated at the PAE Livable Building. The link between measurable benefits of AI in Federal Asset Management will be showcased by invited federal agencies and implementors of publicly available, repeatable processes.
8:30 am Coffee and Registration
9:00 am Overview and Introductions
- U.S. Congressional Staff focused on AI – invited
- U.S. Government Accountability Office, Chief Scientist, Sterling
Thomas, PhD, confirmed - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Parastoo Delgoshaei,
Research Engineer, confirmed - National Institute of Building Sciences, Jay Kline, Digital
Infrastructure Technology Program Director and Developer - Linux Foundation’s Coalition for Smarter Buildings and ALN – PAE
Livable Building Case Study as Stepping-Stone to AI in Federal
Facilities - ALN White Paper on AI in IT: Doreena Beebe, Founder and CEO, Salus
Technology Partners; Michael Beale, Managing Partner, TallGrass.AI;
Ralph Sijl, CEO, TallGrass.AI - International Facility Management Association, Brian Haines, VP of
Strategy, Asset Centric, Kahua - ALN Member Case Studies as examples for federal exploration, Zahra
Ghorbani, PhD, ALN Sole Practitioner Member
April 30, 2026
Simple Asset Management Legislative Language for Appropriation Bills
Staff of U.S. Senators and Representatives will be presented short phrases about Asset Management that have been used in past U.S. bills and in Australia that can be used as needed.
8:00 am – No Host Breakfast at Senate Office Building Cafeteria Capitol Hill
Breakfast Remarks by ALN Senior Fellows and from Australian Guests
Legislative meeting instructions to reinforce the previously distributed written instructions.
Meetings start at 9:30 am
Legislative Staff Education – 15 to 20-minute meetings with whichever legislative offices we can arrange meetings to submit a 1-page report on the activities and topics discussed during the week.
1:00 pm – No host Lunch at Talay Thai on Capitol Hill
2:30 pm – Resume meetings as scheduled










