Greg Gidez is the retired Corporate Director of Design Services for Hensel Phelps. Prior to joining Hensel Phelps in 2007 Mr. Gidez was a Principal with the Denver firm of Fentress Architects. As the senior design professional with Hensel Phelps, he oversaw corporate design services including preconstruction, procurement, Design-Build, design-assist, and design integration management.  Mr. Gidez is a certified instructor and national speaker on integrated design and construction. He was the 2011 Chair of the Design Build Institute of America Board of Directors, where he started the Design Excellence awards program and the 2015 Chair of the AIA Project Delivery Knowledge Community, where he founded the AIA PDKC’s annual Project Delivery Symposium, Delivering the Future.  Mr. Gidez is in the College of Fellows for both the AIA and the DBIA.  In November of 2022 Mr. Gidez was presented with the Design Build Institute of America’s Brunelleschi Lifetime Leadership Award for recognition of his contributions to the industry. The Brunelleschi Lifetime Achievement Award is the highest individual honor DBIA bestows. In 2023 he was inducted into the National Academy of Construction, NAC. Mr. Gidez serves on the Charles Pankow Foundation Board of Directors, promoting research in advanced design and construction processes.

Laura Stagner, FAIA, DBIA, PMP is the former Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Project Delivery for the Public Buildings Service (PBS) of the US General Services Administration. In that role, she led the adoption of innovative project delivery practices, and shaped national policy to support collaborative teams, ensuring excellence in delivery of high performing federal architecture throughout the nation. Currently, Laura is the Principal at Stagner Consulting, LLC, a practice devoted to providing federal project delivery advisory services. She is the past Chair of the AIA Project Delivery Knowledge Committee and is currently on the AIA Board Knowledge Committee, as well as the national boards of the Design Build Institute of America (DBIA) and of The Charles Pankow Foundation.

Arlen is a consulting architect with special skills and interests in design/construction industry contract analysis, forensic investigation, and alternative project delivery. He recently retired as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Capital Planning at Maricopa Community College District. He is an AIA Fellow and served more than a decade on the AIA Documents Committee, the group that writes and updates the industry contracts and forms that you love to hate. He serves on Building Design + Construction Magazine's editorial advising board, the Advisory Committee for AIA’s Project Delivery Knowledge Community, and has been a featured speaker at the national AIA Conventions.

Rona G. Rothenberg, FAIA DBIA, PMP has devoted her career to service as an architect in government and industry.   Rona has been a program and project manager within public and private sector institutions, including over two decades in California state and local government.  She has provided leadership in master planning, design and construction delivery of over 200 institutional projects.  She has specialized experience, focus and a passion and expertise in planning and delivery of safe, resilient, functional, accessible, affordable, beautiful and lasting justice facilities in California including many completed building projects for the California Supreme Court, Courts of Appeal and Superior Courts, Highway Patrol, Board of State and Community Corrections, county sheriffs, and the California military for successful outcomes in court ser-vices and detention and improved access to justice for the public. Over her career Rona has been involved in leadership and mentorship through the American Institute of Architects at the national and state levels as a conference and advisory group chair, panelist, author and AIA California Board member and 2022 President.  Rona is committed to investing in the design and construction career pipeline across generations, races, genders, abilities and backgrounds.  She is a long-term mentor to younger architects, and participates in the AIA College of Fellows Men-tor program.  Rona has contributed to her community as a City of Alameda Planning Board member, as a non-profit building committee and board member, and as a local public school STEAM program instructor and career advisor.   Rona’s contributions were recognized with the AIA 2020 Thomas Jefferson Award for Public Architecture. Rona is a long-time Bay Area resident. Rona is a proud mother and grandmother! She values her work as a Citizen Architect and continues her family’s long-time tradition of giving back through community service in her professional and personal life.