Space Management and Tenant Engagement Roundtable

Avoid Hygiene Theater: Communicating Your Cleaning Protocols to Tenants

Speaker: Steve Ashkin

Over the past two years there has been an increase in requirements and more scrutiny around commercial cleaning. As public health concerns and public interest and education has grown, the reason and methods people are cleaning surfaces and spaces should still align with your cleaning protocols and standards. As the commercial cleaning expert for your company, you should be able to communicate why and how your cleaning protocols are accurate and effective. Join Steve Ashkin as he presents the reasons to avoid hygiene theater while still be able to communicate how clean and safety your building is to customer and tenants.

Ensure Your Team is in Compliance with OSHA

Speaker: David Casavant, CFM LEED AP

One of the most common complaints from safety professionals is how difficult it is to teach the workforce about OSHA standards and how to follow them. COVID-19 has only made this more difficult. Perhaps we're approaching this incorrectly. Instead of trying to teach difficult-to-understand OSHA regulations, what if we learned the concept of hazard and safety awareness. By using commonsense techniques, we can identify, evaluate and remove hazards even when the OSHA regulations are difficult to follow.

Verifying and Validating Your Cleaning

Speaker: Ben Walker

There are many important considerations when creating your cleaning plan — workloading, training, protocols — but how much planning should you put into verifying and validating your cleaning protocols. Ben Walker of ManageMen will walk you through the process of identifying a verification strategy for your organization. We will also discuss how that verification data should be used to make sure your protocols are been executed properly.

Panelists

Moderator: Dan Hounsell

Ali Summerford, NCIDQ, RID, LEED ID&C, EDAC
Interior Design Director
Oculus Inc.

Ali Summerford, NCIDQ, RID, LEED ID&C, EDAC, is the interior design director at Oculus Inc. She has more than 20 years of interior design experience with an emphasis in management, client relations, specifications, space planning and design presentations, among other areas.

Oculus Inc. delivers comprehensive architecture, interior design, planning, and move management services with a driving aesthetic to Connect | Shape | Move people, experiences, sensibilities, and spaces. Oculus creates high-performance design that supports change and promotes value for clients in the commercial, education, government, healthcare, hospitality, retail, restaurant and workplace industries. Oculus has offices in St. Louis, Dallas and Portland, Ore., is WBE-certified and is regularly cited in top industry rankings for architecture and design.

Stephanie Wood
Facilities Planner
Stantec

Based in Denver, Stephanie is a facilities planner who brings an affinity for research and analysis of the built environment and its impact on the human experience. She navigates the planning process to create innovative, effective, and thoughtful solutions unique to each client.

Matt Meservey
Senior Director of Product
iOFFICE + SpaceIQ

Matt Meservey is Senior Director of Product at iOFFICE + SpaceIQ where he is passionate about building strong teams that are focused on customer needs and delivering solutions that customers love. He has a broad background of experience including infrastructure management, automation, healthcare, business process automation, education, and career management. An outside the box thinker with the ability to focus on customer problems and deliver product that matches those needs.

Kanav Dhir
Head of Platform
VergeSense

Kanav Dhir is the Head of Platform at VergeSense. His focus is to own and drive the product vision and execution for VergeSense's Spatial Intelligence Platform. Previously, Kanav spent several years at GE where he helped found an Industrial AI and Robotics venture spun out of GE Ventures. Kanav also spent time leading several products at Current by GE in the smart lighting and smart building industry. Kanav is a graduate of Boston University, where he studied Computer Engineering.

John Wright
North American Industry Business Leader, Retail & Fitness
SALTO Systems

John Wright leads SALTO Systems' retail solutions business practice. His focus is on aligning SALTO's innovative access control technology and hardware with the evolving needs of the North American retail industry.

John is retail facilities expert who is passionate about creating more effective, efficient and profitable access control solutions for retailers. Together with SALTO, he is on a mission to bring new technologies and products to market that keep people and property safe while enhancing the retail experience.

John previously served as director of client development for Union Payroll Agency, district sales manager for Mattress Firm, and as partner and co-founder of MJR Architectural Firm.

Scott Fike
Senior Manager, Technical Business Development
LG

With more than 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Senior Manager of Technical Business Development Scott Fike offers a unique perspective to advance customer relationships and LG innovation. Using his in-depth knowledge of the audiovisual market, Scott understands customers' unique challenges to best inform LG product offerings and services.