2026 Industry Day & Scholarship Golf Tournament

Program

Three-day agenda

Sessions marked PDH count toward professional development hours. Filter the agenda to see only those sessions.

Wednesday, August 5

Sandia Resort · Golf Event Center

5:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Networking Reception

Cash bar

Thursday, August 6

Sandia Resort · Golf Event Center

7:30 am – 9:00 am

Registration & networking breakfast

8:30 am – 8:50 am

Industry Day opening

W. Paul Waters, Industry Day Chair — opening and Pledge of Allegiance

Jo Kephart, Post President — welcome remarks

8:50 am – 9:20 am

SAME National update

Carrie Ann Williams, SAME National Vice President

PDH

9:20 am – 9:45 am

Sandia National Laboratories — upcoming opportunities

Leo Valencia, Supplier Relations Specialist

PDH

9:45 am – 10:10 am

NM Office of Military Base Planning and Support

Megan A. Cornett, Executive Director

PDH

10:10 am – 10:30 am

Networking break

10:30 am – 11:00 am

Los Alamos National Laboratory — procurement programs and opportunities

Karen Borovina, Division Leader, Office of Project Planning & Oversight (OPPO)

PDH

11:00 am – 11:25 am

WIPP project overview and project forecast

George Garcia, Small Business Manager

PDH

11:25 am – 12:00 pm

Break

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

Lunch & keynote address

The Future of Project Delivery: Why Progressive Design-Build Is Changing the Industry
David Kinchen, DBIA — President, Design-Build Institute of America Southwest Region

PDH

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Break

1:45 pm – 2:10 pm

Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center mission & opportunities

Roberto Acosta, Director, Small Business Program

PDH

2:10 pm – 2:35 pm

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification update

Elythia McAnarney, New Mexico APEX Accelerator

PDH

2:35 pm – 3:00 pm

Team Leadville — supporting veterans by stopping veteran suicide

Colonel (Ret) Tony Hoffman, USA, F.SAME

PDH

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm

Networking break

3:15 pm – 4:45 pm

United States Army Corps of Engineers — Albuquerque District

Reymundo “Tony” Chapa — Director, Tribal Nations Technical Center of Expertise (TNTCX)
Jason Chapple — Chief of Operations Division, Albuquerque District
Stephanie McKenna — Senior Project Manager / Tribal Partnership Program (TPP) Manager
Leslie M. Molina — District Contracting Chief, Albuquerque District
Stephanie N. Parra — Deputy, Office of Small Business Programs, Albuquerque District

PDH

4:45 pm – 5:00 pm

Closing remarks

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Networking

Friday, August 7

Sandia Golf Course

7:00 am

Registration & breakfast

8:00 am

Shotgun start

After golf

Lunch and awards

Thursday · 12:00 pm

Keynote speaker

The lunch keynote closes out the morning agency briefings.

Keynote address

David Kinchen, DBIA

National Construction Director, Water Practice — Burns & McDonnell
President, Design-Build Institute of America Southwest Region

The Future of Project Delivery: Why Progressive Design-Build Is Changing the Industry

David has more than 34 years of experience across municipal water and wastewater, federal, heavy civil, heavy industrial, commercial, institutional, and transportation markets. He works in collaborative project delivery including EPC, design-build, CMAR, P3, and progressive design-build. As National Construction Director for Burns & McDonnell’s Water Practice, he oversees the strategic growth and execution of water construction and collaborative delivery across the United States, and has led multidisciplinary teams managing over $1.5 billion in projects. He serves on the board of the Water Collaborative Delivery Association, where he is a recent past president, and is Board President of the DBIA Southwest Region as well as its Water Committee Chairman.

Thank you