BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T023617Z UID:6437ca7d-5d9c-4ae1-92e6-06a9dfce5684 DTSTART:20190424T220000 DTEND:20190425T053000 DESCRIPTION:AIA Los Angeles is pleased to announce our third annual ENCOMP ASS: Inclusive Architecture conference\, which will be on Wednesday\, Ap ril 24 (8am – 3pm) at the California African American Museum in Los Ange les\, CA.\n\nOur focus for this year will be on business &\; cultural i nclusion\, procurement reform and best-practices wteam-building to achieve greater equity and diversity in the delivery of professional services. Th e first half of the conference will focus on exploring procurement opportu nities with the public sector\, including City of LA\, LAUSD\, METRO and t he County of Los Angeles.\n\nWHAT:\n\nThis year\, our third annual ENCOMPA SS: Inclusive Architecture conference will serve as a forum to highlight b est-practices to achieve greater business &\; cultural inclusion\, key procurement reform recommendations and successful examples of team-buildin g and mentor/protege programs and initiatives that will ensure greater equ ity and diversity in the delivery of professional services in the A/E/C in dustry.\n\nThe first half of the conference will focus on exploring procur ement opportunities with the public sector\, including City of LA\, LAUSD\ , METRO and the County of Los Angeles. We’ll explore ideas about how to best remove the barrier to entry to gain access to these important contrac ts\, as well as\, analyze ways to reduce the risk and burden small busines ses must endure once they have a public sector contract.\n\nThe second hal f of the day will focus on private sector procurement opportunities. We’ ll highlight mentor/ protege best-practices and expand insight into team-b uilding opportunities to advance more inclusive partnerships.\n\nWHO SHOUL D ATTEND:\n\nArchitects\, Designers\, Landscape Architects\, Urban Planner s\, Engineers\, Emerging Professionals\, Students\, Builders\, Contractors \, Developers\, Civic Leaders and Public Officials.\n\nENCOMPASS: Inclusi ve Architecture will also highlight the value-add that inclusive architec ture brings to society and how we all gain from a multifaceted profession. Throughout the day\, speakers and audience members will describe experien ces\; contribute best practices\; demonstrate the multiple return on inves tment diversity delivers to our world\; and establish strategies to realiz e a more inclusive future for us all.\n\nWHY:\n\nIn early 2017\, after 14 months of outreach\, the AIA’s Equity in Architecture Commission release d “The Equity in Architecture Commission Report”\, which details elev en proactive steps to strengthen AIA’s commitment to equity\, diversity and inclusion. AIA|LA coordinated the first ENCOMPASS in 2017 to focus on inclusive placemaking. The 2018 ENCOMPASS focuses on diversifying the prof essional practice of architecture. Our 2019 ENCOMPASS will focus on inclus ive procurement strategies.\n\nSo what are those steps? What is the best f ramework to implement these recommendations? What metrics of success do we want to establish? We are committed to leading the way forward and we nee d your participation to make this happen.\n\nJoin us on April 24 at ENCOM PASS: Inclusive Architectureand let’s engage in an open dialogue that w ill set the parameters for how we adhere to this call to action.\n\nAIA|LA is fortunate to be the local chapter of one of the world’s most diverse regions in the world. Los Angels is famous for its wealth of human resour ces and we are proud to be at the leading edge of diversity. It is that di versity that gives us our leading edge on creative innovations in design. However\, we still have a long way to go to ensure greater equity\, divers ity and inclusion especially when you consider the professions urgent need to attract emerging talent and ensure younger generations seek careers in the A/E/C profession.\n\nIn a quickly evolving and thriving Los Angeles\, diversity increases the promise of our design practice to deliver solutio ns. Diversity adds value and benefits to our ability to deliver smart solu tions to clients. Diversity\, in fact\, provides the capacity to better su pport our own region with the improvements to ensure health and prosperity for all. But the actual composition of the AIA|LA doesn’t reflect the r egion’s diversity. For example: only 5% of AIA|LA members identify as La tino\; only 2% identify as black. As AIA National focuses on strengthening core values\, AIA|LA will host ENCOMPASS:Inclusive Architecture to brin g practitioners together to address solutions for moving forward.\n\nFocus ed on actualizing diversity and inclusiveness in order to advance the prof ession\, generate opportunity\, and better serve the demographics of the r egion\, this annual AIA|LA conference:\n\n\n \n Provides valuable tools fo r Firms and Individual Practitioners+ Highlights best practices\n \n \n Ex amines case studies of design procedures that lead to inclusiveness within the field\n \n \n Demonstrates diversity’s benefits to clients and user s\n \n \n Initiates dialogues that underscore solutions to counter the pre valence of the inherent biases that too often continues to divide A/E/C pr ofessionals.\n \n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n \n Pricing\n\n \n \n Encompass 2 019 - AIA Member Ticket - $75.00\n \n \n Encompass 2019 - Student Ticke t - $35.00\n \n \n Encompass 2019 - Non-Member Ticket - $95.00\n \n \n \n \n To purchase tickets please visit the event website.\n \n\n SUMMARY:Encompass III: A Conference for Inclusive Architecture (2019) BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-P7D SUMMARY:Alarm notification END:VALARM BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:DISPLAY TRIGGER:-P1D SUMMARY:Alarm notification END:VALARM BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:AUDIO TRIGGER:-PT15M ATTACH:Basso END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR