Hear from and engage with stakeholders in our new forums covering highways, airports, streets, and industrial markets.
Experience a fun celebration with award level reveal at our Excellence in Concrete Pavement Awards ceremony.
Earn PDH credits viewing our popular tech transfer and technical presentations that deliver fresh, relevant, and timely information.
Welcome to the ACPA Annual Meeting information and registration website. We invite you to explore this site to find out how we're taking the best of our in-person meeting format and combining it with an innovative virtual delivery of the program.
Our program is designed to provide value to our members’ businesses, to create an enjoyable and content-rich program, and to celebrate and recognize our members and other guests who are "Essential Every Day!".
Take advantage of our special virtual registration rates and be sure to invite others in your company, as well as agency/owner customers, engineers, and others who will benefit from our program!
11:00 – Noon CTACPA Chairman Greg McCormick, Northern Improvement, and ACPA CEO Jerry Voigt will set the stage with an executive session reviewing the year’s accomplishments and a look ahead. An interactive discussion will reveal how board leaders see the value of ACPA for their businesses.
Greg McCormick, 2020 Chairman ACPA; President & CEO, Northern Improvement Company 
Jerry Voigt, PE, President & CEO, ACPA 12:30 – 1:30 pm CTWhat’s Next for Transportation After the 2020 Election? How will the pandemic affect the concrete pavement industry? These questions and more will be explored during this member forum hosted by the Legislative Issues Committee.
Jeff Davis, Senior Fellow, Eno Center for Transportation 
Laura Perrotta, President & CEO, American Highway Users Alliance 
Sean O'Neill, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Portland Cement Association 
Leif Wathne, PE, Executive Vice President, ACPA (Moderator) 1:45 – 2:45 pm CTNew specifications, new agency engineers and a new $3.5 Million cooperative agreement…what else could there be? Leaders in the airport segment will discuss important opportunities and issues. The Airports member forum is your opportunity to find out what’s next and offer your own ideas.
Martin Holt, Corporate Quality Control Manage, Interstate Highway Construction 
Harold Honey, PE, Civil Engineer - Pavements, Federal Aviation Administration 
Dr. Craig Rutland, PhD, PE, Pavement Engineer, U.S. Air Force Civil Engineer Center 
Kevin Pavlik, PE, USACE Transportation System Center 
Gary Mitchell, PE, Vice President Airports & Pavement Technology, ACPA (Moderator) 3:00 – 4:00 pm CTGrab your own beverage and join other members in the lounge for an opportunity to say hello to old friends, make new friends, and enter to win prizes in our fun and interactive activities!
11:00 am – Noon CTInter-industry competition, concrete overlays, asset management, pavement preservation, performance-engineered mixtures, pavement resilience, and mechanistic design are all high-stakes issues in our industry’s biggest market. In this forum we will hear from various stakeholders about both opportunities and challenges, and together wrap our arms around the implications and expectations facing concrete highways.
Gina Ahlstrom, Team Leader Pavement Materials, Federal Highway Administration 
Jeremy Gregory, PhD, Executive Director, Concrete Sustainability Hub, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
Paul Degges, PE, Deputy Commissioner/Chief Engineer, Tennessee Department of Transportation Leif Wathne, PE, Executive Vice President, ACPA (Moderator) 12:30 – 1:30 pm CTLet’s face it, concrete takes the load when heavy vehicles hit the road! Whether conventional or roller-compacted, concrete pavements have always played a pivotal role in the industrial pavement sector. Experts will discuss their ideas on the future for industrial pavements and open the floor to your questions, comments, and ideas in the industrial pavement member forum.
Feng Mu, PhD, PE, Senior Flatwork Engineer; PNA Construction Technologies 
Robert Rodden, PE, Director of Engineering Strategy and Data Science, Megaslab 
Rick Sniegowski, Vice President Business Development/Mentor, K-Five Construction Corp. 
Corey Zollinger, PE, Director - Paving Solutions; CEMEX 
Mark Snyder, PhD, PE, Staff Consultant; ACPA (Moderator) 1:45 – 2:45 pm CTUrban streets and county roads present an enormous growth market for our industry. Intersections, roundabouts, and other heavy truck traffic areas tend to be gateways for the use of concrete pavements. The streets and local roads forum will open a discussion on market opportunities, as well as the challenges and construction issues (such as jointing, maintenance of traffic, and ADA compliance). You can help define the strategies to unlock untapped potential!
Angela Folkestad, PE, Executive Director, CO/WY Chapter ACPA 
Greg Frazee, Senior Project Manager, Interstate Highway Construction (IHC) 
Greg Mulder, PE, Executive Director, Iowa Concrete Pavement Association 
Heath Schopf, PE, Area Supervisor - Project Engineer, Vinton Construction Company 
Eric Ferrebee, PE, Director of Technical Services, ACPA 3:00 – 4:00 pm CTIt’s Round 2! Grab another beverage, meet up with friends and win a prize with new Day 2 activities!
1:00 – 2:00 pm CTWe deal with hundreds of complaints on a daily basis — complaining coworkers, complaining customers, negativity in the news. World-renown author and speaker, the foremost authority on complaining will help you learn:
Everyone will leave inspired, mindful of their own complaints, and motivated to approach complaining customers and co-workers with new, simple and effective strategies.
Will Bowen, #1 International Bestselling Author, Humorous Motivational Speaker 3:00 – 4:30 pm CTJoin our biggest annual celebration of “award-winning” pavement projects from around the country and the companies responsible for them. We will also reveal the winners of the Pavement Longevity, Outstanding Promotion, Sustainable Development, Marlin J. Knutson Award for Technical Achievement and the 2020 Hartmann-Hirschman-Egan Award, our most prestigious recognition of an individual for their dedication, commitment, and service to the industry.
FHWA Perspective – Mike Praul, Senior Concrete Engineer, Federal Highway Administration 
Contractor Perspective – Gary Fick, Project Manager, The Transtec Group, Inc. 
Overview – Tara Cavalline, PhD, PE, Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Technology and Construction Management, University of North Carolina Charlotte 
Developing a New ACPA Dowel Bar Standard – Mark B. Snyder, Ph.D., P.E., Pavement Engineering and Research Consultants, LLC 
Latest Development in Dowel Bar and Thickness Detection – Gary Aicken, Technical Manager, Kessler Soils Engineering Products, Inc. 
Supplementary Cementitious Materials – Larry Sutter, Director, Transportation Materials Research Center, Michigan Technological University 
Concretum Rapid Hardening Cement – Felicia Constandopoulos, Deputy Head of Application & Engineering, Concretum 
Soy-Based Concrete Durability Enhancer - Paul Imbrock, Technology Consultant, Indiana Soybean Alliance
Nicholas Schaefer, Profiling Systems Engineer, Surface Systems & Instruments, Inc. (SSI) 
Mark Leichty, Chief Engineer, Ames Engineering 
Mark Brenner, Controls Engineering Manager, GOMACO Corp.
Manufacturer's Perspective – Al Innis, Vice President Quality, LafargeHolcim 
PLCs for Paving Applications – Jamie Farny, Portland Cement Association 
Contractor’s Perspective – Amy Brooks, Chief Operating Officer, Castle Rock Construction