2026 Town Hall

Thank you to all participants who joined us for the 5th biennial Cogence Town Hall on September 15-16, 2026 at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Sessions focused on moving our industry forward and digging deeper into areas to expand our knowledge for improving project outcomes.

General Sessions included:

The Cogence Way presentation and panel discussion
Taking the Long View on Interorganizational Construction Projects: Insights from a 10-year Research Journey in an Evolving Field
Delivering Greater Impact than the Build
Positive Partnerships In Cleveland
Forward Together? Is the Industry Keeping Pace?

Session tracks included:

Interacting with Resources

Safe Enough to Disagree: The Superpower of Conversation
Don’t go with the Flow – Lead it: Cogence Solutions
Leveraging Cogence: Scaling Success Across the Regions

Learning with Tools

The Tools are the Problem (challenge assumptions)
Planning & Scheduling: What is Working, What is Not, and Where are we Going?
The Next Jobsite

Advancing Culture

What if you Trusted First? How the Cleveland Metroparks Sailing Center got Built on Trust, not Control
It’s Not What you Said: It’s What you Didn’t
Trust the Machine, Trust the Team: The Culture Behind AI Adoption

As we look forward to the 2028 Cogence Town Hall, planning will begin in 2027. If you have any suggestions on how to move our program Forward-Together, session topics, or would like to join the planning committee, please contact: Kevin Thompson, Executive Director kthompson@cogence.org