YAFCON 2020: The Empathic Architect

YAF CON 2020: The Empathic Architect convenes a series of engaging conversations about designing with empathy and practicing with intentionality. Join your fellow emerging professionals the week of Oct. 26–Oct. 30 for a daily series of peer-led discussions over lunch and presentations by purposeful — sometimes unconventional — leaders each evening.

In a continuation of the dialogue from 2019’s Architect of the New Era, we’ve invited driven, purposeful leaders who have taken a human-focused approach to their work, their careers, and their firms.

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Visions for Architecture

Join your colleagues and friends for an evening of celebration and fun.

Visions celebrates the achievements of those whose work makes especially strong contributions to society and celebrates the recipients of AIA Virginia’s Honors Awards and the Awards for Excellence in Architecture.

This year, AIA Virginia is announcing the Design Awards live — only the jury and staff will know in advance! The event will also raise raise money to support Hampton University’s department of architecture Scholarship Fund.

Visions for Architecture 2020 will be held virtually and delivered through AIA Virginia’s online event platform Foresight 2020. Tickets are free, but advance registration is required. If you’re planning on attending any of the educational programming, Visions for Architecture is included free with all ticket options.

If you’re only planning to attend Visions, select the “Visions for Architecture and Social Events Only” ticket when you register.

Small Firm Roundtable

Bring your favorite beverage and join colleagues from small firms for a facilitated roundtable discussion and happy hour.

Earn 1 AIA LU

This is a Foresight 2020 event.

Admission to this program is included free with all Foresight 2020 registration options. If you aren’t planning on attending any of the other ticketed programming, choose the “Visions for Architecture & Social Events Only Pass” as your ticket option.

Register online.

Mid-Sized Firm Roundtable

Bring your favorite beverage and join colleagues from mid-sized firms for a facilitated roundtable discussion and happy hour.

Earn 1 AIA LU

This is a Foresight 2020 event.

Admission to this program is included free with all Foresight 2020 registration options. If you aren’t planning on attending any of the other ticketed programming, choose the “Visions for Architecture & Social Events Only Pass” as your ticket option.

Register online.

Large Firm Roundtable

Bring your favorite beverage and join colleagues from large firms for a facilitated roundtable discussion and happy hour.

Earn 1 AIA LU

This is a Foresight 2020 event.

Admission to this program is included free with all Foresight 2020 registration options. If you aren’t planning on attending any of the other ticketed programming, choose the “Visions for Architecture & Social Events Only Pass” as your ticket option.

Register online.

 

Tisk, Tisk, You Forgot To De-Risk

Key De-Risking Retirement Planning Strategies & Tools For Architects and Architectural Firm Owners To Help Ensure They and Their Families Have Enough For Future Retirement Days.

This timely webinar presentation will specifically address the most critical and unique risk threats that architects and architectural firm owners face in successfully building and managing both individual and firm-related retirement plans that will ultimately be able to provide enough retirement assets and income to last throughout the rest of their and their family’s lifetime.

The webinar will include relevant historical evidence, case studies and solution-based strategies and tools that Architects and Architectural Firm Owners can use to “de-risk” their individual and firm practice-based retirement plans, including ways to ensure that they and their family never outlive their money and how to analyze and validate that their current retirement investment portfolio’s assets and market risk exposure accurately matches their personal and firm-based risk tolerance intended profiles.

Equally important, the discussion will cover and reveal the negative impact that taxes can have on an Architect and Architectural Firm Owner’s future retirement nest egg and income and how to avoid this by integrating a forward planning, proactive retirement planning tax strategy that includes performing a tax reduction analysis and utilizing the current tax code and its most recent changes to their advantage to eliminate and reduce unnecessary, future tax exposure.

Earn 1.0 AIA LU

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Sporting Clays Challenge

Join us for AIA Richmond’s second annual Sporting Clays Challenge! The program begins at noon and a reception will follow.

Proceeds support K-12 initiatives and the AIA Richmond scholarship fund.

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