Construction Intelligence Summit

8:00 – 9:00 am

Breakfast and Coffee

9:00 – 9:10 am

Welcome from CBIZ

A welcome from our hosts at the CBIZ Indianapolis office: Ken Hedlund, Brian Muncy, and Jason Bainter.

9:15 – 9:55 am

Opening Remarks from ProNovos

Bruce Orr, CEO, ProNovos and Samantha Lake, COO, ProNovos

10:00 – 10:50 am

The Secret to Getting Paid Faster in Construction

Moderator: Catrina Sandman, Director of Marketing, ProNovos

Panelists: Greg DiDonna, President, Viva Capital; Bruce Orr, CEO, ProNovos

Most subcontractors treat pay-when-paid as the cost of doing business and price it accordingly. The interest on the line of credit they’ll need to bridge 60, 90, or 120 days of waiting gets built straight into the bid. It’s a hidden tax nobody talks about, and it’s optional.

This panel makes the case for a different posture: proactive, not reactive. Some subs are using early payment on individual progress invoices to buy materials at bulk rates. Some are using it to fund growth they couldn’t otherwise finance. Others aren’t chasing an edge at all; they just want cash flow they can actually plan around, rather than the guesswork of pay-when-paid. Our panelists, representing capital, construction finance, technology, and business development, will unpack how subcontractors are taking control of when they get paid, without locking themselves into an all-or-nothing factoring arrangement.

Attendees will leave with a practical framework for evaluating payment acceleration options against what pay-when-paid is actually costing them today.

11:00 – 11:50 am

Transforming Construction Finance with AI-First Intelligence

Presenters: Kevin Bright, Director of Product, ProNovos; Denver Sperry, Sales Engineer, ProNovos

Most construction platforms still expect your team to hunt for answers: pull a report, build a spreadsheet, cross-reference three systems, and hope the numbers agree. Nova works differently. Beyond the dashboards and visualizations, Nova lets you ask a direct question about any project or financial matter, in plain language, and get the answer. No report to build first.

That shift matters more than it sounds. It’s the difference between a team spending its time chasing numbers and a team spending its time thinking about what the numbers mean. Kevin Bright and Denver Sperry will show what that looks like in practice and unpack why it’s possible: Nova was built AI-first, not retrofitted with an AI feature bolted onto an existing system.

That distinction, AI-first versus bolt-on, is also behind a decision more contractors are facing right now: build a custom AI financial tool in-house, or buy one already built for the job. This session touches on what separates a platform that holds up under real financial scrutiny (audit trails, data reconciliation, security) from one that only works in the demo, and why that gap is wider than it looks.

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lunch and Networking

1:00 – 1:50 pm

What Your CPA Wishes You Knew About Technology and AI

Led by: John O’Bryan, Content Marketing Manager, ProNovos

Your CPA sees more than your books. Across their client roster, they see which contractors are using technology and AI to get ahead, and which ones are still doing everything the hard way. This session puts that vantage point in the room.

In this round-robin discussion, led by John O’Bryan, various CPA professionals will share what they’re actually seeing across their client base: how their best-run clients are using technology and AI to manage their financials, where the rest of their clients are falling behind, and what they’d tell every contractor in the room if they could speak freely. Expect a direct, unfiltered perspective on the gap between contractors who are ahead of the curve and everyone else.

Attendees will leave with a clearer sense of what their own CPA might be thinking but hasn’t said out loud, and a starting point for closing the gap.

2:00 – 2:50 pm

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2:50 – 3:00 pm

Break

3:10 – 4:00 pm

Four Generations, One Jobsite: Same Team, Different Wiring

Speaker: Samantha Lake, COO, ProNovos

Whether it’s the jobsite or the office, today’s construction workforce often has Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z working side by side, each shaped by a completely different set of formative events, communication habits, and expectations of work itself, which is the root of most of the friction people chalk up to personality or attitude.

This session breaks down what’s actually driving those misunderstandings: the values, communication preferences, and biases that come standard with each generation, and why what looks like resistance, entitlement, or disengagement is often just a different operating system for how someone was wired to work. Attendees consistently leave this session with a moment of “oh, that’s why this keeps happening” with someone (or some generation) they’ve been struggling to work with.

From there, the session gets practical: how to communicate in a way that actually lands with each generation, where technology fits into closing the gap (and where it doesn’t), and how to build mentorship and knowledge-sharing structures that turn generational differences into a strength instead of a source of friction.

4:10 – 5:00 pm

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Evening

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