This year's National Facilities Management & Technology (NFMT) event will include a women in facilities management roundtable discussion.

Women in facilities management have been steadily increasing in number over the years, and such strategies as networking, platform-building, and finding a mentor can help them build this number. Attend this session to hear insight from other women in the field who have been there, done that. They discuss what women, men, and their managers should be doing now to prepare the next wave of industry leaders, work-life balance, career advance and more. This highly interactive roundtable session will include discussion from audience members as well as the panelists. All are welcome to join in this discussion.

The roundtable will include Sandy McCurdy, district manager of facility solutions, Sodexo Healthcare Services; Sharon Jaye, executive director, Green Schools Alliance and Laurie Gilmer, vice president of facility services, Facility Engineering Associates, P.C.

The session's learning objectives will be to:

1. Discuss how to achieve a work-life balance in the 24/7 world of facilities management 

2. Review career advancement strategies 

3. Clarify mentoring benefits

The session will be moderated by Naomi Millan, senior editor of Building Operating Management Magazine.

The event will be held in Baltimore on March 22-24, 2016.

Check out the NFMT website for more information.