September 15, 2026
Pre-event Mixer | 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: TBD
September 16, 2026
Welcome Session | 8:30 – 8:40 AM
Location: Dining Area
Breakfast & Vendor Introductions | 8:45 – 10:15 AM
Location: Dining Area
Break | 10:15 – 10:30 AM
Executive Panel | 10:30 – 11:30 AM
Location: Seminar Room
Panel: From Chaos to Concrete Change | 11:30 – 12:30 PM
Location: Seminar Room
Lunch | 12:30 – 1:15 PM
Location: Dining Area
Vendor Sessions | 1:15 – 1:45 PM
Location: Individual sponsor rooms. Consult your agenda for more information
Panel: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Adopting Innovation to a Legacy Industry
| 1:45 – 2:45 PM
Location: Seminar Room
Presentation: Manny Tejano, Founder & President, Rocket Start
Moderator: Crystal Burgess, CEO & Co-Founder, Burgex Mining Consultants
Panel: TBA
Break | 2:45 – 3:00 PM
Panel: What Happens in the Association…Doesn’t Stay There | 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room
How associations bring value in policy, advocacy, and networking.
Panel: Serving the Mega Clients | 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room
Reception Dinner & Charitable Auction
Location: Dining Area
September 17, 2026
Panel: AI: Because Your Spreadsheet Deserves a Better Brain | 8:00 – 9:00 AM
Location: Seminar Room
Panel: The Compliance Compass: Steering Through Shifting Guidelines | 9:00 – 10:00 AM
Location: Seminar Room
From permitting hurdles to environmental mandates, keeping your operation within the lines is becoming increasingly complex. This session moves beyond the dry text of policy to explore practical strategies for maintaining regulatory compliance in a volatile landscape.
Break | 10:00 – 10:15 AM
Debate: The Workforce Apocalypse | 10:00 – 11:15 AM
Location: Seminar Room
The aggregates and mining industries are staring down a generational reckoning. On one side stands the veteran workforce—decades of hard-won knowledge written into sore backs and worn joints, but with experience that can’t be bought or fast-tracked. On the other stands a younger generation that brings energy, digital fluency, and fresh perspective, yet often arrives burned out, harder to retain, and skeptical of the old ways of doing business. As the experienced workforce ages toward retirement, the question isn’t just who will replace them, but whether the knowledge, grit, and institutional memory can survive the handoff at all.
In this lively head-to-head, two teams square off over the future of the industry’s most valuable asset: its people. The “Old” guard will argue that experience, loyalty, and proven judgment remain irreplaceable—and that the panic over an aging workforce is overblown. The “Young” challengers will counter that the industry must adapt fast or face collapse, embracing technology, new expectations, and a different definition of a hard day’s work. Adding a twist, this debate features a third voice in the room: Aggie, a conversational AI joining moderator Stuart Burgess on stage—because no conversation about the future of work is complete without asking what role the machines themselves will play.
Vendor Sessions: Shared Rooms | 11:15 – Noon
Location: Shared Vendor Rooms (Consult Your Agenda)
Working Lunch with Vendor Tables | Noon – 1:00 PM
Location: Dining Area
Panel: Partnerships That Didn’t Hit Rock Bottom | 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room
Panel: So…Everyone Bought Everyone? | 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Seminar Room
The good, the bad, and the “please hold while your vendor merges again.”
Wrap-up Panel: Innovate or Evaporate | 3:00 – 3:45 PM
Location: Seminar Room
We have spent the last two days exploring the cutting edge of construction materials technology. As we close AggNexus 2026, we confront a hard truth: in today’s rapidly accelerating market, the “wait and see” approach is no longer a safety net—it is a liability. Standing still is the riskiest strategy of all.