C I DFI October 12-15, 2015 1 9 7 5 - 1 9 8 5 1 9 9 5 2 0 0 5 2 0 1 5 ® 40th Annual Conference on Deep Foundations Oakland Marriott City Center Oakland, CA - - - Join the Celebration at the 40th Annual Conference Billy Beane of Moneyball: Hal Hunt Lecturer There’s a lot planned for the 40 Annual Conference on Deep Foundations — DFI’s celebration of “Four Decades of Shaping Our Future.” The milestone event is being held at the Oakland Marriott City Center — with spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay Area, Lake Merritt, Berkeley Marina and the Golden Gate Bridge. Get all of the details – th and register – at www.deepfoundations2015.org. Billy Beane, Oakland A’s general manager and the subject of the bestselling book and movie, Moneyball, will be the Hal Hunt Lecturer for the Annual Conference. Considered one of the most progressive and talented baseball executives in the game today, Beane has molded the Oakland Athletics into one of professional baseball’s most consistent winners since taking over as general manager following the 1997 season. Beane shattered traditional Major League Baseball (MLB) beliefs that big payrolls equated wins by implementing a statistical methodology that led the Oakland A’s, one of the worst teams in baseball with one of the lowest payrolls, to six American League West Division Titles. That strategic methodology has come to be known as the “Moneyball” philosophy, named for the bestselling book and Oscar nominated film chronicling Beane’s journey from general mana g e r to he ro to celebrated management genius. Most recently, Beane was named Major League Baseball Executive of the Year for the second time by Baseball America in 2013. During his lecture, “Moneyball: Lessons for Life and Business from Baseball’s Best General Manager,” he will convey his innovative, winning style of management and leadership, which involves utilizing analytics to identify undervalued assets to create and sustain a competitive advantage. The annual Hal Hunt Lecturer is a highlight of the Annual Conference, and is named after Hal Hunt, one of the initial Featured Speaker Professor Kenji Ishihara, world-renowned expert on earthquake geotechnology, will deliver a featured presentation titled, 2011 East-Japan Earthquake and their Restoration,” at the 40 Annual Conference. Professor Ishihara graduated from the “Destruction of Seawalls and Coastal Dikes by Tsunami During the th organizers of DFI. The lecture was established in 1989 to recognize notable communicators. Arrangements for the appearances of Billy Beane made through Greater Talent Network, Inc., New York, NY. The annual Hal Hunt Lecturer is a highlight of the Annual Conference, and is named after Hal Hunt, one of the initial organizers of DFI. University of Tokyo in 1957. After a period of research at the University of Illinois under the advisement of Professor R.B. Peck, he returned to the University of Tokyo where he became professor of civil engineering. He remained at the university for 40 years. During this time he was active in the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering (ISSMFE) and was president from 1997-2001. He was particularly effective in advancing the work of Technical Committee TC4 – Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and in establishing the new discipline of earthquake geotechnology. After retiring from the University of Tokyo, he took up the post of professor of geotechnical engineering at the Tokyo University of Science and then at Chuo University. Professor Ishihara’s major research interest covers problems with soil dynamics associated with earthquakes, such as liquefaction of sandy deposits, and seismic stability of slopes and earth structures. New and Upcoming Mega Projects A centerpiece of the Annual Conference technical program focuses on the following mega projects. National Infrastructure Issues: Eric Halpin, P.E., special assistant for Dam and Levee Safety Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will discuss national infrastructure issues and why they are so important to the country. Halpin makes the case for increased infrastructure investment by examining economic trends from around the world. DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JULY/AUG 2015 • 39 A E D N D E R S U O S O F T F O T A S D I N N U O I F T U E P T E E D
