{"id":18287,"date":"2025-05-22T13:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T18:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2025-11-24T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T18:30:31","slug":"redefining-collaborations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tilt-up.org\/tilt-uptoday\/2025\/05\/22\/redefining-collaborations\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Collaborations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mitch Bloomquist<\/strong>
Executive Director
Tilt-Up Concrete Association<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

After celebrating the 25th iteration of the Tilt-Up Convention and Expo last year, we\u2019ve taken some time to reflect. That milestone invited not just a look back, but a challenge: how can we evolve this event to better reflect the values we so often talk about\u2014community, innovation, and especially, collaboration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At our convention in Phoenix, we were proud to offer a robust program\u2014sometimes five tracks of education happening at once. But I remember walking into that environment and feeling something unexpected. Engineers filed into their session, field leaders into theirs, project managers elsewhere. We divided by discipline. It worked well in many ways, but in that moment, we may have missed an opportunity to learn from one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, we\u2019re doing something different\u2014not as a reaction, but as a thoughtful response to the space, the moment, and what our community needs right now. The Music City Center in Nashville gives us a new kind of canvas, and we\u2019re using it to explore a new kind of program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Striking Harmony, our 2025 theme, speaks to the idea that the best outcomes arise when distinct voices\u2014whether musical or professional\u2014are brought together with intention. It\u2019s about moving beyond parallel tracks and toward shared conversations. Collaboration is not simply working alongside one another; it\u2019s actively learning from each other, challenging assumptions, and discovering what\u2019s possible when roles intersect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Nashville, that vision comes to life in a reimagined education format: eight highly curated, team-based sessions that bring together general contractors, concrete subcontractors, engineers, architects, developers, and suppliers to present real project stories. These aren\u2019t case studies in the traditional sense\u2014they are stories of tension, ingenuity, problem-solving, and, most of all, exchange. Each session concludes with a panel discussion that pushes the conversation further, asking how collaboration was defined, where it fell short, and what it made possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We may return to multi-track programming in the future. It has real value. But this year, we\u2019re creating space for something different\u2014something we hope will move the needle on what collaboration really means in our industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s not just talk about community. Let\u2019s demonstrate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I look forward to seeing you in Nashville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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