Public Works Officers Institute
February 25- 27, 2026
Hyatt Regency Monterey Hotel
1 Old Golf Course Rd., Monterey, CA
Designed for public works professionals of all career levels, this conference provides you with the essential information and updates necessary to most effectively run city public works departments. Previous sessions cover a variety of topics such as road safety, bridge programs, legislative updates, and leadership topics.
The call for proposals for our 2026 conference will open in the late spring of 2025!
For registration questions, please contact Registrar, Megan Dunn.
For sponsorship questions, please contact Associate Manager, Exposition Sales and Event Sponsors, Amy Wade.
For program questions, please contact , Event Program Manager, Erin Wylder.
2025 Institute Information
Schedule
Session Materials
- An Innovative Approach to Generate Funding and Promote Stormwater Capture and Use - Stormwater Credit Programs
- Best Practices for the Use of Recycled Materials in Asphalt Pavements
- Citywide Street Sweeping Parking Restrictions - Strategies for Effective Implementation and Community Impact
- Creating New Models for Resilience - Regional Approaches to Securing California's Water Future
- Decoding RFP Success - Consultants Insights on Mastering the RFP Process for Effective Project Outcomes
- Demystifying AI - Practical Applications in Public Works
- Fleet and Electric Utility Partnerships for EV Implementation
- From Maps to Apps - How the Evolution of GIS Led to SUE
- Future Proofing Transportation Funding
- How to Curb Pedestrian Fatalities
- Innovative Approaches to Building Infrastructure - Thinking Beyond Design-Bid-Build
- Innovative Rubber Pavement Products Come to Rural and Remote California
- In-Situ Roadway Subgrade Repair
- Microtrenching in 15 Minutes
- Public Works Visibility as First Responders
- Right-of-Way the Right Way
- SB 1383 100% Procurement Requirement Now in Effect - Are You Ready__
- The California Strategic Highway Safety Plan - Crash Not Accident
- The California Strategic Highway Safety Plan - Get Involved
- The California Strategic Highway Safety Plan - Partnering to Save Lives on California’s Public Roads
- Wireless in the Right of Way
Explore Previous Institutes
View the 2024 Public Works Officers Institute program.
2024 Institute Session Materials
- An Anaylsis of the Brooks Act - 50 Years in Review
- Brief Look at the Evolution of Pubic Sidewalks
- Clean Fleet Deployment
- Fees, You Got Em! How do they Work Today
- Groundwater, Water Resiliency and the Challenges Do they Really Mix - Bucknam
- Groundwater Water Resiliency and the Challenges Do they really Mix - Kau
- Innovative Advancements in Fiber Deployment - Acosta
- Making work suck less healing workplaces through play
- Mulch Made to Order
- My Maintenance - Keeping Neighborhoods Clean
- On the Road to a Smoother Future
- Project Labor Agreements - What’s Good, What’s Bad and What’s Ugly
- Reduce Agency Liability, Prevent Busted Budgets Geotechnical Engineers of Record Policies - Berliner
- Tools to Electrify EnergIIZE Hydrogen Fact Sheet
- Tools to Electrify Your City Funding, EV Charging, and Collaboration
- Tools to Electrify EnergIIZE - Fact Sheet
- Tools to Electrify_Overall Project Factsheet
- Traffic Safety, Now!
- Understanding the Legislative Process
Previous Institute Session Materials
2023 Session Materials
- Becoming Part of the Conversation Increasing Public Works' Public Perception
- Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications for Your City
- Case Study Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications
- Closing Session Leading High Performance
- Don't Throw Paving Dollars Out with the Trash
- Drought and Potable Reuse on California's Central Coast
- Effective Pavement Program Management for Cities and Counties
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Lancaster
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Rubin
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Olson
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery, Resilience - Pratt
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues - Bean
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues -Martin
- Leading Change by Changing the Way we Lead
- Making Public Works an Attractive Option in a Changing Workplace
- Public Construction and Contracting Law Update for California
- Project Labor Agreements for Local Public Works Projects
- Public Input That Works Strategies for Successful Community Engagement
- Public Works Officers Institute floor plan
- SB378 and New Innovations for the Deployment of Fiber Networks
- Speaker Bios
- State of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation - Goncharoff
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation
2022 Session Materials
- Becoming Part of the Conversation Increasing Public Works' Public Perception
- Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications for Your City
- Case Study Broadband Internet and Smart City Applications
- Closing Session Leading High Performance
- Don't Throw Paving Dollars Out with the Trash
- Drought and Potable Reuse on California's Central Coast
- Effective Pavement Program Management for Cities and Counties
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Lancaster
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Rubin
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery and Resilience - Olson
- Extreme Hazards Planning, Recovery, Resilience - Pratt
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues - Bean
- Going to the Well Discussing Municipal Water Issues -Martin
- Leading Change by Changing the Way we Lead
- Making Public Works an Attractive Option in a Changing Workplace
- Public Construction and Contracting Law Update for California
- Project Labor Agreements for Local Public Works Projects
- Public Input That Works Strategies for Successful Community Engagement
- Public Works Officers Institute floor plan
- SB378 and New Innovations for the Deployment of Fiber Networks
- Speaker Bios
- State of Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation - Goncharoff
- The Changing Landscape of Recycling Local Market Development and Participation
- What Public Works Professionals Need to Know about Finance
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