The Defensible Capital Plan — Turning Asset Risk into Funding and Renewal Decisions
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Session agenda
The Defensible Capital Plan — Turning Asset Risk into Funding and Renewal Decisions. Sixty minutes, including a live demonstration and open Q&A.
Welcome and session framing
Why lists of assets in poor condition are not a capital plan, and what makes a plan defensible to councils and the public.
Condition, risk and lifecycle cost
Translating deterioration, criticality and whole-life cost into comparable investment candidates.
Building funding scenarios
Modelling several funding levels and showing the resulting backlog, risk and service consequences over a multi-year horizon.
Repair, renew, replace or defer
Deciding which interventions extend asset life and what deferral actually costs.
Live demonstration: scenario to council slide
A capital scenario is built and turned into the evidence a council, auditor or funding agency will accept.
Communicating the plan and Q&A
Presenting the consequences of not funding, plus open questions to the presenters.
The series at a glance
Event 01 · Operate It
Closing the Loop
From Asset Intelligence to Work in the Field
How do we turn our connected asset environment into completed operational work?
Event 02 · Predict It
Before It Fails
Risk-Based Maintenance, IoT and Predictive Asset Intelligence
How do we identify which assets need attention before they fail?
Event 03 · Protect It
Service Continuity Under Pressure
Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Community Operations
How do we protect essential public services when assets and infrastructure systems are disrupted?
Event 04 · Invest In It
The Defensible Capital Plan
Turning Asset Risk into Funding and Renewal Decisions
How do we decide what to fund—and explain the consequences of not funding it?
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Information you can bring to a funding conversation
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Meet the presenters
Sessions pair Siemens asset-management specialists with local-government practitioners, so every framework in this guide is grounded in real municipal operations.
Jennifer Perkins
Government Solution Specialist
Asset Management Software | Siemens
Jennifer has over 25 years in state and local government and education as a practitioner, consultant and industry advisor. She rose to CIO at the City of Boston, leading infrastructure, operations, budgeting and ERP work, and now helps public agencies use asset management as a framework for cross-departmental collaboration and long-term financial planning.
Michael Murphy
Technical Program & Product Management
PMP | CDPO | CSM | SCPO
Asset Management Software | Siemens
Mike has spent over two decades at the intersection of geospatial data, technology and practical problem-solving — using GIS not just to store or display data, but to improve data quality, enable operational workflows and support better decisions across large asset portfolios.
Annie Anand
Business Process Manager
City of Fort Worth
An urban geographer and GIS professional with more than two decades of experience, Annie specializes in location intelligence and systems management across transportation, data analytics, infrastructure and asset management, making complex geospatial information accessible to planners, engineers and partner agencies.