If you’re interested in the future of the built environment book your tickets to Dallas now as the International Facility Management Association’s (IFMA) World Workplace 2008 Conference & Expo is set to touch down in the Texas oil metropolis October 15-17.

The conference, a collaborative forum for facility managers and attendees addressing the built environment, will feature two keynote speakers. Stanford University Graduate School of business organizational-behavior professor Chip Heath will deliver the conference’s opening address, “Made to Stick, Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.” Dr. Jonas Ridderstrale will close the conference with “Funky Business Forever,” including commentary on the state of business in the latter half of this decade.

World Workplace annually attracts more than 2,000 companies, representing 35 countries. Attendees come from fields including architecture, contracting, design, development, engineering, facility and property management, government, human resources, information technology, operations and maintenance, real estate, and security.

IFMA bills itself as the largest international association for professional facility managers, with more than 19,000 members in 60 countries who manage more than 37 billion square feet of property and annually purchase more than an estimated $100 billion in products and services.