Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
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Wed20May
Boundary Waters Foyer
Great Lakes Promenade
Lake Minnetonka
Lake Bemidji
Lake Harriet
Great Lakes Ballroom
Great Lakes Ballroom B
Boundary Waters Ballroom
Boundary Waters CD
7:00am
8:00am
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
1:00pm
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
7:00pm
8:00pm
9:00pm
Breakfast sponsored by Ladybug Tools
8:00am - 8:30am
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
Networking Break
9:45am - 10:00am
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
Networking Break sponsored by IES
11:00am - 11:30am
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
HackSimBuild
11:30am - 3:00pm
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
Networking Break sponsored by DesignBuilder
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
IBPSA-USA Cocktail Hour
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
Registration & Check-In
7:00am - 5:00pm
Great Lakes Promenade
Location: Great Lakes Promenade
Technical Session 1: HVAC System Modeling and Controls
10:00am - 11:00am
Lake Minnetonka
Yunyang Ye
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Yunyang Ye

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Technical Session 2: Modeling Data Centers
11:30am - 12:30pm
Lake Minnetonka
Cary Faulkner, Viswanathan Ganesh
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Cary Faulkner
Session Chair: Viswanathan Ganesh

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Technical Session 4: Generative AI and LLM Applications in Building Energy Modeling
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Lake Minnetonka
Cary Faulkner
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Cary Faulkner

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Presentation Session 3: Energy Modeling Demystified: Workflows, Tools, and Insights
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Lake Minnetonka
Parastoo Delgoshaei
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Parastoo Delgoshaei

Sponsored by Pollination, a Ladybug Tools product

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

HackSimBuild: Introductions and Team Formation
10:00am - 11:00am
Lake Bemidji
Ken Takahashi, Aysegul Demir Dilsiz
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Ken Takahashi
Session Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Presentation Session 1: From Design to Operation: Bridging the Performance Gap
11:30am - 12:30pm
Lake Bemidji
Kathryn Hinkelman
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Kathryn Hinkelman

Sponsored by Trane Technologies

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Presentation Session 2: Urban Scale Modeling in Practice: From Digital Twins to District Systems
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Lake Bemidji
Kate Bomar, Mathew Duffy
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Kate Bomar
Session Chair: Mathew Duffy

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Seminar 5: What is Reality Really?: ASHRAE/IBPSA Standard 140's First Empirical Validation Test Suite
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Lake Bemidji
Joel Neymark
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Joel Neymark

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Seminar 2: Quest for Zero LEED Comments
10:00am - 11:00am
Lake Harriet
Ralph T. Muehleisen, Rashmi Baliga
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Ralph T. Muehleisen
Session Chair: Rashmi Baliga

Sponsored by DesignBuilder

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Demo 1: DesignBuilder
11:00am - 11:30am
Lake Harriet
Location: Lake Harriet
Technical Session 3: Windows and Views
11:30am - 12:30pm
Lake Harriet
Yifan Li, Chris Savage
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Yifan Li
Session Chair: Chris Savage

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Technical Session 5: Modeling for Future Weather and Extreme Events
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Lake Harriet
Alexandra Rempel
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Alexandra Rempel

Sponsored by IES

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Demo 2: IES
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Lake Harriet
Location: Lake Harriet
Seminar 6: Effective Storytelling through Data
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Lake Harriet
Aysegul Demir Dilsiz
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Session Pitches
8:30am - 8:40am
Great Lakes Ballroom
Matthew Dahlhausen
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Matthew Dahlhausen

Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters.

Plenary 1: Keynote by Anica Landreneau
8:40am - 9:45am
Great Lakes Ballroom
Nathaniel L Jones
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Nathaniel L Jones

Anica Landreneau is HOK’s global sustainable design director, serving on the firm’s board of directors and design board. Based in Washington, D.C., Anica served as a mayoral appointee to the District of Columbia’s Green Building Advisory Council 2012-2025 and co-chaired the Building Energy Performance Standard Task Force 2019-2025. Anica has served three terms on the Green and Energy Codes Committee, supporting the district’s decarbonization code development.

Anica Landreneau is HOK’s global sustainable design director, serving on the firm’s board of directors and design board.\nBased in Washington, D.C., Anica served as a mayoral appointee to the District of Columbia’s Green Building Advisory Council 2012-2025 and co-chaired the Building Energy Performance Standard Task Force 2019-2025. Anica has served three terms on the Green and Energy Codes Committee, supporting the district’s decarbonization code development.\nNationally, Anica serves on the Board of the New Buildings Institute and the Urban Land Institute Net Zero Imperative Steering Committee. She is outgoing Chair of the USGBC LEED Steering Committee, delivering LEED v5; and a former chair of the AIA Codes and Standards Committee; Anica co-authored with the AIA Blue Ribbon Panel on Codes “Disruption, Evolution, and Change: AIA’s Vision for the Future of Design and Construction”. Her testimony before Congress and recommendations for building policies and incentives were included in the House Select Committee report “Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and a Healthy, Resilient, and Just America”.\nGlobally, Anica recently was a speaker and delegate to the inaugural United Nations Environment Programme Buildings and Climate Global Forum, describing how the building sector can scale up decarbonization efforts to meet the targets in the Paris Agreement.
Seminar 1: Taming The Wild West Of Building Simulation: Updates And Discussions On ANSI/ASHRAE/IBPSA 209-2024 "Building Performance Simulation Process"
10:00am - 11:00am
Great Lakes Ballroom B
Timothy McDowell
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B
Session Chair: Timothy McDowell

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Seminar 3: Simulation Showcase: What Makes Simulation Work Stand Out
11:30am - 12:30pm
Great Lakes Ballroom B
Nan Ma
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B
Session Chair: Nan Ma

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

Seminar 4: From "What?" to "So What?": How to Make an Impact with Your Research Paper
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Great Lakes Ballroom B
Ryunhee Kim
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B
Session Chair: Ryunhee Kim

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.

IBPSA-USA Awards Banquet
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Great Lakes Ballroom B
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B

Join us for an unforgettable evening of celebration at the Awards Banquet! It’s the perfect opportunity to honor the incredible achievements of your peers, including the recipients of IBPSA-USA awards, conference accolades, and the HackSimBuild winners. Come relax, socialize, and celebrate these accomplishments after a full day of engaging seminars and presentations! Registration includes a plated meal.

Lunch sponsored by US Department of Energy
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Boundary Waters Ballroom
Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom
New and Prospective Member Welcome
8:00am - 8:30am
Boundary Waters CD
Dimitri Contoyannis
Location: Boundary Waters CD
Session Chair: Dimitri Contoyannis

Meet first-time SimBuild attendees and new IBPSA-USA members for informal conversation and networking over a light breakfast. All are welcome to join before the conference gets underway.

Unmet Hours Live
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Boundary Waters CD
Matthew Dahlhausen
Location: Boundary Waters CD
Session Chair: Matthew Dahlhausen

This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here.