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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Daily Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 20/May/2026 | |
| 7:00am - 5:00pm | Registration & Check-In Location: Great Lakes Promenade |
| 8:00am - 8:30am | Breakfast sponsored by Ladybug Tools Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
| 8:00am - 8:30am | New and Prospective Member Welcome 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. |
| 8:30am - 8:40am | Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Session Chair: Matthew Dahlhausen Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters. |
| 8:40am - 9:45am | Plenary 1: Keynote by Anica Landreneau 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. 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. Nationally, 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”. Globally, 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. |
| 9:45am - 10:00am | Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | HackSimBuild: Introductions and Team Formation 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. |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Seminar 1: Taming The Wild West Of Building Simulation: Updates And Discussions On ANSI/ASHRAE/IBPSA 209-2024 "Building Performance Simulation Process" 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. |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Seminar 2: Quest for Zero LEED Comments 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. |
| 10:00am - 11:00am | Technical Session 1: HVAC System Modeling and Controls Location: Lake Minnetonka Session Chair: Yunyang Ye This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 11:00am - 11:30am | Networking Break sponsored by IES Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
| 11:00am - 11:30am | Demo 1: DesignBuilder Location: Lake Harriet |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Presentation Session 1: From Design to Operation: Bridging the Performance Gap 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. |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Seminar 3: Simulation Showcase: What Makes Simulation Work Stand Out 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. |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Technical Session 2: Modeling Data Centers 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. |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Technical Session 3: Windows and Views 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. |
| 11:30am - 3:00pm | HackSimBuild Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch sponsored by US Department of Energy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Presentation Session 2: Urban Scale Modeling in Practice: From Digital Twins to District Systems 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. |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Seminar 4: From "What?" to "So What?": How to Make an Impact with Your Research Paper 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. |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Technical Session 4: Generative AI and LLM Applications in Building Energy Modeling Location: Lake Minnetonka Session Chair: Cary Faulkner This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Technical Session 5: Modeling for Future Weather and Extreme Events 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. |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Networking Break sponsored by DesignBuilder Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Demo 2: IES Location: Lake Harriet |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Unmet Hours Live 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. |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Presentation Session 3: Energy Modeling Demystified: Workflows, Tools, and Insights 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. |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Seminar 5: What is Reality Really?: ASHRAE/IBPSA Standard 140's First Empirical Validation Test Suite Location: Lake Bemidji Session Chair: Joel Neymark This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Seminar 6: Effective Storytelling through Data 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. |
| 5:00pm - 6:00pm | IBPSA-USA Cocktail Hour Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
| 6:00pm - 8:30pm | IBPSA-USA Awards Banquet 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. |