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).

 
Thu21May
Boundary Waters Foyer
Great Lakes Promenade
Lake Minnetonka
Lake Bemidji
Lake Harriet
Great Lakes Ballroom
Hyatt Regency Lobby
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 Trane
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 Better Building
11:00am - 11:30am
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer
Poster Session
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Boundary Waters Foyer
Location: Boundary Waters Foyer

Network with the 18 poster authors, sponsors, and other SimBuild attendees, and vote for your favorite poster.

Registration & Check-In
7:00am - 5:00pm
Great Lakes Promenade
Location: Great Lakes Promenade
Technical Session 6: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty
10:00am - 11:00am
Lake Minnetonka
Jingshi Zhang
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Jingshi Zhang

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

Technical Session 7: Integrated Energy Systems and Multi-Domain Optimization
11:30am - 12:30pm
Lake Minnetonka
Yunyang Ye
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Yunyang Ye

Sponsored by Pollination, a Ladybug Tools product

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

Technical Session 9: Affordability and Climate Resilience in Buildings
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Lake Minnetonka
Amanda Webb
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Amanda Webb

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

Presentation Session 8: Residential Buildings: What Works, What Doesn’t
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lake Minnetonka
Viswanathan Ganesh
Location: Lake Minnetonka
Session Chair: Viswanathan Ganesh

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

Presentation Session 4: AI for Energy Modeling: What Actually Works
10:00am - 11:00am
Lake Bemidji
Nathan Kegel
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Nathan Kegel

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

Demo 3: Trane
11:00am - 11:30am
Lake Bemidji
Location: Lake Bemidji
Seminar 8: Roast My Visualization
11:30am - 12:30pm
Lake Bemidji
Carrie Horazeck
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Carrie Horazeck

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

Seminar 10: Navigating the Complexities of High Performance Building Standards
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Lake Bemidji
Mohammad Dabbagh, Rashmi Baliga
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Mohammad Dabbagh
Session Chair: Rashmi Baliga

Part of the state issues track and sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

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

Demo 5: Ladybug Tools' Pollination
3:30pm - 4:00pm
Lake Bemidji
Location: Lake Bemidji
Seminar 11: You Don’t Design Net Zero: You Operate It
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lake Bemidji
Huawei Yu
Location: Lake Bemidji
Session Chair: Huawei Yu

Part of the state issues track and sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

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

Presentation Session 5: Building Envelope Performance and Modeling
10:00am - 11:00am
Lake Harriet
Joel Neymark, Yifan Li
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Joel Neymark
Session Chair: Yifan Li

Sponsored by Better Building

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

Technical Session 8: California Energy Studies I: Systems, Retrofits, and Code
11:30am - 12:30pm
Lake Harriet
Fatemeh Yousefi
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Fatemeh Yousefi

Part of the state issues track and sponsored by the US Department of Energy.

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

Presentation Session 6: Beyond Energy: Lifecycle Carbon and Design Decisions
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Lake Harriet
Jihoon Chung, Jayati Chhabra
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Jihoon Chung
Session Chair: Jayati Chhabra

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

Demo 4: Better Building
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Lake Harriet
Location: Lake Harriet
Presentation Session 7: Data Centers: Design, Modeling, and Operational Performance
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Lake Harriet
Mathew Duffy
Location: Lake Harriet
Session Chair: Mathew Duffy

Sponsored by Arup

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

Session Pitches
8:30am - 8:45am
Great Lakes Ballroom
Jayati Chhabra
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Jayati Chhabra

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

Plenary 2: Keynote by Mary Ann Piette
8:45am - 9:45am
Great Lakes Ballroom
Neal Kruis, Andreas Berres
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Neal Kruis
Session Chair: Andreas Berres

Mary Ann Piette is the Associate Lab Director of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ETA conducts research to accelerate innovation to provide affordable, reliable, secure and abundant energy systems. She has been at LBNL for over 3 decades. ETA’s work ranges from advancing building technologies, to novel manufacturing systems, advanced materials for energy storage, cybersecure grid technologies and efficient data centers.

Mary Ann Piette is the Associate Lab Director of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. ETA conducts research to accelerate innovation to provide affordable, reliable, secure and abundant energy systems. She has been at LBNL for over 3 decades. ETA’s work ranges from advancing building technologies, to novel manufacturing systems, advanced materials for energy storage, cybersecure grid technologies and efficient data centers. She has authored over 120 peer reviewed publications related to energy efficiency and demand response research and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at Berkeley Lab for her work in energy-efficient and grid-interactive buildings. She has received two R&D 100 awards related to city and building energy modeling tools and she is a board member of the OpenADR Alliance. Piette has engineering degrees from UC Berkeley and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. 
Seminar 7: Unmet Fulfillment Hours? You Need Building Simulation Career Advice!
10:00am - 11:00am
Great Lakes Ballroom
Kyle Konis
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Kyle Konis

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

Seminar 9: Advancing Sustainable Architecture: Data-Driven Tools To Design, Simulate, & Succeed
11:30am - 12:30pm
Great Lakes Ballroom
Charles Barnaby
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Charles Barnaby

Sponsored by Trane Technologies

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

Lunch and Annual General Meeting
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Great Lakes Ballroom
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
HackSimBuild: Presentations
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Great Lakes Ballroom
Ken Takahashi, Aysegul Demir Dilsiz
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
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.

Debate: AI and BEM
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Great Lakes Ballroom
Aysegul Demir Dilsiz
Location: Great Lakes Ballroom
Session Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz

This debate asks two teams of industry leaders to argue for or against the proposition that artificial intelligence is radically changing the skillset that building energy modeling professionals need to survive in the workplace

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

IBPSA Mixa: Minneapolis Skyway Scavenger Hunt and Networking Dinner
6:00pm - 8:30pm
Hyatt Regency Lobby
Location: Hyatt Regency Lobby

All SimBuild attendees are invited to participate in an optional, no-cost, and highly engaging Skyway Scavenger Hunt! This is a fantastic opportunity to stretch your legs, connect with others, and explore the unique features of downtown Minneapolis in a fun and interactive way. You can work alone or in teams; it’s a low-stress activity. The hunt will end in a casual group dinner (at your own expense), so skip the hunt and go directly there around 8:30 PM, or be the first to arrive after you’ve completed all the challenges.

Women in IBPSA Meetup
8:00am - 8:30am
Boundary Waters CD
Kathryn Hinkelman, Kyleen Rockwell
Location: Boundary Waters CD
Session Chair: Kathryn Hinkelman
Session Chair: Kyleen Rockwell

Take a break from technical jargon and join a casual and supportive group focused on women’s experience in the industry. We’ll be talking about professional development, career challenges and opportunities, personal experiences and more! All are welcome to join and support discussion of gender specific industry ideas and challenges.

Student Networking Reception
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Boundary Waters CD
Location: Boundary Waters CD

Join us for an evening of networking, drinks, and light bites! This is a great chance to connect with future professionals in a relaxed setting. Each attendee will receive a complimentary drink ticket. Finger food will be provided. If you are a SimBuild sponsor, please check the passes included in the sponsorship level.