Conference Agenda
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Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Hyatt Regency Minneapolis 4th floor |
| 8:30am - 8:40am |
Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom 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 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. |
| 8:30am - 8:45am |
Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Jayati Chhabra Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters. |
| 8:45am - 9:45am |
Plenary 2: Keynote by Mary Ann Piette Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Neal Kruis 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. |
| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Seminar 7: Unmet Fulfillment Hours? You Need Building Simulation Career Advice! Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Kyle Konis This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Seminar 9: Advancing Sustainable Architecture: Data-Driven Tools To Design, Simulate, & Succeed Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Charles Barnaby Sponsored by Trane Technologies This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch and Annual General Meeting Location: Great Lakes Ballroom |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
HackSimBuild: Presentations Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Ken Takahashi Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
Debate: AI and BEM Location: Great Lakes Ballroom 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. |
| 8:30am - 8:45am |
Session Pitches Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Thomas Zakrzewski Preview the day's events with 30-second pitches by the presenters. |
| 8:45am - 9:45am |
Plenary 3: Keynote by Rania Labib Location: Great Lakes Ballroom Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz Dr. Rania Labib is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Director of the Artificial Intelligence for High-Performance Buildings Lab at Texas A&M University. With over 15 years of experience at the intersection of architecture, building performance, and emerging technologies, Dr. Labib specializes in building simulations, energy modeling, and the integration of AI methods into the built environment. |