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 |
| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration & Check-In Location: Great Lakes Promenade |
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| 8:00am - 12:00pm |
Workshop 1: Pollination Revit Plugin: Reliable Workflow for Exporting Revit Models as Energy Models in a Fraction of Time Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari Advance registration required. |
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| 8:00am - 5:00pm |
Workshop 2: Building Energy Modeling: From Design Practice to Certification (for Design Professionals and BEMP Candidates) Location: Executive Boardroom Chair: Amanda Bogner Advance registration required. This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
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| 12:00pm - 2:00pm |
Tour 1: Hennepin Energy Recovery Center Location: Hennepin Energy Recovery Center Advance registration required. HERC’s Tour Information Packet includes directions to the HERC facility along with the Visitor Agreement. Each participant needs to bring a signed copy of the Visitor Agreement with them and wear appropriate attire. Please give yourself an extra 10 minutes of travel time as it can be confusing finding the entrance of the facility. |
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| 1:00pm - 5:00pm |
Workshop 3: Pollination Revit Plugin: Reliable Workflow for Exporting Revit Models as Energy Models in a Fraction of Time Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Mostapha Sadeghipour Roudsari Advance registration required. |
Workshop 4: Mastering Passive Design with IESVE Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Mathew Duffy Advance registration required. |
Workshop 5: 3D Thermal Bridge Modelling for Code Compliance Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Jelle Langmans Advance registration required. |
| 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
Tour 2: T3 Minneapolis Location: T3 Minneapolis Chair: Nathan Kegel Advance registration required. Please meet the tour group in the north lobby by Dario. The tour will last approximately one hour. |
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| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Welcome Reception Location: Perkins & Will Light refreshments will be served, and there will be priceless opportunities to connect with peers before the main conference starts. Perkins & Will is inside the IDS Center. You can walk (10 minutes), take a cab (8 minutes) or public transportation (6 minutes) from the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis. |
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| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration & Check-In Location: Great Lakes Promenade |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast sponsored by Ladybug Tools Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
New and Prospective Member Welcome Location: Boundary Waters CD 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
HackSimBuild: Introductions and Team Formation Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Ken Takahashi Chair: Aysegul Demir Dilsiz This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
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 Chair: Timothy McDowell This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Seminar 2: Quest for Zero LEED Comments Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Ralph T. Muehleisen Chair: Rashmi Baliga Sponsored by DesignBuilder This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 1: HVAC System Modeling and Controls Location: Lake Minnetonka 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 |
Demo 1: DesignBuilder Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Presentation Session 1: From Design to Operation: Bridging the Performance Gap Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Kathryn Hinkelman Sponsored by Trane Technologies 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 Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Nan Ma This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 2: Modeling Data Centers Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Cary Faulkner Chair: Viswanathan Ganesh This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 3: Windows and Views Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Yifan Li 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 |
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| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch sponsored by US Department of Energy Location: Boundary Waters Ballroom |
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| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Presentation Session 2: Urban Scale Modeling in Practice: From Digital Twins to District Systems Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Kate Bomar Chair: Mathew Duffy 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 Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Ryunhee Kim 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 Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Cary Faulkner 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 Location: Lake Harriet 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 |
Demo 2: IES Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Unmet Hours Live Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Matthew Dahlhausen 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 Location: Lake Minnetonka 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. |
Seminar 5: What is Reality Really?: ASHRAE/IBPSA Standard 140's First Empirical Validation Test Suite Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Joel Neymark This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Seminar 6: Effective Storytelling through Data Location: Lake Harriet 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 7:00am - 5:00pm |
Registration & Check-In Location: Great Lakes Promenade |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast sponsored by Trane Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
Women in IBPSA Meetup Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Kathryn Hinkelman 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Presentation Session 4: AI for Energy Modeling: What Actually Works Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Nathan Kegel 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 Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Joel Neymark Chair: Yifan Li Sponsored by Better Building This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
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. |
Technical Session 6: Verification, Validation, and Uncertainty Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Jingshi Zhang 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 Better Building Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
Demo 3: Trane Location: Lake Bemidji |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Seminar 8: Roast My Visualization Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Carrie Horazeck 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 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. |
Technical Session 7: Integrated Energy Systems and Multi-Domain Optimization Location: Lake Minnetonka 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 8: California Energy Studies I: Systems, Retrofits, and Code Location: Lake Harriet 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. |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm |
Lunch and Annual General Meeting Location: Great Lakes Ballroom |
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| 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. |
Presentation Session 6: Beyond Energy: Lifecycle Carbon and Design Decisions Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Jihoon Chung Chair: Jayati Chhabra 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 Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Mohammad Dabbagh 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. |
Technical Session 9: Affordability and Climate Resilience in Buildings Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Amanda Webb This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Demo 4: Better Building Location: Lake Harriet |
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| 3:00pm - 4:00pm |
Poster Session Location: Boundary Waters Foyer Network with the 18 poster authors, sponsors, and other SimBuild attendees, and vote for your favorite poster. |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Demo 5: Ladybug Tools' Pollination Location: Lake Bemidji |
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| 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. |
Presentation Session 7: Data Centers: Design, Modeling, and Operational Performance Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Mathew Duffy Sponsored by Arup 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 Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Viswanathan Ganesh This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Seminar 11: You Don’t Design Net Zero: You Operate It Location: Lake Bemidji 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. |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
Student Networking Reception 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. |
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| 6:00pm - 8:30pm |
IBPSA Mixa: Minneapolis Skyway Scavenger Hunt and Networking Dinner 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. |
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| 8:00am - 8:30am |
Breakfast Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
IBPSA-USA Leadership Meet-and-Greet Location: Boundary Waters CD Chair: Neal Kruis Meet IBPSA-USA board members, chapter leaders, and committee chairs over a light breakfast. Whether you're inspired by SimBuild, hoping to start a chapter in your own city, or just wondering how to stay involved, this informal networking event will help you get to know the leaders of our industry. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 9:45am - 10:00am |
Networking Break Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 10:00am - 11:00am |
Presentation Session 9: California Energy Studies II: Modeling Tools and Workflows Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Elyse Malherek 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. |
Seminar 12: Risk, Retrofit, Reward: A Strategic Game to Navigate Building Performance Standards Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Alexander Mitchell This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 10: Grid Interactions and Load Management Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Han Li This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 11: Urban-Scale Modeling and Microclimate Simulation Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Alexandra Rempel 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 Arup Location: Boundary Waters Foyer |
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| 11:30am - 12:30pm |
Presentation Session 10: Simulation-Driven Design: Optimization, Controls, and Automation Location: Lake Bemidji Chair: Alpha Yacob Arsano This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Seminar 13: What’s Next For ASHRAE 90.1 Performance Rating Method (PRM) Location: Great Lakes Ballroom B Chair: Allen Mei Chair: Neal Kruis This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 12: AI and Data-Driven Workflows for Building Energy Modeling Location: Lake Minnetonka Chair: Nathan Kegel This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
Technical Session 13: Advanced Thermal Systems and Envelope Performance Location: Lake Harriet Chair: Jelle Langmans Chair: Gabriel Flechas This session qualifies for AIA continuing education credits. Please confirm your attendance by completing the form here. |
| 1:30pm - 3:30pm |
Tour 3: Cordia District Energy System Tour Location: Cordia Energy Minneapolis Chair: Rawad El Kontar Advance registration required. Please wear close-toed shoes; heels are not permitted. |
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