Featured Speakers
Alison Brooks
Principal and Creative Director
Alison Brooks Architects
“Panelist: Social and Economic Impacts of the Work-From-Home Surge”
Norman Foster
Founder and Executive Chairman
Foster + Partners
“One-on-One Interview: Healthier & More Social Post-Pandemic Cities”
Jeanette Hansen
Architect MAA, Senior Partner, CEO
3XN Architects
“Shaped by the Past; Looking into the Future”
Limin Hee
Director, Centre for Liveable Cities
Ministry of National Development
“Panelist: Reimagining the Global City - Singapore's Approach”
Fun Leng
Chief Urban Designer
Urban Redevelopment Authority - URA
“Planning and Designing for a Sustainable and Resilient City”
Suzanne MacCormick
Global Healthcare Business Growth Director
Individuals
“Engineered for Health: Cities as Integral Components of Healthcare”
Shonn Mills
Director
Whitby Wood Mills
“IoT-Enabled Design: Tracking Key Performance Data with SMART Technology”
Michael Palmer
Principal
Perkins & Will
“Human Health and Comfort in Design Strategies: Renewed Focus and New Priorities”
Astrid Piber
Partner & Senior Architect
UNStudio
“Densifying Megacities Versus Social Distancing and Urban Sprawl”
Confirmed Speakers to Date
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William Algaard
Director, Building Engineering
Arup
“Resilience and Adaptability: Long-Term Planning for a More Sustainable Future”
Judith Allen
Chief Operating Officer
Communities in Schools
“Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approach”
Earle Arney
CEO
Arney Fender Katsalidis
“Post-Pandemic Connectivity: Reinventing Tall Buildings to Create Community”
Kai-Uwe Bergmann
Partner
Bjarke Ingels Group
“Panelist: Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approaches”
Tatiana Bilbao
Principal
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO
“Panelist: Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approach”
James Bircumshaw
Infrastructure Manager
Skyports
“Advanced Air Mobility: Infrastructure Considerations for Passenger Vertiports”
Ruzica Bozovic-Stamenovic
Associate Professor, Leader Urbanism Research Cluster
National University of Singapore
“Attaining Urban Wellness Through Paradigmatic Shifts”
Alison Brooks
Principal and Creative Director
Alison Brooks Architects
“Panelist: Social and Economic Impacts of the Work-From-Home Surge”
Andre Brumfield
Principal - Global Director of Cities + Urban Design
Gensler
“Rethinking the 20 Minute Neighborhood Through the Lens of Equity”
Nicholas Antoni Byczynski
MEP Director
WME Consultants
“Designing the HVAC System for a Sustainable Supertall Building”
Qingyan Chen
James G. Dwyer Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Editor-in-Chief of “Building and Environment” Journal
Purdue University
“Elevator Airflow Safety Amid COVID-19: Science Over Fiction”
Tai Fatt Cheng
Managing Director
Building and Construction Authority
“A Post-COVID-19 Vision for Singapore: Transforming the Built Environment”
Eugenia Concha
Head of Design
El Equipo Mazzanti
“Panelist: Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approach”
Roy Denoon
Senior Principal & Vice President
CPP Wind Engineering Consultants
“Friend or Foe: Wind in the Post-COVID-19 Urban Environment”
Shelley Finnigan
Director of Master of Science, Executive Management for Design & Construction
Northwestern University
“All for One? We Prefer… (Part 1of 2)”
Norman Foster
Founder and Executive Chairman
Foster + Partners
“One-on-One Interview: Healthier & More Social Post-Pandemic Cities”
Damla Gerhart
Senior Managing Director
CBRE Group, Inc.
“Panelist: Social and Economic Impacts of the Work-From-Home Surge”
Razvan Ghilic-Micu
Senior Associate
Hassell
“Physically Distant, Socially Together: Rethinking Tall Vertical Communities”
Derek Groenwoldt
Director of Architectural Design
Individuals
“Rethinking Vertical Transportation in the Post-Pandemic Office Building”
Jeanette Hansen
Architect MAA, Senior Partner, CEO
3XN Architects
“Shaped by the Past; Looking into the Future”
Christopher Hawthorne
Chief Design Officer
City of Los Angeles
“Panelist: Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approach”
Limin Hee
Director, Centre for Liveable Cities
Ministry of National Development
“Panelist: Reimagining the Global City - Singapore's Approach”
Seah Chee Huang
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
DP Architects
“Seeking a Resilient Dimension - Augmenting Our Sense of Community”
Mehdi Jalayerian
Senior Managing Director
Environmental Systems Design, Inc.
“Optimizing HVAC System Configurations and Air Distribution Methods in Post-Pandemic High-Rise Offices”
Jeroen Janssen
Associate Director
Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
“Bioclimatic Design for the Post-Crisis City”
Tyler Jensen
Studio Leader, High Performance Buildings
Environmental Systems Design, Inc.
“Optimizing HVAC System Configurations and Air Distribution Methods in Post-Pandemic High-Rise Offices”
Julius Jones
Assistant Curator
Chicago History Museum
“Panelist: Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approach”
Andrew Kiel
Partner
Sauerbruch Hutton
“Safe, Sustainable, and Socially-Conscious: A Case Study on Post-Crisis Mixed-Use Towers”
Johann Kruse
Property Technology & Global Lendlease Alliance Lead
“Cloud, Data, and Autonomous: How the Places of Tomorrow Will Be Created”
Richard Kuppusamy
Head of Digital Integration, Asia
Lendlease
“Autonomous Buildings: Creating Sustainable and Resilient Cities”
Helen Lam
Head of Innovation, Asia
Lendlease
“Autonomous Buildings: Creating Sustainable and Resilient Cities”
Fun Leng
Chief Urban Designer
Urban Redevelopment Authority - URA
“Planning and Designing for a Sustainable and Resilient City”
Jaron Lubin
Partner
Safdie Architects
“A City is for the People: New Collaboration Models for the Built Environment”
Suzanne MacCormick
Global Healthcare Business Growth Director
Individuals
“Engineered for Health: Cities as Integral Components of Healthcare”
Roger Madelin
Joint Head of Canada Water
British Land Company PLC
“Panelist: Social and Economic Impacts of the Work-From-Home Surge”
Bruce Mau
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Massive Change Network
“Panelist: Toward an Inclusive Crisis Response: Global Approach”
Ricky McLain
Senior Technical Director, Tall Wood
WoodWorks
“Tall Timber Buildings: Sustainability & Performance in a Post-Pandemic World”
Craig Miller
Partner | Project Leader
Heatherwick Studio
“The Renewed Need for Distinctive Public Spaces”
Shonn Mills
Director
Whitby Wood Mills
“IoT-Enabled Design: Tracking Key Performance Data with SMART Technology”
Chew Peet Mun
Managing Director, Workspace and Residential
CapitaLand Group
“Workplace Wellness Through a Human-Centric Ecosystem of Space and Programming”
Peter Murray
Curator in Chief
New London Architecture
“One-on-One Interview: Healthier & More Social Post-Pandemic Cities”
William Murray
Founding Partner, Director
Individuals
“Social and Economic Impacts of the Work-From-Home Surge”
Stephen Nichols
Associate Director, Systems Engineering
Otis Elevator Company
“Elevator Airflow Safety Amid COVID-19: Science Over Fiction”
Niall O'Sullivan
Technical Director | UK, EU and USA
Windtech Consultants
“Hybrid Wind Tunnel and CFD Study for a Complex Wind Analysis”
Michael Palmer
Principal
Perkins & Will
“Human Health and Comfort in Design Strategies: Renewed Focus and New Priorities”
Edward Peck
Managing Director
Edward Peck Design
“Can COVID-19 Drive the Evolution of Climatically Responsive Building Skins?”
Katie Peck
Associate Director for Campus Environment
The University of Chicago
“University of Chicago Campus: Open Space Response to COVID-19”
Astrid Piber
Partner & Senior Architect
UNStudio
“Densifying Megacities Versus Social Distancing and Urban Sprawl”
Josh Sirefman
Senior Advisor and Co-Founder
Sidewalk Labs
“Covid-19 Conscious Neighborhood & Public Space”
Ian Smith
VP, Special Projects
TK Elevator GmbH
“Exploring the Permanent Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Elevators”
Carolyn Steel
Author of Hungry City and Sitopia
Kilburn Nightingale Architects
“Sitopia: How Food Can Save the World”
Christian Studer
Head of New Technologies
Schindler
“Developing Mobility Solutions for Vertical Transportation in the Post-Crisis City”
Santeri Suoranta
Head of Service Business, Major Projects
Individuals
“Safe and Smooth People Flow When Re-Opening Tall Office Buildings”
Ted Weldon
Executive General Manager - Development
Lendlease
“Panelist: Social and Economic Impacts of the Work-From-Home Surge”
Brad Wilkins
Office Design Director
HKS
“Living in a Highrise Future: New Ideas. New Questions. New Answers.”
Marija Zima-Bockarjova