Confirmed Speakers to Date
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Sean Ahrens
Security Market Group Leader
Affiliated Engineers
“Introduction to CTBUH’s Guide on Integrating Protective Design into Tall Buildings”
Mir Ali
Professor Emeritus
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“The First Skyscraper: The Case for the Home Insurance Building”
Fahad Alotaibi
Head of Architecture Department
Qassim University, Saudi Arabia
“Vertical Urbanism in the Gulf”
Jhennifer Amundson
Dean, O'More College of Architecture, Art and Design
Belmont University
“The Jayne Building (Philadelphia,1849): The First Skyscraper as Consumer Spectacle”
Lars Anders
Managing Director
Priedemann Facade Experts
“Active Cavity Transition Façades: A Sustainable Revolution”
James Antell
Regional Practice Leader
Telgian Engineering & Consulting
“Fire Safety Implications of Stack Effect in Tall Buildings: Historical Perspective & Future Trends”
Peyman Askarinejad
President & CEO
PAN Partners
“A Holistic Design Approach to a Modular Tall Timber System”
Peyman Askarinejad
President & CEO
PAN Partners
“Multi-Objective Optimization in Designing High-Rises Using Genetic Algorithms”
Forth Bagley
Managing Principal
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
“KPF’s Victoria Dockside: Building Tomorrow’s High-Density Neighborhood”
Steven Baldridge
President
Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering, Inc. (BASE)
“Affordable High-Rise Workforce Housing: Essential to the Future of Cities”
Jason Barr
Professor
Rutgers University
“Skyscrapers and City Well-Being in the United States: A Statistical Investigation”
Oliver Baumann
President
Baumann Consulting
“Energy: The Key Ingredient for Successful Urban Design and Master Planning”
Roland Bechmann
Managing Director & Partner
Werner Sobek Group
“Building More with Less Through Urban Mining”
Louis Becker
Design Director & Partner
Henning Larsens Architects
“The Rise of the Scandinavian Skyscraper”
Manuela Belova
Founding Partner
VA Architects
“Europe’s Leading Role in Sustainable Tall Building Design and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage”
Farshad Berahman
Principal
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
“Control of Wind-Induced Acceleration Response of 80-Story NEMA Chicago: A Case Study”
Kyle Bernhardt
Director, Building Design Strategy
Autodesk
“Panel Discussion: High-Rise Design Drivers: Now to 2069”
Kyle Bernhardt
Director, Building Design Strategy
Autodesk
“The Future of Making: Automation to Meet Growing Demands”
Joe Berridge
Partner
Urban Strategies Inc.
“"Perfect City"—What are the Drivers of the Modern Metropolis?”
Ingrid Bertin
Architect, PhD Student
Setec TPI
“Construction, Deconstruction, Reuse of the Structural Elements for Sustainable Cities”
Charles Besjak
Director of Structural Engineering
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“35 Hudson Yards & One Manhattan West”
Matiyas Bezabeh
PhD Candidate
University of British Columbia
“Performance-Based Wind Design of Tall Buildings with Explicit Consideration of Damage Accumulation”
Giorgio Bianchi
Director
Robert Bird Group
“Opportunities and Challenges of Building Taller with Modular Construction”
Preetam Biswas
Associate Director, Structural Engineering
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“35 Hudson Yards & One Manhattan West”
Virginia Bonicatto
Researcher
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
“Buenos Aires' First Concrete Skyscraper: Galería Güemes”
Mark Borland
Director & Head of Projects, South Asia
Hongkong Land Limited
“Panel Discussion: What Will the Future High-Rise Occupier Want?”
Adrienne Bowman-Grittini
Technical Service & Development
Dow
“Silicone Structural Glazing: 50+ Years Proven Performance Paves the Path for a Sustainable Future”
Brian Breukelman
Principal - Sector Leader, Buildings
Stantec Ltd.
“The Past, Present and Future of Building Vibration Control”
Katherine Bruce
Sustainability Consultant
AESG
“Making the Living Building Challenge a Reality for Tall Buildings”
Asa Bruno
Director
Ron Arad Architects
“New Tower Typology: Optimizing Workspaces and the Public Realm”
Mathew Burke
Associate Director
ADP Consulting
“The Evolution of Thermal Comfort: Saving Money Sustainably”
James Burnett
President
OJB Landscape Architecture
“Landscape Architecture’s Impact on Vertical Urbanism”
Jacopo Cardi
Senior Project Engineer
WSP
“Design Integration Process for Wind Engineering and Damping Systems”
Mark Casey
Executive Vice President, BMU
CoxGomyl
“The Evolution of Façade Access Design and the Challenges for Megatall Buildings”
Jesús Cerezo
Managing Director
Envolventes Arquitectonicas - ENAR
“The Evolution of Façade Materials Used in High-Rise Buildings”
Angela Chang
President
Taipei Financial Center Corporation
“TAIPEI 101: From Record Height to Record High Performance”
Chien-Jou (CJ) Chen
Project Manager
Turner International LLC
“20 Forward, 20 Back: From TAIPEI 101 to Burj Khalifa to PNB 118”
Rob Chmielowski
Senior Principal
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
“150 North Riverside: Elevated, Anchored, And Tuned”
Hi Sun Choi
Senior Principal
Thornton Tomasetti
“Fire, Water, Cubes and Modernism: Creating a Futuristic Baku”
Christopher Colasanti
Associate Partner
Jaros, Baum & Bolles
“NYC's Carbon Cap: Pushing the Boundaries of Sustainability”
Karen Cook
Founding Partner
PLP Architecture
“How Can a Tall Building Improve the Public Realm and Private Lives?”
Jennifer Cover
President & CEO
WoodWorks – Wood Products Council
“Mass Timber: The New Urban Solution to a Global Carbon Challenge”
Don Davies
President
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
“Innovation in the Built Environment from the Past, Present and Future”
Johannes de Jong
Executive Vice President
Elevating Studio Pte. Ltd.
“Vertical Transportation: The Past 50 and Next 50 Years of Development”
Thomas Demetrion
Senior Project Designer, Senior Associate
Perkins+Will (Consultant of the Egyptian Ministry of Housing - CBD New Capital)
“Panel Discussion: Vertical Urbanism in the MENA Context”
Ken Demuth
Partner
Pappageorge Haymes Partners
“The Old Colony Building: Pushing the Limits of Design”
Roy Denoon
Vice President
CPP Wind Engineering and Air Quality Consultants
“Wind Engineering of Tall Buildings: Where Have We Been, and Where Do We Need to Go?”
Nicole Dosso
Director in the Technical Group
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“35 Hudson Yards & One Manhattan West”
Scott Duncan
Partner
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“400 Lake Shore Drive: Designing a New Gateway to Chicago”
Gail Fenske
Professor of Architecture
Roger Williams University
“The "First Skyscraper" in the History of Modern Architecture”
Sean Fine
Senior Associate
Weston Williamson+Partners
“Returning Value to the Public with Tall Buildings”
Shelley Finnigan
Global Technical Sales Engineer, Head of Technical Sales & Marketing
ArcelorMittal
“The Sustainability of Steel”
Kevin Flanagan
Partner & Designer
PLP Architecture
“The Oakwood Timber Tower Series: Vision for a More Livable Greener City”
Benjamin Flowers
Professor
The Ohio State University
“Panel Discussion: Reflections on Criteria for First Skyscrapers”
Donald Friedman
President
Old Structures Engineering
“Panel Discussion: Reflections on Criteria for First Skyscrapers”
Mike Gabel
Project Superintendent
W.E. O`Neil Construction Co.
“Building at a Bustling Chicago Intersection”
Abram Gamboa
Managing Director, Project Management
CBRE
“Plenary 2 Panel Discussion: The Now: Servicing the Modern Tall Building Occupant”
Richard Garlock
Partner
LERA Consulting Structural Engineers
“Structural Design Innovations for Tall Buildings”
Gordon Gill
Partner
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
“Urban Advances: The Reality and The Virtual”
Andrew Gleeson
Lecturer
Iowa State University
“860 and 880 Lake Shore Drive: Skyscraper as Prime Object”
Eleanor Gorski
First Deputy Commissioner
City of Chicago
“A New Chicago Legacy: High-Rise Buildings as an Equitable Development Tool”
Eli Gottleib
Managing Principal & NY Office Director
Thornton Tomasetti
“Damping the Endless Stairs at the Hudson Yards Vessel”
Lee Gray
Senior Associate Dean, Arts + Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
“The Boreel Building and the Roped Hydraulic Elevator”
Michael Grey
Principal, Operations Manager Southern Region
Robert Bird Group
“The Australia 108 Tower and The Future of Urban Melbourne”
Nirodha Gunadasa
Chairman
Archedium (Private) Limited
“Advancements in Future Parametric Design Thinking: What Kind of Urbanism Would it Generate?”
Murali Guruvappan
Director
WME Consultants
“State-of-the-Art Engineering for Supertall Residential Buildings”
Taehun Ha
Chief Research Engineer
Daewoo E&C
“Column Shortening of Tall Buildings: 50 Years of Development”
Brad Haeberle
Vice President, Service and Solutions
Siemens Smart Infrastructure
“The Competitive Edge: How Today’s Smart Building Solutions are Changing the Game”
Hashimah Hashim
Executive Director
KLCC Property Holdings Berhad
“Petronas Towers: Maintaining the Legacy”
John Hopkins
Design Director
IA Interior Architects
“Where Business and Building Infrastructure Intersect”
Dave Hopping
President and CEO
Siemens Smart Infrastructure
“Expect More from Buildings: Smart Solutions and the Opportunities They Enable”
Daniel Horner
Director of Planning and Urban Design
Dar al-Handasah Shair & Partners (Consultant of the Egyptian Ministry of Housing - CBD New Capital)
“Egypt’s New Administrative Capital: A New City of Unbound Opportunity & Unrestrained Potential”
Dakki Hui
Senior Property & Facility Manager
Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
“Panel Discussion: High-Performance Buildings in Asia”
Kirsten Hull
VP of Development
EQ Office
“Plenary 2 Panel Discussion: The Now: Servicing the Modern Tall Building Occupant”
Ivan Ip
Associate, Urban Designer
Architectus
“Finding Room: Density Done Right for Our Aging Global Population”
John Ivanoff
Associate Principal
BuroHappold Engineering
“Façade Analytics: Who Owns It? Integrating Aesthetics and Performance”
Mehdi Jalayerian
Managing Director & Chief of Innovation
Environmental Systems Design, Inc.
“On the Rise: A High-Voltage Upgrade That Powers Skyscrapers Higher”
Yahya Jan
President, Design Director
NORR Group Consultants International Limited
“Vertical Urbanism: What Could be the Tallest Hotel Tower in the World”
Markus Jetter
Head of Research & Innovation Center Rottweil
thyssenkrupp
“Lift and the City: How Elevators Change and Reinvent the Shape of Cities”
Tony Johnson
Executive Director
Post-Tensioning Institute
“The Future is Concrete: How Post-Tensioning Is Transforming our Tall Buildings”
Ann Kalayil
Bureau Chief
Cook County
“Panel Discussion: Challenges in Optimizing High-Rise Design and Operations”
Daniel Kaplan
Senior Partner
FXCollaborative
“The Bellwether – a Passivhaus Tower Renews a Public Housing Campus”
Beyhan Karahan
Principal
Beyhan Karahan & Associates Architects
“The Technical Sophistication of the Park Row Building, New York City”
Diarmuid Kelleher
Associate
Thornton Tomasetti
“Repositioning Willis Tower: Fifty Years of Façade Development”
Pat Kerrigan
Project Superintendent
W.E. O`Neil Construction Co.
“Building at a Bustling Chicago Intersection”
Tony Kettle
Design Principal
Kettle Collective
“The Lakhta Tower: How Nature has Influenced the Future of St. Petersburg as a Sustainable City”
John Kilpatrick
Practice Area Leader
RWDI
“The Past and Future of Structural Wind Engineering of Supertall Buildings”
Ron Klemencic
Chairman, CEO
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
“Panel Discussion: Building the CTBUH Legacy”
Len Koroski
Principal
Goettsch Partners
“LondonHouse Chicago: Birth and Rebirth – A Story of Preservation, Adaptive Reuse and Expansion”
Mika Kovanen
Director, Smart & Sustainable Buildings (Ramboll Finland)
Ramboll Group
“Extreme Sustainability Through SMART Technologies”
Reed Kroloff
Dean of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology
“Panel Discussion: Reflections on Criteria for First Skyscrapers”
Riggs Kubiak
SVP Owner Strategy
Procore Technologies
“Creating Value for Owners Through Purpose-Built Technology”
Gerald Larson
Professor Emeritus of Architecture
University of Cincinnati
“The Home Insurance Building Was Not the First Skyscraper”
Cyrille Le Bihan
Founding Partner
HARDEL LE BIHAN ARCHITECTES
“Towers Towards the City: Manifesto for a Dialogue”
Dominic Lemieux
Vice President
Peikko USA Inc
“The Next Generation of Prefabricated Structures for Skyscrapers”
Thomas Leslie
Morrill Professor in Architecture
Iowa State University
“Buildings Without Walls: A Tectonic Case for Two “First” Skyscrapers”
Bridget Lesniak
Managing Principal
Perkins+Will
“Gaining New Heights: Future Research on an Urban Campus”
Luke Leung
Director
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“Panel Discussion: Smart Cities: Connecting the Dots”
Luke Leung
Director
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“Smart Building and Smart City Design: The Next Generation”
Ren Lizhi
Vice President, Chief Architect
Tongji Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd
“Panel Discussion: High-Performance Buildings in Asia”
James Malley
Group Director & Senior Principal
Degenkolb Engineers
“Considerations for Seismic Performance of Older Tall Steel Framed Buildings in West Coast Cities”
Thomas Manjarres
Energy Engineer
Franklin Energy
“Panel Discussion: Smart Cities: Connecting the Dots”
Thomas Manjarres
Energy Engineer
Franklin Energy
“The Data Revolution and the Urban Environment: Unlocking the Power of Machine Learning”
Giorgio Marfella
Lecturer
University of Melbourne
“Glass Innovations in Tall Buildings, and the Origins of Performance-Based Design”
Jeffrey Martin
Associate Partner
SYSKA Hennessy Group
“Holistic MEP Design for Today’s Tall Building Workplace”
Sobhy Masoud
Principal
Stephenson Engineering Ltd.
“Innovative Automated NLT Fabrication Techniques for Timber Buildings”
Jim McCaffrey
Senior Vice President
Howard Hughes Corporation
“Designing Commercial Office Towers for the Modern User”
Meghan McDermott
Partner
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
“The Tall Building in the Modern City: Repairing the Urban Fabric”
Sam McKechnie
Building Solutions Specialist
Studco Australia
“Investigating Creaking Noises in Tall Buildings”
Ricky McLain
Senior Technical Director - Tall Wood
WoodWorks – Wood Products Council
“Tall Wood Construction: New Code Provisions, Design Steps and Impacts on North American Markets”
Koen Meert
Group Director, Structural Design
Emaar Properties
“Changing Structural Design Guidelines in Dubai: The Journey Towards Success”
Kyoung Sun Moon
Associate Professor
Yale University
“Conjoined Towers for Livable and Sustainable Mile-High Vertical Cities”
Rumi Morales
Partner & Head of Venture
Outlier Ventures
“Panel Discussion: Smart Cities: Connecting the Dots”
Bujar Morava
Senior Consultant & Principal
RWDI
“Design Integration Process for Wind Engineering and Damping Systems”
Tom Murcott
Executive Director and Board Member
NeWAY Capital
“Panel Discussion: Smart Cities: Connecting the Dots”
Tom Murcott
Executive Director and Board Member
NeWAY Capital
“Singapore, Songdo and Honduras: Using SEZ Development to Unleash Prosperity in the Developing World”
Danny Murtagh
Vice President of Engineering
Boston Properties, Inc.
“Panel Discussion: What Will the Future High-Rise Occupier Want?”
Hans Neubert
Digital Experience Design Leader, Principal
Gensler
“Designing for Engagement: Why Smart Cities Should be Human Cities”
Aracely Nevarez
Partner
Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
“Humanizing the High-Rise Glass Box: From Corporate to Hospitality”
Louis Nowikas
VP Corporate Real Estate
Hearst Corporation
“Panel Discussion: Challenges in Optimizing High-Rise Design and Operations”
Niall O'Sullivan
Associate Director & Regional Manager
Windtech Consultants
“Design Considerations for Stack Effects in Hot and Arid Climates”
Wojciech Olenski
Senior Adviser
Town Planning Office of the City of Warsaw
“From Ruins to Supertalls – Restitution of Warsaw Vertical Cityscape and its Future Transformation”
Gustavo Oliveira
Vice President | Properties & Building Structures
WSP
“53W53 | Engineering a Modern Pyramid with Reinforced Concrete Diagrids”
Lynn Osmond
President & CEO
Chicago Architecture Center
“Keeping the Past Alive: Contextualizing Tall in the Cityscape”
Robert Otani
Chief Technology Officer
Thornton Tomasetti
“Artificial Intelligence in the Built Environment”
Paul Paradis
Senior Managing Director
Hines
“Panel Discussion: Challenges in Optimizing High-Rise Design and Operations”
James Parakh
Urban Design Manager
City of Toronto Planning Division
“Tall Building Urbanism in Toronto and Around the World”
James Parakh
Urban Design Manager
City of Toronto Planning Division
“The Future of Sustainable Cities & How Tall Building Urbanism has Evolved”
Gerard Peet
Lecturer, Urban and Regional Planning
Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
“Born from Awe: Origins of the First Skyscrapers”
Shiling Pei
Associate Professor
Colorado School of Mines
“Testing A Full-Scale Ten-Story Mass Timber Building on World's Largest Outdoor Shake Table”
Emir Pekdemir
Associate
BuroHappold Engineering
“Façade Analytics: Who Owns It? Integrating Aesthetics and Performance”
Gabriel Peschiera
Director, Smart Buildings
Jaros, Baum & Bolles
“Personal Office Air: Ending Thermostat Wars in Open Plan”
Gavin Phillips
Head of Flexible Space and Urban Communities, Asia Pacific
JLL
“The Future of the Workplace: An Evolving Flexible Ecosystem”
Tiyok Prasetyoadi
Managing Director
PDW Architects
“Tropical Tall Buildings: The Indonesian Experience”
Stephan Reinke
Director
Stephan Reinke Architects Limited
“The Future Workplace in Vertical Cities: At-Height Greenery and Gathering Space”
Leslie E. Robertson
Director
See Robertson Structural Engineers, LLC
“Panel Discussion: Building the CTBUH Legacy”
Jamieson Robinson
Strategic Director
RWDI
“Design Integration Process for Wind Engineering and Damping Systems”
Matthias Roik
Research & Development
HALFEN
“Is Earthquake Resistance a Privilege of Lightweight Façades?”
Benjamin Ross
Historic Preservation Specialist
RATIO Architects
“"Nothing but a Sash Frame": The "First" Glass Curtain Wall Skyscraper”
Cynthia Roubik
Assistant Commissioner
City of Chicago
“Balancing Growth and Character in Chicago's Fulton Market”
Cynthia Roubik
Assistant Commissioner
City of Chicago
“The Chicago River: From Industry and Barges to High-Rises and Kayaks”
Daniel Safarik
Editor-in-Chief
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
“Skybridges: Bringing the Horizontal Into the Vertical Realm”
Daniel Safarik
Editor-in-Chief
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
“The Space Within: Skyspaces in Tall Buildings”
Pauline Saliga
Executive Director
Society of Architectural Historians
“Panel Discussion: Reflections on Criteria for First Skyscrapers”
Jacques Sandberg
Vice President, Affordable Housing
Related Midwest
“Celebrating the Chicago River Through Urban Placemaking”
Agnaldo Santos
VP, Head of R&D North America
Schindler
“Panel Discussion: High-Rise Design Drivers: Now to 2069”
Anthony Scacco
Principal
Riverside Investment & Development
“Designing Commercial Office Towers for the Modern User”
Joachim Schuessler
Principal
Goettsch Partners
“Running the River: 150 North Riverside + 110 North Wacker”
SawTeen See
Managing Director, USA
Robert Bird Group
“Tall Buildings of the Future as Seen from the Present”
John Sellery
Group Managing Director
M Moser Associates
“The Vertical Campus: Designing Human Experiences on an Urban Scale”
Ro Shroff
Senior Vice President / Partner
3Mix
“An Urban Rejuvenation Strategy That Maintains Existing Structures”
Peter Simmonds
Director
Building and Systems Analytics, LLC
“Natural Ventilation in High-Rise Residential Projects”
Bugrahan Sirin
Associate Partner
HPP Architects
“Beyond the 50-Year Life-Cycle of Mid-Century German High-Rises”
Andrew Smith
Technical Director & Associate
RWDI
“Design Integration Process for Wind Engineering and Damping Systems”
Adrian Smith
Partner
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
“Urban Advances: The Reality and The Virtual”
Turner Solterman
Structural Engineer Assistant
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“Composite Skyscraper Structural Systems: A Fundamental Paradigm Shift”
Seymour Spence
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
“Reliability Evaluation of Wind-Excited Structures with Controlled Inelasticity”
Erica Spiritos
Mass Timber Preconstruction Manager
Swinerton
“Growing to New Heights: Creative Solutions for a Tall Wood Build in Milwaukee”
Tabitha Stine
Vice President of Market Development
American Institute of Steel Construction
“Structural Steel: Past, Present and Future”
Gary Strong
Global Building Standards Director
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
“International Fire Safety Standards”
Simona Talenti
Professor
University of Salerno
“The Torrione INA by Marcello Piacentini: The First Italian Skyscraper”
Ann Thompson
Senior Vice President, Architecture and Design
Related Midwest
“Celebrating the Chicago River Through Urban Placemaking”
Dario Trabucco
Research Manager
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
“The Next 50 Years of Robotics in Construction”
Camilo Villate
Associate Professor
Universidad de Los Andes
“The Avianca Tower in Bogotá: The First Skyscraper with a Reinforced Concrete Mega-Frame System”
Thomas Vining
President, Otis Americas
Otis Elevator Company
“Plenary 2 Panel Discussion: The Now: Servicing the Modern Tall Building Occupant”
Douglas Voigt
Partner
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
“Bold Plans for the Future: Redefining Chicago as the American City”
Darrin VonStein
Architectural Historian
Darrin VonStein
“Pneumatic Caissons: The Technology Behind the Tallest Buildings in the World”
Zhi Wang
Acting General Manager
China State Construction Engineering Corp Ltd. (Egypt)
“Panel Discussion: Vertical Urbanism in the MENA Context”
Shaofeng Wang
Chairman
China State Construction Overseas Development Co., Ltd
“Perspective on the Construction of High-Rise Buildings”
Randolph Wang
Urban Designer
City of Ottawa
“Urban Design Challenges with High-Rise Infill in Mature Neighborhoods?”
Larry Wash
Executive Vice President, KONE Americas
KONE
“Bringing Intelligent Services to Vertical Transportation Solutions”
Lucien Wedzikowski
Director, High Rise
Otis Elevator Company
“Double-Deck Technology: Transforming Skyscrapers Through History”
Dave Weihing
Senior Principal
Thornton Tomasetti
“110 North Wacker: Chicago's Tallest Office Building in 30 Years”
Peter Weismantle
Director of Supertall Building Technology
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
“Fifty Years of Fire Safety in Supertall Buildings”
Lawrence Weldon
Consulting Partner
Goettsch Partners
“High-Rise Façade Design for Transparency and Performance: A Chicago Case Study”
Carol Willis
President
The Skyscraper Museum
“Panel Discussion: Reflections on Criteria for First Skyscrapers”
Samuel Wilson
Structural Engineer
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
“The Dewitt Chestnut Apartments: The First Tubular Skyscraper”
Christopher Wilson
Architecture and Design Historian
Ringling College of Art and Design
“The First Artistically-Considered Skyscraper”
Tim Wolfe
Principal, Interior Design Director
Perkins+Will
“Adding a Modern Office into the Wrigley Building”
Ernest Wong
Principal
Site Design Group
“Reframing Riverfront Development: Case Studies Along the Chicago River”
Christopher Wong
Deputy Project Director
Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
“The Impact of Transit Oriented Development in Hong Kong”
Stephan Wurster
Business Development Manager
POHL Group
“Rainscreen Systems on High Rise Façades: From Past to Future”
Kai Yang
Mass Timber Project Manager
CadMakers
“Building Tall with Mass Timber—The Digital Twin Approach”
Yu Ye
Assistant Professor
Tongji University
“Measuring Social Impacts of Tall Building's Lower Public Space”
Albert Yeung
Assistant General Manager, Office Leasing
Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited
“Panel Discussion: Challenges in Optimizing High-Rise Design and Operations”
Jerry Yin
Managing Director
Tishman Speyer
“Panel Discussion: What Will the Future High-Rise Occupier Want?”
Nancy Yost
Senior Vice President
JLL
“Plenary 2 Panel Discussion: The Now: Servicing the Modern Tall Building Occupant”
Bob Zhang
Sales Director
Tianjin North Glass Industrial Technical Co., Ltd
“Four Season Comfort Zone: The New Generation Greenhouse Integrated Solutions”
Jian Zhao
Co-Chief Designer
CityGroup (CTG) Design
“The Principle of Genius Loci Through 20 Years of Design”
Steve Zuo
Principal Consultant
ADG Engineering