7:00 am Registration & Breakfast

7:50 am Chair’s Opening Remarks

Making Computational Building Design a Reality in Your Firm

8:10 am Keynote: Case Study: Preparing the Organizational Structure of Your Firm for Widespread Computational Building Design Practice

• Andrew Victory Global Digital Transformation Lead , Arcadis

9:00 am Workshop: Securing Buy-In of Firm Senior Leaders, Clients, Colleagues and Project Managers to Safeguard Widespread Computation Investment & Implementation

• Evan Troxel Director of Digital Practice , HMC Architects
• Hilda Espinal Chief Technology Officer | Senior Vice President , CannonDesign
• Geoffrey Smith Associate, Silman
• Hiram Rodriguez Design Technologist Specialist , Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
• Joshua Radoff Senior Vice President , WSP
• Erik Narhi Computational Design lead, BuroHappold Engineering

10:40 am Morning Refreshments & Speed Networking

11:30 am Best Practices in Workflows to Empower Design; How Computation Design Can be Adopted into the Workflow through Standardization & Procedures

• Jamie McIntyre Canada Digital Lead , Mott MacDonald

Designing Smarter; What Innovations Can You Implement Today

12:10 pm Case Study: Data Driven Design; Leveraging Historical Data to Inform Design Insights

• Noah Harburger Senior Associate & BIM Manager , Ayers Saint Gross

12:50 pm Networking Lunch

1:50 pm Panel Discussion: Determining What New Technologies Offer to Computational Designers

• Ryan Cameron Founder, CEO, Architect Machines
• Harrison Yamamoto Senior Engineer , Silman
• Nicholas Cameron Director of Digital Practice, Associate Principal, Perkins&Will
• Dan Stine Director of Design Technology, Lake/Flato Architects
• Petr Mitev Global Leader of Design Computation , NBBJ

2:40 pm Case Study: Leveraging AI & ML & Understanding What Value It Brings to Determine Your Firm’s Strategy

• Badri Hiriyur Vice President | Director of CORE.AI , Thornton Tomasetti

3:20 pm Afternoon Refreshments

Computation & Evolving Services

3:50 pm Presenter Led Audience Discussion: Overcoming Challenges in Marketing Computation as a Service & Charging for it

• Dane Stokes Associate, ZGF

4:30 pm Smaller Project Computation; Industry Development in Computation for “Normal” Projects

• Dennis Goff Architect, Computational Designer, ZGF Architects

5:10 pm Chair’s Closing Remarks

5:20 pm End of Day One