Digital Drivers for Future Practices

November 2, 2021

6 AIA CEUS

Tech+ Where Data Meets Design

Tech+ provides a front row seat to the cutting edge technological innovations that are driving design forward. Earn up to 6 AIA LUs while unpacking the potential of data to inform smarter and more equitable architecture and urban design. Have access to optimized building performance, electric vehicle planning, and infrastructure aggregation practices while learning about new tools for mapping, modelling, data visualization, digital simulation, and fabrication. Hosted by the Architect’s Newspaper, this one-day virtual conference will include keynotes, presentations, panels, and demos from leading tech experts where AEC professionals can network and connect.

You won’t want to miss out.

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Unpack Smart Urbanism Practices

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Hear From Experts at MIT, Cornell, Stantec, Placetailor, and More

Co-Chair

Luc Wilson

Director of Urban Interface

KPF

Speakers

Colin Booth

Managing Director

Placetailor

Timur Dogan

Director, Environmental Systems Lab

Cornell University

Margaret Newman, FAIA, LEED AP

Practice Leader Urban Places and Smart Mobility

Stantec

Sarah Williams

GIS Expert, Professor of Technology

MIT Civic Data Design Lab

Katie Faulkner, FAIA

Director

PT-TECH

Nicole Mater, AIA

Project Architect

HOK

John Haymaker

Director of Research

Perkins&Will

Adam Chernick

Director of Interactive Visualization

SHoP Architects

Agenda

10:15 - 10:30 AM ET

Virtual Doors Open

10:30 - 10:35 AM

Dionne Darling
Associate Publisher
The Architect’s Newspaper
Luc Wilson
Director of Urban Interface
KPF

10:35 - 11:15 AM

Big data can be used for good—from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations—and for bad: implementing surveillance and control. Data inevitably represents the ideologies of those who control its use; data analytics and algorithms too often exclude women, the poor, and ethnic groups. Sarah Williams will discuss how we can work with data in more ethical and responsible ways through examples from her own research. From collected data on Nairobi’s matatu system to understanding Ghost Cities in China, Williams Illustrated and approach to working with data that generates policy debates, influences civic decisions, and informs design to help ensure that the voices of people represented in the data are neither marginalized nor left unheard.

Sarah Williams
GIS Expert, Professor of Technology
MIT Civic Data Design Lab
Luc Wilson
Director of Urban Interface
KPF

11:15 - 11:30 AM

Meet & Greet with Keynote

11:30 - 11:40 AM

Olenka Jackson
Co-Founder and CEO
Moetsi
Mike Martino
Founding Principal
CTRL Building Systems

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

Increasingly, many firms are collecting and utilizing open data to create new models for urban placemaking. By creating new data models, they promote a new way to think about master-planning, housing, health, and development in our cities that unlocks previously unthinkable opportunities.

Margaret Newman, FAIA, LEED AP
Practice Leader Urban Places and Smart Mobility
Stantec
Timur Dogan
Director, Environmental Systems Lab
Cornell University
Luc Wilson
Director of Urban Interface
KPF

12:30 - 12:40 PM

Meet & Greet with Panelists

1:10 - 1:20 PM

Expo Break

1:20 - 1:40 PM

Lunch Break

1:40 - 1:50 PM

Ryan Camardo
Account Manager
ClientPay
Sofia Jaramillo
Account Executive
Microsol Resources
Craig Macdonald
Senior Account Executive
OpenAsset

1:50 - 2:40 PM

The challenge of our century is to build high-performance, future proof housing. But how can one use advanced tools to promote equity and social justice? These design leaders offer unique approaches to meeting this challenge head on.

Colin Booth
Managing Director
Placetailor
Katie Faulkner, FAIA
Director
PT-TECH
Luc Wilson
Director of Urban Interface
KPF

2:40 - 2:50 PM

Meet & Greet with Panelists

2:50 - 3:00 PM

Expo Break

3:00 -3:50 PM

Join research, design, and technology leaders as they discuss the tools and techniques from within their firms that will define the future of design practice.

Nicole Mater, AIA
Project Architect
HOK
John Haymaker
Director of Research
Perkins&Will
Adam Chernick
Director of Interactive Visualization
SHoP Architects
Luc Wilson
Director of Urban Interface
KPF

3:50-4:00 PM

Dionne Darling
Associate Publisher
The Architect’s Newspaper
Luc Wilson
Director of Urban Interface
KPF

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