Jenny E. Sabin is an architectural designer whose work is at the forefront of a new direction for 21st century architectural practice — one that investigates the intersections of architecture and science, and applies insights and theories from biology and mathematics to the design of material structures. Sabin is the Arthur L. and Isabel B. Wiesenberger Professor in Architecture and Associate Dean for Design at Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning where she established a new advanced research degree in Matter Design Computation. She is principal of Jenny Sabin Studio, an experimental architectural design studio based in Ithaca and Director of the Sabin Lab at Cornell AAP, a trans-disciplinary design research lab with specialization in computational design, data visualization, and digital fabrication. In 2006, she co-founded the Sabin+Jones LabStudio, a hybrid research and design unit, together with biologist, Peter Lloyd Jones. Sabin is also a founding member of the Nonlinear Systems Organization (NSO). Sabin’s collaborative research including bioinspired adaptive materials and 3D geometric assemblies has been funded substantially by the National Science Foundation with applied projects commissioned by diverse clients including Nike Inc., Microsoft Research, Autodesk, and others.

Scott Crawford is a designer at LMN Architects in Seattle and a founding member the firm’s in-house research and development lab, LMNts. Over his career, he’s been able to integrate emerging technologies into LMN’s design process in the service of delivering award winning work. He believes technology is a tool that can be leveraged to strengthen a designer’s intuition while also increasing their flexibility to respond to change. Scott holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, a Masters of Architecture and a Masters of Science in Design Computing from the University of Washington.

Martin Miller is primarily concerned with how the digital onslaught will define our future realities, both physical and virtual. He is the cofounder of the design office AntiStatics Architecture based in Beijing and New York City. Defining a mantra which is ever adaptive to emerging technologies, AntiStatics' work seeks to find a balance between our convergent existences. Recent works include MaoHaus, a thin-shell concrete facade with hidden embedded imagery; Pussy Hut, an inhabitable pussy hat that's a tribute and monument to the Women's Rights movement; and Catenaries, a responsive installation provoking the impact of air as a driver for spatial definition.

Scott Overall is an Associate at SHoP Architects with a focus in Computational Design. Scott’s work in computation focuses on delivering complex designs to construction, exemplified by such diverse projects as the Botswana Innovation Hub in Gaborone, Botswana; WAVE/CAVE Pavilion in Milan, Italy; the Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney, Australia; and the Syracuse National Veterans Resource Center in Syracuse, New York. Outside of project work at SHoP, Scott is the author of Sasquatch Utilities, a software extension for the 3D CAD program Rhinoceros 3D, has taught Virtual Design and Construction at Columbia University and run computational design workshops at Penn State University and the University of Kentucky.

Sophie holds over 12 years of experience in the design of complex structures and facades. She joined Enclos in 2018, where she has led various projects’ specialty facades scope sales and design assist efforts, engaged in prototyping, modular curtainwall systems, and various research topics such as ultra-thin glass and acoustical analysis. Prior to joining Enclos, Sophie worked on international projects as a Senior Structural Engineer with Arup in New York where she contributed to the coordination of large design teams, complex geometry and big data management. In 2010 she engaged in the industry-academia partnership research project IAPP ARC for which she developed cold bent glass numerical analysis. Sophie authored several research papers on structural glass and is actively involved in the development of US structural glass codes with ASTM, the Journal of Architectural Engineering as an associate editor, and the Facades Tectonics Institute where she serves in the Special Advisory Council and the 2020 World Congress Organizing Committee.

Christoph Reinhart is a building scientist and architectural educator working in the field of sustainable building design and environmental modeling. At MIT he is leading the Sustainable Design Lab (SDL), an inter-disciplinary group with a grounding in architecture that develops design workflows, planning tools and metrics to evaluate the environmental performance of buildings and neighborhoods. He is also the head of Solemma, a technology company and Harvard University spinoff as well as Strategic Development Advisor for mapdwell, a solar mapping company and MIT spinoff. Products originating from SDL and Solemma are used in practice and education in over 90 countries.

Robert operates at the intersection of design, robotics and computation, working in these fields in both business and academia. He is a co-founding director of international architecture and design practice Robert Stuart-Smith Design, the tech company Behavioural Robotics, and co-founding partner of the design-computation research group - Kokkugia. Robert’s work operates at the forefront of innovation and is enhanced through his engagement in academic research and teaching. Robert is the co-founding director of two Autonomous Manufacturing Labs, where he conducts funded research on multi-robot fabrication and construction. He is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at University of Pennsylvania, and Principal Research Associate at University College of London’s Department of Computer Science. Robert specializes in generative design, behavior-based robotics and multi-agent systems. He consulted with Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit for a number of years and has extensive building project experience. Robert's own design practice - Robert Stuart-Smith Design is based in the UK, and designs bespoke projects that are executed using custom robotic fabrication methods.

A Director at KPF, Luc leads KPF Urban Interface, an internal think tank furthering urban planning and architectural design through computational research and a suite of proprietary analytical tools. With his interdisciplinary team, Luc has developed a unique data-driven design methodology and applied it to over 300 of KPF’s projects globally. Luc’s approach optimizes performance metrics within a human-centric framework of how cities, neighborhoods, and buildings are used from day to day by the people they serve. His expertise has attracted some of the most innovative and complex urban planning projects, including Sidewalk Labs in Toronto and the East Midtown Rezoning for the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP). Luc is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP, where he teaches courses focused on performance-based design and urban data analytics. He is a member of the Urban Design Forum and on the planning committee for the Municipal Arts Society.

Violet is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where she teaches urban data analytics and tangible computing courses, and is an advisor for an upcoming Master’s program Design and Computation in the Built Environment. She founded the Delve product at Sidewalk Labs where she applies her background in architecture and spatial data as a Senior Product Manager. She co-leads Architechies NYC a network which brings together architects and technologists in urban tech.