Opening Keynote by Edward Mazria, Founder & CEO, Architecture 2030
To Net Zero Carbon and Beyond: Framing the Challenge

Plenary Panel: Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment: Strategy, Tactics, Tools, and Partnerships

• Session Lead: Kate Simonen, Carbon Leadership Forum, University of Washington
• Monica Barone, Chief Executive Officer, City of Sydney
• Victoria Burrows, Project Manager Advancing Net Zero, World Green Building Council
• Amanda Sturgeon, CEO, International Living Future Institute
• Rives Taylor, Principal, Firmwide Co-Director Design Resilience, Gensler

Reducing Embodied Carbon Emissions While Storing Carbon

Best Practices and Tools for Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Every Project: Focus on Design

• Session Lead: Wil Srubar, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
• Kelly Roberts, P.E., LEED AP BD+C, Principal, Walter P Moore Atlanta
• Stacy Smedley, Director of Sustainability, Skanska Construction
• Brent Trenga, Director of Sustainability and Education, Kingspan

True Carbon Neutral Development: Measuring and Reducing the Impact of Construction Materials and Processes: Focus on Development

• Session Lead: Ryan Zizzo, Technical Director, Zizzo Strategy
• Katie Ross, Sustainability Program Manager, Microsoft
• Panu Pasanen, CEO, Bionova

Embodied Carbon Policies in Practice: Recent Innovations: Focus on Policy

• Session Lead: Anu Natarajan, StopWaste
• Elizabeth Beardsley, Senior Policy Counsel, U.S. Green Building Council
• Patrick Enright, Green Building Engineer, Planning, Urban Design & Sustainability, City of Vancouver
• Erin McDade, Program Manager, Architecture 2030
• Prodipto Roy, Program Manager, Buildings & Industry, Climate Works

Lunch Keynote by Amory Lovins, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute: Integrative Design for Radical Efficiency at Lower Cost

Retrofitting Existing Buildings for High Efficiency

Best Practices for Delivering Deep Energy & Carbon Reduction Upgrades: Focus on Design

• Session Lead: Mark Thompson Brandt, ZNC Collaboration for Existing & Historic Buildings; Sr Conservation Architect & Urbanist, MTBA Associates
• Ralph DiNola, CEO, New Buildings Institute
• Rod Yeoh, Principal Sustainability Engineer, DIALOG
• Paula McEvoy, Director of Sustainability, Perkins + Will

Tapping the Climate and Profit Opportunity in Deep Energy Efficiency Upgrades: Focus on Development

• Session Lead: Victor Olgyay, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute
• Brenden Millstein, CEO & Co-Founder, Carbon Lighthouse
• Clay Nesler, VP, Global Sustainability & Industry Initiatives, Johnson Controls
• David Pogue, LEED AP, BOMI-HP, Sr. Vice President, CBRE

Overcoming the Barriers to Building Energy Efficiency Retrofits at Scale: Focus on Policy

• Session Lead: Emma Stewart, Ph.D., Director of Urban Efficiency & Climate, World Resources Institute
• Andy Frank, Founder and CEO, Sealed
• Andria Jacob, Senior Manager, Energy Programs and Policy, City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability
• Andrew McAllister, Commissioner, California Energy Commission

Creating Highly Efficient New Buildings

Building to Accelerate the Transition to a Clean Energy Grid: Focus on Design

• Session Lead: Brendan Owens, Senior Vice President, US Green Building Council
• Fiona Cousins, Principal, Arup
• Barry Coflan, SVP & Chief Technology Officer, Schneider Electric, EcoBuildings Division
• Peter Turnbull, Principal Program Manager, PG&E

Net Zero Carbon Buildings Are Better Buildings: Raising the Bar on Building Performance: Focus on Development

• Session Lead: Michelle Frey, Executive Director, Urban Land Institute
• Cliff Majersik, Executive Director, Institute for Market Transformation
• Brett Phillips, Vice President of Sustainable and Responsible Investments, Unico Properties
• Eleni Reed, Head of Sustainability, Lendlease

Accelerating Large-Scale Decarbonization of the Built Environment: Policy Trends: Focus on Policy

• Session Lead: Mark Frankel, Technical Director, New Buildings Institute
• Martha Brook, Energy Policy Advisor, California Energy Commission
• Kendra Tupper, Chief Sustainability & Resilience Officer, City of Boulder
• Vincent Martinez, COO, Architecture 2030

Plenary Panel: Health and Equity in the Built Environment

• Session Lead: Michelle Romero, National Director, Green for All
• Anthony Berheim, Healthy & Resilient Buildings Program Manager, San Francisco International Airport
• Denise Fairchild, President & CEO, Emerald Cities Collaborative
• Dr. Shamir Ghumra, BREEAM Director, BRE
• Taylor Keep, Building Sciences Lead, Katerra