2021 Agenda
2022 Agenda Coming Soon
Tuesday, October 26
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)
Live
Introduction
Art Schmon, Managing Director IWBC, FEA
Live
Keynote 1: Forecasting Mass Timber Markets & Wood Costs
Paul Jannke, Principal, FEA
Brendan Lowney, Principal, FEA
Live
Session 1 – Live Panel: Are Hybrid Solutions the Future for Mass Timber?
Moderator Pat Layton, Professor of Forestry & Director, Wood Utilization + Design Institute, Clemson University
Anthony Thistleton, Director, Waugh Thistleton
Nick Milestone, Director, Sigmat
Franco Piva, Director, Ergodomus Timber Engineering
Prerecorded
with Live Q&A
Session 2 – Q&A: Capturing Downstream Value
Moderator Ivan Rupnik, Co-Founder Mod X, Associate Professor Architecture, Northeastern University
Patrick Chouinard, Founder & New Business, Element5
Todd Beyreuther, Mass Timber Product Management, Mercer International
Erica Spiritos, Preconstruction Manager, Timberlab
Live
Keynote 2: Productizing Construction
Susan Jones, Founder, atelierjones
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Session 3 – Live Panel: The Future of Industrialized Construction
Moderator Ryan Smith, Co-Founder Mod X, Director & Professor SDC, Washington State University
BJ Siegel, Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer, Juno
Oliver Lang, Founder & CEO, Intelligent City
Lisa Podesto, Senior Business Development Manager, Design Build Americas
Wednesday, October 27
All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−4)
Live
Keynote 3: Making Volumetric Modular Work
Helena Lidlöw, VP Design, Lindbäcks
Live
Session 4 – Live Panel: Volumetric Modular
Moderator Dave Cooper, Principal/CoFounder, Dave Cooper Live
Helena Lidlöw, VP Design, Lindbäcks
Rick Murdock, Founder/CEO, Autovol
Vaughan Buckley, CEO/Founder, VBC
Prerecorded
with Live Q&A
Session 5 – Q&A: International Ecologies in Industrialized Wood-Based Construction
Moderator Ivan Rupnik, Co-Founder Mod X, Associate Professor Architecture, Northeastern University
Robert Hairstans, Director of the Centre for Advanced Timber Technology (CATT) – New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering (NMITE)
Susanne Rudenstam, CEO, Swedish Wood Building Council
Manfred Augustin, Director of Engineering, holz.bau forschungs gmbh
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Keynote 4: Business & Product Platforms for Industrialized Construction
Ryan Smith, Co-Founder Mod X, Director & Professor SDC, Washington State University
Ivan Rupnik, Co-Founder Mod X, Associate Professor Architecture, Northeastern University
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Session 6 – Live Panel: ESG: What is it? What impact will it have on wood-based construction?
Moderator Bill Parsons, VP Operations, WoodWorks
Victoria Lockhart, ESG Strategy Manager, Resource Management Service, LLC
Margaret Whelan, CEO, Whelan Advisory
Amy Tabb, EVP, Business Development and Innovation, Columbia Property Trust
Live
Wrap Up
Art Schmon, Managing Director IWBC, FEA
The 2021 Agenda is subject to change.
The 4th annual IWBC Conference will be a VIRTUAL event held on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 26 – 27, 2021.
IWBC brings together the industry’s leading thinkers and innovators presenting and discussing discoveries and technologies that are breaking new ground in all forms of industrialized construction – mass timber, panelized and volumetric modular – along with the latest digital tools, software, machinery and robotics that tie it all together.
We are taking a different approach this year.
- The virtual format will feature pre-recorded presentations distributed to registered attendees one week in advance of the conference.
- This format will enable attendees to view presentations at times that are convenient to you.
- This will also give attendees time to review the presentations and consider questions that attendees may wish to ask.
- On the days of the conference, recorded presenters will be back, live, to answer attendee questions.
We will also host live Keynotes and live panel discussions on the days of the conference.
Registration includes access to all pre-recorded speaker and PDF presentations, as well as all live content.
Recordings of the live content will be available online after the conference until December 30, 2021.
Please contact Lisa Kelly with any questions.