2019 Agenda

Keynote 1
8:45 – 9:45am

1. John Burns,
   Founder & CEO of John Burns Real Estate Consulting, LLC
2. Margaret Whelan,
   Construction industry strategist and financing expert

Breakout Session 1
10:30am – 12:15pm

Track 1

Systems as Solutions
Financing Offsite Construction
Was 2018 an investment inflection point? Financing construction innovators. Are lending practices keeping up with the offsite trend?

1. “Topic TBA”
   Margaret Whelan, Founder & CEO of Whelan Advisory

Track 2

Adapt, Integrate, Collaborate
Educating General Contractors, Architects and Engineers – Panel

1. Alex Schreyer, Senior Lecturer, Building & Construction Technology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2. Mike Jackson, Ph.D., P.E., Chair & Professor Clemson Construction Science and Management
3. Chris Carbone, Structural Engineer, Bensonwood
4. Robert Hairstans, Head of the Center for Offsite Construction, Edinburgh Napier University
5. Peggi Clouston, Professor, Wood Mechanics and Timber Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Track 3

Potential, Performance and Practicalities
Environmental Impacts of Wood Based Construction

1. “Building a Climate-Stable Future: How engineered wood products can address climate change”
   Mark Wishnie, Director Global Forestry & Wood Products, The Nature Conservancy
2. “The Forest or the Trees: Rethinking Timber’s Carbon Footprint”
   Sara Tepfer, Sustainability Consultant, Arup
3. “Certification’s role in industrialized wood-based construction”
   Annie Perkins, Senior Director Strategic Partnerships, Sustainable Forestry Initiative

Breakout Session 2
1:45 – 3:45pm

Track 1

Systems as Solutions
The Case for Modular Construction

1. “Modular Construction: Why It Works”
   Michael Merle, VP Business Development, Guerdon
2. “Make Modular Construction Work for your Next Multifamily Project”
   Vaughan Buckley, CEO Buckley Modular Construction

Track 2

Adapt, Integrate, Collaborate
Re-engineering the Supply Chain

1. “Re-Engineering the Supply Chain”
   Dominique Briand, CEO, Structure Fusion
2. “Iterate to Optimize: How to build a high production team culture to deliver fast, high quality results”
   Paul Bandrowski, CEO, Inphastos
3. “Leveraging the Component Industry to Provide Efficient Wood Based Structures”
   Kirk Grundahl, Executive Director, Structural Building Components Association

Track 3

Potential, Performance and Practicalities
Building Codes & Fire Safety

1. “Tall Wood Construction: New Code Provisions, Design Steps and Impacts on North American Markets”
   Ricky McLain, Sr Technical Director Tall Wood, WoodWorks
2. “Design of Timber Concrete Composite Floors for Fire”
   Erica Fischer, Asst Professor, Oregon State University
3. “What Codes and Regulations are telling us about Mass Timber”
   Joe Kelly, President, Mass Construction Consultants

Keynote 3
8:45 – 9:45am

1. Craig Curtis,
   President, Katerra Architecture

Breakout Session 3
10:30am – 12:15pm

Track 1

Systems as Solutions
“Super-Subs” vs. “End to End”

1. “Topic TBA”
   Ryan Melin, President, Innovative Construction Group
2. “Nail It! A system for an easier, faster, and better way”
   Jason Blenker, CEO Blenker Companies
3. “Topic TBA”
   Karim Sahyoun, Co-Founder and Director, Blueprint Robotics

Track 2

Adapt, Integrate, Collaborate
Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

1. “Topic TBA”
   Ola Skoglung, Chief Operating Officer, Randek Robotics
2. “An AI Software Tool which Designs I-joist Floors Automatically”
   Luke Whale, PhD, Technical Director Earlybird Technologies Ltd.

Track 3

Potential, Performance and Practicalities
Standards in Industrialized Construction – Panel

1. Hannes Blaas, CEO Rothoblaas USA

Keynote 4
1:45 – 2:45pm

1. Phil G. Bernstein, FAIA, RIBA, LEED ® A,
   Pioneer of BIM, former VP at Autodesk, now Associate Dean, Yale’s Architecture School