Confirmed Speakers to Date
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Vice President, Sales Asia Pacific, TK Elevator GmbH
"Urbanization, Highrise, and Infrastructure"
Operations Manager, SEMAPA
"Timber City: Bruneseau Seine in the Seine Rive Gauche context"
"Walking Tour: Bruneseau District to Zac Bédier"
Mike Azzaro
Vice President - Large Project Division, Schindler
"The Post-Pandemic Tall Building: The View from the Elevator Industry"
Director - High Rise UK, Ramboll
"Go Tall or Go… Can our European Cities Afford Not to Build Tall?"
Senior Client Director, Saguez & Partners
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine : a Lab for New Urban Projects"
Managing Director & Partner, Werner Sobek AG
"Circular Economy and the Role of Grey Emissions"
Eco-Design Coordinator, setec tpi
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Associate Principal, CPP Wind Engineering Consultants
"Breathe Easy: Internal Environments in a Post-Pandemic World"
"Breathe Easy: Internal Environments in a Post-Pandemic World"
Project Manager, Fibois ÃŽle-de-France
"Panel Discussion on The Making of a Carbon Zero City"
CEO Rotho Blaas USA Inc, Rothoblaas s.r.l.
"The View from the Materials Supply Side"
Managing Director, Werner Sobek AG
"Adaptive Structures and Facades: the Pathway to Ultralightweight Construction"
Principal, Stefano Boeri Architetti
"Carbon Neutrality: Carbon Emission Peak and Ecological Diversity Practices in Future Cities"
Founder & CEO, Frank Boutté Consultants
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Assistant Director for Cooperative Forestry, Wood Innovations, USDA Forest Service
"Supply Chain: Forest Management, Forest Fires, and Your Project"
Managing Partner International, Grimshaw Architects
"Introduction: CTBUH Chapter Board Members"
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine: a Lab for New Urban Projects"
Principal – Global Director of Cities + Urban Design, Gensler
"Turning the Overlapping Challenges of Underserved Communities into Opportunities"
Chief Sustainability Officer, LanzaTech
"Capturing Carbon: Fueling the Growth of the Future City"
Canada Consulting Practice Leader, Principal, Fellow, Arup
"Engineering Resilience: Factoring Climate Change into Critical Design Decisions"
Head of Energy and Sustainability, Asia Pacific, JLL
"Sustainability Strategies Towards Net Zero Carbon Buildings in Future"
Executive Vice President, Riverside Investment & Development
"Delivering a Transit-Oriented, Wellness-Focused High-Rise Workplace"
Senior Project Director, New World Development Company Limited
"Future City at Lantau, 11 Skies"
Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
"Future City: Challenges and Opportunities"
Executive Director & Senior Vice President, Shenzhen Parkland Real Estate Development Co., Ltd
"Opening Address"
Director of Sustainability, East Asia, Arup
"Next Wave of Decarbonization of Cities"
Managing Director, WSP
"Carbon, Climate, Sustainability, Health, and Safety Impact on Highrise Hospital Design"
Head of Digital Services NA, TK Elevator GmbH
"The Post-Pandemic Tall Building: The View from the Elevator Industry"
Creative Director & Partner, Saguez & Partners
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine : a Lab for New Urban Projects"
UK Head of Sustainability, Thornton Tomasetti, Inc.
"Balancing Embodied and Operational Carbon in High Performance Facades"
Commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development, City of Chicago
"Keynote Address: Carbon, Climate & Society: Preparing Chicago for an Uncertain Future"
Architect, Cro&Co Architecture
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Head of Vertical Transportation, AECOM
"Panel Discussion on the Future of Vertical Transportation"
Mario Cucinella
Founder, Mario Cucinella Architects
"Opening Address"
"Panel Discussion: The Future Vienna - Challenges and Opportunities"
Principal Architect, Dam & Partners Architecten
"Europe and the Future City Challenge"
Florian Dautil
Municipal Councilor, Mairie-Saint-Ouen
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine : a Lab for New Urban Projects"
"Visit of the Eco District of Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine"
President, Magnusson Klemencic Associates
"Carbon: Counting, Curtailing, and Capturing"
Founding Partner, RWDI
"Wind and Thermal Comfort in the Public Realm: New Guidance Initiatives"
Senior Manager, Design & Engineering, YKK AP FAÇADE PTE LTD
"FACADE ReSkin: A specialist contractor’s value, how does it matter?"
President and COO - Mass Timber Buildings Factory, Sidewalk Labs
"Presentation Title Pending"
Senior Structural Engineer, Arup
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Senior Associate, Fast+Epp
"Beyond Post, Beam, and Panel: Taking Mass Timber Design Towards Exostructures"
Director of Development, Hines
"Hines sustainability solutions: the Nordic example"
Communications Consultant, Business Communications Consulting
"FOUR: A Mega Construction Site in the Heart of Frankfurt's City Center"
Managing Director, Civil and Structural Engineering Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd
"Presentation Title Pending"
Global Technical Sales Engineer, Head of Technical Sales & Marketing, ArcelorMittal
"Society: Wellness, Equity, and Affordability"
Head of Sustainability, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
"Best Practices in Urban Net-Zero Projects"
Director, KONE
"The Post-Pandemic Tall Building: The View from the Elevator Industry"
General Manager, Shanghai Tower Construction & Development
"Panel Discussion: The Design and Construction of Low Carbon & Smart Cities"
Sales Director – New Equipment Business, KONE
"Technology to enable Sustainability: Kone’s transformation strategy"
Construction Director, Lipton Rogers Developments LLP
"Panel Discussion on a Case Study of 22 Bishopsgate"
Founding Director, WOHA Architects
"Maximizing Nature in the Built Environment"
Director of China Operations, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
"Eco-City - Sustainable Super Tall Building Design"
Herbert Hetzel
Founder, Shareholder, CEO, Beyond Carbon Energy
"A Green Future - Beyond Carbon Energy?"
"The Future Vienna - Challenges and Opportunities"
Yonni Hoffman
VP, Market Development, Lerch Bates, Inc.
"The Post-Pandemic Tall Building: The View from the Elevator Industry"
Board Member and Chief Architect of TIANHUA Group, Tianhua Architecture Planning & Engineering Co., Ltd.
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
Sarah Ichioka
Director, Desire Lines
"Panel Discussion on The Future City: Challenges and Opportunities"
Managing Principal, Europe Practice Leader, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
"The Future of Mobility"
Projects Director, setec tpi
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Project Manager, C.D. Smith Construction Inc.
"Ascent: The World's Next Tallest Timber-Concrete Building"
Structural Engineering Director, StructureCraft
"Canada Earth Tower: Innovative Prefabricated Hybrid Timber-Steel Balconies for Tall Wood Buildings"
Director of Structural Engineering, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
"SPLAM (Spatial Laminated Timber) and Other Timber Initiatives"
Principal Architect, Founder, atelierjones
"Panel Discussion: The Owner-Developer's Perspective on Mass Timber in the High Rise Realm"
Markus Kaplan
Partner, BWM Architekten und Partner ZT GmbH
"Panel Discussion: The Future Vienna - Challenges and Opportunities"
Principal Architect, Korb + Associates Architects
"Exposing Wood Structure and Veneers: When Code Permits It, and When the Market Supports It"
Principal Director, Farrells
"Humanizing High Density and Revitalizing Hong Kong’s Business Hub with West Kowloon Cultural District"
Project Executive, C.D. Smith Construction Inc.
"Ascent: The World's Next Tallest Timber-Concrete Building"
Studies Manager, Plateau Urbain
"Timber City: Bruneseau Seine in the Seine Rive Gauche context"
"Walking Tour: Bruneseau District to Zac Bédier"
Director of Complex Structures, setec tpi
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Managing Director, Ronald Lu & Partners
"Sustainable and Low-Carbon Tall Buildings"
Director of Sustainable Design, Ronald Lu & Partners
"THEi—A Climate-Ready Campus"
Chunchao Li
Marketing Director, Tianjin North Glass Industrial Technical Co., Ltd.
"Design for Healthy and Livable Cities (TJAD)"
General Manager of Design Management, Ping An Real Estate Co Ltd
"Panel Discussion: The Design and Construction of Low Carbon & Smart Cities"
Sr. Vice President Large Projects and Key Account Management, Schindler
"Schindler PORT 4D – An Enabler of Essential Urban Reconfiguration"
Group CEO, Permasteelisa Group
"Panel Discussion on a Case Study of 22 Bishopsgate"
Principal, Landscape, SmithGroup
"Understanding (and Protecting) Cities as Landscapes"
Jianhe Luo
Deputy Chief Architect, Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China Univ. of Technology
"Humanizing High Density"
Owner, Donald Luxton & Associates
"The Evolution of the Tall Residential Tower in Vancouver"
Director of Sustainability and Mass Timber, DCI Engineers
"Tall Mass Timber: Forest to Frame to Re-Use"
Creative Director - Design and Architecture, Saguez & Partners
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine: a Lab for New Urban Projects"
CEO of CroMe Studio (sister company of Cro&Co Architecture), Cro&Co Architecture
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Senior Associate Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
"Attacking Climate Problems Through Resilient Design"
Professor of Civil Engineering, Director of ARC Centre for Prefab Housing, University of Melbourne
"Presentation Title Pending"
Global Director, Ramboll
"Climate Change: Driving a New Environmental Business Case"
Director of Sustainability, Nucor Corporation
"Econiq: The Net-Zero Steel Solution"
Head of Discipline, Building Structures, WSP
"Panel Discussion: Case Study: 22 Bishopsgate"
Director, Hardel Le Bihan Architectes
"Timber City: Bruneseau Seine in the Seine Rive Gauche context"
Principal and Co-Founder, H+O Structural Engineering
"Timber as Internal Surface: Fire, Code and Other Challenges"
Director, Zaha Hadid Architects
"Responsive Environments— Inspiration, Incubation, Innovation"
Justin Owen
Manager, New Business Development, Walbridge
"Tall Timber: Engineering Challenges and Successes"
Managing Director, Lendlease
"Opening Address"
"Paya Lebar Quarter—Challenges & Successes"
Director/Chief Designer, CityGroup Design Co., Ltd
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
Manager of Urban Design, City of Toronto Planning Department
"Towers and Transit"
"Urban Habitat around the World"
Christian Pichler
Chief Architect, Founder, Christian Anton Pichler ZT GmbH
"Place Matters: Designing and Executing Context-Sensitive Developments"
Senior Business Development Manager, Design Build Americas, Lendlease
"Keeping the Carbon Reduction Promise through Responsible Development"
Yi Qi
Deputy Dean, Shenzhen University
"Panel Discussion: The Design and Construction of Low Carbon & Smart Cities"
Professor of Places and City Planning, University College London
"The Future of London: Mobility, Skyscraper, and Society"
Managing Director, Senior Partner, Saguez & Partners
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine: a Lab for New Urban Projects"
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine: a Lab for New Urban Projects"
Simon Ruppert
Partner, Managing Director, Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure
"FOUR: A Mega Construction Site in the Heart of Frankfurt's City Center"
Head of Technology and Offering Development, KONE
"Building Smart and Sustainable Cities"
Associate Director - Digital Products, Product Management, Otis Elevator Company
"The Post-Pandemic Tall Building: The View from the Elevator Industry"
Business Development Manager, CREE GmbH
"Timber-Hybrid: How one System Changes the Sustainability in Construction"
Senior Lecturer, National University of Singapore
"Society: Sustainability, Safety and Sensitivity"
Director of Business Development & Strategy, CadMakers
"The Digital Twin - Born in Timber, Applicable to All Structures"
VP of Global Business Development, TK Elevator GmbH
"Sustainable Technologies for Vertical Cities and Modernization for Urban Mobility"
Partner, Infrastructure Sector Lead, Hawkins Brown
"Panel Discussion on the Future of London: Mobility, Skyscraper, and Society"
Principal, Spiritos Properties LLC
"Mass Timber + Passive House: A Carbon Correlation"
Director, Innovation and Sustainability / Partner, Henning Larsen Architects
"Design With impact: Transforming Intuitive Knowledge into Evidence-Based Design"
Associate Principal, Asset Services Leader, Arup
"Digitalization in the Era of Building Climate Resilience"
Peter Terrell
Founder, Terrell Group
"Introduction: CTBUH Chapter Board Members"
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Managing Principal, bKL Architecture
"Elevating Equity: Towards a Tall Building Industry That Looks Like The World It Serves"
Daniel Torakai
Team Leader, Werner Sobek AG
"FOUR: A Mega Construction Site in the Heart of Frankfurt's City Center"
Deputy Director, Building Construction Authorities (BCA)
"The Singapore 2030 Green Plan and the Built Environment"
Head of Schindler Transit Management & VP Innovation and Business Development, Schindler
"Schindler PORT 4D – an Enabler of Essential Urban Reconfiguration"
Planning Director, SEMAPA
"Timber City: Bruneseau Seine in the Seine Rive Gauche context"
"Walking Tour: Bruneseau District to Zac Bédier"
President & Design Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
"The Sustainable Future—Tower Design in Transit-Oriented Development"
Director, Werner Sobek AG
"Green, Clean and Tall: Using Vegetated Facades and Walls to Foster a Better Urban Environment"
Arthur Walch
Managing Director, Engineering and Sales, HASSLACHER Holding GmbH
"Urban Timber Construction: Chances and Potentials"
Senior Director for Research, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
"Locking a Sustainable Carbon Economy into Building Codes"
Partner, Alinea Consulting
"Building the City's Tallest, 22 Bishopsgate"
"Closing Remarks"
"Welcome Remarks"
"Panel Discussion"
"Welcome Remarks"
Senior Director, High Rise & Advanced Dispatching, Otis Elevator Company
"Panel Discussion on the Future of Vertical Transportation"
Architect and Project Manager, Sustainability, Werner Sobek AG
"D1244 – the World’s First Adaptive Highrise"
Technical Director Global Building Segment, Aliaxis
"Panel Discussion on The Making of a Carbon Zero City"
Architect, Urbanist, Albert Wimmer ZT-GmbH
"Opening Address"
"Rethinking Environmental Strategies"
Executive Director, Hongkong Land
"Climate Change and Challenges, hosted by Hongkong Land"
Chief Executive Officer, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
"Closing Remarks"
"One-to-One: The Global Future"
"Opening Comments"
"The Future City: The Future Workplace"
Director of Engineering, Bouygues Immobilier
"Introduction: CTBUH Chapter Board Members"
General Manager, Technical Services & Sustainable Development, Swire Properties Ltd
"Integrating Sustainability Across Commercial Buildings"
Facade Design and Construction Scientist, Dow
"Designing Building Materials for the Full Life Cycle"
Director, Beca Group
"Achieving the best of both worlds: Attaining thermal comfort and low carbon emissions through naturally ventilated, tropical climate buildings"
Associate Partner and Director of Sustainability, Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture
"Tall Timber: Design and Logistical Challenges"
Wei Zhang
Deputy General Manager of Office Building Department, Gemdale Viseen Tower
"Gemdale Viseen Center Extraordinary Space Power"
President, East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI)
"Opening Address"
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
Senior Director, New Equipment, OCL, Otis Elevator Company
"Panel Discussion: The Design and Construction of Low Carbon & Smart Cities"
Director, CML Applied Product Marketing & Communications, North Asia, Carrier, Carrier HVAC
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
President & Co-CEO, Goettsch Partners
"Qianhai Rising: Contributions From Urban Mixed-Use Developments"
Director, Major Projects & Strategic Accounts Management, Otis Elevator Company
"The Future is Here: Artificial Intelligence and Connected Systems That Enable Smart Cities"