Keynote Speakers
The Opening Keynote Lauren Gardner led the team that developed an online interactive COVID-19 dashboard, first released publicly on January 22, 2020, hosted by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. She will speak about the evolution of the dashboard, the challenges it faced, and how the data has been used to build prediction models and improve the general understanding of COVID-19.
Friday’s Keynote is Kate Simonen, the founding director of the Carbon Leadership Forum and Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. Connecting significant professional experience in high-performance building design and technical expertise in environmental life cycle assessment, she works to spur collective action to bring net embodied carbon to zero through cutting-edge research, cross-sector collaboration, and the incubation of new approaches. Join Kate’s dynamic session and explore opportunities to be part of building climate-responsive solutions.
Rounding out the conference, our Closing Keynote is Melodie Yashar, Director of Building Design and Building Performance at ICON. She will highlight ICON’s robotics, material optimization, and logistics of construction with its 3-D printing technologies and its ability to deliver affordable disaster relief and mainstream home construction projects. She will also discuss building performance, structural engineering, and achieving building code approvals for 3D-printed structures. View the program and register at www.structurescongress.org.