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Christoph Aebischer
Vice President, Sales Asia Pacific, TK Elevator GmbH
"Urbanization, Highrise, and Infrastructure"
Wiebke Ahues
Architect and Director, blocher partners
"Urban Timber Construction: Chances and Potentials"
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"
Head of Department, High Rise Buildings, 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 Île-de-France
"Panel Discussion on The Making of a Carbon Zero City"
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, Franck Boutté Consultants2
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Assistant Director - Wood Innovations, USDA Forest Service
"Wood Innovations, Mass Timber and the Connection to Healthy Forests"
Managing Partner, International, Grimshaw Architects
"Introduction: CTBUH Chapter Board Members"
"Saint-Ouen-Sur-Seine: a Lab for New Urban Projects"
Vice President, Major Projects, KONE Industrial Ltd
"The Role of People Flow in Sustainable Urbanization"
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"
Erick Calderon
Director of Urbanism, Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo
"Equitable Investments: Challenges of Land Use Planning and Public Land Development Strategy"
"Panel Discussion: The Future City - Challenges and Opportunities"
Head of Energy and Sustainability, Asia Pacific, JLL
"Sustainability Strategies Towards Net Zero Carbon Buildings in Future"
President - Design Director, Carazo Architecture
"Beyond the Shelter: Improving the Impact of the Built Environment on Human Health"
Executive Vice President, Riverside Investment & Development
"Delivering a Transit-Oriented, Wellness-Focused High-Rise Workplace"
Head of Projects, 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"
Jack Chen
Head of Engineering Operation, Taipei Financial Center Corporation
"Taipei Panel Discussion"
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 & CEO, Cro&Co Architecture
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Director - Head of Vertical Transportation EUR-UK & Ireland, AECOM
"Panel Discussion on the Future of Vertical Transportation"
Mario Cucinella
Founder, Mario Cucinella Architects
"Panel Discussion: The Future Vienna - Challenges and Opportunities"
"Tall Buildings: a Chance for Sustainable Innovation"
Principal Architect, Dam & Partners Architecten
"Europe and the Future City Challenge"
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"
Co-Founder/Principal, Davies-Crooks 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 Facade Pte. Ltd.
"FACADE ReSkin: A specialist contractor’s value, how does it matter?"
President and COO - Mass Timber Buildings Factory, Sidewalk Labs
"Building Data-Rich, Economically and Environmentally Sustainable Communities in Timber"
Melissa Díaz Segura
Senior Manager of Circularity and Life Cycle, Center of Life Cycle Assessment and Sustainable Design
"The Double Edged Sword: Reducing Carbon Built-in and Operational in the Built Environment"
Senior Structural Engineer, Arup
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Senior Associate, Fast + Epp Structural Engineers Inc.
"Beyond Post, Beam and Panel: Mass-Timber Flat Slabs and Exostructures at 2150 Keith Drive"
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"
Mark Fenwick
Co-Founder and Architect, Fenwick Iribarren Architects
"Dating Uses of Office Skyscrapers: Edificio Caleido, Madrid"
Principal Structural Engineer, Civil and Structural Engineering Consultants (Pvt.) Ltd
"Presentation Title Pending"
Director of Master of Science, Executive Management for Design & Construction, Northwestern University
"Society: Wellness, Equity, and Affordability"
Head of Sustainability, Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
"Best Practices in Urban Net-Zero Projects"
Director, KONE Industrial Ltd
"The Post-Pandemic Tall Building: The View from the Elevator Industry"
Architect, Partner, Chaix & Morel et Associés
"Place Matters: Designing and Executing Context-Sensitive Developments"
General Manager, Shanghai SIIC North Bund New Landmark Construction and Development Co., Ltd
"Panel Discussion: The Design and Construction of Low Carbon & Smart Cities"
Sales Director-New Equipment Business, KONE Industrial Ltd
"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 & Partners
"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 & Chief Architect, TIANHUA Architecture Planning & Engineering Co., Ltd.
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
Daniel Ibañez
Doctor of Design candidate, Harvard Univeristy
"Advanced Ecological Projects in Structural Wood"
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"
Construction Manager, Individuals
"The Contractor Perspective: Sustainability in Aarsleff"
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"
Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
"SPLAM (Spatial Laminated Timber) and Other Timber Initiatives"
Principal Architect, Founder, atelierjones llc
"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, 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"
Carlos Lamela
Architect, Co-Founder, and President, Estudio Lamela
"Height of Residential Architecture: Malaga Towers"
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"
Sustainable Design Consultant, C.Y. Lee & Partners Architects/Planners
"Panel Discussion"
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
Party secretary and 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, CroMe Studio
"Recycling the City: Refurbishing High-rises at Jussieu Zamansky"
Design Principal, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
"Attacking Climate Problems Through Resilient Design"
Huberth Mendez
Mayor of Curridabat Assistant, Municipalidad De Curridabat
"Panel Discussion: The Future City - Challenges and Opportunities"
"Reinforcement and Regeneration: Curridabat Sweet City as a Case for Adoption of Cities to Climate Change"
Director, Whitby Wood Mills
"Climate Change: Driving a New Environmental Business Case"
CEO, 10 Design (part of Egis Group)
"Towards Net Zero Carbon Buildings, hosted by JLL"
Director of Sustainability, Nucor Corporation
"Econiq: The Net-Zero Steel Solution"
Executive Managing Director - Property & Buildings, WSP
"Panel Discussion: Case Study: 22 Bishopsgate"
Director, Hardel Le Bihan Architectes
"Timber City: Bruneseau Seine in the Seine Rive Gauche context"
CEO, President, REGENBE
"Carbon, A Game Changer in the Building Industry: From the Concept of Design to the Choice of Materials"
"Closing Remarks"
"Opening Remarks"
"Session 1—Society: Sustainability, Safety, and Sensitivity"
"Session 4—Panel Discussion on The Future City: Challenges and Opportunities"
Miguel Nevado
Freelance Structural Engineer, ENMADERA
"Building Tall with Wood: Is there a Limit?"
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
Director, New Business Development, Walbridge
"Tall Timber: Engineering Challenges and Successes"
Managing Director, Lendlease
"Opening Address"
"Paya Lebar Quarter—Challenges & Successes"
Executive Director and Chief Designer, CityGroup Design Collective CO., LTD
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
Urban Design Manager, City of Toronto Planning Department
"Towers and Transit"
"Urban Habitat around the World"
Architect, Executive Partner, Christian Anton Pichler ZT GmbH
"Place Matters: Designing and Executing Context-Sensitive Developments"
Senior Business Development Manager, Design Build Americas, Lendlease
"Mass Timber: A Game Changer in the Carbon Equation?"
"Panel Discussion: The Future City - Challenges and Opportunities"
"Tall Timber: Urbanization Meets Optimization"
Chief Executive Officer, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
"Closing: Europe and the Future City Challenge"
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"
Partner, Managing Director, Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure
"FOUR: A Mega Construction Site in the Heart of Frankfurt's City Center"
Gudrun Sack
Managing Director, Tegel Projekt GmbH
"Urban Timber Construction: Chances and Potentials"
Head of Technology and Offering Development, KONE Industrial Ltd
"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"
National University of Singapore, Individuals
"Society: Sustainability, Safety and Sensitivity"
Director of Business Development & Strategy, CadMakers
"The Digital Twin: Born in Timber, Applicable to All Structures"
Kifah Sasa Marín
Sustainable Development and Resilience Program Officer, United Nations Development Programme
"Panel Discussion: The Future City - Challenges and Opportunities"
"The Future City to Fulfill the 2030 Agenda"
Senior Vice President - 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"
Managing Director & CTO, CREE Buildings, CREE GmbH
"Timber-Hybrid: How one System Changes the Sustainability in Construction"
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"
Head of Service Business, Major Projects, Individuals
"Building Smart and Sustainable Cities"
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 Transit Management & Digital Solutions, 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"
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
"Buildings for a More Productive And Low-Carbon Economy"
Architect, Partner, ArtBuild
"Timber City: Bruneseau Seine in the Seine Rive Gauche context"
Partner, Turner & Townsend alinea
"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"
Director Sustainability Strategies, 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
"Rethinking Environmental Strategies"
"Rethinking Environmental Strategies"
Executive Director, Hongkong Land
"Climate Change and Challenges, hosted by Hongkong Land"
President, 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"
Façade Design and Construction Scientist, Dow
"Designing Building Materials for the Full Life Cycle"
Qi Yi
Deputy Dean, Shenzhen University
"Panel Discussion: The Design and Construction of Low Carbon & Smart Cities"
Director, Beca
"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"
Chief Architect, East China Architectural Design & Research Institute (ECADI)
"Opening Address"
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
Hongting Zhang
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 Air Conditioner Refrigeration Sales (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
"Panel Discussion: Tall Building Renovation & Urban Renewal"
CEO & President, 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"