Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Date: Wednesday, 13/Aug/2025
7:00am
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8:00am
Light Breakfast
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
8:10am
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9:00am
Keynote: Carl Elefante
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
9:10am
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10:10am
Dance Partners: How to Gracefully Integrate Building Form and Enclosure with HVAC
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: James Frederick Petersen
 

Chair(s): James Frederick Petersen

 

Session Presentations

 

What Success Looks Like: HVAC Integrated with the Building Form and Enclosure

Cheryl M Saldanha

 

What Success Looks Like: HVAC Integrated with the Building Form and Enclosure

James Frederick Petersen

10:30am
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12:00pm
Holistic Carbon Reduction in the Built Environment
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Dave Hubka
 

Chair(s): Dave Hubka

Presenter(s): Jessica Martinez, Hilary Giffen, Rachel Thompson, Richard Bowden

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
1:40pm
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3:10pm
Integrating Construction, Operations, Utility, and MEP Partners to Get Electrification Done
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Skander Spies
 

Chair(s): Skander Spies

Presenter(s): DJ Hubler, Jennifer Eckert, Alyssa Ferry

3:30pm
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5:00pm
Energy Modeling - Tools and Techniques
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Krishnan Gowri
 

A BIM-BEM based Workflow for Designing Integrated HVAC and Lighting Systems

Michael Poplawski, Ammar H.A. Dehwah



Metascheming with Building Energy Modeling: A Standard 232 Case Study

Jason W. DeGraw



Reevaluating Energy Savings: The Impact of Independent Modelling on Energy Efficiency Measure

Charlotte Nauss

Date: Thursday, 14/Aug/2025
7:00am
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8:00am
Light Breakfast
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
8:10am
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9:00am
Keynote: Building Performance Analysis in the Age of AI
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
 

Chair(s): Dennis Knight

Presenter(s): Krishnan Gowri, E. Mitchell Swann, Dr. Roya Cody, Zheng O’Neill

9:10am
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10:10am
ASHRAE Fishbowl
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: E. Mitchell Swann
 

Chair(s): E. Mitchell Swann

 

Session Presentations

 

The Fishbowl

Panelist 1

10:30am
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12:00pm
Generative AI
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Krishnan Gowri
 

Transforming Education and Workforce Training in Building Energy and HVAC with GenAI

Liang Zhang



An Open-Source Automated Platform for Complex Building Energy Modeling from Natural Language

Gang Jiang

12:00pm
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1:30pm
Lunch
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
1:40pm
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3:10pm
How Goal Setting and Analytics Based Design Lead to Project Success
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Matthew Coulter
 

Chair(s): Matthew Coulter, James Stieg

Presenter(s): Matthew Coulter, Byron Zick, Ralph Kasper

3:30pm
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5:00pm
Grid Interactive Buildings
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Ben Simon
 

Chair(s): Elyse Malherek, Ben Simon

 

Session Presentations

 

Design Optimization for Building and Grid Interactions

Ben Simon

 

Demand Response in Grid Operation, Capacity Markets, and Energy Markets

David Browning

 

Agile Cooling: Connecting Grid Interactive Buildings with Changing Cooling Demands

Russell Goldfarbmuren

 

Large Scale Decarbonization in the Built Environment

Samira Mohazabieh

Date: Friday, 15/Aug/2025
7:30am
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8:30am
Light Breakfast
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
8:30am
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10:00am
Advanced Workflows for Energy Modeling
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Richard Walter Fenrich
 

Chair(s): Rick Fenrich

 

Session Presentations

 

Mastering Energy Modeling with Master Tools

Sheila Sagerer

 

Platform Based Design for data-driven design, implementation and operation of building and district energy systems

Michael Wetter

 

Enhancing Energy Modeling Practice with AI, Machine Learning, and Advanced Workflows

Ladan Ghobad

10:30am
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12:00pm
Case Studies in Modeling for Decarbonization
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)
Chair: Richard Walter Fenrich
 

Chair(s): Rick Fenrich

 

Session Presentations

 

Embodied and Operational Energy Lessons and Opportunities Outside Building-Scale New Construction

Ramana Koti

 

Energy Modeling in Action: CoStar Richmond Corporate Campus

Amanda Bogner

 

Path to Net-Zero Through Energy Modeling: A Campus Case Study

Sheila Sagerer

12:00pm
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12:20pm
Closing Remarks
Location: Silverton Ballroom 2 & 3 (2nd Floor)