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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Though leadership occurs both inside and outside of the office. I regularly present to various offices, projects teams, leadership committees, and clients. I also speak at conferences and support universities as a guest lecturer and crit juror. Below are some of my speaking engagements.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • Advancing Computational Building Design 2024: “Software Development Best Practices : How to Build Custom Revit Add-ins the Right Way”

  • Advancing Computational Building Design 2024: “Build or Buy?”

  • Advancing Computational Building Design 2023: Chair, Opening and Closing Remarks

  • Advancing Computational Building Design 2023: “Optimizing Sustainable Building Solutions”

  • YourDesk University 2020: "Practical Machine Learning"

  • Metropolis Perspective: Sustainability 2020: “Technologies for Sustainability Panel”

  • “Design Space Thinking”,
    Advancing Computational Building Design 2019, July 2019

  • "What is Computational Design?"
    AIA Detroit Commons, August 2018

  •  “The Showdown: Navigating Conceptual Modeling to Drive High-Performance Design,”
    AIA Conference on Architecture, June 2018

  •  Presented to a group of emerging local leaders at the 2018 Christopher Kelly Leadership Development Program (CKLDP) session on the future of practice, March 2018

  • DC Water Headquarters Case Study: Parametric Tools to Optimize a Curved Facade
    Facade Tectonics 2018 World Congress, March 2018

  • “Parametric Daylighting Tools Empower a New Design Partnership,”
    IALD Enlighten Americas, October 2015

  • “Informed Design with Parametric Daylighting Tools,”
    14th International Radiance Workshop, August 2015

  • “Parametric Daylighting Design,” AIA 2030 Series,
    Dallas AIA, October 2014

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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  • “The Maker Mind: Digital Toolmaking with Computational Design”
    AIAD TAP co.de.D, June 2019

  • "What is Computational Design?"
    NCARB Committee meeting, 2019

  • Critique juror for the final review of Lawrence Technological University’s CoAD RoboFab class, April 2019

  • “How are Detroit firms embracing technological change and adopting Computational Design?”
    AIAD TAP co.de.D, March 2019

  • AIAD TAP co.de.D Design Core Detroit Kids Day event, May 2018

  • Taught grasshopper and computational design thinkingto SmithGroup lighting interns from Penn State,Nebraska, and LTU and was a resource for them while theyimplemented these ideas in their final thesis, 2015-2018

  • Juror, IES—Illumination Engineering Society,
    Online awards submission review, 2017, 2018, 2019

  • “Daylighting and Electric Lighting Design,” guest lecturer, Penn State and Lawrence Technical Institute, 2013-2015

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