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Innovation & Solutions Stage
Program Schedule
Wednesday, June 22
10:30-10:50am
Prepare for Innovative Disruption
Sam Rashkin, architect and pioneer of high-performance housing, author of Housing 2.0: A Disruption Survival Guide
11:00-11:20am
The Connected, Resilient, All-Electric Home
Arch Rao, founder & CEO of SPAN — award-winning reinventor of the 100-year-old electrical panel, helping to power homes with clean, renewable energy
11:30-11:50am
Housing as a Product
Greg Leung, CEO of Connect Homes — an award-winning designer, builder and installer of single-family homes that are green, modern, efficient and beautiful
1:00-1:20pm
Inside the Smart Connected Home
Anja Seng, Senior Research Analyst, New Home Trends Institute, and William Ramsey, Principal, KTGY — creators of the Smart Connected Home responding to the new normal of consumer wants and needs
1:30-1:50pm
Decarbonization: What It Is and Why We Need It
Sara Gutterman, CEO of Green Builder Media — North America’s leading green building media company, providing expertise on energy efficiency, healthy homes, connected living, and building science
1:50-2:10pm
Decarbonization Solutions for the Built Environment
C.R. Herro, EVP of Operations, bettr homes, and Bill Rectanus, COO of Thrive Home Builders — two of the nation's leading builders of efficient, healthy, high performing homes
3:00-3:20pm
Manufacturing Construction or Constructing Manufacturing
Helena Lidelöw, CTO of Volumetric Building Companies — a global leader in modular construction, providing high-quality, sustainably produced buildings in less time
3:30-3:50pm
Redefining the Built Environment
Hal Hinkle, CEO of BamCore — a studless framing solution using timber bamboo to deliver a customized, code-compliant wall system
Thursday, June 23
10:30-10:50am - CANCELLED
Addressing Embodied Carbon's Role in Climate Change
Stacy Smedley, executive director of Building Transparency — providing open-access data and tools to help builders evaluate embodied carbon levels in building materials
11:00-11:20am
Insights from the America at Home Study
Teri Slavik-Tsuyuki, tst ink, author of America At Home Study — a groundbreaking research project exploring post-pandemic changes in how Americans feel about home and community design
11:30-11:50am
Ring for the Home Builders: Always Home for Your Homeowners
Rian Steffens, Head of Builder Channel & Strategic Partnerships, Ring — a leader in home security systems whose mission is to make neighborhoods safer
1:00-1:20pm
Expediting Affordable Housing through AI
Iman Novin, founder of ProforMap — a data-driven AI platform to streamline development of affordable housing
1:30-1:50pm
Tiny Home Villages
Jake Medcalf, founder of Firm Foundation Community Housing, and Ed Wood, president of CoBuild Construction — creators of innovative tiny home communities to provide affordable housing solutions
2:00-2:20pm
A New Way of Thinking Inside the Box
Brad Wills, Director of Strategic Customers & Programs, Schneider Electric — a global leader in energy technologies, helping to accelerate the transition to a more electric world
2:30-2:50pm
The Future of Smart Home Automation
Dan Ross, VP of Sales, Savant Power — creators of smart home systems that help make environments more efficient, healthy and energy-independent
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