2023 Program

Morning Keynote

Bill Reed

Bill is an internationally recognized pioneer, practitioner, teacher, and authority in integrative systems design, sustainability, and regenerative community planning and implementation. Bill is a principal in Regenesis – an organization working to lift human activities into full integration and evolution with living systems. His work centers on creating and implementing a whole and living-systems engagement and design process; realizing exponential value to the qualities of life within projects, communities and their ecosystem.

An author of technical articles and contributor to many books on green design he is also a co-author of the seminal work, “Integrative Design Guide to Green Building.” He is a founding Board of Director of the US Green Building Council, a co-developer of the LEED Green Building Rating System, and is considered one of the leading thinkers and explorers in this field. He frequently speaks at major planning, building, and design events as well as guest-lectures at universities throughout Europe and North America including Harvard, Yale, University of British Columbia, Universidad Iberoamericana, MIT, Princeton and UPenn.

Lunch Keynote

Colin Rohlfing, Associate AIA, LEED AP BD + C

Colin is an industry expert on Sustainable / Regenerative Design and is the Director of Sustainable Development for HDR’s Global Architecture practice. He facilitates sustainable design integration among all departments and business units and is acutely involved in refining the firm’s design process through the creation of new sustainable tools and processes.

Over the past 20 years, Colin has held various design and leadership roles, as well as being actively involved with President Obama’s Export Council Sustainability Committee, the United States Green Building Council, the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, the Biomimicry Guild and the International Living Future Institute. He is Key Opinion Leader and an active speaker with over 100 speaking engagements throughout the globe. Colin has been recognized on Building Design + Construction magazine’s and Design Futures Council’s “40 Under 40” lists and Engineering News-Record magazine’s “20 Under 40” list.

Afternoon Keynote

Dr. Marina Sofos

Dr. Marina Sofos currently serves as a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Her focus at ARPA-E is on novel materials and manufacturing, data analytics, and advanced control methods to improve the efficiency and flexibility of buildings and transportation. Prior to ARPA-E, Marina served as a Technology Manager in the Building Technologies Office (BTO) at the U.S. Department of Energy. In that position, she managed their R&D portfolio in sensor and control technologies with the goal of optimizing building operations to save energy and improve occupant comfort.

Prior to joining BTO, Marina was a Technology Manager in the Advanced Manufacturing Office, where she led the development of the office’s program in scaling up manufacturing approaches for wide bandgap semiconductors and power electronics to enable reductions in cost and improvements in performance efficiency. Marina began her career at the Department as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow responsible for coordinating the U.S.-China cooperative clean energy R&D portfolio. Marina earned her Sc.B. from Brown University and Ph.D. from Northwestern University both in materials science and engineering and conducted her postdoctoral studies at Argonne National Laboratory.