19 May 2025 May 19

Time Title Speaker
3:00 pm - 6:00 pm Registration
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Facility Management & Operations Council Meeting
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Exhibits Open
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm Welcome Reception

20 May 2025 May 20

Time Title Speaker
7:00 am - 7:55 am Breakfast
7:00 am - 6:00 pm Registration
8:00 am - 9:05 am Opening Keynote & Scholarship Presentation
9:00 am - 6:30 pm Exhibits Open
9:20 am - 10:15 am Developing and Implementing a Functional Recovery Framework for Lifeline Infrastructure Systems
Craig A. Davis
Manager, C.A. Davis Engineering
Ronald T. Eguchi
CEO & Co-Founder, ImageCat, Inc.
Ayse Hortacsu
Director of Projects, Applied Technology Council
Katherine J. Johnson (Jo)
Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kent Yu
Principal, SEFT Consulting Group
9:20 am - 10:15 am Sights on 2050: How Digital and Physical Technologies Shape the Future of the Built Environment
Nathan Baxter
Director of Design and Digital Services, Armstrong World Industries
Shivani Cott
Senior Scientist, 9 Foundations
Michael Lorenz
Senior Director of Technology, Armstrong World Industries
9:20 am - 10:15 am Anchoring Resilience with Sustainable Waterfront Design
Anthony Guerra
Sr. Director, AEC Quality Assurance & Technical Content, Green Building Initiative
Tom Klein
landscape + urban designer and mobility advocate
Jay Valgora
Principal & Founder, Studio V
Christian Vitulli
Senior Associate, Robert A.M. Stern Architects
10:20 am - 10:55 am Exhibits Break
11:00 am - 11:50 am Innovative Technical Assistance for Integrated Approaches to Resilient Home Retrofits
Matt Anderson
Project Manager, Institute for Building Technology and Safety
Louise Foulkes
Caribbean Director and Engineering Program Manager, Build Change
Meghan Walsh
Architect, US Department of Agriculture
11:00 am - 11:50 am An Integrated Framework for Resilient Infrastructure Planning
Richard Graves
Director, Center for Sustainable Building Research
Ariane Laxo
Director of Sustainability, HGA Architects & Engineers
11:00 am - 11:50 am The Future of Codes and Standards: AI, Copyrights, and Implementation
Sandy Hess
Sales Manager, ICC Community Development Solutions
Karin Moore
Senior Vice President, Legal & Regulatory, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, National Electrical Manufacturers Association
Joan Oā€™Neil
Chief Knowledge Officer, International Code Council
11:55 am - 1:00 pm Awards Lunch
1:15 pm - 2:20 pm Technology & Resilient Communities
Roy Ingraffia
National Director, International Masonry Institute
Chas Peppers
Architect, SOM Research + Innovation team
Eliot Wall
Senior Director, GAF Roads
1:15 pm - 2:20 pm Connecting Design and Resilience
David Cordell
Associate Principal, Perkins&Will
Jon Penndorf
Associate Principal, Perkins&Will
Luz Toro
Director of Resilience, American Institute of Architects
1:15 pm - 2:20 pm Retrofit for Resilience and Functional Recovery: Protecting American Lives, Infrastructure, and the Economy Through Resilience
Jason Averill
Deputy Director, Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology
Chuck Chaitovitz
Vice President for Environmental Affairs and Sustainability, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Daniel Kaniewski
Managing Director, Public Sector, Marsh McLennan
Jiqiu Yuan
Chief Resilience Officer, National Institute of Building Sciences
2:35 pm - 3:40 pm Resilience in Design
Illya Azaroff
Architect, Geographer and Educator, CUNY and +LAB Architect
Erik C. Backus
Veteran, Engineer, Educator, Consultant, Construction Professional, Sustainability & Resilience Leader
Blima Ehrentreu
Founder and CEO, The Designers Group
2:35 pm - 3:40 pm New Life for a Venerable Old Courthouse: Leading the Way Toward Resilience and Decarbonization
Barb Anderson-Kerlin
Senior Project Manager, HOK
Claire Moore
Director of Engineering, HOK
Greg Sherman
Engineering Practice Leader, HOK
2:35 pm - 3:40 pm Enhancing Cyber Safety for National Critical Infrastructure
Lucian Niemeyer
CEO, Building Cyber Security
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Plenary Panel: Strategies for Resilient Lifeline Infrastructure ā€“ A Public and Private Partnership
Madhu Beriwal
Founder and Chairwoman, IEM International, Inc.
Ronald T. Eguchi
CEO & Co-Founder, ImageCat, Inc.
George K. Guszcza
President and CEO, National Institute of Building Sciences
Steven Harris
Acting Executive Assistant Director for Infrastructure Security, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Joe Hopkins
Secretary, N.C. Department of Transportation
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm Networking Reception

21 May 2025 May 21

Time Title Speaker
7:00 am - 7:55 am Breakfast
7:00 am - 11:00 am Registration
8:00 am - 9:30 am Innovation in Leadership
Yvonne Castillo
Sr. Vice President & Professional Liability Risk Advisor, Risk Advisory
Mika Dewitz-Cryan
Vice President and Professional Liability Risk Advisor, Risk Advisory
Amy Marks
Senior Vice President, Innovation, Compass Datacenters
Nancy Novak
Chief Innovation Officer, Compass Datacenters
8:00 am - 11:00 am Exhibits Open
8:00 am - 9:30 am Advancing Resilient Communities with AI and Innovative Structural Technologies
Nathan Canney
Director of Structural Engineering, Taylor Devices, Inc.
Justin Marshall
President, DuraFuse Frames
Andrew Sundal
Architect and Structural Engineer, HGA
Emre Toprak
Senior Structural Engineer, Arup
8:00 am - 9:30 am Enhancing Resilience
Carol Friedland
Associate Professor and Director, LaHouse Research and Education Center, Louisiana State University
Julian Mills-Beale
Director, Codes and Standards, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association
Rubayet Bin Mostafiz
Assistant Professor of Research, LaHouse Research and Education Center, Louisiana State University AgCenter
Ellen Breipohl Thorp
Managing Director, Coalition for Sustainable Roofing
Jason Wilen
Associate Principal, Klein & Hoffman
9:35 am - 9:55 am Exhibits Break
10:00 am - 11:00 am NSF Panel on Civil Infrastructure Innovation
Jordan Berg
Program Director, Dynamics, Control & Systems Diagnostics
Khershed Cooper
Program Director, Advanced Manufacturing
Daan Liang
Program Director, Humans, Disasters, and the Built Environment
Lesley Sneed
Program Director, Engineering for Civil Infrastructure
10:00 am - 11:00 am Building Beyond Code: Lifeline Infrastructure and the Case for Coordinated Resiliency
Dale Crawford
Executive Director, the Steel Tube Institute
Casey Robb
Business Development Consultant & President ā€“ C. F. Robb Consulting Services, LLC
10:00 am - 11:00 am Community Resilience Through Integration of Robust Built Environment with Business Mindset
Elizabeth Bradford
Vice President, National Resilience Lead, Michael Baker International
Stephen Cauffman
Foresight Consulting LLC
Terri McAllister
Deputy Division Chief, Materials and Structural Systems, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Kent Yu
Principal, SEFT Consulting Group
11:15 am - 12:15 pm Making the Business Case of Revenue Resilience for Disaster Mitigation
Rallis Kourkoulis
Managing Partner, Grid
Maria C. Lehman
US Infrastructure Market Leader, GHD
Sissy Nikolaou
Engineering Laboratory, NIST
Terence Smith
CEO, Smith's Research & Gradings