Description
Key Learnings
- Circular Design Strategy - How does computational design promote circular principles?
- Data, Tools, and Techniques - What Tools, Techniques, and Data Would Enhance Your Design Decision-Making for the Circular Economy?
- Regenerative Economies - How do you see computational design benefiting a circular economy and regenerative design in the future?
- Challenges and Opportunities.
Speakers
- Sepideh EmamzadeheiSepideh Emamzadehei is a Design Technology Lead at Cuningham, where she manages and collaborates on solution development to facilitate design exploration, data-driven design, automated analysis, and advanced data management. She leads and develops in alignment with the firm's core values, vision, goals, and strategies while also elevating Cuningham's position in the market to deliver high-quality work consistently. At Cuningham, Sepideh serves as a guide, coach, and motivator with fine-tuned agile project management skills and is celebrated as an associate within the leadership framework of the company.
- Emily Bisaga DunneEmily Bisaga Dunne serves as the Director of Design Technologies at Cuningham, where she develops the vision, mission, and strategy for the company's digital transformation and innovation efforts and ensures successful execution on key projects for BIM Practice, Computational Design, and Innovation initiatives. Emily leads a team of special forces within the firm supporting project teams - expert elite design technologists ready to take on any challenge and define design excellence with technical solution innovation. Emily is driven to take Cuningham to new heights collaboratively. Prior to joining Cuningham, Emily spent past 5 years at Autodesk where she served as the Industry Outcomes Lead for Building Design. In this role, she leveraged her expertise in the AEC industry to re-engineer Autodesk's GTM activities and drive key business outcomes for Architecture and Engineering customers worldwide. Emily's contributions to Autodesk earned her over 50 awards and recognition from various levels of the company and colleagues. Emily is highly skilled in business strategy, design technology, marketing, customer success, consulting, education, and community building. She holds a Master of Architecture degree with a concentration in Real Estate Development from CUA and Bachelor of Interior Architecture + Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees from RISD. She is also a strong advocate of innovative design technology concepts and strategies and is dedicated to promoting them at all levels, having previously served TK&A, MG2, CBT Architects, KPF, Perkins & Will, Smith Group, and Perkins Eastman in this capacity. Emily's experience includes over 30 speaking engagements on Design Technology in the past 8 years. For more information about Emily, connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-bisaga-dunne/ Visit her website at https://www.emilydunne.com or follow her on Twitter @DunneDesignTech https://twitter.com/DunneDesignTech