Full Speaker List (Alphabetical by Surname)
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Raj Achan
Director, Business Development – Middle East and India
Goettsch Partners
Session Chair: “Financial Free Zone as Polycenter”
Abdul Wahab Al-Halabi
Group Chief Investment Officier
Equitativa & Emirates REIT
“Panel Discussion: Vertical Urbanism in the MENA Context”
Frank Altmann
Regional Manager - Materials Technology
BG&E
Session Chair: “Constructing an Inter-Tower Skybridge Over a Highway”
Abbas Aminmansour
Associate Professor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Session Chair: “Polycentric Urban Case Studies”
Abdulla Balalaa
Director of Real Estate Investment & Design
Masdar
“Extreme Sustainability Through SMART Technologies”
Roland Bechmann
Managing Director & Partner
Werner Sobek Group
Session Chair: “Building an Efficient Structure and Skin for an Expressive Tower”
Teresa Boake
Professor
University of Waterloo
Session Chair: “Critical Issues in High-Rise Façade Design”
Peter Brechtelsbauer
Regional CEO Middle East
Permasteelisa Group
Session Chair: “New Frontiers in Façade Design”
Chris Browning
Director
NORR Group Consultants International Limited
Session Chair: “High-Rise Residential”
Afaf Burki
Director, Marketing
Select Group
Session Chair: “The World’s Tallest Residential City Block”
Santiago Calatrava
Principal
Calatrava International
“TRANSLATING TALL: The Role of Architecture Centers in Growing Public Interest in Skyscrapers”
Louise Collins
Director of Projects
WME Consultants
Session Chair: “At Sea: Dubai’s Extraordinary Land Reclamation Efforts”
Don Davies
President
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Session Chair: “Advancing the Skybridge: What's Next?”
Johannes de Jong
Executive Vice President
Elevating Studio Pte. Ltd.
Session Chair: “Building and Human-Scale Mobility”
Ariane Dienstag
President, Founder
Ariane Dienstag sas
Session Chair: “Tall Timber 2030: Where Will We Be?”
Michael Doring
Chief Operating Officer
Turner International LLC
Session Chair: “High-Rise Real Estate: The Big Picture”
Peng Du
Vice President of Academic Affairs & Strategic Initiatives
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Session Chair: “Skyspaces”
Shelley Finnigan
Global Technical Sales Engineer, Head of Technical Sales & Marketing
ArcelorMittal
Session Chair: “Innovative Engineering: Case Studies”
Noura Ghabra
Assistant Professor
King Abdulaziz University
Session Chair: “Polycentrism at the Site Scale”
Vivek Gupta
Chief Financial Officer
Nshama
Session Chair: “Delivering a Well-Balanced Community From the Start”
Peter Halliday
Global Head of Building Performance Sustainability
Siemens Smart Infrastructure
“Willis Tower - Observations from a Fifty Year Long Association with Chicago’s Tallest Tower”
Mounib Hammoud
CEO
Jeddah Economic Company
“The Jayne Building (Philadelphia,1849): The First Skyscraper as Consumer Spectacle”
John Jacobs
COO
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Session Chair: “Transit-Oriented Developments”
Yahya Jan
President, Design Director
NORR Group Consultants International Limited
“What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Polycentric Cities?”
Timothy Kelly
Senior Vice President, Operations and General Manager
Kerzner International
“Optimizing Building Systems, Geometry, Renewable Technology and Structure”
Shaun Killa
Design Partner
Killa Design
“Testing A Full-Scale Ten-Story Mass Timber Building on World's Largest Outdoor Shake Table”
Michael Kleiss
Associate Professor
Clemson University
Session Chair: “What Makes a Skyscraper "Smart"?”
Brian Kleiver
Associate
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Session Chair: “Constructing a Carved and Cantilevered Office Tower”
Ron Klemencic
Chairman, CEO
Magnusson Klemencic Associates
Session Chair: “What are the Main Challenges for Megaprojects in Polycentric Cities?”
Mikkel K. Kragh
Professor & Head of Section
University of Southern Denmark
Session Chair: “Tall Timber: Europe”
Kyle Krall
Senior Principal, UAE Director
Thornton Tomasetti
“A British Skyscraper Warehouse: Lee House, Manchester, 1929.”
Matthew Makes
VP, Director of Business Development
Turner International LLC
Session Chair: “Tall Timber: Asia, Australia & Africa”
Nick Milestone
Director for Offsite and Innovation
William Hare Group Limited
Session Chair: “Tall Timber: What are the Main Drivers and Challenges?”
Shonn Mills
Global Director, High Rise
Ramboll Group
Session Chair: “Prefabrication and Modular Construction for High-Rise Buildings”
Petar Mladenovic
Director - Middle East
Multiplex
Session Chair: “Gateway to Growth: The Dubai International Financial Centre”
Magali Mouquet
Co-Founder, Group Chairwoman
Equitativa & Emirates REIT
Session Chair: “Climatically (and Culturally) Appropriate Desert Skyscrapers”
Peter Murray
Chairman, New London Architecture Centre; London Mayor’s Design Advocate
Wordsearch
“An Exponential Rise - Technology and a New Era in the Design and Construction of Tall Buildings”
Viviana Muscettola
Associate Director
Zaha Hadid Architects
Session Chair: “Skybridges: What are the Opportunities?”
Ibrahim Odeh
Founding Director
Columbia University
Session Chair: “Planning and Construction Management”
Peter Pardoe
Regional Director - Buildings
Arcadis
Session Chair: “Managing the Skybridge: Operational Aspects”
Nicoleta Popa
Head of Construction Resident Engineers
ArcelorMittal
Session Chair: “Engineering the Skybridge: Technical Aspects”
Richard Pulling
Executive Consultant
Otis Elevator Company
Session Chair: “High-Rise Tenancies: What is the Shape of Demand?”
Alfredo Ramirez
Latin America Business Lead
Underwriters Laboratories
Session Chair: “Fire, Life Safety + Security”
Daniel Safarik
Editor-in-Chief
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Session Chair: “Polycentrism and the Future of Urbanism”
Ole Scheeren
Principal
Buro Ole Scheeren
“What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Polycentric Cities?”
Kurt Strobel
Senior Project Engineer
GERB Vibration Control Systems, Inc
Session Chair: “Tall Building Damping”
Dario Trabucco
Research Manager
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Session Chair: “Vertical + Horizontal Landscaping”
Christian Vasquez
Architect, Business Development Executive
National Engineering Bureau
Session Chair: “Towards Net-Zero Energy Skyscrapers”
James von Klemperer
President
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
“Roles of Twin-Tower Linkages in Structural Optimization Design for Wind Effects”
Chris Wan
Head of Design Management
Masdar
Session Chair: “High-Performance Buildings Taking Center Stage”
May Wei
Vice President & Shanghai Office Director
CallisonRTKL
Session Chair: “What are the Advantages & Disadvantages of Polycentric Cities?”
Christopher Wodzicki
Engineering Services Director
BuroHappold Engineering
Session Chair: “Capturing the Future in 3D”
Antony Wood
Chief Executive Officer
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
Session Chair: “Polycentric Developments in the Middle East”
Antony Wood
Chief Executive Officer
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
