Agenda
8:00 am – 9:30 am Breakfast, Networking and Roundtables
9:30 am – 9:45 am Opening Remarks
9:45 am – 10:30 am Keynote: Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture
10:30 am – 11:15 am Designing for Light – The Business of Lighting
11:15 am – 11:30 am Break
11:30 am – 12:15 pm Smart Wellness – Technology Strengthens Connections to Nature
12:15 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch and Networking
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Interactive Session: Authentic Networking – Leading Through Giving
2:00 pm – 2:15 pm Break
2:15 pm – 3:00 pm Design+Tech Case Studies and Best Practices Panel
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm Hacker Craft – Preventing the Breach
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Cocktails and Pitches, followed by networking
**Design + Tech Connection attendees who are NKBA certified may submit their 0.55 CEUs (5.5 hours) online by visiting the NKBA website.
Keynote: Beauty, Neuroscience, and Architecture
Beauty, Neuroscience and Architecture: Timeless Patterns and Their Impact on Our Well-Being postulates that beauty can and does make a vital difference in our lives, including improving many aspects of our health. In his presentation, Ruggles suggests that a new, urgent effort is needed to refocus the direction of architecture and art to include the quality of beauty as a fundamental, overarching theme in two of humanity’s most important fields of endeavor—the built and artistic environments.
Speaker: Don Ruggles Architect, Ruggles Mabe Architects
Designing for Light – The Business of Lighting
The business of lighting and its importance to the entire project. Topics will include: How to pitch lighting and motorized shades, as well as professional lighting design; the role of lighting in wellness, moods, visual comfort, energy savings, safety & security, movie time, color rendering: the changing business models; updates on low-voltage lighting systems and how lighting needs change as we age.
Speakers:
David Van Wert, VanWert Technology Design
Stephen Margulies, One Lux Studio
Smart Wellness – Technology strengthens connections to nature
Smart technologies strengthen the connections between indoor and outdoor conditions – connecting back to nature. The goal is to mitigate the effects of our man-made environment. This talk will speak to the many technologies that can bring wellness into our built environments.
Speaker: Julie Jacobson, founding Editor, CEPro
Work Session Roundtables
Attendees are invited to visit with members of various technology and design brands covering a span of topics.
Interactive Lunch: Authentic Networking - Leading through Giving
Using positivity, vulnerability and communication as keys to building successful teams, Luis will encourage active participation through a workshop lunch and learn. Attendees will learn about the power of connection and authentic networking while having a blast in the process!
Speaker: Luis Serrano, Chief Fun Officer, Fundamentals of Play
Design + Tech Case Studies and Best Practices Panel
Best practices for designers and integrators working together. Panelists will cover topics around establishing business solid working relationship models.
Moderated by:
Jason Knott, Chief Content Officer, CEPro
Chelsie Butler, Executive Editor, KBB
Panelists:
Ed Gilmore, President, Gilmore’s Sound Advice
Kim Michels, President, Electronic Environments
Carl Shenton, Partner, Shenton Architects
Thomas McMahon, Principal, McMahon-Baek Architecture
Kathryn Eisberg, Principal, KE Design
Hacker Craft – Preventing the Breach
This presentation will provide an in-depth analysis of the latest trends, tactics, and news of the cyber threat landscape as seen from the eyes of a practicing security engineer. Once you have seen what the bad guys have been up to today, you will be exposed to a crash course of security best practices and architecture design that will help avoid the breach of tomorrow.
Speaker: Rob Krug, Senior Security Architect, Avast Inc.
Cocktails and Pitches
5 -minute presentations by brand representatives; hosted by Cindy Allen, Editor in Chief, Interior Design
Brands:
Control4
Sub-Zero, Wolf and Cove
Miele