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Join us for Smart Buildings Exchange Next Week!

August 17, 2021 By SBC staff

Smart Buildings Exchange (SBX) is next week — join us for the free two-day virtual event on August 24-25! The event will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape through interactive conference sessions on grid-interactive efficient buildings, workforce development to meet the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry, post-COVID building occupancy, artificial intelligence & machine learning in buildings, and more.

About the event
Throughout the built environment, new technologies are connecting building systems and occupants in ways that generate new and exciting opportunities. From enabling buildings to perform for occupants and owners in previously unimaginable ways, to leveraging buildings to accelerate smart cities and the clean energy transition for a cleaner and healthier planet, the opportunities are countless and inspiring. The Smart Buildings Exchange brings together the key audiences to challenge the hype, bear witness to the innovation, and explore the business case for accelerating the adoption and commercialization of smart buildings technologies and practices.

Through the virtual conference platform you can add the sessions you want to attend to your agenda, connect and network with other attendees, and access sponsor resources. View the full agenda and register for free today!

Join the SBX 2021 Virtual Tour of a Digital Twin

July 27, 2021 By SBC staff

The Smart Buildings Exchange 2021 FREE virtual conference has plenty of exciting sessions that explore the technology and practices of smart buildings. Certainly, the end of day one of the conference has something very special for attendees. Willow, one of the world’s leading companies in building digital twin technology will take you on a “tour” of a 2.1 million square foot office building in New York City. As landlords, occupiers and governments are reconfiguring their investment priorities for physical assets in a post-COVID environment, digital twins are enabling them to maximize investments and extend the life of buildings. Tour guides Ian Siegel and Chris Manna of Willow will show how this technology is actively deployed to help achieve cost and operational efficiencies.

Join building owners/managers, facility professionals, utilities, and industry representatives to learn more about the how and why of smart buildings. View the full conference agenda and register for free today!

SBX 2021 Session Highlight: Workforce Skill Development for a Smart Building Future

July 13, 2021 By SBC staff

The Smart Buildings Exchange virtual conference, August 24-25, will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape. Day 1 of the event will feature an engaging discussion on the importance of workforce skill development in meeting the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry.

Workforce Skill Development for a Smart Building Future

Creating and maintaining a building environment that is healthy, comfortable, and productive for occupants has always been challenging. That challenge is growing exponentially today as building systems become more sophisticated and employee expectations for their indoor environment become a critical component of talent acquisition and retention. These challenges are creating need for new skills and abilities for all who bear the responsibility for making buildings work better. Leading building owner/manager organizations and the Biden administration’s Better Buildings program effort are focusing on the issue of workforce development. This session will bring practitioners from the front lines of workforce development to talk about how training programs are addressing this need from entry-level to on-the-job training and how these programs open the door to a more diversified workforce in this important area.

Panelists include Melanie Danuser, Smart Buildings Center, Lindsey Falasca, Building Innovation Hub, and Madeline Salzman, U.S. Department of Energy. The discussion will be moderated by Diane Levine with the IFMA Foundation.

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SBX2021 Session Highlight: Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings

June 29, 2021 By SBC staff

Join the conversation about the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape at the free virtual Smart Buildings Exchange August 24^th and 25^th! During Day 1, experts from the utility and building owner/manager sectors will discuss grid-interactive efficient buildings and the opportunites they provide for performance and accelerating smart cities and the clean energy transition.

Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings; August 24th, 10:30 am
Grid-interactive efficient buildings (GEB) are changing the historic relationship between the electric utility and the buildings they serve. Today, utilities face unprecedented challenges – and opportunities – to modernize their infrastructure, eliminate carbon emissions, and remain reliable, resilient, and affordable in their energy services. Creating a smarter and more dynamic two-way communication environment with their customers offers a smart approach to building the 21st century electric utility. GEBs deploy smart technology that allow building operators to shed, shift, and modulate their building loads in response to electric grid reliability, price signals, and operational needs. This will be ever more important as electric vehicle charging becomes more common. Building owners can optimize their operations and their energy costs especially in the emerging trend toward dynamic pricing structures for electricity. This session will bring together expertise from both the utility and the building owner/manager perspective to talk about the value streams inherent in GEBs.

Panelists include Cara Carmichael, Rocky Mountain Institute, James Dice, Nexus Labs, Dr. Ahmad Faruqui, The Brattle Group, and Mary Ann Piette, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The discussion will be moderated by Lucie Huang from Seattle City Light.

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SBX Opening Plenary Session: Smarter Buildings & a Changing Utility – A Vision of the New World of Energy

June 22, 2021 By SBC staff

The agenda for the free virtual Smart Buildings Exchange to be held August 24^th and 25^th is nearly finalized! The event will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape through interactive conference sessions on grid-interactive efficient buildings, workforce development to meet the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry, and the business case for smart building investments.

Opening Plenary Session: Smarter Buildings and a Changing Utility – A Vision of the New World of Energy
The conference will kick-off on August 24^th with a moderated discussion featuring senior thought leaders in the technology and utility sectors. Panelists include Mary Kipp, CEO of Puget Sound Energy, Debra Smith, CEO of Seattle City Light, Ed Schlect, CSO of Avista Utilities, Stephanie Greene of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Emmanuel Daniel of Microsoft. Moderated by Ash Awad, President and Chief Markets Officer of McKinstry, this panel will discuss the opportunities and challenges facing the energy industry and how that affects the built environment. A new, cleaner, and more flexible electrical grid is coming. These changes will be facilitated in part by smart building technologies and practices built on the fast-growing power of cloud computing and information technology services. This is sure to be an exciting and informative discussion which will frame issues getting discussed throughout the subsequent two days of the conference.

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Registration Open for Smart Buildings Exchange, Aug 24-25!

May 10, 2021 By SBC staff

We are excited to announce the launch of our new Smart Buildings Exchange website sbxconference.org! The free two-day virtual event to be held August 24^th and 25^th will dive deep into the role of smarter buildings in a changing energy landscape through interactive conference sessions on grid-interactive efficient buildings, workforce development to meet the needs of the smart, clean and efficient buildings industry, and post-COVID building occupancy.

For more information about ways your organization or business can participate in the conference, please download our Sponsorship Prospectus or contact [email protected] for customized sponsorship/partnership opportunities.