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Phil Bernstein FAIA, is an Associate Dean and Professor, Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture, where he has taught courses in professional practice, project delivery, and technology since 1988. He was formerly a Vice President at Autodesk, where he was responsible for setting the company’s future vision and strategy for technology and sustaining the firm's relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. Prior to joining Autodesk, Phil practiced architecture as a principal at Cesar Pelli & Associates (now Pelli Clarke + Partners) where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions including projects for Reagan National Airport, the Mayo Clinic, and Goldman Sachs. He writes extensively on issues of architectural practice and technology, and his books include Architecture | Design | Data – Practice Competency in the Era of Computation (Birkhauser, 2018) and Machine Design: Architectural Futures in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (RIBA, 2022). Phil has been honored twice by DesignIntelligence as one of the “30 Most Admired Educators in Architecture” and was named as an Outstanding Industry Contributor by the Connecticut Construction Institute. He received a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude with Distinction in Architecture from Yale University and a Master of Architecture also from Yale.  He is licensed to practice in California.

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Since her first Motorola RAZR flip phone, Beth has made a verb out of the word "nerd." She's here to help you filter through thousands of apps, gadgets, widgets and doodads to find the perfect free and bargain technology tools for work and home. Although the only real trophy she ever won was for making perfect French fries at McDonald's in high school, Beth Z has been featured on Best Speaker lists by several organizations who write best speaker lists. She has written a whole shelf of books on apps and has spoken to more than 100 thousand audience members just like you. And if you're puzzling over why she goes by "Beth Z"... it's because she only finds about three people a year who can pronounce her last name.

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Kim has studied architecture, art and business with a M Arch in Architecture and BA in Visual Art and has recently completed her executive MBA.  She shares the mantra that “good design is good business” and believes in the process of Design Thinking and the end user.  With over 30 years of experience in fashion and retail including tenure at major European, American and Canadian retail brand houses, she has worked in Europe, Asia and across Canada.  Kim is national Senior Director, Client Design + Delivery in the Architecture Department in Development for The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Ltd. based in Toronto, ON, Canada.

Kim’s focus is on the intersection of design and business as it relates to sustainable practices within retail and the commercial world.  This focus has resulted in the development of sustainable sorting stations within the dining halls in the CF properties, a retail space in CF Toronto Eaton Centre in collaboration with OCAD university, focusing on circular economy studies, and the development of operational standards for the use of digital media for retail clients.

Multi-million retail development accomplishments include the expansion at Rideau Centre in Ottawa, the 25-million-dollar Client design component of the Dining Terrace addition at Richmond Centre in Vancouver, Toronto Eaton Centre Urban Eatery, and the CF Marché des promenade in St. Bruno, Quebec. Kim spent 9 years as a part-time Professor in the York University/Sheridan College Joint Program in Design. In addition to sustainable practices her research is centered on retail culture, power of experience, and the impact of design in visual. She presented the paper “Myth and the Mall” at the Pratt Institute, NYC and "Display and the Spectacle:  consumption 101?" at the Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption and Design PCA/ACA National Conference in Washington DC and Indianapolis.  Kim presented a paper for the DMI in London titled "Stakeholders as design filters; the role of the Commercial Real Estate Developer in retail design" and has recently participated in a symposium at the Media Biennale in Toronto at the Toronto Metropolitan University on Digital media.  Kim continues to contribute to student design reviews and panels at both OCAD, Sheridan and George Brown College, and sat as advisor to the Sheridan College Experience Design panel.  She is a co-founder of the design collective, moimoi design.

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Justin McCain is the Director of Building Innovation with the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association (NRMCA).  He is responsible for educating, advocating and promoting concrete to the design-build community throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and New Mexico.  As part of NRMCA’s Build with Strength team, McCain converts buildings that would have been built with other building materials to concrete through presenting first cost and life cycle operational costs to owners, developers, architects, engineers, and general contractors. He also positions concrete as the building material of choice by educating the design-build community on concrete, contract specifications and providing expert consulting on reducing concrete’s carbon emissions and global warming potential through life cycle assessments and cradle to gate analysis. McCain holds a bachelor’s degree in Construction Management from Everglades University.  Prior to joining the NRMCA, he spent 16 years in the heavy civil construction industry, primarily estimating, negotiating, and managing projects as a general contractor.  He has contributed to constructing approximately $1.8 billion of projects, including bridges, tunnels, underground utilities, and site developments. His experience encompasses placing cast in place concrete and shotcrete in a variety of structure types and applications. McCain is passionate about value engineering, alternative contract delivery and ways to collectively build better.