Learning Outcomes

Elham is a landscape architect with a doctorate in Urban and Architectural Management from Polytechnic University of Catalonia. With 7 years of experience as a researcher and lecturer in Iran and Spain, she has over 15 years of experience working in the public and private sectors. Currently, she is the Product Manager of RhinoLands Software and the Lands Design plugin at Asuni, focusing on BIM interoperability, parametric design, and environmental analysis in landscape architecture.

Emily van Helmond is a Structural Engineer at Arup in Amsterdam, working at the intersection of structural design, circularity and sustainability. She is part of the team managing and developing Arup’s Circular Buildings Toolkit, an openly accessible framework designed to create a common language for circular design. Her work also focuses on circularity metrics, exploring how circular design strategies can be translated into measurable outcomes and embedded in everyday design practice.

Isobel Vernon-Avery is a Senior Consultant at Arup in Berlin, working at the intersection of circular economy, regenerative design and innovation. She led Arup’s global partnership with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and supported the development and application of the Circular Buildings Toolkit. Her consulting work focuses on translating circular and regenerative ambitions into practical strategies, bringing together organisations and multidisciplinary teams to drive change across buildings, cities and wider systems.

Francesc Salla is an architect graduated from ETSAV (UPC), a parametric design expert, and Product Manager of VisualARQ and Lands Design, BIM and landscape design plugins for Rhinoceros 3D developed by Asuni in Barcelona. He has extensive experience presenting and delivering training on both products worldwide, participating in conferences and events focused on the latest developments in architecture, BIM, parametric design, and digital workflows.

With over 20 years of experience in workplace ergonomics, he supports international corporate clients, local councils, and organizations in developing and implementing tailored ergonomics programs to enhance comfort, health, and productivity. His consultancy work spans a broad spectrum of ergonomic services, including the deployment of custom Humanscale Consulting assessment software, specialized training programs, and customized workplace wellness initiatives—such as launching the Certified Office Ergonomics Evaluator (COEE) program internationally. He is also a regular industry thought leadership speaker

Moritz Rietschel is co-founder of Raven, building at the frontier of AI capabilities and CAD. His work builds on research at UC Berkeley from early 2024, bringing early LLMs into CAD as AI-collaborative tools with Prof. Kyle Steinfeld and robotic fabrication with Prof. Simon Schleicher. Moritz has lectured internationally on AI-based creative tools, published at ACADIA and the IJAC journal, hosted workshops at MIT and Tongji and contributed to international research conferences.

Nathan Hays is the founder of nuLUCA, a biomimicry and computational design platform, and the creator of Agent Ecology, where domain experts build their own AI tools. His work explores how organisms and ecosystems can inform the ways we imagine, model and fabricate designs for human-built spaces. He holds a Master of Architecture and a Master of Science in Biomimicry from Arizona State University, a B.A. in Sustainability, and a Biomimicry Professional certification from Biomimicry 3.8. He works at the intersection of biology and systems research, algorithmic design, and AI.

Pietro Florio currently works as Project Officer at the Joint Research Center, Disaster Risk Management Unit, GHSL Team. His current project is the scientific development and applications of the Degree of Urbanisation. Previously, he was post-doc at the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Pietro does research in Architectural Engineering and Control Systems Engineering.

Serjoscha Düring is CTO and co-founder of Infrared City. A builder at heart, he brings AI into the development process. He studied economics, China studies and urban design in Hamburg, Weimar and Shanghai, researched at the City Intelligence Lab at AIT, the Austrian Institute of Technology, and teaches AI in urbanism at IAAC Barcelona. At Infrared City, he leads the engineering team building the simulation engines at the core of the climate-intelligence layer for cities and buildings.

Speaker’s Sustainability Goals for 2026

Degree in Civil Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan, about twenty years of experience in construction companies with different roles, sixteen as sustainable innovation manager & consultant. Master of Management and Organizational Development at MIP. LEED, Living Future, WELL, RESET, and My Green Lab AP. USGBC & WELL Faculty. LF Hero.

Since 2018 he has been Executive Director for Europe for the International Living Future Institute and now President of Living Future Europe. LFE’s mission is to accelerate change and provide the necessary direction for the transition towards regenerative design in Europe.

Distinguished Prof. Emanuele Naboni is a regenerative-design scholar-practitioner focused on climate change and digital creative design. He collaborates with top tier universities globally and partners with leading architectural firms to turn climate evidence into decision-ready strategies from component and façade to building, streetscape, district, and region. He lectures across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania, and advises public institutions and industry on outcome-bound approvals. His core foci are ecology, climate, decarbonization, and health, supported by digital scripting and full-scale (1:1) technology that links research to built performance.