Heather J. Brown, Ph.D.
Vice President of Quality Control/Quality Assurance
IMI
Dr. Nora Baum
CFO
Sonocrete
Anya Barkan
Senior Sustainability Manager
Multiplex
Chris Ward
President and CEO
Heidelberg Materials North America
Jeff Newlin
Chief Revenue Officer
Alex Moody
Director, Solutions Specialists (Presales / Sales Engineering)
Command Alkon
Denyse Van Opbergen
Senior Manager, Climate & Sustainability
EllisDon
Prannoy Suraneni
Miami Engineering Career Development Assistant Professor
University of Miami
Chris Erickson
CEO & Co-Founder
Climate Earth
Prabh Banga
Vice-President, Sustainability
Aecon Group Inc.
Craig Marris
Chief Sustainability Officer
EROAD
Dean Marris
Chief Data Science Officer
EROAD
Mehrtash Soltani, Ph.D
Research Associate
ConTI Lab, Chung-Ang University
K. Siva Teja Chopperla, Ph.D
Giatec Paper Award Winner
Oregon State University - Paper
Larry Rowland
Sustainability Market Manager, North America
Heidelberg Materials
Zhanzhao Li
Graduate Research Assistant
Pennsylvania State University
Brandon Wray
Senior Director, Building Innovations
NRMCA
Alex Leblond
EVP Client Strategy and Industry Partners
Marcotte
Sarah Petrevan
VP, Industrial Decarbonization and Sustainability
Cement Association of Canada
Dr. Jason Weiss
Professor
Oregon State University
Brandon Williams
Business Development Manager
Sublime Systems
Ellyn Veal
Senior Applications Engineer
FullForce Engineered Solutions
Doug Hooton
Professor Civil & Mineral Engineering
University of Toronto
Donn C. Thompson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
Senior Director, Building Innovations
NRMCA
Lisa Barnard, LEED AP, WELL AP
Sustainability & EPD Program Manager
CHRYSO & GCP; SAINT-GOBAIN CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS
Pouria Ghods, Ph.D
Co-Founder and CEO
Giatec
Sarah McGuire
AVP, Business Development
Giatec
Agenda
All times EDT. Please note the schedule is subject to change.
| Location |
|---|
| Tradeshow Hall |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Aali Alizadeh, Ph.D | Giatec | Opening Remarks |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Mehrtash Soltani, Ph.D | ConTI Lab & Chung-Ang University | Towards Net-Zero: Leveraging Waste Plastic in Construction Materials for Sustainable Resource Management and Circular Economy |
| Cement Stage | Anya Barkan | Multiplex | Multiplex Construction Canada’s Sustainability Actions and Initiatives |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Sarah McGuire | Giatec | SmartMix – Your Concrete Advantage |
| Cement Stage | Jeff Newlin & Alex Moody | Command Alkon | Reducing Environmental Impact with Connected Technologies and Data-Driven Decision Making |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Dr. Jason Weiss | Oregon State University | Panel – Advancements in Low-Carbon Construction Technologies |
| Heather J. Brown, Ph.D. | IMI | ||
| Pouria Ghods, Ph.D | Giatec | ||
| Brandon Williams | Sublime Systems | ||
| Donn C. Thompson, AIA, LEED AP BD+C | NRMCA | ||
| Lisa Barnard, LEED AP, WELL AP | CHRYSO & GCP; SAINT-GOBAIN CONSTRUCTION CHEMICALS |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Chris Ward | Heidelberg | Keynote |
| Location |
|---|
| Tradeshow Hall & Net-Zero Networking Hall |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Prabh Banga | Aecon Group Inc. | Sustainable Supply Chain in the Construction Industry |
| Cement Stage | Dr. Nora Baum | Sonocrete | Produce faster or greener? Options of using high-power ultrasound in concrete production. |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Denyse Van Opbergen | EllisDon | Carbon Accountability: A Contractor’s Journey |
| Cement Stage | Krishna Siva Teja Chopperla | Oregon State University – Paper | Using Electrical Resistivity to Determine the Efficiency of Supplementary Cementitious Materials to Prevent Alkali-Silica Reaction in Concrete |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Larry Rowland | Heidelberg Materials | Leading the Way to Net Zero |
| Cement Stage | Zhanzhao Li | Pennsylvania State University | Machine learning in concrete science: Applications, challenges, and best practices |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Brandon Wray | NRMCA | NRMCA Concrete Carbon Calculator: How to Reduce, Quantify, and Specify Carbon |
| Cement Stage | Prannoy Suraneni | University of Miami | Reducing CO2 emissions from concrete |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Professor Doug Hooton | University of Toronto | Adoption of Performance Standards & Specifications to Enable Sustainable Concrete |
| Cement Stage | Dean & Craig Marris | EROAD | Increase Operational Sustainability and Profitability with Targeted Technology Adoption |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Alex Leblond | Marcotte | AI-Driven Reduction in Carbon Emissions and Material Usage |
| Cement Stage | Chris Erickson | Climate Earth | EPD 3.0, A vision of the future for EPDs |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Ellyn Veal | FullForce Engineered Solutions | Optimized Design Approaches to help reach Net Zero in Continuously Supported Concrete |
| Cement Stage | Sarah Petrevan | Cement Association of Canada | CAC Concrete Zero Action Plan |
| Location | Speaker | Company | Presentation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Concrete Stage | Pouria Ghods, Ph.D | Giatec | Closing Remarks |
| Location |
|---|
| Tradeshow Hall & Net-Zero Networking Hall |
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N0CC Steering Committee
Caroline Talbot
Director Marketing Admixture and Concrete Technology
Euclid Chemical Company
Oscar Antommattei
Chief Concrete Engineer & Materials Engineering Manager
Kiewit
Ricardo Remus
CEO
Sonocrete
Lori Tiefenthaler
Senior Director, Marketing
Heidelberg Materials
Stacy Smedley
Executive Director
Building Transparency
Lionel Lemay
Executive Vice President, Structures and Sustainability
NRCMA
Doug Hooton
Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
University of Toronto
Burkan Isgor
Civil & Construction Engineering Professor
Oregon State University
Chris Shearer
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Prannoy Suraneni
Knight Career Development
Assistant Professor
University of Miami
Hessam Azari Jafari
Deputy Director
MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
Dobrila Moogk
Senior Vice President, Marketing
Giatec
N0CC Conference
Chair
Aali Alizadeh, Ph.D
Co-Founder, President and CTO
Giatec
N0CC Conference Technology Chair
Ash Rao
Content Marketing Manager
Giatec
N0CC Conference
Secretary
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