Darryl Condon, Managing Principal at HCMA Architecture + Design, is interested in design that acts as a catalyst for positive change. He has created successful public spaces including community centres, pools, recreation facilities, fire halls and libraries across Canada. After 25 years of practice creating these dynamic, engaging and effective spaces, Darryl is asking ‘what’s next?’ His intent is to push, think and break away from the preconceptions of conventional architectural practice and to maximize the social impact of his firm

Maren Costa is a user experience design leader with over 25 years of experience at tech companies including Adobe and Amazon. She is also an activist, ecofeminist, futurist, and founding member of Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, a worker-powered organization credited with monumental wins, such as Amazon’s Climate Pledge, and Jeff Bezos’s $100 million Earth Fund. She is currently focused on projects centered on the intersection of design, technology, justice, and a sustainable future.

Don Davies is President of MKA and an industry recognized leader in high-rise and mixed-use buildings. He is sought out for his creativity, international expertise, and sustainably driven innovations. Don’s projects are located in more than 50 major metropolitan centers and 18 countries, including China and India. His portfolio includes over 47 PBSD towers in areas of high seismicity and towers up to 105 stories tall. Don is an innovator in the development of new building approaches for lowering the embodied carbon footprint of construction, pioneering the use of Life Cycle Analysis for more sustainable design, and has authored more than 15 publications on tall building systems and embodied carbon optimization. He mentors MKA’s Sustainability Technical Specialist Team and frequently lectures on bio-mimicry and resilience in structural design.

Pablo La Roche is Sustainable Design Leader and Associate Vice President at CallisonRTKL and Professor of Architecture and Interim Director Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona University. He has a PhD from UCLA and has written more than 130 technical papers in multiple conferences and journals, and the second edition of his book Carbon Neutral Architectural Design was published in 2017. His awards include the Fulbright Fellowship and NCARB Grand Prize, and he recently chaired the 2016 PLEA in Los Angeles.

James is the Global Built Environment Sector Leader for Mott MacDonald, with responsibility for Mott MacDonald’s global Built Environment sector strategy and the growth of services in target markets to achieve this. This includes responsibility for the focus sub-sectors of Healthcare facilities, Higher Education, Sport & Events, Aviation buildings and Transit/Metro buildings alongside all other global buildings practices that combined, contain over 2,900 professional staff. Mott MacDonald Built Environment services cover the entire infrastructure asset lifecycle from project initiation, development and preparation, through design, procurement and delivery to operation, maintenance and ongoing asset management.

Richard is Sustainability Principal at Integral Group in Sydney, Australia, an experienced sustainability leader in the built environment. He is a thinker on the future of cities and the intersection of places, mobility systems, utilities, ecosystems and communities.

Guy Reid is the executive director and co-founder of Planetary Collective, founded in 2011 as a direct answer to the big questions our civilization and species are currently facing. Guy is an award-winning director, speaker and photographer, specializing in eastern philosophy, ecology and sustainable development. He has a masters degree in leadership in sustainable development from London's Forum for the Future, and also studied at SOAS in London with a focus on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and the relationship between worldview and ecology.

As the Vice President of Sustainability for Tarkett North America, Roxane Spears leads the organization’s sustainability initiatives across R&D, operations, material optimization and corporate communications. During her 15 years at Tarkett, Roxane has held various sales and sales management roles, always focusing on educating her peers and customers on the importance of a circular economy future and a holistic approach to sustainability. Her passion for sustainability is to expand the conversation beyond the building so that it includes the wellness of the people in the space, equity in healthy buildings and the health of our environment.