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Smart Data for Energy Summit

  • October 15-16, 2025
  • 151 St George, National Harbor, MD

Event Overview

The 3rd Annual Smart Data for Energy Summit is a senior-level educational and networking Summit, designed as a highly interactive forum that provides an interchange of in-depth knowledge, and serves as a catalyst for collaboration across large built environments that share the common goal of utilizing smart, data-driven capabilities to support energy optimization goals throughout the planning, design, build, retrofit, management, and daily operations and maintenance phases.

These sectors include:

Higher Education Campuses, Hospitals & Healthcare Systems, Federal Facilities, and Large Commercial Campuses

Early Confirmed Speakers:

  • Rame Hemstreet

    Vice President, Operations, National Facilities Design and Construction, Chief Energy Officer, Kaiser Permanente

  • Alexander Kohnen

    Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Facilities Officer, Vanderbilt University

  • Dr. Jessica Granderson

    Senior Scientist and Director, Building Technology and Urban Systems Division, The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

  • Gerald (Andy) Woommavovah

    System Vice President, Facility Management, CommonSpirit Health

  • Jeff Benjamin

    Vice President Facilities and Campus Development, Tulane University

  • Dr. Mario Berges

    Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director of the Intelligent Infrastructure Research Lab, Carnegie Mellon University; Scholar, Amazon

  • Jon Varnell

    Vice President for Administrative Operations and Chief Infrastructure Officer, University of Central Florida

  • Dr. Stacey Bauer

    Director, Sustainability and Energy Conservation, Parkland Health

  • Brian Lindoerfer

    Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Management, University of Colorado Boulder

  • Todd Cohen

    Associate Vice President, Facilities & Real Estate, Adventist Healthcare

  • Fran Selvaggio

    Senior Building Management Systems Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Kailash Viswanathan

    Director of Energy, Arch Energy a division of Consigli Construction

  • Jason Christman

    Chief Cybersecurity Officer, Advisory Board Member to the Cyber Security Hall of Fame

  • Joseph Aamidor

    Senior Product Management Consultant / Managing Director, Aamidor Consulting

  • Patrick Burke

    Vice President, Facilities Management, Operations & Planning, Columbia University Medical Center

  • Atiya Hasan

    Principal, Design Director SmithGroup

About the Smart Data for Energy Summit

Topics to be covered

  • Establishing the end goals and challenges for facilities and campuses' energy ecosystems. What are the desired outcomes that owners /operators are trying to achieve?
  • Capabilities and insight owners and operators want to gain from advanced data-driven technologies to support the capital planning, build / retrofit, management, and daily O&M phases of their buildings’ energy footprint
  • Deciphering what levels of “AI” are actually available today to support energy optimized buildings
  • Strategies for integrating an AI capability into your BMS
  • How advanced data-driven tools can be applied in the early design, engineering and construction phases and carried through the entire project delivery
  • Emerging technical capabilities and themes across the smart buildings vendor landscape and how to evolve the customer / product development process
  • Cyber-physical safety disciplines for a digitally connected IT /OT built environment
  • Integrating building science and data science to improve energy optimization

With the continual evolution of leveraging data to support the built environments’ energy footprint, from decision-making in capital planning, design and construction, to facilities management and daily O&M needs, the summit focuses on ensuring that emerging smart, digital capabilities are actually aligning and providing meaningful benefit to support the real and current challenges and goals of owners and operators of large built environments.

Data is only valuable to an organization if it is usable and applicable to supporting an end goal. A strategic and educational dialogue on smart data for energy optimization needs to begin with first discussing what the larger end goals and current challenges are for an organization, then evolve to the next steps of asking what digital capability can actually support these end goals in an effective and financially beneficial manner, and how do you integrate them to provide the most meaningful and usable outcomes for owners and operators.

The agenda dedicates panels to both the owner and operator perspective and to leading industry, researchers, and innovators in the “smart” data field.

For many of these sectors, they are at the beginning or intermediate phase of their smart data journey. Speakers and attendees will engage in frank interactive dialogues in order to spark new ideas and help develop strategic pathways for “Moving Towards Smart, Energy Efficient and Optimized Campuses and Facilities”.

Further, this multi-sector, multi-subject matter expertise focused summit will help enhance cross sector collaboration while expanding professional networks for future information sharing among all participants.

Gain Knowledge & Insight

For facility, campus, and building energy stakeholders, you will walk away with knowledge gained from our senior-level speakers and attendees to help you improve the energy optimization of your built environment. For industry innovators, you will walk away with a deep understanding of the current challenges, needs, and initiatives across a variety of stakeholders from healthcare, higher education, federal and commercial campuses, and learn about where your solution or service may be best applied

Build Partnerships

The Summit is designed to bring together a variety of stakeholders from across multiple sectors in order to expand professional networks and forge partnerships with persons you may not have necessarily had to the opportunity to engage with yet. You will also discover the latest technologies and trends driving solutions for energy optimization in the large built environments during our ample networking time throughout both days.

Influence

Share your own insight and knowledge during our interactive sessions. Designed as an interactive ‘Town Hall’ forum, all attendees are encouraged to engage in dialogue and discussion with each other and the speakers during presentations and beyond.

Testimonials

This was truly one of the best conferences I've attended! A fantastic event! I met many new smart building professionals in the Healthcare, Higher Education, and Federal space. This was a collaborative event where we took the opportunity to learn from each other to drive our industry forward.
Vice President of Business Development KTERIO
The most professional, interesting, educational event that I have attended!
Principal, Energy, Engineering & Infrastructure, Corporate Facilities Services Northwell Health
A superb program. I have been attending utility/energy sessions, of widely varying sizes, for over 35 years. Your work ranks with the best I have experienced.
District of Columbia, Department of Energy and Environment
Exceptional professionalism. I very much enjoyed the level of engagement by your attendees...Thank you for the opportunity to conduct what we call “Knowledge Transfer
Director UCSD
Best group of speakers and industry representation in years of attending similar events.
Senior Manager, Engineering NORESCO

Sponsors & Exhibitors

The 2025 Smart Data for Energy Summit provides opportunities for 10 minute Tech Talks, panel participation, table top exhibit space, networking, luncheon, and branding opportunities. Download the Sponsorship and Exhibiting Prospectus.

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