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
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
Why You Should Attend This Summit
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.
At Our Summit You Will Have The Ability to
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.
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. Contact us for sponsorship information
Best group of speakers and industry representation in years of attending similar events.
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.
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.
The most professional, interesting, educational event that I have attended!
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
