Sandeep Ahuja, co-founder of cost and energy optimization software cove.tool, Inc., has worked with a variety of clients in academic, hospitality, healthcare and corporate spheres. She is pioneering the integration of energy analysis into the design and construction process. She recently won the Atlanta 30 Under 30 Award for developing cove.tool, a unique methodology to optimize for cost in sustainable buildings. As a building performance specialist, Sandeep specializes in informing performance-related building decisions in careful consideration of cost.

Tobias Wallisser
Director

Tobias Wallisser is based in Berlin and teaches as Professor of Innovative Construction and Spatial Concepts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. As Creative Director at UN-Studio in Amsterdam for 10 years he was responsible for many projects, the most prominent being the Mercedes-Benz Museum and the Arnhem Interchange. After receiving an architectural degree in Stuttgart, he completed a post-graduate at Columbia University (NY) in 1997. He worked with Asymptote Architecture on the Virtual New York Stock Exchange.

Maria Ruiz Pardo
Director at Atelier MEL

After earning her architecture degree in Barcelona, Maria Ruiz Pardo practiced in Spanish studios for several years before pivoting to pursue a career in product design and business management.

After earning a Master in Architectural Management and Design at IE School of Architecture and Design in Madrid and the Royal College of Art in London, Maria founded Atelier MEL in 2013 where she works as director and lead designer.

At Atelier MEL, Maria has assembled a multidisciplinary team of design professionals who work at the intersection of artistry and digital design technology to create exclusive art installations.

Based in Barcelona and Cartagena, Atelier MEL are now developing projects which juxtapose cutting-edge design tools with a rich understanding of traditional craftsmanship worldwide.

Martin Barry is the Founder & CEO of Manifesto Market, and Founder & Chairman of reSITE. His work has been published widely in The New York Times, The Atlantic Citylab, Monocle Magazine, Dezeen, Designboom, among dozens of others.

As a landscape architect, Martin has led multi-disciplinary teams on complex urban projects in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. He is the 2016 recipient of the President’s Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), and his projects at W Architecture have received dozens of design awards in North America. He is a Fulbright Scholar and a Fellow with the Design Trust for Public Space in New York.

Julia Stöckert, Dipl.-Ing. Architektin (Univ.)
Founder, CEO
Born in *1984 in Munich, Germany
Studied Architecture at the Technical University of Munich, Graduated in 2011

Chris is a young architect from Austria and founder of Penda and Studio Precht. Together with his wife Fei, his team and 2 cats, he is working from a remote place in the mountains of Salzburg. From there, they are working on projects worldwide, which range from ecological High-rises to Bamboo-buildings. Chris is an advocate for a new generation of architects that finds meaning in their work and that is a leading voice to design an ecological future

Sherif has over 18 years of professional experience in architecture. He holds a PhD degree in Architecture from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA (2011). He is currently Associate Professor of Digital Media and Design Computing at the Department of Architecture at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He teaches design studios and courses related to design computing, and has extensive publications in the area of BIM, parametric design, and responsive architecture, with over 40 journal and conference papers.

Andrea Kaiser, Dipl.-Ing. (Univ.) Architektur
Founder, COO
Born in *1985 (Tegernsee, near Munich), Germany
Studied Architecture at the Technical University of Munich, Graduated in 2011

As a practicing civil engineer specialist in Russia and the US, Artem Kuchukov understood the challenges and needs of the construction industry first hand. In 2017, he refined his knowledge in these areas by completing a Master’s degree in Advanced Construction and Building Technology from the TU Munich, where he obtained a comprehensive overview of the history and grounding principles of robotics in construction.

IN 2016, Artem co-founded KEWAZO with a team of specialists and graduates based in Germany.