Jacob Knowles is the Chief Sustainability Officer at BR+A Consulting Engineers. He has championed over seventy million square feet of carbon neutral buildings and campus master plans. His work has resulted in numerous grants and awards, including three AIA COTE Top Ten awards. Jacob recently served on the board of the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) and serves on the board of Built Environment Plus (BE+). Jacob is an advisor to the City of Boston and the State of Massachusetts in the development of Zero Net Carbon Zoning and the Net Zero Stretch Code, so that all future buildings will be carbon neutral.

Montserrat Barceló Riera (Granollers, 1967) Graduate in Medicine from the Universitat Barcelona , Postgraduate in Pharmaceutical Industry Medicine at the UAB and PDD Promociona at ESADE business school. Top executive in the clinical research sector. She was COO at the Swedish clinical research organization TFS, with more than 600 clinical professionals under her responsability. Recently she was Vice President Europe of the company in Boston, Veristat. Dr Barcelo is actually Board member of Kymos Pharma and Advisor of the digital health company in London TrialHub. Dr Barcelo is a founding member of the Women Spanish Association of Executives EjeCon , from which she works to ensure that there are more women in management positions. She is also founder and investor in the Business Angel club WERock Capital investing in early-stage startups founded by women. Right now Dr Barcelo is moving to Silver Economy sector , a sector for older adults services that needs urgently a (RE)evolution.

Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard Partner, Head of Innovation, 3XN GXN Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard is Partner and Head of Innovation at GXN and work with strategic design research across 3XN and GXN projects. GXN seeks to innovate architecture to create buildings that work better for people and planet by integrating multidisciplinary research into commercial projects. He is a co-author of Transforming to Zero, a white paper developed with 3PM to support laboratory developers, owners, and occupiers implement efficient decarbonisation efforts through understanding behaviours throughout the science ecosystem. Kåre holds a DPhil in Anthropology from the University of Oxford where he researched the impact of digital technologies on human cognition and creativity

Wendy Gettleman is currently employed at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts as Vice President of Facilities Management and Real Estate (FMRE) and has been in the VP role for 9 years. In this position, Wendy has oversight of Facilities Maintenance and Operations; Planning, Design and Construction; Real Estate; General Services including Parking & Transportation; Energy Management; Food Services; Conference Services; Telecommunications; and Environmental Health and Safety. In this role, Wendy guides the Facilities agenda, including major capital construction, long-range continuity and efficiency of plant operations for all DFCI sites and master facility space planning efforts for the institute’s 2.7 million square feet of real estate. Hospitality excellence is woven throughout each FMRE department and operation; from the design of clinical care space and research laboratories, to the food service operation to the maintenance work order process, and all aspects of patient and staff health and safety. In her prior position, as Senior Director of Planning, Design & Construction, Wendy directed design and construction of 25-35 annual capital projects with combined capital budgets of over $130 Million annually with a team focused on lean design principles, incorporating patient and family feedback and design features to improve health, safe construction practices, and fiscal responsibility. Wendy joined Dana-Farber in 2005 as Senior Project Manager then as Director of Project Management for the Yawkey Center for Cancer Care. In those roles, Wendy led the project team from design through construction and occupancy in January 2011, bringing in the $330 Million project under budget and ahead of schedule. In this position, she has become a leading expert in facilitating patient and family input into design and in executing lean design concepts. The Yawkey Center Project earned gold LEED status and received numerous project management and design

Associate Professor at the Bartlett Real Estate Institute at the School of Sustainable Construction UCL, Director of the MSc Healthcare Facilities. Medical architect (healthcare architect and medical planner) i.e., holding a PhD on psychiatric facilities from the Bartlett. Active in research having won several prestigious grants and fellowships including two Marie Curie Horizon 2020. Vice-President of the Urban Health Section, EUPHA. Member of the Board, National Accessibility Authority in Hellenic Republic by invitation from the Greek Prime Minister. Involved in consultancy and policy such as creating and delivering a series of short courses programme on healthcare planning, management and design for The Authority for Reconstruction with Changes of the Government of Peru in collaboration with Arup on behalf of the British Government , collaboration with the Greek Ministry of Health and the Centre of European Constitutional Law on new legislation regarding psychiatric facilities , co-ordinator of the Environment Section of the European Innovation Partnership on Healthy and Active Aging of the European Union and being the Co-Investigator of the Health and Built Environment work packages of the official inquiry by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs on infectious diseases on the aftermath of the Princess Diamond Covid-19 outbreak. Awarded work and research in countries across Europe, Japan, the Middle East and New Zealand. Author of two books on psychiatric environments and several scientific and professional publications on healthcare environments. Accomplished speaker on multi-disciplinary and cross sector audiences, including a Ted-MED presentation and numerous TV and radio broadcastings. RIBA chartered member and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. RIBA architect founder and owner of the multi-awarded practice SynThesis Architects.

James is a Partner of 3pm, a London-based project management consultancy specialising in science & technology projects. James has over 20 years’ experience delivering strategic and delivery advice for public and private sector clients in the UK and Australia. He was a co-author of Transforming to Zero, a white paper developed with GXN, focussed on decarbonising laboratories by gaining a deep understanding the behaviours of owners, operators and designers of science facilities and co-creating pathways to drive down the carbon footprint of science.