CNPA Lab invites you to the Open Source for Architects Conference on emerging Open Source, Interoperability, Free Software & Open Standards in Architecture.
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Thursday 16 March 2023
01:30pm – 05:30pm (CET)
– EPFL CAMPUS, Foyer SG
– ZOOM, ID : 614 2193 0542
Free Registration to attend on Campus
The conference is free and open to both EPFL community and external public. It will be held in English, in hybrid mode (campus + zoom).
Please register here if you wish to attend the conference in person at the EPFL campus.
Free Registration to attend online
If you wish to attend online, register here and we will send you a reminder a few days before the event.
Programme
Please note that some of the speakers will be presenting online via Zoom. Please do not expect to meet them in person on site.
Find a detailed presentation of the conference and the speakers in this document.
- 01:30 – 02:00 : Nicola Braghieri & Bernard Cache, EPFL associate Professors at LAPIS Lab & CNPA Lab, EPFL
Welcome Speech. Free Software Ethics & Open Source Issues - 02:00 – 02:30 : Claire Kuang, Architect and Software Engineer at Speckle, UK (via Zoom)
- Data Abstractions in AEC : Connecting all Industry Players with Speckle, the open-source Platform for 3D Data
- 02:30 – 03:00 : Thomas Hächler & Ahmed Wael, Research Collaborators at CNPA Lab, EPFL
- Breaking Interoperability Barriers In AEC Software through open-source Connectors
- 03:00-03:30 : Dion Moult, Architect and Emerging Digital Engineering Manager at Lendlease, Australia (via Zoom)
The Open-Source Architecture Community. Towards BlenderBIM, a free & IFC-native Software for Architects - 03:30-04:00 : Break
- 04:00-04:30 : Nicolas Arellano & Ken Percy, Research Team Leads at Carleton Immersive Media Studio, Canada (via Zoom)
Building Canada’s Digital Twin on the Web with the open-source Library IFC.js - 04:30-05:00 : Ophélie Vincendon, Head of the BIM programme at the State of Geneva, Geneva
State of Geneva : managing Buildings and Territory through open Standards - 05:00-05:30 : Maximilian Vomhoff & Romana Rust, Head of Products and Business Development & Lead Computational Geometry at vyzn, Switzerland, Zurich
Open Source in Switzerland – Impact on Practice and Academia, highlighted with relevant Project Examples - 05:30
Cocktails
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Claire Kuang
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Thomas Hächler & Ahmed Wael
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Dion Moult
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Nicolas Arellano & Ken Percy
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Ophélie Vincendon
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Maximilian Vomhof & Romana Rust
Location
EPFL Campus, Foyer SG (SG 294 22) :