Open Source for Architects Conference ‒ CNPA ‐ EPFL

Thursday 16 March 2023
01:30pm – 05:30pm (CET)
– EPFL CAMPUS, Foyer SG
– ZOOM, ID : 614 2193 0542

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.

If you wish to attend online, register here and we will send you a reminder a few days before the event.

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