Corporate campuses are leading the charge in sustainable, healthy buildings. However, as more companies are shifting to hybrid work, they face the added challenges of enticing employees to return to the office, fostering new ways of working, and achieving carbon and waste-free growth across its operations through energy efficiency and renewable energy.

In this session, Adobe will share its journey in building its North Tower headquarters – Silicon Valley’s first all-electric building of its scale powered by 100% renewable energy (scheduled to open in early 2023 in downtown San Jose).

Speakers will discuss design and workplace experience considerations, how the team navigated decisions, and how this initiative fits into Adobe's operational sustainability goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow the negative impacts of climate change.

Attendees will learn best practices from this groundbreaking project on how to design and build more sustainable, innovative and healthy workspaces for employees, while reducing operational costs and increasing productivity through sustainability initiatives.

The cement industry is responsible for seven percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and demand for concrete is constant. Yet one company has a blueprint for a future buildings sector that produces far less carbon. The second documentary premiere on The Climate Pledge Stage tells the story of the vision behind CarbonCure, a fast-growing startup with a solution to the world’s cement emissions. Following the screening, CarbonCure’s CEO will discuss his company’s progress and take your questions. For more on Future Forward, watch the series trailer.

The capabilities of building control systems are advancing rapidly. Systems integration, fault detection, diagnostics and the proliferation of IoT devices are empowering buildings to become more efficient, healthy and comfortable. How can your organization leverage the suite of control technologies and services available to reach its sustainability goals? 

Learn from top experts who will share real-world examples about smart devices that are saving building operators time, money and emissions.

The ability to create a multidimensional digital model of a building and its components is revolutionizing how buildings are operated, breathing life into analog design. Along the way, these models are unlocking new levels of operational efficiency, including energy use and occupant well-being, making buildings more adaptive, resilient and comfortable. While the benefits of digital twins are undeniable, they are uncommon in the built environment.

This session will explore the how and why of digital twins, opportunities to apply them in the context of your own buildings.

Speakers will showcase demos of real-world digital twins, and share the story of how they came to fruition and what impacts they are currently having.

As the world heats up, cooling isn’t a luxury — it’s a needed form of climate adaptation. Moreover, as we decarbonize and electrify heat, the primary technology solution is heat pumps which are scaling rapidly and globally. More cooling, and more heat pumps, mean more refrigerants in use.  The irony is that these heating/cooling technologies are, in turn, driving climate change, with global AC stock expected to triple by 2050. To meet this demand we will need to rethink the refrigerants, appliances, and design norms to meet our climate and comfort demands. Suffering from undeserved neglect, refrigerants are shifting from obscurity to significance, as a GHG emission. 

This session will look at the growing challenge of cooling, heat pumps and refrigerants, the innovators crafting the future, and how our buildings can adapt without cooking the planet.