Time Title Speaker Affiliation
8:45–9:00 Opening Remarks Philippe Wyder Distyl.ai
9:00–9:15 Casual Probabilistic Programming to Understand Cities at Scale Zenna Tavares Basis Research Institute
9:15–9:30 A General Model for Building Thermal Dynamics: From Initial Deployment to Long-Term Operation Fabian Raisch Technical University of Munich
9:30–9:45 Smart Buildings Contest Winner Rocco Giudice Politecnico di Torino
9:45–10:00 Smart Buildings Contest Runner Up Shundong Li Worcester Polytechnic Institute
10:00–10:30 Empowering GIS with AI: Creating Smarter Cities Jack Dangermond Environmental Systems Research Institute
10:30–10:45 Data Assimilation for HVAC Simulations in Koopman-Invariant Subspace using Kalman Filters Shoji Yutaka Kajima
10:45–11:00 coffee break
11:00–11:30 MobilityAI: Geospatial AI and Digital Twins to improve congestion, safety, and emissions Neha Arora Google
11:30–12:00 Towards Smart Buildings at Scale via Foundation Models Judah Goldfeder Google
12:00–1:00 lunch break
1:00–1:20 Physics-Guided Dual Neural ODEs with Bidirectional Information Exchange for Air Quality Prediction Jiaxu Feng Fudan University
1:20–1:40 Highly Controllable Satellite Image Synthesis using OpenStreetMap Data Amir Ziashahabi University of Southern California
1:40–2:00 ShadeBench: A Benchmark Dataset and Method for Shade Simulation in Sustainable Society Longchao Da Arizona State University
2:00–3:00 Poster Session
3:00–3:30 Preparing Systems for Complex Environments Michael Dennis DeepMind
3:30–4:00 Scalable Mulri-Camera Tracking with Nvidia Metropolis and AI City Challenge Zheng Tang Nvidia
4:00–4:20 DStruct2Design: Data Structure Driven Generative Floor Plan Design via RLVR Luis Lara Mila
4:20–4:40 The Coalition That Freed Building Intelligence: A Linux Foundation–Aligned, Open-Source Architecture for Semantic Interoperability Across Humans, Machines, and AI Kimon Onuma ONUMA, Inc.
4:40–5:00 Closing Remarks Philippe Wyder Distyl.ai