Join the folks at McGraw-Hill Construction this fall in the Big Apple as they launch a new industry event. The Architectural Record Innovation Conference designed to increase understanding of the latest technologies, processes, and materials that are changing other industries and can be applied to the architecture/construction field. This event will bring leaders of architecture and construction together with materials scientists, experts from aerospace and automobile manufacturing, inventors, venture capitalists, and economists.

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, principal, Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners, will deliver the opening keynote address. Also at the podium during the conference will be a diverse and distinguished panel of experts, including:

• Constance Adams, space architect, Lockheed Martin Space Operations
• Alton Clark, former associate director, Cornell Nanofabrication Facility
• Alan Heeger, Nobel Laureate, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Dalen Keys, chief technical officer, DuPont Displays
• Jukka Kuuskosi, vice president, sales and marketing, ABB Oy Marine & Turbocharging
• Jae Min, designer, Audi
• Benjamin Neumann, director of innovative technology transfer partnership, NASA
• Carl Ray, executive director, NASA Small Business Innovation Research Program
• Ben Schwegler Jr., vice president, and chief scientist, Walt Disney Imagineering R&D Inc.
• Michael Skura, vice president, CTEK
• Tom Strevey, associate technical fellow, Boeing Company
• Marc Zobec, director/researcher/engineer, Permasteellisa, Italy.

The conference’s panel discussions will focus on:

• What is the relationship of industry and architecture in the context of invention?
• What is the collaborator's role in bridging the cultural barriers that inhibit the application of invention?
• What are the practical and financial impacts of research on architectural practice and what can be learned from other industries?
• What are the changes to internal and external business relationships?

The event is sponsored by DuPont. For an agenda and registration information, visit http://www.construction.com/event/innovation/index.asp.

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