As the most-visited city in the United States, Orlando is uniquely positioned to influence environmental stewardship in communities around the world. From meeting the foundational needs of local residents to providing an enchanting tourism destination in a changing climate, Ian will describe how to leverage local characteristics to enhance sustainable efforts.

Mark’s presentation will review multi-year strategies for energy efficiency, boiler infrastructure, and automation at two synthetic polymer and fiber production facilities. One plant is in the UK and one in the US. Both sites were over 50 years old and had aging infrastructure. These examples demonstrate that a long term vision and integrated strategy can reduce energy, maintenance, operations, and sustaining capital requirements for existing facilities.

Rami will be discussing how it is up to manufacturers and builders to answer consumer questions about how products and buildings effect not only nature, but people. Health and wellness is a priority concern and the growth of the wellness industry has risen to include multiple new products and applications in response. But the majority of what determines our health is based on the physical and social environments where we live and work; therefore, architects and designers have the ability to greatly improve public health outcomes. It is a responsibility to not only respond effectively to customer wants but also provide products that are inherently good towards well-being. Learning the ropes of transparency and green certification systems puts businesses on the forefront of satisfying consumers and global challenges on health.

John is responsible for the Maintenance Department, Biomed, Security, Landscaping, Environmental Services and construction projects.  He believes that facilities managers can find creative yet simple ways to integrate technology solutions into their operations.  One idea is to include the ARC Facilities platform into the budget for a future renovation or building budget.

Shreya manages environmental and sustainability metrics for 20 manufacturing sites, 10 distribution centers, 3 headquarter buildings and 3 sales offices across NA. She analyzes Co2, Waste, Water, Energy & COD metrics across categories and actively seek opportunities to reduce environmental footprint through process management and capital improvement projects.

Breitner’s presentation will showcase the tools in the Energy Management System at General Motors that helps implementing real energy savings projects. Based on three basic elements: leadership support, allocation of targets and action plans, any company can prepare an energy management system that drives positive economical results and consequently mitigate climate change.

Jimmy is a Higher Education Facilities professional with broad experience including complex technical leadership, in planning, managing, coordinating, supervising and overseeing facilities areas of operations, maintenance, grounds and contract services. His specialties include facilities management, energy management, staffing and staff management, budgeting, master planning, construction management, contract management, safety, scheduling, drafting, surveying and HAZMAT.

Charles has more than 20 years of utilities and facilities management experience. He is the Director of Asset Management, leads the Asset Management function within the Asset Management and Sustainability Division of Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) the world’s most traveled airport with more than 100 million passengers annually and the most efficient airport.