Verena Vogler (Dr.-Ing.) joined McNeel Europe in 2014, where she leads R&D and the Educational Course Program. She holds Diploma/Master’s degrees in Architecture and Computational Design, along with a doctorate in Engineering from the Chair of Computer Science in Architecture, Bauhaus University Weimar in computational Artificial Coral Reef Design, and has experience working for international architectural firms. With over 15 years of expertise in construction, software development, and research, she focuses on fostering synergies between practice and applied research. Her work centers on creating ecosystem-aware design approaches by integrating environmental and living system knowledge through advanced computational methods.

Carlos Pérez Albà (Barcelona, 19th March 1975) is currently the EMEA Sales, Marketing and Business Development Manager at McNeel.

Studied Economics (Universitat de Barcelona, Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg), Illustration (Massana Art School Barcelona) and Management (IESE Business School Barcelona).

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlosperezalba/ www.mcneel.com www.rhino3d.com www.food4rhino.com

Lead Design Technologies

I’m a self employed industrial designer from Liestal, Switzerland. I’ve been working with Rhino and Grasshopper since 2010. My field of work is mainly sports and art. I own an Artec Leo handheld 3D laserscanner which paired with my Rhino skills got me a part time job in the innovation team at Tudor Pro Cycling.

Daniel Koehler is an Assistant Professor at UT Austin. Before, Daniel researched at the UCL Bartlett and Innsbruck University, where he wrote his Ph.D., published as “The Mereological City,” a study on part-design in modernism. Daniel is also co-founder of lab-eds and consults with startups in the field of architecture and computational design. His work has been exhibited internationally, including venues in Prague, Milan, Venice, Montreal, London, and Austin, and is part of the permanent collection at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His forthcoming book “Synthetic Cities” (Routledge) examines how artificial intelligence is transforming the design practice of cities and their architecture.

I am 3d-designer at Montblanc for Writing Instruments and Accessories with 20 years of experience in Rhino. Grasshopper I have used for 8 years now.

Duann is founder of Bits to Atoms, the CDFAM Computational Design Symposium Series, Executive Director of the 3MF Consortium and is also a teaching assistant at MIT’s online additive manufacturing course.

Head of Development at SOFiSTiK. SOFiSTiK is one of the leading European manufacturers of software for analysis, design and detailing. Over 2000 customers worldwide use the company’s solution to analyze and build large and complex infrastructure including the 3rd Bosporus Bridge in Instanbul or the Azrieli sprial Tower in Tel Aviv.

Andreas Ginter is team lead and project manager at wh-p Engineers, a Germany based structural engineering consultancy founded in 1993 with subsidiaries in Stuttgart, Berlin and Basel. His project references include buildings such as the Roche Research and Development Centre in Basel, the Stream Office Tower in Berlin or the Bitzer headquarters in Sindelfingen.

Computational Design Specialist

As the co-founder and product lead at infrared.city, I am dedicated to bring AI solution to the service of Architecture and City planning professionals, in a way that benefits the industry, the users, and the environment above all. With almost a decade of hands-on experience in architecture practice, I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges faced by design teams and their clients when addressing sustainability and finding ways to navigate efficiency, functionality, compliance and cost effectiveness in an environmentally performant project.
As a researcher and educator, I collaborate with students and AEC professionals in developing AI driven solutions to real industry problems from the micro to the urban scale. I share thoughts and experiments on AI workflows applied to design, summaries of recent academic work as well as updates from our building journey @infrared.city
If you are looking for AI solutions that can empower AEC professionals with data and performance insights for sustainable design, let’s connect and explore how we can drive resilience for the built environment together.

Computational Designer

Clemens Preisinger, D.I. Dr. is a structural engineer and researcher. He started his career as a researcher at the Institute for Structural Concrete at the Technical University Vienna. Since 2008 Clemens is working for the structural engineering company Bollinger+Grohmann. During that time, he contributed to several research projects at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. There he currently heads the department ‘Digital Simulation’ which investigates possibilities to bring computational modelling techniques into early-stage architectural design. Since 2010 Clemens is developing the parametric, interactive Finite Element program ‘Karamba3D’. He holds a PhD in Structural Engineering from the Technical University Vienna.