Stanford Chan has extensive experience with consulting and monitoring on various exterior envelope and roofing systems. His experience includes new construction, re-clads, overclads, restoration, window replacement, and storefront replacement. As Director of SOCOTEC’s Existing Buildings’ Division and the Roofing and Waterproofing Division, his current work includes managing a technical team of over 20, overseeing all projects while working closely with clients, writing specifications, preparing and detailing architectural drawings and reviewing shop drawings.

Vishwadeep Deo joined Thornton Tomasetti as a Vice President in 2022, bringing over 20 years of global experience. He leads the design of façades across various sectors, including cultural, institutional, commercial, sports, aviation, transit, and residential. As a façade consultant, he investigates façade system designs that intersect analysis, fabrication, assembly, optimization, materiality, and computation—driving designs to achieve more with less. Vish holds a Master of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the School of Planning and Architecture in New Delhi, India. His project experience includes Princeton University Hobson College, Princeton; Columbus Airport, Columbus; Cleveland Clinic Global Peak Performance Center, Cleveland; Air Traffic Control Towers, across continental US; and Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center, New York City, among others.

Vivian Fu is an Associate Principal at Heintges in San Francisco, and first joined the firm in 1999. She has collaborated with many of the world’s leading architecture firms in the design and construction of innovative façade systems for institutional, luxury retail, museum, and office buildings worldwide. Her experience in the facade industry includes over 10 years of managing pre-construction, construction and post-construction services for Seele in the US. Vivian holds a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University’s GSAPP.

Mic Patterson is a designer, researcher, educator, futurist, author, photographer and entrepreneur. He has concentrated his professional and academic career on advanced facade technology and sustainable building practices. He pioneered the introduction of structural glass facade technology in the United States in the 1990s, implementing diverse and novel applications including cable trusses, cable nets and grid shells. Patterson was among the founding group of the Advanced Technology Studio of Enclos, where he works as the Vice President of Strategic Development. He is a co-founder of the Facade Tectonics Institute and serves on the steering committee, and co-founder of the Facades+ conference series. He is on the technical research committee for GlassCon Global and a member of the Advisor Group for the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He has twice been named among the industry’s most influential by US Glass magazine. Patterson is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Architecture at the University of Southern California with a research focus on sustainable facade renovation practices. He has taught, written extensively, and lectured internationally on diverse aspects of advanced facade technology. He is the author of Structural Glass Facades and Enclosures, published by Wiley.

Jack Robbins, AIA, LEED AP, is a Partner and Director of Urban Design at FXCollaborative in New York. Jack has led mixed-use development projects spanning large-scale master plans, urban infrastructure, transportation, and multi-family residential developments. An active voice in the wider design community, he teaches at the New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate, and frequently speaks at conferences and symposia. His writing has appeared in Architectural Record, World Architecture, and The New York Times. With an undergraduate degree focusing on visual arts and literature from Harvard University, he received his Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture. Travel has also been formative for Jack, who lived in a number of cities growing up and later began his architecture career working in Hong Kong.