Session Overview
Explore the next wave in Building Automation as AI, cloud solutions, and decarbonization goals drive rapid scaling across the industry. This session addresses the pressing challenges businesses will face in the industry, including staffing shortages, skill gaps, and cybersecurity threats, while offering strategies to adapt and thrive. Attendees will gain valuable insights into emerging trends highlighted throughout the AutomatedBuildings.com educational sessions.
Speakers
Kerri Lee Sinclair, AutomatedBuildings.com
Kerri Sinclair is the Editorial Board Chair of AutomatedBuildings.com and has been an occasional contributor to AutomatedBuildings.com since 2012. Her background in technology, software and engineering spans 30 years across early internet and search technologies, the digitation of music, the first telematics devices in cars, the rollout of fibre and DSLAMs, private cloud & collaboration solutions in construction and building operations. She is now an investor and has a portfolio of Board seats in climate, agtech and additive manufacturing companies and is pretty proud of her Dad and Mom for creating this amazing little piece of the internet. You can contact her at kerri@automatedbuildings.com.
Scott Cochrane, President & CEO, Cochrane Supply
Scott Cochrane is President and CEO of Cochrane Supply & Engineering, a leading Smart Building Controls Supplier with locations throughout Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, and Texas, as well as an affiliate in Ontario called Canada Controls. Scott earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business with minors in Marketing and Finance from Eastern Michigan University and holds an additional minor in HVAC Technologies from Macomb Community College. In 2000, he took over the business from his father, Donald Cochrane, Sr., who founded the company in 1967. Scott is an IBcon Digital Impact Award Winner for going above and beyond to positively impact the smart building industry, as well as a winner of the ControlTrends Impact Person of the Year Award and Distributor Executive of the Year Award for his contributions to the industry.
Brad White, President, SES Consulting
Brad is President of SES Consulting and a Professional Engineer with over 15 years of experience in energy efficiency, low carbon technologies, and smart building systems. He has demonstrated his passion for the sustainable use of energy throughout his professional career and this continues to be a driving force in his work. Brad works closely with clients to integrate leading edge technologies and energy conservation strategies into existing buildings; these can include fault detection and analytics, electrification of heating systems, and advanced controls. Brad is a Contributing Editor to AutomatedBuildings.com and a member of the City of Vancouver’s Technical Advisory Committee on Existing Multi-Unit Residential and Commercial Buildings.
Ken Sinclair, Founder, AutomatedBuildings.com
Ken Sinclair sees himself more as a storyteller and hopes the stories he tells will be a catalyst for the future we are all (eventually) going to live in. Ken believes that systems will be smarter, self-learning, edgy, innovative, and sophisticated, and to create, manage and re-invent those systems the industry needs to grow our most important resource, our younger people, by reaching out to them with messages about how vibrant, vital and rewarding working in this industry can be.
