Keynote Speaker
Cameron Davis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Facilitators
Jerry Adelmann, Openlands
Josh Ellis, Metropolitan Planning Council 

Panelists
Ann Alexander, Natural Resources Defense Council
Joel Brammeier, Alliance for the Great Lakes
Claus Dunkelberg, Milwaukee Water Council
Martin Felsen, Archeworks, UrbanLab
Margaret Frisbie, Friends of the Chicago River
Todd Main, Illinois Department of Natural Resources
Suzanne Malec-McKenna, City of Chicago, Department of Environment
Lynn McClure, National Parks Conservation Association
David Naftzger, Council of Great Lakes Governors
Sabina Shaikh, University of Chicago, RCF Economic & Financial Consulting
Jonah Smith, Alliance for the Great Lakes
John Swanson, Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission
Russell Van Herik, Great Lakes Protection Fund
Douglas Voigt, SOM, Urban Design and Planning
 
Martin Felsen
Director, Archeworks
Principal, UrbanLab

Martin Felsen, with partner Sarah Dunn, is founding principal of UrbanLab, an award-winning Chicago-based design firm specializing in resourceful civic, commercial, residential, and infrastructure projects. Mr. Felsen is also an Associate Studio Professor in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Previously he has worked for Peter Eisenman Architects and Stan Allen Architects on large-scale public and institutional planning and public works projects. Mr. Felsen is a licensed architect and teaches design studios at IIT on future-thinking design, smart urban growth, and environmental and ecological professional responsibility. His work and expertise in integrated resourceful building and urban design has been highlighted in numerous publications. In 2007, Mr. Felsen was the recipient of the AIA Chicago Dubin Family Young Architect Award. In 2009, Archeworks and UrbanLab were jointly awarded the AIA Latrobe Prize for their Growing Energy proposal.  Mr. Felsen is a graduate of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University in New York City. He received his B Arch from Virginia Tech University. Mr. Felsen currently serves on the Chicago Wilderness Science Advisory Council and Mayor Daley’s Committee for Nature and Wildlife.