Find the below schedule with times and locations of conference sessions and events. Click on session title to access abstract. Click on presenter to access biographies.
7:30 – 8: 30 am Grab-and-Go Breakfast West Corridor 8:30 – 11:30 am (Mobile Tour, meet at loading dock)
Practicing Sustainability Off-Grid: Designing Unique Educational Facilities in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico
- Kizito Wijenje, Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) Capital Master Plan (CMP), Executive Director
- Paul Mauermann, NM Museum of Natural History
- Vincent Case, APS SMNHC Resource teacher/Instructor
- Tony Sparks, APS Energy Manager
8:30 – 9:30 am (102B)
Deploying Drones for Facility Planning
- Aron Roberts, Albuquerque Public Schools (APS) Capital Master Plan (CMP) GIS Planner
- Tammira Taylor, APS GIS Planner II
8:30 – 9:30 am (102A)
Technical Standards: Integrating Land Use, Transportation, and Water
- Julie Luna, Transportation Planner, Bernalillo County
- Megan Marsee, Water Conservation & Resource Planner, Bernalillo County
8:30 – 9:30 am (101A)
Building Fences or Housing: Planners’ Responsibility to Include the Unhoused in Public Planning
- Erika Robers, Community & Natural Resource Planner, Groundwork Studio
- Maren Neldam, Community & Natural Resources Planner, Groundwork Studio
10:00 – 11:30 am (102B)
- Catalina Lehner, AICP- Principal Planner, City of Albuquerque Planning Department
- Jonathan Kramer, Founder and Senior Attorney, Telecom Law Firm PC, Los Angeles, CA
10:00 – 11:30 am (101A)
Harnessing Opportunities and Planning for the Renewable Energy Transition in New Mexico
- Aaron Moore, Albuquerque Affordable Housing Coalition
- Alex Horton, International District Economic Development organization
- Arthur O’Donnell
PLENARY LUNCH: 11:45 am – 1:00 pm (LARGE HALL) Keynote Speaker: Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller
1:30 – 4:30 pm (Mobile Tour, meet at loading dock)
Anchored by the Rail Yards: Redevelopment, Economic Opportunity, and Historic Roots in the Downtown Neighborhoods
- Ciaran Lithgow, Project Manager, Metropolitan Redevelopment Agency, City of Albuquerque
- Leslie Naji, Senior Historic Preservation Planner, City of Albuquerque
- John Gabriel Rivera, Senior Project Coordinator, City of Albuquerque
- Leba Freed, Founder of the Wheels Museum, City of Albuquerque
1:00 – 2:00 pm (102B)
Water Regionalization
- Angelina Grey, Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments
1:00 – 2:00 pm (102A)
A Planned Housing Crisis & Planned Solutions
- Carlos Gemora, Senior Planner, Sites Southwest
- Daniel Werwath, Affordable Housing Practitioner
2:15 – 3:15 pm (102A)
Transportation Planning for Economic Resiliency During the Energy Transition
- Ben Bachwirtz, AICP, Community Planner at Wilson & Company
- Robert Kuipers, Manager, Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments
- Paige Wolfrom, Community and Transportation Planner, Wilson & Company
3:00 – 4:15 pm (Large Hall)
Hour of Power: 12-minute lightning round presentations
- Jim Strozier, FAICP, Principal and Founder, Consensus Planning, Inc.
- Kevin Maevers, AICP, CZO Community Development Director City of Roswell, New Mexico
- Dan Pava, FAICP
- Miriam Diddy, AICAE, Planner at MRWM
- Danielle Wilson, Planner, Sites Southwest