KA Connect 2011: What the AEC Industry Can Learn from Farmville

What the AEC Industry Can Learn from Farmville

Justin Quimby, Founder and CEO
Quimby Heavy Industries

Justin is the founder and CEO of Quimby Heavy Industries, a consulting firm specializing in game development and architecture knowledge systems. He currently is working with Because We Can on bridging the information gap between digital and physical architectural objects. Before founding Quimby Heavy Industries in 2008, Justin spent over a decade in the game industry, including leading the game engineering teams for Electronic Arts’ game Spore and building the massively multiplayer games Dungeons and Dragons Online, Lord of the Rings Online, and Asheron’s Call at Turbine. He holds a B. S. in Computer Science from Brown University.

Alyssa Scholz Get Uncomfortable…That’s When It Gets Good! Senior Associate, Taylor	Amy Aponte One Project at a Time is Not Fast Enough Principal, Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas	Amy Keller Tools and Resources that Support EBD in Healthcare The Center for Health Design, Research Associate
Ash Notaney Fabricating the Future Vice President of Supply Chain, Project Frog	Barbara Irwin What About Me? Retention in the Recovery Founder, HR Advisors Group	Beverly Prior Knowledge Generation for the Small Firm Practice Leader, HMC + Beverly Prior Architects
Bret Tushaus The Unstructured Landscape of the Knowledge Worker Product Director, Deltek	Chris Brandt Great Organizations Give Up Control CTO, conject AG	Christine Brack Make Project Management Cool Principal, ZweigWhite
Christopher Parsons Knowledge-Driven Strategy Founder and CEO, Knowledge Architecture	Christopher Pinckney IT as an Enemy of Innovation Chief Information Officer, Psomas	Courtney Beamon Flying Together Vice President, CFO, Delta Airport Consultants
Daniel Emmerson What’s AEC for Entrepreneur? Co-Founder, Axomic	David Fano Teaching 2.0 Partner, CASE Design, Inc.	David Mar Custom Tools for Wicked Problems Principal, Tipping Mar
Debra Levin Collecting Evidence is a Team Sport President and CEO, Center for Health Design	Derek Parker Design Research and the 21st Century Hospital FAIA,	Ed Friedrichs Two Degrees of Separation Chairman, ZweigWhite
Federico Negro Data Mining and BIM Partner, CASE Design, Inc.	Jeffrey McGrew Digital Fabrication: 7 Steps to a New Workflow Founder, Because We Can, LLC	John Peterson The Power of the Knowledge Broker Founder, Public Architecture
John Pocorobba A16: A Revolutionary Program for Up/Down Mentoring Chief Operations Officer, EYP Architecture & Engineering	Julianne Nevins Leveraging Internal Experts to Build a Learning Program Director of Human Resources, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger	Justin Quimby What the AEC Industry Can Learn from Farmville Founder and CEO, Quimby Heavy Industries
Ken Young Social Media @HOK Chief Information Officer, HOK	Larry Rocha Moving from Building Design to Product Design Chief Information Officer, WATG	Laura Crescimano Data Mining for Design Designer, Gensler
MacKenzie Smith Curating Digital Design Data Research Director, MIT Libraries	Marjanne Pearson Organizing Around Intellect Chief, Marjanne Pearson Associates	Mark English Working the Biggest Room Possible Founder, Mark English Architects
Markku Allison Why the Future Looks IPD-ish Resource Architect, AIA	Mehmet Dogu Benchmarking Isn’t Just Benchmarking Independent Consultant,	Michael Le Fevre How to Speak BIM Vice President, Holder Construction Company
Michael Strogoff Capturing Distilled Knowledge on Video Founder, aecKnowledge	Michael Woods Video: Consumer Toy or Power Tool? Principal, RTKL Associates Inc.	Mike Phillips What You Really Want to Know About Clients Founder, Phillips Architecture
Nambi Gardner Data Mining for Design Associate, Gensler	Nancy Egan Cultural DNA: The Key to Competitive Advantage Principal, New Voodou	Peter Braun Creating Organizational Learning Agility Vice President, HKS
Rob Mathewson BIM’s ’First Mile’ Problem CEO and President, Geedra	Romano Nickerson Learning to be Lean Principal, Boulder Associates	Ruben Suare A New Collaboration Framework For Design and Manufacturing Director of Business Development, 3form
Scott Grove The Path to Enterprise Collaboration Director of Human Resources, KlingStubbins	Scott Shell Occupant Satisfaction and Sustainable Design Principal, EHDD Architecture	Steve Burrows Engineering is Poetry Principal, Arup
Tim Parker You’ve Got a Secret...And You Shouldn’t Principal, The Bloom Group	Vik Duggal Sales: The Fountain of Sustainability Consultant,	W. Mike Martin Harvesting Knowledge and Evidence in the Wild Professor Emeritus of Architecture, University of California-Berkeley
Zigmund Rubel Activating Knowledge: Data-Driven Design Founder, Aditazz

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BIM and IPD
Collaboration
Culture
Fabrication
Leadership
Learning
Marketing
Mentoring
Q + A Panels
Research
Skunkworks
Social Media
Strategy
Video