SCUP-45, Mark Valenti, The Emerging Intelligent Campus

Introduced by: Eugene J. Mackey, Principal, Mackey Mitchell Associates, and Convener, facilities Planning Academy

Presented by: Mark Valenti, President & CEO, the Sextant Group, Inc.

There is much ado today about social media and the changing landscape of human interaction brought on by the revolution in network-based communications. No doubt this revolution is powerful, far-reaching, and impacts our daily lives in direct and tangible ways.

What is not so evident is the revolution quietly occurring in the way buildings are being conceived, a revolution that will impact the way we plan,
design, implement, and manage the campus facilities portfolio forever. Technologies such as building information modeling, cloud computing, mesh networks, and digital media are being realized in new ways to optimize energy consumption, usage efficiencies, user comfort, security, and human communication.

At what point do our surroundings become self- aware? When do they inter-operate? And how might we plan for the emerging intelligent campus? This presentation will take a look over the horizon of possibilities. Mark Valenti is an expert in digital media technologies, architectural acoustics, psychoacoustics, and market trends in the multimedia industry.

He understands the engineering behind designing truly rich classroom learning environments, blended with the online tools that students and instructors love.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• SCUP
• SCUP-45
• scup45
• college
• university
• facilities planning
• technology planning
• academic planning
• futuring
• trends
• environmental scanning

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Fantastic Mark!  It was great to see you again at SCUP.