Vanessa is a Sustainable Design Leader with HOK, based in Kansas City. She is the global AIA 2030 manager for HOK and currently serves as Working Group co-chair. She has extensive experience in high-performance design for large complex buildings and works daily to implement sustainable best practices, including energy efficiency analysis, renewable energy integration, occupant wellness strategies, and third party Certification. Vanessa is a member of the ICC Code Action Committee for Sustainable / Energy / High Performance buildings. 

Erin McDade is a Program Manager for Architecture 2030 and the 2030 Challenge for Products Lead. She brings to the organization a background in architecture, with a focus on sustainable building research and analysis. She holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Washington and worked at the Integrated Design Lab in Seattle before joining Architecture 2030. While with the Integrated Design Lab she helped to develop Targeting 100!, a tool for deep energy retrofits and aggressively sustainable new construction in the healthcare sector. She also completed lighting and thermal analyses on the revolutionary Bullitt Center. She leads Architecture 2030’s Products Challenge and helps manage the development of each of Architecture 2030’s programs and initiatives with a focus on the AIA+2030 Series and the 2030 Districts Network.