Conversations w/ Friends
Candid conversations with the people shaping sustainable industries.
The Future of Sustainability Is Connected
Learn how manufacturers, designers, and owners are using data to turn intent into action—and action into results.
Sustainability goals are relatively easy to set. It’s the follow-through—the data, tools, and workflows that turn those goals into daily decisions that’s hard.
In this Conversations with Friends webinar, we’re tackling one of the biggest challenges facing manufacturers, designers, and owners today: how to make sustainability data actually useful to reduce not only impact but accelerate business value and results.
The ROI of Sustainable Materials
Where specification, manufacturing, and digital strategy meet.
In this conversation, leaders from multiple sides of the table—HOK’s Candon Murphy, Rockfon North America’s Rachel Berkin, and BuildingEase’s Barbra BatShalom—share their career journeys, the pressures and opportunities they are navigating, and how the digital evolution in the built environment’s sustainable materials industry is rewriting the rules. Moderated by Parallel’s Annie Bevan, we’ll explore what’s driving change, what’s next, and what it means for every role in the materials ecosystem.
Humanity First
Putting social health and equity at the heart of building.
In a moment where human well-being, justice, and equity are more critical than ever, this conversation explores how the built environment can—and must—prioritize people. An impact category of the Common Materials Framework, social health and equity underscores the need to center human experience in product manufacturing, decisions, policy, and design. Join industry leaders as they share how they’re putting people first—and where we go from here.
