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/li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Return to Caesar's Palace: 8:30pm; 9pm; 9:30pm</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Uber - $11- 15 , Cab - $31</li></ul><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>IBPSA Happy Hour, with Business Meeting, & Committees/Projects Updates (5-5:30)</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>Organizational Items - 5:00 - 5:10</strong></p><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Board Elections<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Note:  You can still vote up to 6pm. </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Must pay 2017 dues first.</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Recommending a thorough review of BOD objectives and election procedures<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Objective - strengthen IBPSA</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">By - subcommittee of new BOD</li></ul></li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Financial report<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Show projection & discuss<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Major alternate scenarios</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Line of Credit </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Building Simulation 2017</li></ul></li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">BS17 - major coming activity for 2017<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Financial </li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Risk</li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Membership & Organizational update<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Conferences - major activity & income source for a long time<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">MOU with ASHRAE - under development</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Recommending a thorough review of how IBPSA does conferences<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Objective - set path for future</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">By - subcommittee of new BOD</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Committees - new focus for IBPSA-USA (Not just BOD)<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Committees reporting<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Education</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Research</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Equity</li></ul></li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Other Active & New Committees<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Editorial</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Collaboration</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Advisory Committee to the Board</li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>Updates - Selected Committees & Projects</strong></p><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Projects update<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Unmethours, BEST, Member map, Job board, website </li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Education committee<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">OJS</li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Research committee report<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">What do they do?</li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Equality committee<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Survey report</li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>Happy hour (~5:30-6:30)</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>Visit Committee & Project Tables</strong></p><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px">List of tables: Education, Unmethours, Research, , IBPSA-USA business stuff (board election, financial report), Building Simulation 2017 info & registration, editorial committee, equalities committee</p></li></ul><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>Dinner buffet start (6:30)</strong></p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px"><strong>Dinner presentation/discussion (~7:00-8:30)</strong></p><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Announcements<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Election results</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Building Simulation 2017</li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Virtual building triathlon winner presentations - student and practitioner (6 finalists total).</li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Presentations<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Godfried Augenbroe, Georgia Institute of Technology<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>The role of uncertainty in building performance analysis</em></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><blockquote style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><blockquote style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><blockquote style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><blockquote style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Professor Augenbroe will briefly discuss the state of the art in uncertainty analysis of building energy models. He will argue that while there is an abundance of methods, there is a lack of convincing application cases. He will support this argument by showing that while uncertainty analysis has gone mainstream and does not need special skills, the significance of its outcomes is minimal unless shown to change real life decision scenarios. The argument is supported by discussing real applications.</blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Marlin Addison, Arizona State University <ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>Using uncertainty analysis with simulations to design a utility DSM program</em></li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Joe Huang, Whitebox Technologies<ul><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em>How uncertain is the weather data that we use?</em></li></ul></li></ul></li><li style="text-size-adjust: 100%;">Discussion</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnDividerBlockOuter"><tr><td class="gmail-mcnDividerBlockInner" style="min-width:100%;padding:18px"><table class="gmail-mcnDividerContent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%;border-top:1px solid rgb(153,153,153)"><tbody><tr><td style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody class="gmail-mcnTextBlockOuter"><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextBlockInner" style="text-size-adjust: 100%;"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse:collapse;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" class="gmail-mcnTextContent" style="color:rgb(96,96,96);font-family:helvetica;font-size:11px;line-height:13.75px;padding:9px 18px"><h2 class="gmail-null" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px;letter-spacing:-0.75px;text-align:center;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Our Sponsors</h2> <h3 class="gmail-null" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;letter-spacing:-0.5px;text-align:center">We thank our sponsors for their continued support! <a href="http://www.ibpsa.us/become-sponsor" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96);font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Become an IBPSA-USA Sponsor</span></a>.</h3> <p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.autodesk.com/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96)"><img alt="" src="http://www.ibpsa.us/sites/default/files/autodesk-platinum-190-x-140-compressor.png" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: auto;"></a>    <a href="http://www.pge.com/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96)"><img alt="" src="http://www.ibpsa.us/sites/default/files/PGE-platinum-190-x-140-compressor.png" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: auto;"></a><br> </p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;line-height:13.75px;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.noresco.com/energy-services/en/us/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96)"><img align="none" height="73" src="http://www.ibpsa.us/sites/default/files/NORESCO_Bronze_1-compressor-compressor.png" width="100" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: 73px; width: 100px; margin: 0px;"></a><a href="http://www.iesve.com/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96)"><img align="none" height="73" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/545ecdecc811a6e412a8810dd/images/0389f42f-662f-4308-a0ad-f56e390bc655.png" width="72" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: 73px; width: 72px; margin: 0px;"></a><a href="http://www.edsl.net/main/" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96)"><img align="none" height="73" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/545ecdecc811a6e412a8810dd/images/1805b18b-b003-4595-bfeb-233b55eacb38.png" width="100" style="border: 0px; outline: none; text-decoration: none; height: 73px; width: 100px; margin: 0px;"></a></p><h4 class="gmail-null" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:20px;color:rgb(128,128,128)">We are still actively seeking event sponsors. Contact Mike Wilson (<a href="mailto:mike@ibpsa.us" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96);font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">mike@ibpsa.us</span></a>) or David Eldridge (<a href="mailto:DSE@grummanbutkus.com" target="_blank" style="word-wrap:break-word;color:rgb(96,96,96);font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">DSE@grummanbutkus.com</span></a>) for more information.</h4></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" class="gmail-mcnDividerBlock" style="bo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