This year's conference will feature the following prominent speakers:

Jennifer Siegal
Marc Levinson

(Please check back often for updates on confirmed speakers)

Jennifer Siegal will give the introductory address on Thursday, November 8th from 1:45-2:30 in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB on the UC Santa Barbara Campus.

Jennifer Siegal is known for her work in creating the Prefab home of the 21st century. She is founder and principal of the Los Angeles-based firm Office of Mobile Design (OMD), which is dedicated to the design and construction of responsible, sustainable, and precision built structures.

Ms. Siegal earned a master’s degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1994, and was a 2003 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s School of Design. She has been architect-in-residence at the Chinati, and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Presently she is the inaugural Julius Shulman Institute Fellow at Woodbury University in Los Angeles, the editor of Mobile: the Art of Portable Architecture (2002), and was formally the founder and Series Editor of Materials Monthly (2005-6) both published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Ms. Siegal's innovative mobile structures include customized, prefab, green Modernist homes; the Mobile EcoLab used to teach students about the environment; and the Portable Construction Training Center created for the Venice Community Housing Corporation. Her most recent work is a modern, modular home product line called Take Home.

Marc Levinson will give the keynote address on Thursday, November 8th from 2:30-3:30 in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB on the UC Santa Barbara Campus.

Marc Levinson is an economist and author of the critically acclaimed The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, which was winner of the 2007 Bronze Independent Publisher Book Award, Finance/Investment/ Economics category, Winner of the 2007 Anderson Medal, Society for Nautical Research, Honorable Mention, and 2006 John Lyman Book Award, Science and Technology category, North American Society for Ocean History.