Omid Sajedi is an applied AI engineer at Anori, where he develops AI tools to help cities, architects and developers make better planning and design decisions. Anori emerged from X, Google’s Moonshot Factory.

Before Anori, Omid was an AI/ML engineer at CORE studio, Thornton Tomasetti’s R&D group. He contributed to CORE.AI’s structural design engines, which power physics-informed tools such as Truss Copilot, and developed custom deep-learning architectures for computer vision, vibration analysis and natural language processing.

Omid began his career as a structural engineer and holds a Ph.D. in structural engineering from the University at Buffalo.

Marios Tsiliakos is a Partner in Applied R+D at Foster + Partners, where he works across applied computation, complex geometry, performance-driven design, and interoperability. His work rethinks how new technologies, particularly AI, can refine design pipelines across the practice. He leads the development of Hermes, the practice's in-house data-exchange platform, supporting collaboration across applications, machines, and locations. Marios is also a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, where he leads the technology curriculum for Research Cluster 5, which focuses on developing and deploying End-to-End Architectural Products.

Connect with Marios on social media:

Linkedin : https://www.linkedin.com/in/mtsiliakos/

Instagram : @marios_t

Richard Sarrach is Executive Director of Production Systems in Pratt Institute's Technology Division, where he leads the Assembly Loop Lab, the Institute's production platform. His work connects fabrication, computational design, and artificial intelligence into a single system of making, with the goal of shortening the distance between an idea and an object so that the tools of production work as an extension of thought. His research traces the collision of making, culture, and technology across the long history of material practice, and asks what survives of craft, authorship, and cultural memory when the instructions start writing themselves. Sarrach is Adjunct Associate Professor CCE in Pratt's School of Architecture, a MacDowell Fellow, and co-founder of form-ula, a design and research practice recognized with the AIA New Practice Award and the Architectural League Prize.