Please note that our last meeting with a hybrid option was in March! This meeting will only be available for in-person registration.

TOPIC: Unconventional ATX: The Austin Convention Center - A Bold Vision for a Sustainable and Culturally Vibrant Downtown

SPEAKER: Riley Triggs and Jonathan McKee, P.E.

SPONSOR: TBD

NOTE: Time is allotted for lunch beginning at 11:30 AM. The meeting and speaker presentation will begin around 12 PM. A short period for questions & answers is reserved prior to 1 PM.

Registration ends on Friday, April 11th; you may still attend by paying at the door (cash, check, paypal). As a non-profit, we operate on a budget that is highly dependent on revenue from sponsorships, membership fees, and event/program fees (such as this luncheon). To help ensure a meal headcount for our events we require registration in advance. At this time, we do not offer refunds. For any registration questions, please reach out to us at communications@austinasce.org and membership@austinasce.org.

Jonathan McKee has over 17 years of experience in civil engineering planning, design, permitting, and project management. He has managed teams consisting of multiple managers, engineers and technicians for various land and infrastructure developments including retail, multi-family, office, industrial, commercial, restaurant, utility systems, and roadways. Jonathan has also provided consulting services related to all site development processes from project conception and due diligence throughout permitting and construction. During Jonathan’s free time, you can find him with his wife and kiddos tending to their mini-farm of animals. You can also find them fishing, or exploring the outdoors.

Native Austinite, educator, urbanist, and architect Riley Triggs, AIA received his Master of Architecture from Rice University School of Architecture and Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Texas at Austin where he also worked towards a PhD in sustainable architecture. He taught design studios, design theory and methodologies, design history, and interactive design for a decade at the University of Texas School of Architecture and the Design program in the Department of Art. He was formerly the state's preservation architect leading an economic revitalization and placemaking team at the Texas Historical Commission. Riley is an architectural capital delivery project management consultant at the City of Austin managing projects for community places like the Austin airport, Barton Springs Bathhouse, Elizabet Ney Museum, and Alliance Children's Garden. Currently he is leading the Austin Convention Center Redevelopment project, and in the evenings he teaches architectural history and design at Austin Community College. His academic research explores the emotional territory between humans and places and the role sustainability and historical spaces have in creating future places both virtual and physical. Riley is board chair of Lu Cuna Center, a nonprofit exploring balance in modern life through sustainability, landscape ecology, bioculture, art, architecture, philosophy, and related aspects of contemporary life. Riley has begun researching and advocating for the role of Chief City Architect in municipal governments to provide leadership in design excellence and placemaking for their communities.