Troy Harvey
PassiveLogic | CEO & Founder
Speaker
Track F: Building Performance
Session F3: High Performance Buildings
September 18, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The Future of Buildings: How AI Will Truly Revolutionize the Built World
How should we prepare our organizations to thrive amidst the AI revolution that’s already beginning to transform the built world? We’re on the cusp of something that’s not just an upgrade – it’s a complete reimagining of what buildings can be. We’re moving from static structures to dynamic, thinking collaborators. From rigid systems to adaptive environments that understand us, respond to our needs and work alongside of us. Perhaps most excitingly, AI is beginning to break down the barriers between different building systems, integrating a diverse array of industry languages and protocols.
Attendees of this session will come away with a heightened understanding of:
Autonomous systems
Levels of building autonomy
How AI is enabling new advances in control technology
How AI is advancing how we optimize systems
How AI is making our buildings interactive collaborators
How AI is shifting the onboarding of buildings into technology ecosystems
Speaker Bio
Troy Harvey is the CEO, co-founder, and chief product architect of PassiveLogic, creator of the world's first platform for generative autonomy in buildings. As a technical CEO leading a team of over 100 engineers, Troy is revolutionizing how buildings think and operate through his groundbreaking work on the Quantum Digital Twin Standard and Deep Physics AI engine.
With a mission to address the world's most pressing climate challenges, Troy's empathic, systems-oriented approach to technology development is transforming the built environment. His unique cross-disciplinary expertise in building automation, energy engineering, artificial intelligence, and embedded control systems has led to an impressive portfolio of 149 patents and patent applications - 75 focused on physics-driven building automation technology and 74 on the design of applications that harness this groundbreaking technology. This extensive body of intellectual property positions him as a leading innovator in the field.
Troy's 20+ year journey of technical leadership and innovation includes founding Heliocentric, a pioneering building science and controls engineering firm that revolutionized building design through simulation technology. Under his direction, the firm successfully delivered over 50 high-performance building projects, including two groundbreaking collaborations with the USDOE Building America program.
Before founding PassiveLogic, Troy served as the Engineering Architect at emWare, an IoT company where he managed an 80-engineer team as embedded architect, leading to a successful acquisition by Panasonic. His earlier roles included serving as the Electrical Engineering Director at Electronic Design Labs and Lead Operating Systems and Software Engineer at Kimchuk, where he consistently pushed the boundaries of embedded systems and control technology.
Throughout his career, Troy has successfully directed the development of over two dozen commercial products from concept to manufacture. His excellence in electrical engineering was recognized at the 1998 Embedded Systems Conference, marking the beginning of a career dedicated to innovation in building science and autonomous systems.
Today, as the driving force behind PassiveLogic, Troy continues to pioneer the future of autonomous buildings, leading the development of technologies that promise to revolutionize how we approach energy efficiency, sustainability, and building intelligence. His vision of creating truly autonomous infrastructural systems represents the next frontier in addressing global energy challenges and shaping the future of smart cities.