From Data to Decisions: EPDs in the Age of AI
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5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
The EPD ecosystem is maturing—but the infrastructure behind it is struggling to keep pace. AI is accelerating how EPDs are produced but verification standards haven't caught up. And demand signals from designers and procurement policy, while real, remain hard for manufacturers to read. On March 6, C.Scale CEO Jack Rusk moderates a panel of three practitioners who sit at different nodes of that ecosystem:
Anna Lasso at Smart EPD built North America's largest EPD program before building a fully digital alternative.
Jack Cove at Pathways automates AI-assisted LCA for heavy building materials.
Sean Darras at Lightly used successive EPDs to cut his product's embodied carbon 75%
And Jack and the C.Scale team are working to connect material-level EPD data to whole-building design outcomes.
Together they'll map what's working, name what isn't, and make the case that EPDs are a powerful design tool, not only a compliance checkbox.
Speakers
Anna Lasso
CEO & Founder @ Smart EPD
Anna runs Smart EPD, a fully digital EPD program operator working to make verified, machine-readable product data accessible at scale. She spent close to a decade leading North America's largest EPD program before founding Smart EPD.
Jack Cove
Head of GTM @ Pathways
Jack is a founding team member at Pathways, an AI-enabled platform that automates LCA and EPD production for material manufacturers — focused on heavy building materials and the question of how you keep data credible when AI is doing more of the work.
Sean Darras
CEO @ Lightly
Sean leads Lightly, one of the first luminaire companies in North America to publish an EPD. He's been using LCA as a design tool since his first EPD revealed where the carbon actually lives in a luminaire — and his second-generation EPD shows what iteration looks like.
Jack Rusk
CEO and Co-founder of C.Scale
Jack Rusk is CEO and co-founder of C.Scale, a software platform democratizing access to whole life carbon data and design strategy. He leads product, technology, and science, leveraging a dual background in architecture and industrial ecology.
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5:00 PM - 5:45 PM