Where the Built World
Meets What's Next
October 16, 2025 | Boston Marriott Cambridge
50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
A full day of insight, provocation, and possibility. Leaders across real estate, technology, capital, and civic innovation will explore what comes after the world we inherited.
We’ll move from the physical to the digital, from retrofits to reinvention, from city streets to AI systems. Together, we’ll chart the forces shaping the next urban era.
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Event details
Wednesday, October 15
Time: 6:00 PM - Pre-conference VIP Reception and Welcome Drinks co-hosted with Boston Properties
Location: 800 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02199, United States
Thursday, October 16
Time: 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Location: Boston Marriott Cambridge, 50 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
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9:00 - 9:30 AM
Welcome & the Built Environment Transition
Our planet is undergoing a profound reordering, driven by the unprecedented impacts of climate change, breakthroughs in science and technology, and sweeping socio-geographic shifts. The convergence of these structural changes is fundamentally reshaping the places and spaces in which we live, work, and play. We call this the Built Environment Transition.
Speakers:
Steve Weikal
MIT RETLab
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9:30 - 10:00 AM
Welcome & Quantum Cities: A Strategy for Urban Strength
Speakers:
Chase Garbarino
HqO
Greg Gomer
HqO
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10:00 - 11:00 AM
City Retrofits: Legacy Infrastructure, Future Vision
According to Bloomberg, 30% of U.S. office buildings, valued at $1.1 trillion, could become obsolete due to changing work patterns. What does this mean for the future of cities? It's not only the office sector—all asset classes are being re-imagined for a tech-enabled future. This session explores how planners, developers and investors can seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to rethink urban infrastructure, analyzing key challenges while identifying strategies to unlock new value and innovation.
Speakers:
Greg Gomer
HqO
Dominic Endicott
Co-Author of Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets
Daniel English
Legacy Investing
Kevin Mull
Bedrock Detroit
Andy Doyle
Grosvenor
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The Great Real Estate Reset: New Rules for a New Era
What if we could start over? Forget zoning battles, aging infrastructure, and NIMBY politics—a new breed of visionary developers is providing significant capital to build entire cities from scratch, complete with AI governance, flying cars, and carbon-neutral everything. While traditional cities struggle with traffic, housing crises, and climate change, mega-projects worldwide are racing to become the world's first post-urban metropolises. These aren't just real estate deals—they're bets on how 10 billion people will live in 2050. But can you really engineer cities at this scale without incremental growth over time?
Speakers:
Peter Grant
The Wall Street Journal
Tom Sweeney
Majid Al Futtaim Properties
Kyle de Bruin
Leesman
Marwan Aboudib
Tekuma Urban Innovation
Travis A. McCready
JLL Global Life Sciences Advisory Board
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1:00 - 2:00 PM
Turning Experiences Into Real Outcomes
Speakers:
Joe Pine
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2:00 - 3:00 PM
Fireside Chat with Travis Kalanick
Speakers:
Travis Kalanick
CloudKitchens
Chase Garbarino
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3:00 - 4:00 PM
Money Reimagined: New Capital for New Real Estate
Real estate is being reimagined at unprecedented scale—new cities, massive retrofits, and infrastructure overhauls worldwide. The capital needed is staggering: trillions of dollars over decades-long timeframes. Traditional finance wasn't built for this moment. This session examines the innovative funding models, partnership structures, and patient capital sources making this global transformation possible, from building entire metropolises to retrofitting existing infrastructure for a tech-enabled future—and whether yesterday's investment playbook is obsolete.
Speakers:
Jim Garman
Goldman Sachs
Neil Mandt
Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Robert Lair
Hula Lakeside
Brian Maier
Wells Fargo
Cale Guthrie Weissman
Real Deal
Natalia Karayaneva
Propy Inc.
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4:00 - 5:00 PM
Cities at the Speed of Change
Cities evolve over centuries. Technology evolves in years. This fundamental mismatch is creating unprecedented tension as AI reshapes the workforce, autonomous vehicles reimagine mobility, and robotics automate everything from construction to delivery. These aren't isolated disruptions—they're converging forces that will remake the urban landscape entirely. This session explores the collision between technological acceleration and urban inertia, as cities face an unprecedented challenge: evolving at the speed of silicon rather than concrete.
Speakers:
John Moavenzadeh
MIT Mobility Initiative
Jennifer Strong
SHIFT Podcast
Bryan Koop
Boston Properties
James Scott
MIT RETLab
Gregory Dewerpe
NOA
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