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2025 ULI Fall Meeting 2025 ULI Fall Meeting
, November 04 – 06, 2025

ESG Innovators in Real Estate

Tue Oct 29 9:00 AM — 10:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Blossom Ballroom F
What innovative technologies and services are driving sustainability in the real estate sector? The industry is in a state of continuous innovation to evolve with the growing standards of building performance and environmental solutions available to owners, managers, and developers of real estate. Join ULI Greenprint’s Innovation Partners along with real estate leaders as they talk through commercially ready innovations that are advancing ESG and adding value to portfolios.

Speakers

Moderator

Senior Director, Randall Lewis Center for Sustainability Urban Land Institute

Sixteen years’ experience in sustainability market across non-profit, utility, and private organizations. Leads Decarbonization and Net Zero thought leadership at ULI, specifically focusing on Net Zero Mission Priority “journey to zero” and convenings/campaigns around the real estate value chain for tenants, utilities, and embodied carbon. Kara has managed utility energy efficiency contracts and new construction, existing building, and campus green building projects as well as…
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Associate Vice President of Research & Innovation Energy Impact Partners LP

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Senior Vice President and Head of ESG Clarion Partners LLC

Karen is Clarion Partners Head of ESG, a Real Estate Investment Manager that was established in 1982. Prior to Clarion, she worked at CodeGreen Solutions, an energy and sustainability consultancy firm specializing in the real estate industry. While with CodeGreen, Karen developed and led a corporate sustainability team that provided ESG strategic advisory and reporting services to a variety of real estate companies. Karen brings…
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Principal and Practice Lead BranchPattern

Anand advises a variety of clients on Sustainability and Health & Wellness strategies in the Commercial and Industrial Real Estate space. He manages third-party building sustainability programs for multiple high-profile REITs in support of their ESG efforts in the United States. After practicing architecture for multiple years, Anand’s passion for innovative projects brought him to the University of Texas where he earned his master’s degree…
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Director of Business Development Lumen Energy

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Managing Director, Portfolio Manager of U.S. Cities Industrial Fund Nuveen Real Estate

Brian is a Managing Director, Portfolio Manager responsible for the U.S. Cities Industrial Fund based in New York. Prior to joining Nuveen Real Estate, Brian was a Portfolio Manager in Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (“CPPIB”) Real Estate Investment group where was responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and structuring programmatic joint ventures and equity investments in the industrial and student housing sectors across the United States.…
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Regional Senior Vice President AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

Jon oversees the development team in New York City and Southeast Florida, and is responsible for land acquisition, joint venture structuring, entitlements, site planning, and community design in these markets. Prior to joining AvalonBay in 2004, Jon worked with Jonathan Rose Companies developing affordable housing and the Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture in Westchester County, NY. Jon was previously the General Counsel for…