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

Mr. Joe Iacobucci

Sam Schwartz

Joe Iacobucci is a Senior Principal + New Mobility Practice Leader at Sam Schwartz. For over two decades, he has provided support to clients around the world, guiding high-impact projects ranging from complete street transformations to advancing multimodal autonomous vehicle deployments to city-wide congestion pricing programs. His work spans various disciplines, including strategic planning, digital policy, change management, emerging mobility pilots, project monitoring, and urban design, among others. He has advised dozens of clients in major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, New York City, San Jose, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Jeddah, Dubai, and Riyadh.

Central to his approach is his intuitive grasp of sustainable mobility and transportation technology. This knowledge has been developed and utilized through advisory, network planning, and strategic planning for a wide spectrum of clients, including DOTs, MPOs, transit agencies, the National Academies, Transit Center, Lime, Beep, Glydways, May Mobility, Ford, Lyft, USDOT, APTA, NACTO and others.

Mr. Iacobucci is a contributing author to the book No One at the Wheel, co-authored Driverless Future (available at driverlessfuture.org), and his work has been featured in notable publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Fast Company, TechCrunch, Slate, CityLab, as well as in several conferences and academic publications.

Speaking at

Wed Oct 30 2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time Resorts World Las Vegas - Level 2, Jasmine AB

Next Generation Infrastructure: Catalyzing Sustainable, Profitable, and Equitable Communities

According to the World Economic Forum, "Infrastructure is a system of systems that links the built environment, the natural world, and the human experience." Cities and towns are archetypal "system of systems" where everything connects to and impacts everything else. Infrastructure, services, open spaces, community activities, and more cannot and should not be addressed in isolation. Recognizing, devising, instituting, and operationalizing a comprehensive, integrated systems-based approach to delivering multifunctional and next-generation infrastructure is essential to the future of all communities. Given the scale of the anticipated global infrastructure spend of $97 trillion dollars through 2040, including a $15-trillion-dollar funding gap, now is the time to pivot to new delivery models that comprehensively address equitable, sustainable, and economically viable alternatives to conventional infrastructure solutions. This panel will explore blurring the distinction between infrastructure, community regeneration, commercial development, sustainability, and social equity via a differentiated approach to project initiation and delivery.