Friends of the ULI Creative Placemaking program and members of the ULI Art in Place global cohort will gather for an informal breakfast and meet with local leaders on connecting artists, creatives, and real estate decision-makers. Participants will engage in a discussion about ULI's new report on best practices in developer/artist collaboration. All are welcome, but space is limited. Please email [email protected] to receive an invitation to this event.

Participate in a fast-paced, interactive UrbanPlan Lightning Round with fellow industry professionals to experience one of ULI's key impact programs for introducing the complexities of real estate development and empowering participants to play an active role in shaping better communities through the built environment.

Join WLI Americas as we officially kickoff the inaugural Emerging Women’s Leadership Program at Fall Meeting! Come learn about the program and the application process, which opens on November 12th. The WLI Leadership Program aims to empower and develop women leaders in the real estate industry through comprehensive training, mentorship, and networking opportunities. Hear from Melina Cordero, Founder and Program Director for P20 Leadership, a cutting-edge leadership development program designed for emerging and next-gen leaders in high-growth industries.

Building owners and developers have opportunities to support and leverage investments in active and sustainable transportation infrastructure, including through physical retrofits of existing assets, sustainable transportation certification systems, and policies to incentivize commuting via modes other than personal automobile. Join this session to explore best practices in accommodating sustainable transportation at the building scale from across the United States and beyond.

Understanding what makes a great site is fundamental to the success of any real estate project. This preview of the ULI Learning course Introduction to Market Analysis will explore a structured framework for site assessment that turns instinct into insight. Learn how to reduce risk, communicate your findings, and build confidence in your investment decisions.

This interactive session gives members an opportunity to participate in a real-time mini Advisory Services panel and have instant impact for a local San Francisco panel sponsor. The session will begin with a brief presentation by the panel sponsor. Members will then be presented with a question pertaining to the land use challenge. With facilitation by ULI Advisory Services program staff, members will briefly deliberate and offer a set of recommendations in response to the question. The session will conclude with a brief summary of the recommendations and panel sponsor feedback.

Situated in San Francisco's Mission Bay district, Mercy Housing California's Sister Lillian Murphy Community provides 191,627 square feet of high-quality affordable housing for families. Comprising buildings from four to seven stories, the development features forward-thinking design and engineering that allow it to adapt to the area's shifting terrain. Created to address homelessness and prevent the displacement of families amid San Francisco's rising housing costs, this community stands as a powerful example of progress in affordable housing. A winner of the 2025 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence, the Sister Lillian Murphy Community promotes residents' economic stability and social well-being, while offering a sustainable, resilient environment built to serve generations to come.

Pearl House stands as one of New York City's largest post-pandemic office-to-residential conversion by unit count to date, and was achieved without special zoning changes or financial incentives. Its success has attracted attention from developers, industry leaders, and government officials seeking scalable solutions for future conversions, positioning the fully leased project as a leading case study in adaptive reuse. Starting in 2020, Vanbarton Group and global design firm Gensler transformed a 525,000-square-foot office tower at 160 Water Street into Pearl House, a residential building with 588 apartments, 38,000 square feet of amenities, and a new ground-level parklet. Pearl House, a winner of the 2025 ULI Americas Awards for Excellence, achieved success through a phased delivery strategy—bringing units to market in stages to generate early cash flow and meet leasing benchmarks tied to financing.

This session will discuss the first cohort of cities in ULI's Terwilliger Center for Housing partnership with the National League of Cities (NLC) to support NLC's Housing Supply Accelerator Challenge. This challenge helps communities increase their housing supply by adapting the housing solutions and strategies outlined in The Housing Supply Accelerator Playbook: Solutions, Systems, Partnerships. As a technical assistance provider for the challenge, the Terwilliger Center will equip cities with land use and zoning expertise to remove barriers to increase housing development and support housing preservation strategies.

Celebrate at the WLI Americas Cornerstone Award Reception 

Hosted at the Prologis Headquarters 

Join us for a special evening as we honor and celebrate the inaugural recipient of the WLI Cornerstone Award — Gayle Starr. 

Gayle Starr, former Managing Director at Prologis, has been a tireless advocate for the advancement of women in real estate. Her leadership, mentorship, and dedication to the mission of ULI and WLI have left a lasting impact on the industry. Come raise a toast to Gayle’s remarkable career and her enduring legacy of empowering women across ULI and the broader real estate community.

Discover the Risk Mitigation Playbook, a guide for new commercial real estate developments with tactical strategies for stakeholders from across the value chain to help reduce and manage risk from physical climate change. Gain practical tools to enhance resilience, increase transparency, and safeguard investments.

At the 5th ULI Homeless to Housed (H2H) Symposium, join us for the release of "10 Principles for Addressing Homelessness: A Guide for Commercial Real Estate and Finance." This groundbreaking ULI publication further defines how the private sector can lead in combating homelessness and driving real change in local communities.

This is an invite-only event for members of the California-Nevada Technical Assistance Leadership Exchange.

ULI Product Councils, ULI District and National Councils are key drivers of ULI’s impactful programming and host dozens of events focused on sustainability, resilience, health, and social equity each year. The ULI Lewis Center for Sustainability in Real Estate supports Council programming in a variety of ways – with compelling content and reports, speaker suggestions, financial support, cohort programs and more. Join the Lewis Center and other Council leaders to learn about opportunities to advance ULI’s mission and priorities with impactful programming at the local level. A simple lunch will be served. This program is open to all current and potential Product council, District and National Council leaders; advanced registration is requested. Please reach out to [email protected] to learn more.

Join this session to learn about building performance standards—a growing form of state and local regulations that set deadlines for buildings to meet performance metrics related to energy, water, and/or emissions, or risk fines for noncompliance. Hear from practitioners about regulatory trends and their impact on real estate development and investment and what the landscape may look like in the years ahead. You'll also learn about ULI's updated Global Green Building Policy Dashboard, which summarizes building sector regulations touching on everything from building certifications to renewables to embodied carbon, for 81 markets globally. The tool is available for all ULI members on Knowledge Finder.

This session will explore how the expansion of energy infrastructure, rising demand for data centers, and the adoption of AI technologies are reshaping commercial real estate. As grid modernization, search for clean, large-scale energy sources, and tech integration accelerate, new investment opportunities are emerging. The discussion will focus on identifying these opportunities and showcasing how AI is being deployed at the property level to streamline operations, improve efficiency, and reduce costs. Attendees will gain practical insights into leveraging these trends to enhance portfolio performance and unlock long-term value.

The WLI Americas Entrepreneurs Cohort will meet with their Mentors over lunch to review their business plans as well as learn from a panel of industry experts on raising capital for their companies.

The Capital Stack Innovation in Public-Private Real Estate session is designed for professionals involved in structuring or financing public-private projects, including city planners, developers, and nonprofit leaders, as well as early- and mid-career professionals seeking to deepen their expertise. Attendees will learn how to identify public financing tools, strategically combine capital sources, and structure deals that balance investor and public sector goals. Given today's challenges—high interest rates, rising construction costs, and affordability pressures—innovative capital stack strategies are essential. This knowledge is critical for successfully delivering large-scale housing and infrastructure projects in the current economic climate.

Asia Pacific is entering a new urban era shaped by resilience, innovation, and shifting global dynamics. In this fast-paced 20-minute session, we'll spotlight key themes from the recent ULI Asia Pacific Summit 2025, including geopolitics and capital flows, AI and robotics, housing attainability, and livable cities. Learn how urban professionals across the region are responding to global decoupling, tech disruption, and affordability challenges, and how ULI's expanding footprint is fostering cross-border collaboration, capital movement, and innovation. This session offers a strategic lens on ULI's influence in Asia Pacific and invites you to join us in Shanghai in May 2026. Discover why Asia Pacific is a bellwether for global real estate trends, understand how ULI leverages regional insights to benefit global members, and explore how ULI's platforms drive collaboration, capital flows, and innovation across borders.

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 sustainability and adding value to portfolios.

Join the Terwilliger Center for Housing for a dynamic session highlighting the winners of the 2025 Jack Kemp Excellence in Affordable and Workforce Housing Award. Each year, the Jack Kemp Award honors developments that serve middle-income individuals earning between 60 and 120 percent of area median income. These innovative projects demonstrate how thoughtful design, strategic financing, and strong community partnerships can expand access to quality housing. Each winner will share a brief presentation showcasing their development's impact, key metrics, and lessons learned. This session will be continued at 3:30 p.m. with the winners of the 2025 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing.

Hear from passionate UrbanPlan champions as they share how the program delivers lasting value, both during the exercise and out in the field. Discover how UrbanPlan sharpens key real estate and planning skills, builds meaningful connections, and enhances professional development for participants and program member leaders alike. Join us to learn how this dynamic program is advancing careers and strengthening communities across the Americas.

Join the Terwilliger Center for Housing for a dynamic session highlighting the winners of the 2025 Terwilliger Center Award for Innovation in Attainable Housing. This award was created in 2022 to recognize innovative yet replicable mixed-income and deeply affordable developments. Through brief, high-impact presentations, the developers will share how their projects were financed, designed, and implemented to serve residents earning well below the area median income. Learn how these communities are creating lasting impact through inclusive development, innovative partnerships, and a commitment to housing equity.

How do you get to net zero and make the numbers work? ULI's Net Zero Deal Profile (NZDP) series shines light on real-world projects that are achieving ambitious carbon goals and demonstrating financial viability. This session dives into the story of BXP's 130 Kendrick Street, an existing office building retrofitted into a high-performing, carbon-neutral, net zero asset. Explore how the development team aligned the scope with sustainability and investment goals to deliver long-term value, and gain insight into the transparent cost and capital data that makes this case study a standout. Learn how ULI's NZDPs are helping the industry move from aspiration to execution, one deal at a time!

Join us for an overview of your membership benefits and a platform to ask questions so you can make the most of your membership. Whether you are looking to get more involved but don't know how, interested in a specific ULI program but don't know who to contact, working to expand your professional network, or trying to find answers to questions about a new project or trend, we have answers!

As federal leadership shifts, the 2025 Building the Future report documents how local and state actors are modernizing permitting systems, reforming property tax frameworks, and aligning housing production with transit and infrastructure to drive faster, fairer, and more sustainable housing outcomes. Featuring case studies and policies from around the country, as well as updates from the 2024 report, this session will highlight innovative housing policies having an impact on housing production and supply.

Did you know 44 percent of salespeople give up after just one follow-up attempt, yet 80 percent of sales require five to close? That equates to MILLIONS lost, that could be won simply by following up! This interactive session will reveal critical errors that could be undermining you and your sales teams' successes. We'll dive into common pitfalls that sabotage even the most promising leads. You'll learn actionable strategies to refine your follow-up process, boost conversions, and drive sales growth. Take advantage of this opportunity to gain powerful insights to bring back to your teams and maximize revenue potential by reclaiming those lost millions.