Greenbuild 2026 Summit
Building Intelligence in the Age of AI
A technical deep-dive, sponsored by Autodesk, will focus on real-world AI use cases across design, construction, and operations, as well as the enabling conditions that determine success.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at the Javits Center
AI in the built environment
Turn AI promise into measurable green building results. This full-day summit sponsored by Autodesk, highlights real-world AI use cases across design, construction, and operations, as well as the enabling conditions that determine success—data quality, interoperability, workflow changes, and lifecycle continuity.
Learn how to assess investment tradeoffs, verify outcomes, and scale adoption responsibly to support sustained high-performance building delivery and operations.
Summit sessions
Welcome: Building Intelligence in the Age of AI
Opening session that frames the Summit around Greenbuild's "Invest for Impact" theme and the transition from isolated AI tools to trustworthy building intelligence. Includes Autodesk welcome remarks, USGBC framing, and a live audience pulse poll.
The Hidden Footprint of Building Intelligence: Measuring AI's Environmental Impact Before We Scale
Examines the environmental footprint of AI systems including compute, energy, water, hardware, and cloud infrastructure and how the built environment should evaluate AI through a net-positive impact lens before widespread adoption.
Investing for Impact: Where AI Creates Value Across the Built Environment [Presented by Autodesk]
Case-study driven discussion exploring where AI is delivering measurable value today across design, construction, project controls, carbon analysis, coordination, and risk reduction. Focuses on practical investments rather than product demonstrations.
What Must Be True Before AI Can Operate a Building?
Explores the foundational requirements for AI-enabled building intelligence, including interoperability, semantic data, lifecycle handoff, cybersecurity, governance, and owner control. Includes an AI Readiness Checklist exercise.
Proof Over Promises: Validating AI-Enabled Performance
Focuses on how owners and project teams define success, validate AI-generated insights, avoid false confidence, and establish trustworthy performance measurement frameworks.
From Guidance to Guardrails: Scaling Trustworthy AI in Green Building Practice
Examines how organizations move from AI pilots to scalable implementation through governance, evaluation, procurement, partnerships, knowledge management, and organizational change management.
Impact Forum: What Will We Invest in Next — and What Must Be True?
Closing stakeholder forum focused on future investment priorities, enabling conditions, governance, procurement, workforce readiness, and responsible AI adoption across the built environment.
Closing: From AI Solutions to Building Intelligence
Summit synthesis and call to action highlighting the conditions required for AI to create meaningful and measurable impact in the built environment.
What to expect
CE-accredited sessions
Greenbuild's Summit Working Group has programmed an in-depth session that will give attendees an inside look at how AI is used in the built environment. This all-day Summit will give attendees the chance to dive into real-world applications of AI and how they can benefit building projects.
Continuing education credits are available for Greenbuild's in-person summits.
Who will you hear from?
Our summit speakers bring their expertise, specialized knowledge and experience to the room for a focused learning experience like no other.
With CEOs, CIOs, Presidents, Vice Presidents, Partners and various other sustainability leaders taking to the stage, you couldn't be in better company.
Who will you meet?
Greenbuild features a cutting-edge community of global green building professionals looking to improve sustainability, resilience, equity, health and wellness in the spaces we live, work, play and learn. Take a look at who you'll meet at a Greenbuild summit.
Summit learning objectives
- Identify the AI solutions landscape for AECO—and where it actually moves sustainable performance. Clarify what’s working today across design, construction, and operations; separate high-value applications from hype; understand what’s mature vs. emerging.
- Evaluate where AI creates net-positive value—and what it takes to achieve it. Apply an “Invest for Impact” lens to weigh benefits against the real requirements: data readiness, integration, workflow redesign, role shifts, training/reskilling, and maintenance.
- Identify the practical barriers—and enabling conditions—that determine whether AI can scale lifecycle-wide. Understand common blockers (data gaps, fragmented tools, weak handover, unclear accountability, misaligned workflows) and the patterns that overcome them through integration and continuity.
- Build a practical approach to define success, validate outcomes, and scale responsibly. Learn how teams set success criteria, choose metrics, verify results, and manage implementation risk with human-in-the-loop safeguards, transparency, procurement alignment, and data/cyber practices.
Secure your spot
Greenbuild's Summits offer a technical, hands-on course where you can work directly with experts and peers on critical topics impacting our industry.
Summits included in Conference and Student Passes
Summit Working Group members
The Greenbuild Summit Working Group consists of green building experts that advises our conference and program team on all aspects of our 2026 Summits, ensuring Greenbuild is at the forefront of the industry.
- Kimon Onuma, Founder and President, ONUMA
- Mike Bordenaro, Executive Director, ALN (Assert Leadership Network)
- Eve Lin McNaughton, Director, Innovation & Research, USGBC
Sponsor a Greenbuild Summit
Greenbuild's AI Summit is already sold, however, there are other Greenbuild Summits are still available for sponsorship. Guarantee that the green building industry identifies you as a partner by sponsoring one of Greenbuild's Summits or Workshops taking place Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at the Javits Center in New York City.
Eric Peterson
Sponsorship Opportunities
202.256.0939
eric.peterson@informa.com