Day One- July 14th - PT (Pacific Time, GMT-08:00)
An uptodate look at how ESG and decarbonization priorities are evolving in 2026, with a focus on West Coast regulation, insurance pressure, capital constraints, and how real estate owners are translating ESG from highlevel strategy into assetlevel value protection and performance.
What has shifted since last summer across policy, capital markets, and investor scrutiny
How West Coast regulations are shaping national expectations — and operational reality
Where owners are pulling back versus doubling down on ESG and decarbonization
How regulatory pressure, tenant expectations, and insurance dynamics are influencing priorities
When ESG shifted from “valueadd” initiatives to core asset and risk strategy
Where firms still see a strong business case today — and where it begins to break down
How leadership teams are deciding what actually moves forward versus what stays on paper
What sustainability teams are being asked to deliver in 2026 amid tighter budgets and higher stakes
Scaling healthy fitouts: If the ROI is there, why hasn’t the market moved faster?
A candid discussion on the disconnect between the widely cited financial and humanperformance benefits of healthy fitouts and the slow pace of adoption across standard building portfolios. This session examines where friction actually shows up — across capital allocation, leasing dynamics, execution complexity, and internal decisionmaking — and what it would take to unlock scale.
If healthy fitouts can drive rent, retention, and productivity, why aren’t more owners investing at scale?
Are the financial returns real — or simply harder to measure, underwrite, and sell internally?
Where does the business case break down in “regular” (nontrophy) assets?
Split incentives: who pays versus who benefits, and how is that holding adoption back?
Are certification and rating systems accelerating progress — or slowing it down compared to more flexible, outcomedriven approaches?
Are tenants truly willing to pay for healthier spaces, or are the benefits not translating at the point of dealmaking?
Capital constraints: how often are healthy fitouts losing out to other priorities in today’s market?
Execution barriers: how complexity, cost perception, and lack of standardization slow uptake
Turning ESG into tenant outcomes — health, comfort, and productivity — without overpromising or performative claims
As some organizations scale back ESG, can healthy fitouts offer a clearer, more tangible way to demonstrate value to investors and internal stakeholders?
What would actually need to change to accelerate adoption — and what can owners implement now?
Owners are moving past high-level climate risk assessments toward concrete, asset‑level resilience decisions — especially across wildfire, heat, and water exposure. This session focuses on what owners are actually changing at properties today, and how resilience planning is showing up in operations, capital planning, and vendor strategy.
- How wildfire, extreme heat, and water risk are reshaping asset operations
- Property hardening measures owners are prioritizing — and why
- The role of vendors and technology in rapid response and mitigation
- Where climate models help decision-making — and where on‑the‑ground realities override them
- How owners are balancing near-term resilience needs with longer-term planning
Most firms now have emissions targets — but execution remains uneven. This session focuses on where decarbonization efforts stall after the business case is made, and how owners are turning plans into action amid capital constraints, operational complexity, and regulatory uncertainty.
- What a “credible” decarbonization plan looks like in practice today
- How owners are sequencing upgrades across portfolios and hold periods
- Gas bans, electrification, and hybrid approaches — what’s actually moving forward
- Where capital constraints force trade‑offs or delayed timelines
- Internal ownership: who makes the call when priorities compete?
A peer-to-peer discussion focused on how West Coast owners are navigating wildfire exposure, post natural-event recovery, insurance fallout, and ongoing operational disruption from climate-driven events.
Talking points:
How wildfire risk is changing acquisition, disposition, and hold decisions
What owners learned from recent wildfire seasons that they didn’t anticipate
Managing insurance claims, rebuilding timelines, and permitting delays
Operational challenges around tenant safety, access, and business continuity
Where state and local policy is helping — and where it’s creating friction
Electrification continues to move forward across the West Coast, driven by decarbonization goals, building codes, and growing tenant expectations — but grid capacity, interconnection timelines, and costs remain real constraints. This workshop focuses on how owners are approaching building electrification and EV infrastructure in practice, including how strategies are evolving as utilities, load limitations, and tenant demand reshape what’s feasible today.
Where electrification makes sense today — and where gas or hybrid approaches still prevail
How electrification projects are moving forward despite grid capacity limits and interconnection delays
The shift from simply installing EV chargers to managed charging, pricing strategy, tenant experience, and load optimization
How EV charging demand is influencing broader energy planning, from tenant expectations to fleet and future proofing
Integrating EV charging, solar, storage, and building loads without overloading existing systems
Sequencing energy upgrades — panels, service upgrades, EV infrastructure — to manage cost, timelines, and disruption
Balancing nearterm needs with longterm electrification and decarbonization targets under capital and utility constraints
How energy and EV strategies have evolved over the past year in response to regulatory pressure, grid realities, and utility coordination challenges
As regulatory pressure, energy costs, and reporting expectations increase, green leasing is becoming more common — and more complicated. This roundtable focuses on how owners and tenants are actually negotiating lease language around sustainability, data sharing, and operating responsibilities today.
Sustainability provisions that are actually making it into leases
Where negotiations with tenants tend to stall or break down
Sharing energy, water, and emissions data between owners and tenants
Allocating costs for upgrades, compliance, and ongoing performance
How green leases are being used to support broader ESG and reporting goals
Data expectations around building performance continue to rise. This workshop looks at how owners are collecting, managing, and using building-level data across energy, water, and waste to support benchmarking, reporting, and external scrutiny.
Connecting building systems across portfolios to create usable data
Benchmarking performance internally and against peers
Common data gaps, quality issues, and workflow challenges
Preparing data for regulators, lenders, investors, and insurers
How better data is informing operational and capital decisions
Water availability and cost are becoming more visible risks for West Coast real estate. This roundtable explores how owners are responding to drought conditions, regulatory pressure, and rising utility costs across different asset types.
Where water risk is most acute across West Coast portfolios
How drought conditions are influencing operational planning
Water efficiency upgrades owners are prioritizing right now
Using metering and data to identify and manage water exposure
How water risk is being incorporated into broader resilience planning
Waste performance and materials management continue to be challenging across portfolios. This roundtable looks at how owners are approaching waste reduction, diversion, and materials decisions as expectations from tenants, cities, and investors continue to increase.
Portfolio-wide waste and recycling strategies that are actually working
Managing tenant behavior and participation
Tracking waste performance and diversion data
Cost and operational tradeoffs owners are navigating
Where circular and materials reuse approaches are starting to gain traction
AI is being used more widely for carbon modeling and climate risk analysis, but adoption remains uneven across real estate. This workshop focuses on how owners are actually using AI tools today, what problems they solve well, and where limitations still exist.
Where AI is currently being applied in carbon and climate modeling
What has changed in AI tools over the past year
Data inputs required to produce useful, defensible outputs
How firms are validating AI-driven results internally
Using AI outputs to support real asset and portfolio decisions
Environmental risk doesn’t stop at acquisition. This session focuses on how owners are managing ongoing environmental compliance and operational risk, including emerging issues like PFAS that are beginning to impact insurance, financing, and asset level decision-making.
Managing environmental compliance across operating portfolios post-acquisition
How environmental issues are shifting from diligence to day-to-day operations
Where PFAS and other emerging contaminants are starting to surface in assets
Monitoring, documentation, and reporting expectations owners are facing today
How environmental risk is influencing underwriting, insurance, and lender scrutiny