Day Two- July 15thWednesday, 15 July 2026 - PT (Pacific Time, GMT-08:00)

For a refreshing, social start to the day, enjoy a dip in the ocean followed by breakfast burritos. This informal gathering is hosted by Alex Spilger of Sobrato.

• Meet in the hotel lobby at 6:45 AM and walk together to Salt Creek Beach

• Quick ocean dip (Swimwear encouraged)

• Food is not covered, please bring personal payment methods

• Walk back to venue at around 8:00 AM

This interactive session gives an introduction to circularity design principles at varying scales and practices circular design thinking using the real-world case study of the Santa Monica Airport Conversion project. This session will include a brief presentation about the opportunity, inspirational examples of reuse, and discussion and brainstorming at roundtables based on specific prompts tailored to the real estate audience.

• Groups will be dealt circular design opportunity cards as mini briefs that provide context, data, and a design question that interrogates our current practices at material, building, policy scale.

• Participants may be asked to imagine opportunities and trade-offs, costs and financing barriers, incentives, local job creation, workforce development, and making the business case as we move to a circular economy.

• The work generated will contribute to the emerging and relevant body of knowledge around local, just, and environmentally responsible practices of taking care of our built environment.