• Industry Leaders Look to the Future

Some see the current down market as a mixed blessing. Sure, it's tough, but it's an opportunity to step back, take a breath, and reassess plans and priorities. Join this conversation with the industry's best to hear how they're looking ahead and creating strategies for long-term success.

• Sustainability and the Bottom Line

Hear about cost-effective design techniques for dealing with developers' top challenges, including water, energy, project siting, and amenities. Learn how to create a net zero carbon community while improving your bottom line. Examine budgets and lifecycle costs of successful green projects that prove that going green can bring greater financial success.

• Successful Mixed-Income Housing

As more households are squeezed out of both for-sale and rental housing markets, developers are seeking new ways to address affordability while creating viable, sustainable communities. Learn from this panel of experts how they have created mixed-income communities in ways that benefit everyone involved.

• Keynote Fred Dust, Partner and Practice Leader, IDEO

Dust will share innovative methodology that has helped some of the largest real estate businesses in the country think differently about their approach to planning and design. The basic idea is simple yet profound-good design starts with understanding how people really live.

• Meaningful Places versus Market Realities

he trend to build "community" into suburban development has evolved in concert with changing consumer preferences. Still, developers and designers struggle to create the kinds of places consumers are drawn to while attracting viable retail users. This panel of experts will lead an animated discussion of the facts and fallacies of creating suburban developments that are truly livable, mixed-use communities.

• Your Brand Experience

Your brand should separate you from the pack, but more than that, branding is not just a marketing tool-it is everything a business does. Join this dynamic, interactive discussion to learn why your brand is deeper than just a logo. Learn how it can shape the entire customer experience.

• Housing Market Rx: Strategies for Bouncing Back

Is the housing market getting better or worse? What should my company be doing at this juncture? Where are the unseen opportunities in this market? What are the smart steps to take to not only survive the downturn, but to grow? Join us as our panel of seasoned real estate professionals shares its own prescriptions for coming out on top of the next market cycle. This will be an interactive session featuring your peers discussing real-world solutions for real-world challenges and strategies for bouncing back. You won't want to miss this!

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