ULI Spring Meeting 2023 | Urban Land Institute (ULI) | 16 May 2023 | Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2W6, Canada

Meet colleagues and potential partners during networking events, interactive sessions, roundtable discussions, and small group tours. The Latest Ideas and Insights.

Engage in Q&A sessions and small group discussions on the forces shaping our industry. Find out what’s next for infrastructure, technology, housing, public/private partnerships, mixed-use development, and so much more.

World-renowned industry leaders will share their insights on topics ranging from capital markets and post-pandemic impacts to social equity and sustainability.

Explore award-winning projects from Toronto through exclusive, behind-the-scenes tours, and talk with the project partners who developed them.

2023 Speakers

Jeremy Gutsche
New York Times Bestselling Author, Award Winning Innovation Expert, and CEO, Trend Hunter

Zahra Ebrahim
CEO and Co-Founder, Monumental

Kofi Hope
CEO and Co-Founder, Monumental

Ajeev Bhatia
Urban Planner, Urban Strategies

Randy Peddigrew
Senior Vice President Land Development, The Remington Group, Inc.

Alia Abaya
Chief Executive Officer, Circle Community LandTrust

Jack Robbins
Partner, FXCollaborative

Jee Mee Kim
City Executive, NYC Region/Vice President, Arcadis

Jamie Torres-Springer
President, MTA Construction and Development

Matthew Davis
Manager, Capital Projects and Program, City of Toronto - Transportation Services

Jeanhy Shim
President and Founder, Housing Lab Toronto

Dermot Sweeny
President, Sweeny and Co Architects Inc.

Avi Tesciuba
Senior Managing Director, Country Head Canada, Hines

Sunita Mahant
Head of Social Impact and Inclusion, Sustainable Investments, Ivanhoe Cambridge

Heather Grey-Wolf
Chief Development Officer, Infrastructure Ontario

Prof. Chuck Schilke
Professor, Finance, Real Estate, and Law, John Hopkins University Carey Business School

Fernando Carou
Manager, Renewable Energy and Net-zero Development, City of Toronto Economic Development Corporation

Amy Jacobs
Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Enwave Energy Corporation

Yichao Chen
Director, Climate and Energy, Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited

Hyon Rah
Head of Sustainability, US Real Estate, DWS Group

Patti Earnest
Chief Investment Officer, Roadside Development, LLC

Mark Thompson Brandt
Senior Conservation Architect and Urbanist, TRACE Architectures

Heather Slack
Founder, Kristoffy Capital

Patrice Frey
CEO/President, National Main Street Center, Inc

Peter Borzak
CEO, Pine Tree

Matt Lougee
President - Capital Markets, Pine Tree

Ailey Roberts
Principal, Sustainable Investing, BentallGreenOak

Jeffrey Palmer
Senior Project Manager, Sustainability Strategy, JLL

Nathalie Beauvais
Resiliency Lead; Architecture and Planning, HDR, Inc.

Michael Bryan II
Senior Associate, ULI Boston

Courtney Kleinman
Senior Creative Producer + Director, Projects, nFusion

Renée Williams
Senior Vice President, Fort Edmonton Management Company

Laura Craft
Global Head of Sustainable Investment Strategy, Heitman

Lindsay Brugger
Vice President, Resilience, Urban Land Institute

Abigail Moriah
Founder, The Black Planning Project

Dr. Kevin Stolarick
Managing Partner, Ryerson University

Jessie Ponce de Leon
Managing Partner, GordonDC

Rhea Vaflor
Director of Lifestyle Trendcasting/Associate Principal, Hickok Cole

Kaia Nesbitt
Vice President, National Director of Urban Design, Planning and Landscape Architecture, HDR, Inc.

Tanya Stern
Acting Planning Director, Montgomery County Planning Department

Mēlani N. Douglass
Director of Public Programs, National Museum of Women in the Arts

Juanita Boyd Hardy
Founder and Managing Principal, Tiger Management Consulting Group LLC

Jennifer Vey
Senior Fellow and Director, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, The Brookings Institution

Rob C. Hain
Chief Executive, Sound Diplomacy

Taylor Mammen
Chief Executive Officer, RCLCO

Mary Ludgin
Managing Director, Heitman

Suzanne Mulvee
Chief Strategy Officer, GID

Anya Domlesky
Director of Research, SWA Group

Michelle Woods
Project Manager, Department of Fleet and Facility Management

Rachel Frierson
Director of Programming, Detroit RiverFront Conservancy

Adam Novack
Director, Design, Waterfront Toronto

Lauren Abrahams
Urban Designer, Public Work

David Miller
Managing Director, C40 Centre for City Climate Policy and Economy

Carlyle Coutinho
Chief Executive Officer, Enwave Energy Corporation

Mazyar Mortazavi
President and CEO, TAS

Naama Blonder
Architect, Kehilla Residential Programme

Ellen Klasson
Managing Director, RCLCO

Tsering Yangki
Executive Vice President, Dream Unlimited

Rick Huijbregts
Global Lead. Smart Cities, Stantec

Bill MacGowan
Vertical Solution Architect, Smart Connected Communities, Cisco

Emmanuel Daniel
Principal Product Management Leader, Microsoft

Connie Chin
Chief Executive Officer, Global Arts Live

Kishore Varanasi
Director of Urban Design, CBT Architects

Sal Zinno
Senior Vice President, Development, Biomed Realty Trust

Jennifer Keesmaat
Founding Partner, Markee Developments

Brad Bradford
Councillor, City of Toronto

Frank Lewinberg
Founding Partner, Urban Strategies Inc

Heela Omarkhail
Vice President, Social Impact, The Daniels Corporation

Sheryl McMullen
Author, City of Calgary -Downtown Strategy Department

Steven Paynter
Studio Director, Gensler

Veronica Green
Vice President, Slate Asset Management

Robert Fuller
Studio Director, Principal, Gensler

Peter Ballon
Global Head of Real Estate, CPP Investment Board

Gary Berman
President and CEO, Tricon Residential

Nathalie Palladitcheff
President and Chief Executive Officer, Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc.

Lars Huber
CEO, Hines Europe Ltd

Amy Price
President, BentallGreenOak

Dennis Lopez
Chief Executive Officer, QuadReal Property Group

Melissa Kroskey
Technical Director, WoodWorks – Wood Products Council

Josh Hullum
Executive Director of Construction, Affinius Capital

Rob Asher
Founder and CEO, Giraffe

Hans Papke
University of Michigan

Erin Stafford
Keynote Speaker and Author

Seydina Fall
Senior Lecturer, John Hopkins University Carey Business School

Jamie Cooper, CFA
Portfolio Manager, Dream Impact Fund, Dream Unlimited

Yvonne Yeung
CEO, SDG Strategies

Kevin Moran
Executive Director - ULI Philadelphia, ULI Philadelphia

James Burnett
Executive Director, Vestedin

Kevin Williams
Chief Executive Officer, Black Squirrel Collective

Ray Wong
Vice President, Data Solutions Client Delivery, Altus Group

Jinny Tran
Senior Development Manager, Northcrest Developments

Lauren Callaghan
Director for the Advisory Services Program, Urban Land Institute

Leslie Woo
CEO, CivicAction + CivicAction Leadership Foundation

Patrick Brown
Mayor, City of Brampton

Hon. Bonnie Crombie
Mayor, City of Mississauga

Mayor Frank Scarpitti
Mayor, City of Markham

Donald Davidoff
Co-founder and CEO, REBA

Jennifer Tindle
CEO and Co-Founder, CREx Software

David Thomas
Director, Portfolio Management and Director, Innovations, Veritas Investments

Virginia Love
Industry Principal, Entrata

Troy Crema
CEO and Co-Founder, Grata Smart Living OS

Daun St. Amand
Architect

Dr. Tracy Loh
Fellow, Brookings Institution

Dr. Stephen Kendall
Vice President, Council on Open Building

Michael Shabinsky
Vice President, Slate Asset Management

Kevin Bates
President, Sharp Development Company

Peter Merrigan
CEO, Taurus Investment Holdings, LLC

Beth Eckenrode
Co-Founder, AUROS Group

Michael Izzo
Senior Vice President - Environmental Strategy, Hines

Sam Sharp
Managing Director, Head of Special District Group, Piper Sandler and Co.

Shelby Noble
Managing Director, Special District Group, Piper Sandler

Kurt Krieg
Executive Vice President, Resort Development, Extell Development Company

John Kolstoe
Senior Vice President, Piper Sandler

Chad Ellington
Owner, Peak Development

Kacey Cordes
Vice President, Assistant Director of Project Management, US BANCORP Community Development Corporation

Maritza Pechin
Deputy Director for the Office of Equitable Development, City of Richmond

Shawn Barney
Managing Director, CLB Porter Development

Leon Walker
Managing Partner, DL3 Realty, L.P.

Christopher Ptomey
Executive Director, Urban Land Institute

Molly McCabe
CEO and founder, HaydenTanner/The Lotus Campaign

Kenwin Hayes Sr.
Managing Principal, ReUrbanis Advisors

Jacob Bates
Head of Flex + Experience Management (XM) | Managing Director, JLL

Rob Spanier
President, Spanier Inc

Rafael Lazer
Chief Executive Officer, Almadev

Toby Wu
Executive Vice President, Development, QuadReal Property Group

Veronica Maggisano
Vice President of Development, Oxford Properties Group

Josh Thomson
SVP, Development, Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited

Alice Storm Jones
Principal, Floura Teeter Landscape Architects

Daniel Yudchitz
Design Director, Leo A Daly

Joan Floura
President, Floura Teeter Landscape Architects

Irena Savakova
Vice President, Global Design Principal, Leo A Daly

Francois Verhoeven
Senior Designer, LandDesign

Dr. Pippa Malmgren
Board Member, Premios Verdes

Ron Pressman
CEO, Urban Land Institute

Diane Hoskins
Co-CEO, Gensler

Bobby Dishell
Solar + Real Estate Attorney, Moye White LLP

Arthur Griffin
Real Estate and Alcohol Attorney, Moye White LLP

Jc Elijah (Eli) Bawuah
Senior Public Consultation Coordinator, Parks Forestry and Recreation, City of Toronto

Chloe Brown
Pandora Policy Development Lab

Victoria Oestreich
Senior Manager, Urban Land Institute

Rives Taylor
Principal, Director, Gensler

Naomi Brunemeyer
Director, Regional Development, BC Housing

Bernadette Majdell
Chief Executive Officer, HomeSpace Society

Keith Hambly
Chief Executive Officer, Fred Victor

Myles Millard
Managing Director, Hines-US

Dr. Tahereh GranpayehVaghei
Senior Consultant, StrategyCorp Inc

Ossie Airewele
Associate, BDP Quadrangle

Eugenia Payne
Manager, Awards, Urban Land Institute

Billy Grayson
Executive Vice President, ULI Centers and Initiatives

Yvonne Yeung
CEO, SDG Strategies, ULI Curtis Infrastructure Fellow

Craig Lewis
Principal, Global Practice Lead, CallisonRTKL, ULI Curtis Board Chair

Dr. Morteza Farajian
Executive Director, Build America Bureau

Eric Tao
San Francisco Director, SPUR, Managing Partner, L37 Partners

Erich Dohrer
Principal, CallisonRTKL

Sameer Dhalla
Director of Dev. and Eng, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority

Paul Stevens
Principal, ZAS Architects

Matthew Kwatinetz
Director, Urban Lab, New York University

Gullivar Shepard
Partner, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

Bill Anderson
Principal, CITECON, University of California, San Diego

Lucia Garsys
Sr. Advisor, Comm. Partnerships, Hillsborough County Government

Renee Schoonbeek
Sr. Consultant Stations and Urban Dev., Arcadis Netherlands

Kevin Augustyn
Sr. VP and ESG Lead, Morningstar DBRS

Stephen Engblom
Faculty, Real Estate Dev., University of California, Berkely

Morrigan McGregor
Senior Vice President of Energy Planning and Development, Enwave

Jim Fisher
Professor Emeritus, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

2023 Sponsors

PREMIER:
• Tricon Residential

ICON:
• Arcadis
• Avison Young

PRINCIPAL:
• Cardillac Fairview
• EllisDon
• Newmark
• Oxford Properties Group

PLATINUM:
• CBRE
• DREAM Unlimited
• Kilmer Group
• Northcrest Developments

GOLD:
• Altus Group
• BDP Quadrangle
• BLG
• CPP Investments
• Carpenters and Allied Workers Local 27
• Colliers
• Ivanhoe Cambridge
• Mattamy Homes
• UDR
• Urban Strategies
• Weston Consulting

SILVER:
• AEW
• Allen Matkins
• Bank of America
• BentallGreenOak
• Berkadia
• Castlepoint Numa
• CoStar Group
• Daniels
• Enwave Energy Corporation
• Gensler
• Hines
• HKS
• KKR
• Local Logic
• Logevity Partners
• McMillan
• NBLC
• QuadReal
• Waterfront Toronto
• Wood Products Council

BRONZE:
• AGF Private Capital
• Almadev
• Amazon Housing Equity Fund
• BNKC
• Bousfields
• BXP
• Cassels
• Dentons
• Giraffe
• Goodmans
• HDR
• JLL
• Kennedy Wilson
• L.A. Inc.
• McCullough Landscape Architecture
• MSCI
• Parkbridge