2025 Boston Sustainability & Energy Conference
Integrating Renewables, Electrification & Smart Design For Boston’s Next Era
Event Ended On: Tuesday October 21 2025
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Speakers and Panels
Fireside Chat - Mandates in Motion: What it Takes to Build a Net-Zero City
Unpacking citywide strategies for achieving net-zero goals and leading climate action
Position Your Buildings for 2050 Net Mandates
Charting practical upgrades and energy source diversification to meet evolving carbon targets
Energy Efficiency & Decarbonization: Prioritizing Reduction Strategies
Reducing operational emissions through innovative upgrades and smart energy management
Hannah Payne
Leveraging Renewable Energy Sources
Evaluating pathways to utilize next-generation renewable technologies
Why You Should Attend This 2025 Boston Sustainability Conference
What You’ll Learn:
- Navigate Massachusetts’s sustainability landscape by leveraging resources and tools to meet mandates, reporting deadlines, and compliance requirements.
- Decipher Boston’s BERDO standards—align new construction and retrofits with 2025 emissions limits and chart a path to net-zero by 2050.
- Unpack the new climate mandate for net-zero carbon emissions in all newly constructed buildings and its impact on design, permitting, and operations.
- Strengthen development foundations by understanding how grid upgrades and electrification infrastructure enable low-carbon, resilient real estate projects.
- Capitalize on the Inflation Reduction Act’s incentives—tax credits, bonus deductions, and grants—to improve project viability in a high-cost, high-interest market.
- Secure funding for sustainable upgrades through PACE financing, ESG-focused credit facilities, and MassCEC grant programs.
- Integrate renewable energy and cutting-edge green technologies—from rooftop solar and battery storage to smart building controls—into new and existing assets.
- Evaluate geothermal solutions for their cost-effectiveness and energy-saving potential in deep decarbonization strategies.
- Measure the market impact of sustainability and resilience enhancements on property valuations and long-term asset performance.
- Draw inspiration from Boston-area case studies that demonstrate the intersection of resilience, occupant wellbeing, and robust financial returns.
How You'll Do More Business: Enhance your business by understanding how developers are staying compliant with new sustainability mandates and energy codes. Learn about the long-term impact this will have on carbon emission levels for commercial properties and what this means for businesses across the city. Hear from experts on how to design sustainable buildings and which technological innovations are being used to improve building performance and future-proof assets.
Who Attends: Boston’s policy makers, city officials, investors, owners, developers, lenders, brokers, occupiers, planners, architects, designers, consultants and advisors.
Why You Should Attend: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network, and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us.
For questions regarding content, speaking, and sponsorship opportunities, please email our Event Producer, Joshua Piquion, at joshua.piquion@bisnow.com
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact audrey.sullivan@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
Venue
Westin Boston Seaport
425 Summer St
Boston, MA 02210
Ballroom: Grand Ballroom
Floor: Concourse Level - one escalator flight down from the lobby
Parking Information:
Self: $49.00, Valet: $59.00
Agenda
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8:00 AM 9:00 AM |
Coffee, Breakfast & Networking
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9:00 AM 9:30 AM |
Fireside Chat: Mandate in Motion: What it Takes to Build a Net-Zero City
1.) Dissecting the roadmap in making Cambridge and Boston the leading sustainable cities in the country.
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9:30 AM 10:15 AM |
Position Your Buildings for 2050 Net Mandates
1.) How to incrementally take steps to prep your buildings .
2.) Discussing strategies to balance cost, design, sustainability. |
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10:15 AM 10:30 AM |
Networking Break
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10:30 AM 11:15 AM |
Energy Efficiency & Decarbonization: Prioritizing Reduction Strategies
1.) Discussing actionable plan to achieve net-zero operation by 2050.
2.) Learn how to leverage state programs to make deals feasible. |
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11:15 AM 12:00 PM |
Leveraging Renewable Energy Sources
1.) Exploring geothermal as an alternative energy source for buildings.
2.) Discussing engagement in resilience and coordinating with neighborhood groups and city agencies. |
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12:00 PM 12:15 PM |
Post Event Networking
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