National Sustainability & Energy Conference
Decarbonization, Local Law 97, Construction, Green Financing & Tenant + Landlord Energy Consumption
Event Ended On: Wednesday July 30 2025
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Event Host
Convene 360
Located in Manhattan's Midtown East neighborhood, Convene 360 Madison Avenue is a three-level meeting and event venue. With 17 meeting spaces spanning 68,000 square feet, the venue is ideal for conferences, company town halls, planning meetings, or any event that requires multiple breakout spaces.
The location boasts a simple and sleek design with a dedicated Welcome Desk and reception area on each floor. Levels four and five are connected by a central staircare and each feature an 11-foot LED wall, offering additional branding opportunities. A full buy-out of all three floors can accommodate approximately 950 guests, and single-floor buyouts have a capacity of 331, 318, and 213, respectively. Convene 360 Madison Avenue provides a white box space allowing for client and event branding opportunities, in-house catering with customization options and dining private to each event, in room A/V technology supported by an on-site team, and dedicated hospitality resources.
The venue is easily accessible via public transportation and is in close proximity to Grand Central Station.
Speakers and Panels
Energy Consumption Trends & Their Impact on Commercial Real Estate
Energy Usage and the Impact on CRE Buildings + Landlord and Tenant Relationship
Geoff Hurst
Alex Gulagaci
Enhancing Construction & Design: Evaluating Carbon Usage & Green Materials
Operational Carbon vs. Embodied Carbon + Navigating Construction Headwinds
Decarbonizing our Way to Local Law 97 Compliance
Local New York City Panel & Using Compliance to Advance Sustainability Innovation
Mounir Tawadrous
David Sivin
Randy Topp
Prioritizing Sustainability Across Existing Assets
How to Build Sustainability Metrics into the Goals of a Conversion Project
Sydney Mainster
Sara Bayer
Rebecca Schmidt
The Future of Sustainable Investing & How to Finance Deals
Capital Markets Challenges & Their Impact on ESG Investment Strategies
What to Expect at the 2025 National Sustainability Conference in New York City
What You'll Learn:
- How owners and investors are weighing the value of ESG practices and how they measure that against their bottom line.
- Developers, contractors, architects and engineers will weigh in on pre-construction decisions and deciding which green materials are elevating the sustainability of a development.
- How investors are prioritizing and underwriting sustainability into their portfolio. Additionally, learn about the future sustainable funds and impacting investing.
- Better understand the relationship between the landlord and the tenant as it relates to prioritizing sustainability.
- Hear how companies are sifting through data and how they are avoiding greenwashing in their path to make the jump from carbon neutral to carbon zero.
- Hear from the NYC's top policy makers on the best path forward to Local Law 97 Compliance.
- Building tear downs and conversions vs. building upgrades. Understand how to weigh these decisions based on reducing emissions.
How you'll do more business:
Enhance your business by gaining a stronger understanding how prioritizing ESG and sustainability across development, design, investment and asset management verticals can change the city but also positively impact your bottom line. Hear from New York City's leading developers, investors and designers on financing ESG Deals, the next wave of building innovation and achieving net zero carbon.
Who attends:
Investors, owners, developers, lenders, tenants, landlords, energy companies, brokers, public sector companies, architects, contractors, engineers and property managers.
Why should you 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, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Director of New York Events, Chris Picher at chris.picher@bisnow.com.
To request disability-related accommodations, please contact audrey.sullivan@bisnow.com no later than seven business days prior to the event.
Venue
Convene 360
360 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Ballroom: 5th Floor
Parking Information:
No on-site parking
Agenda
| Time | Activity |
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9:30 AM 10:30 AM |
Coffee & Networking
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10:30 AM 11:15 AM |
Energy Consumption Trends & Their Impact on Commercial Real Estate
1. Hear how tenants and landlords are navigating energy consumption trends and how to handle the financials of this relationship.
2. Gain insights into the complexities of building electrification and how the Big Beautiful Bill and other policies are impacting the commercial real estate industry. |
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11:15 AM 12:00 PM |
Enhancing Construction & Design: Evaluating Carbon Usage & Green Materials
1. Hear how emerging technologies and other data sets are influencing decisions around ground-up construction projects.
2. Gain insights into construction costs and how this is challenging the selection of building materials. 3 This panel will discuss embodied carbon vs. operational carbon and how to limit embodied carbon output during the construction process. |
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12:00 PM 12:45 PM |
Decarbonizing our Way to Local Law 97 Compliance
1. Panelists will discuss how local New York compliance is progressing for owners and the rest of the commercial real estate sector.
2. Hear about the upcoming deadlines and what will happen to those that are not compliant by the end of 2025. 3. Gain insight into how the grid and modern energy systems can be improved to meet the city's decarbonization initiatives. |
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12:45 PM 1:30 PM |
Lunch & Networking
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1:30 PM 2:15 PM |
Prioritizing Sustainability Across Existing Assets
1. Panelists will discuss how sustainability is playing a role in evaluating building upgrades to existing assets.
2. Panelists will weigh in on when to upgrade a building and how to execute these projects with limiting carbon exposure. |
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2:15 PM 3:00 PM |
The Future of Sustainable Investing & How to Finance Deals
1. Hear how investors and owners are allocating capital to align with their longterm sustainable investing strategies.
2. Get insights into how c-pace and other green capital is impacting the capital stack and what does that mean for investment returns. |
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3:00 PM 3:15 PM |
Networking
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Featured Sustainability Projects and News
BXP seeks to define premier workplaces through sustainability
Harrison Street's Jill Brosig on applying sustainable practices to investment management
How Fairstead is creating a sustainable future for affordable housing
The importance of tenant collaboration to reaching carbon neutral goals
NYU Dorm is retrofitted to be sustainable
Top five sustainability issues to watch
Tishman Speyer to start construction on all-affordable residential community in the South Bronx
BXP launches solar canopy project to boost clean energy and grid resilience
One Big Beautiful Bill's impact on sustainability
7 Green REITs for Sustainable Investing
Vornado's Sustainability Report
Empire State Development launches program for assistance with navigating environmental regulations
Everything you need to know about Local Law 97 timelines and guidelines.
Utilizing timber in development projects
Durst's 825 3rd Avenue redefines Manhattan's office amenities
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