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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a 2022-2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he leads The Metaverse Metropolis — a new initiative exploring the implications of augmented reality at urban scale. He is also the chief communications officer at Climate Alpha, an AI-driven location-analysis platform steering investment toward climate adaptation and more resilient regions; a senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative.

He’s been cited as an expert on the future of cities, technology, and mobility by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, USA Today, CNN, NPR, and the BBC. He’s a partner at FutureMap, a geo-strategic and climate advisory firm based in Singapore, and has advised Intel, Samsung, IKEA, Starbucks, Audi, Hyundai, Tishman Speyer, British Land, André Balazs Properties, Aldar, Emaar, and Expo 2020, along with numerous G20 government entities. He was previously the urbanist-in-residence at URBAN-X — BMW MINI’s urban tech accelerator — the director of applied research at NewCities, and founding director of strategy at its mobility-focused offshoot CoMotion.

Greg speaks frequently about cities, mobility, innovation, and globalization, including appearances at 10 Downing Street, the United States Military Academy, Sandia National Laboratories, the OECD, Harvard Business School, the MIT Media Lab, and the Aspen Ideas Festival. His work with Studio Gang Architects on the future of suburbia was displayed at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 2012. His work has also been displayed at the 15th, 16th, and 17th Venice Architecture Biennales, the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, and Habitat III. He sits on the board of CREtech Climate, and was guest curator of the 2018 and 2019 editions of reSITE.

He was previously a contributing writer for Fast Company and Fortune, and an editor-at-large for Advertising Age. He is co-author of the 2011 critically acclaimed international bestseller Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, The Financial Times, McKinsey Quarterly, Time, Wired, The Atlantic, The New Republic, New York, Slate, Quartz, Inc., Politico, The Economist Group, The World Economic Forum, The Nikkei Asian Review, World Policy Journal, Next City, Marie Claire Italia, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and Departures.

The Transportation and Aviation Market Sector has witnessed substantial growth and transformation in recent years. As this sector continues to evolve, it has become imperative to revise and update the DBIA Best Practices specific to transportation and aviation projects. This session offers a comprehensive exploration and results of DBIA's approach to updating these Best Practices, presenting the current status, and focusing on key updates and their implications. A team of seasoned design-build experts, drawing from their extensive experience in transportation and aviation design-build projects, enriched by insights from diverse stakeholders, has spearheaded the development of these practices. Rooted in DBIA's Universal Best Practices that were updated in 2023, these guidelines have been meticulously tailored to cater to the unique intricacies and requirements of the transportation and aviation market sector.

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Touted by Owners as a highly valuable education and networking experience, the Owners Only Forum allows open, honest discussion and provides Owner professionals the opportunity to share views, pose questions, find solutions to project delivery challenges and network with colleagues.

"Owner Advisors are not allowed in the Owners Forum unless DBIA has obtained written confirmation from the Owner that the Advisor is at the conference specifically serving as an extension of the Owner.'

Industry professionals, including consultants, are not permitted in this session.

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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) is a tri-jurisdictional organization that operates transit service in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. WMATA provides rapid transit, fixed-route bus service and paratransit services for eligible customers whose disability prevents them from using bus or rail. In 2019 WMATA looked to design-build to renovate an inefficient eight-floor, 1960s building into an11-story, high-performance mixed-use building. The goals of the project were three-fold: to engage with the neighborhood; to elevate WMATA’s employees’ office experience, and to authentically translate the transit mission to the workplace. Fast-forward to 2022, and you’ll see how this transit system met these goals and more. This award-winning design-build project has been recognized for numerous honors including Excellence in Renovation/Restoration, Best in Architectural Design, Meaningful DEI Practices, and special recognition as DBIA’s Chair’s award for its impact to the community, stewardship to the environment and extraordinary accomplishments in diversity, equity and inclusion.

Representatives from the design-build team, including WMATA, will discuss why design-build was selected and proved beneficial for the team and the project, key elements of team dynamics that led to such extraordinary project success, and lessons learned that others could use to leverage similar success.

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