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* The detailed conference program will be available shortly.

The Gaining Ground program will be organized to deal with a number of current challenges facing developers, property service companies, financial institutions and portfolio investors:

• Where can we find the people who can translate sustainability into new market mechanisms?
  


• How do we build a clear ‘picture’ of sustainability that will powerfully communicate the why and the what, and lead us to the how?
  


• How do we align policy and the market capacity for innovation, so that policymakers will choose to encourage positive market initiatives and resist regulatory blankets?
  


• Can we bring analytical rigor to the question: “How, in the sustainability framework, can we do well by doing good?”
  


• How do we expand the circle of early adopters, so no one feels that they’re going it alone or expensively charting new territory?
  


• How do we propel learning and uptake within our organizations?
  


• Where and what are the successful models we can adopt and adapt?
  


• How can we take on sustainability principles and practices without turning or organization or operations upside down?
  


• Value, value, value…where, and in what ways, does the business case solidly support sustainability choices?

Speakers will be drawn from the following list of invitees:

• Ray Anderson Founder and Chairman, Interface Inc.
• Pedro Azcue CEO Jones Lang LaSalle, Latin America
• Bill Browning Adjunct Fellow, Rocky Mountain Institute; Partner,
  Browning + Bannon; member, founding team US Green Building Council
• David Butterfield President, Trust for Sustainable Development; Founding Developer, Loreto Bay
• Chris Corps President, Asset Strategics; former President RICS Canada
• Jorge Kanahuati Director General, Enlaces Ambientales SC
• Christopher Lienberger Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institute; Professor of Urban Planning, University of Michigan; real estate developer
• Amory Lovins Co-founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky
  Mountain Institute
• Patrick Lucey President, Aqua-Tex Scientific Consulting
• Pamela Mang Founder and Partner, Regenesis
• Henry S. Miller President, Henry S. Miller Partners
• La Donna Monsees President and CEO, Newland Communities
• Scott Muldavin President, The Muldavin Company; Executive Director,
  Green Building Finance Consortium
• Susan Szenasy Editor, Metropolis Magazine
• Bill Reed President, Integrative Design Collaborative
• Andy Ruben VP Corporate Strategy and Sustainability, Wal-Mart
• Bruce Sampson Former VP Sustainability, BC Hydro; link to World
  Business Council on Sustainable Development
• Carol Sanford CEO, Interoctave Development Group
• Carlos Slim Helú President, Grupo Carso (Telmex, etc.)
• Mossadiq Umedaly Chair, BC Hydro; Chairman, Xantrex Technologies Inc., former VP and CFO, Ballard Power Systems
• Adam Werbach Founder, Act Now Productions
• And expert speakers selected by:
  - Urban Land Institute, Washington, DC
  - Urban Land Institute, Mexico
  - US-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
  - CalPERS