Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings & Commercial Real Estate
Join Tailwind Futures for a half-day event examining how technological innovations can improve asset insurability, reduce operating costs, boost property value and increase tenant demand.
9am: Opening Remarks
Emilie Mazzacurati, Founding Partner, Tailwind Futures
Shai Kalansky, Corporate Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP
9:15am: The Financial Impacts of Climate Risk on Commercial Real Estate
Fireside chat with Shaler Campbell, Director, Climate & Decarbonization Strategy, JLL
9:25am: From Exposure to Resilience: Best Practices in Managing Climate Risk
Ibbi Almufti, co-founder and CEO, Class 3 Technologies
Daniela Zuloaga Romero, Americas Adaptation and Resilience Services Leader, Arup
10:00am: Embedding New Tech into Buildings: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Fireside chat with Arjun Saroya, co-founder and CEO, SkyCool Systems
10:15am: Insurance Innovation for Commercial Real Estate
Holly Neber, Chief Resilience Officer, AEI Consultants
Cole Mayer, Managing Director - Head of Parametric, Aon
Mike Gulla, co-founder and CEO, Adaptive Insurance
Scott Cheeseman, co-founder and CEO, XyloPlan
11:00 am: Building Resilience Through Communities
Case study: Brian Glazer, co-founder and CEO, Hohonu
The event is co-hosted with Arup, Class 3 Technologies and MorrisonFoerster LLP.
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Tailwind Futures is an investment firm focused on resilience technologies. We invest in technologies that help corporations and communities futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow.
Class 3 Technologies is a physical climate risk and resilience company recently spun out of Arup. Our software platform, Iris, combines engineering-grade vulnerability models with climate data to quantify assetrisk. It is used by organizations and their consultants to inform decisions around capital planning for retrofits, resilience strategies, acquisition due diligence, site selection, and design choices for new construction.
Morrison Foerster (MoFo) advises companies, investors, and innovators at the forefront of sustainability, corporate responsibility, and impact investing. The firm’s Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility team partners closely with clients to identify and address the environmental, social, and governance issues most material to their business, helping them navigate risk, enhance value, and meet evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations. Complementing this work, MoFo’s Social Enterprise + Impact Investing practice supports mission-driven companies, funds, and investors seeking to generate both financial returns and measurable social or environmental impact. Together, these integrated capabilities enable MoFo to guide clients across the full lifecycle – from strategy and compliance to investment and execution – at the intersection of purpose, innovation, and growth.
Arup collaborates with clients and partners to unlock their sustainable development potential, supporting them from ambition, to action, to positive impact. We work with organisations to accelerate decarbonisation and the transition to a net zero world. We strengthen the resilience of communities, places and restore the natural systems that support them, and we do this in a just and equitable way