Building What's Next
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BOSTON BUILT WEEK EVENTNOV 15–21, 2026
What do leaders see ahead — and what are they doing about it?
A Boston Built Week event. One day, 200 seats, and the people who decide what gets built — owners, developers, designers, builders, institutions, capital, sustainability and technology leaders. Three connected arcs: what leaders are seeing in the market, how organizations are responding, and where innovation is changing what gets built next.
Featuring Keynote Thomas N. O'Brien · Managing Partner & CEO, The HYM Investment Group
Presented With
Keynote Announced
Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer, The HYM Investment Group
Setting the Charge: Market Realities, Leadership, and What Gets Built Next
Drawing from his leadership across major Greater Boston development, public planning, and civic service, Tom frames the day across three lenses: grounded market reality, the leadership response, and where innovation is actively changing what gets built next. He opens the morning at 10:00 AM and returns at 2:00 PM to co-anchor the closing Leadership Town Hall.
Event Snapshot
10+
Targeted industry speakers from ownership, design, construction, capital, and technology
200
Target attendee range
9:00 AM
Registration, forum, lunch, and post-event networking
$155 / $165
Early-bird and standard ticket model, includes our premium networking events
The Venue
The UMass Club, 32 floors up at One Beacon Street, is an incredible place for this event. What better place to discuss the built environment than overlooking the Boston skyline it shaped?
See the venue & parking
THE EXPERIENCE
The program moves from what leaders are seeing, to how they are responding, to where innovation changes the equation. Every session is a curated, tightly moderated conversation — not a 45-minute panel — and each one is built around a question people actually want answered.
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The program is still being finalized — recommend a voice whose perspective belongs on stage.
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Speakers
Leaders with operating responsibility for what gets built — announced as the program is finalized.
Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer
The HYM Investment Group
Drawing from his leadership across major Greater Boston development, public planning, and civic service, O'Brien sets the charge for the Forum — framing market realities, the leadership response, and where innovation is actively shaping what gets built next. He opens with the morning keynote and returns to co-anchor the 2:00 PM Leadership Town Hall.
More speakers coming.
Additional voices from ownership, development, design, construction, capital, and technology are being confirmed now.
Get agenda updatesBUILDING WHAT'S NEXT
The built environment is navigating changing economic conditions, capital markets, development priorities, workforce pressures, sustainability requirements, AI and emerging technology, and changing expectations for how buildings are designed, built, financed, and operated.
The Built Leadership Forum brings together leaders who are close to these changes and making decisions about what comes next — ownership, development, design, construction, operations, sustainability, technology, capital, risk, and advisory leadership in one room.
What do leaders see ahead — and what are they doing about it?
Leadership here means more than title. It means having a point of view about what is ahead — and being willing to act on it.
Sponsor Platform
Sponsorship is built around access, context, content, media visibility, and relationship value. The value is both who is in the room and what the room is talking about: market signals, capital and investment decisions, project activity, changing owner priorities, and which innovations are actually being deployed.
Highest-level alignment with the full leadership platform.
Early partners behind the official kick-off event of Boston Built Week.
Sponsors connected to strategic audience lanes: ownership, development, construction, sustainability, design, workforce, innovation, capital, risk, and advisory.
Questions & Answers
The program progresses from what leaders see, to how they are responding, to what comes next — and each audience in the room takes something specific from it.
Take Part
The inaugural forum is being curated with care. Sponsor the Forum, hold a seat on the tickets, or recommend a leader whose perspective belongs in the room.
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For companies seeking leadership visibility, media value, client hosting, and relationship access.
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For senior leaders who want a seat at the kick-off of Boston Built Week. Tickets on sale now, capped at 200.
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Help shape the room by recommending a speaker, sponsor, partner, or senior attendee.
Nov 16 · UMass Club
200 seats · on sale now
