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Welcome Session and Opening Keynote
Multi-award-winning inspirational speaker and one of the top female motivational speakers in the UK, Jaz Ampaw-Farr is a force of nature who galvanizes people to take action. This world class re-framer has a unique ability to help people reframe their stories and situations, bringing transformation in their work, life and communities. This is Jaz’s alchemy. As a speaker, Jaz has a disarming abi#9334218CM | 1
Closing Keynote
John Register is a two-time Paralympian, Paralympic Games Silver Medalist, Persian Gulf War veteran, and TEDx Motivational Speaker. He embraced a “new normal mindset” in becoming an amputee following a misstep over a hurdle while training for the 1996 Olympic Games, after participation in two consecutive Olympic trials.- None None
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Envisioning Urban Futures with Scenario Modeling Tools
This session will provide an updated overview of the landscape of tools for modeling land use and transportation scenarios, highlighting their analytical capabilities and use in public engagement through contemporary case studies.- Robert Goodspeed, AICP
- Sachi Arakawa
- Kelsey Johnson
- Rachel Finfer
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Experience Mill Creek: Bolstering Trail-Oriented Development
A Cincinnati coalition is guiding development around a new urban trail through historically disinvested neighborhoods. The Experience Mill Creek campaign focuses on inclusive growth, addressing challenges like planning fatigue, multi-committee collaboration, community ambassador involvement, and quick-build activations for long-term implementation.- Daniella Beltran, AICP
- Katherine Keough-Jurs, FAICP
- Wade Johnston, AICP
- Mark Jeffreys
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LEED for Cities: Framework for Planning Sustainable Communities
Planners are on the front lines of advancing climate action, equity, and resilience. The new LEED for Cities framework equips communities with practical tools to measure progress, guide policy, and transform sustainability goals into actionable strategies with lasting impact.- Douglas Smith, AICP
- John Law, AICP
- Mackenzie Mindel
- Marco Velotta, AICP
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Building Equity in Montana Through Tribal Collaboration Planning
Hear from tribal planners and explore how to build respectful partnerships, plan with equity, and earn AICP Equity CM credit—essential skills for any planner committed to inclusive, community-driven work that reflects diverse voices and real collaboration.- Stephen Coe, AICP
- Megan Terry, AICP
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Data to Action: AI and Social Media
Planners in small and mid-sized cities often face limited or fragmented data. This session showcases practical tools—from open-source geocoding to AI and social media—that transform data gaps into actionable insights for accessibility, community dynamics, and planning practice.- Florina Dutt
- Reshma Afroz Rimi
- SYED RIAD MORSHED
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Mall-ificient Makeovers — Interactive 3D Planning for Redevelopment
As suburban malls decline, redevelopment demands innovative methods. This session demonstrates how interactive 3D GIS tools empower planners to visualize, evaluate, and engage with designs rooted in real data—facilitating inclusive, evidence-based transformation of dated retail sites.- Sujan Shrestha, AICP
- Devin Lavigne
- Timothy Scott, AICP
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Exploratory Scenario Planning for Brazil’s Public Lands
Learn how exploratory scenario planning was implemented by Brazil’s Secretariat for Federal Assets to shape the future of federal land use. Gain insights into adapting futures thinking to national policy contexts and institutional change.- Daniela Faria
- Heather Sauceda Hannon, AICP
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Ethics Cases of the Year 2026
Learn about what's hot in the world of planning ethics from members of the AICP Commission. Understand how the Code of Ethics is implemented using topics relevant to planners today.- Karen Wolf, FAICP
- Staron Faucher, AICP
- Erin Perdu, AICP
- Ralph Willmer, FAICP
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Touching Third Rails: Multimodality and Residential Upzoning
Reimagining car-centric suburban communities to increase choice in travel and housing options can meet significant resistance. This session seeks to share lessons learned from the University Boulevard Corridor Plan to better equip planners with strategies to overcome this resistance.- Jessica McVary, AICP
- Zubin Adrianvala
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Spokane Six: Successful Middle Housing Stacked Flat
It is not enough to allow middle housing, if the development standards perpetuate barriers to built it. The Spokane Six is a clear example of a new build stacked flat sixplex made possible by a jurisdiction supporting middle housing.- Matt Hutchins
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Local Programming: From Strip to Soul: Oak Park’s 11 Mile
Revitalizing aging commercial corridors remains a pressing challenge for urban planners. Oak Park’s reimagining of 11 Mile Road showcases how creative zoning, tactical urbanism, adaptable strategies, and strong partnerships can breathe life into underperforming areas—transforming them into vibrant, community-focused destinations.- Kimberly Marrone, AICP
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Operating in a Time of Amplified Conflict
This session will explore how planners and community leaders are navigating conflict, community polarization, and political pressure, and will provide practical strategies and tips for embracing rather than avoiding conflict.- Jamie Greene, FAICP
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Bridging the Divide: Turning Gaps into Engagement
Is your community outreach process leaving critical voices unheard? Discover how to connect with every corner of your community, turning participation gaps into opportunities for stronger engagement and better planning.- Layla Aslani
- Emily Hays, AICP
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Back to the Baseline: Decarbonizing Public Facilities
Many public entities - cities, counties, states, educational institutions - have lofty climate action goals. But how do we know where to start? This session breaks down how to identify your portfolio's baseline carbon emissions and create realistic reduction strategies.- Grace Corsi, AICP
- Yogesh Saoji, FAICP
- Coral Pais
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Equity in Practice IRL: Continuing the Momentum
Discover real-world examples of how planners are advancing equity in communities of all sizes with lessons you can apply in your own community. This session features tangible examples of planners addressing past harms, protecting individuals, and creating more equitable communities.- Michael Brown, AICP
- Libby Kaiser, AICP
- Minjee Kim
- Christopher Auffrey
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Boost Your Comprehensive Plan: Power-Ups for Participation
Gamification helps planners make complex topics like land use and infrastructure engaging and accessible, fostering inclusive dialogue, helping residents understand trade-offs, and supporting informed, community-driven decisions that strengthen planning outcomes and empower public participation.- Marco Hinojosa, AICP
- John Chapman, AICP
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Banned Words and When to Use Them
Thoughtful communication helps planners advance critical resilience and sustainable projects by reframing how we describe and explain benefits around shared values.- Ryan Slattery, AICP
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Climate Risk and the Home Insurance Crisis
Climate change is wreaking havoc on home insurance rates and coverage nationwide, and planners are grappling with the fallout. This panel discussion will explore what planners need to know about this crisis, and what it means for the future.- Joseph DeAngelis, AICP
- Shayne Kavanagh
- Helen Wiley
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Building Climate Resilient Utility-Scale Solar for Extreme Weather
The frequency of extreme weather events in Michigan has rapidly increased. This presents new challenges for siting large solar projects, predominantly on farmland susceptible to severe flooding. Use of drones and native landscape design techniques can help address these concerns.- Cynthia Todd
- Tim Inman
- Kyle O'Meara
- Wayne Beyea, AICP
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Integrated Resource Planning: Where Land Meets Water
Local and regional land use plans must reflect water resource protection, availability, and management. Most Comprehensive Plans do not adequately address water management. This session will illustrate how water management is being integrated into local and regional land use planning.- William Cesanek, AICP
- Steve Epting
- Rachael Belisle-Toler
- Adam Schempp
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Black Women Leaders: Stories of DC Region Planning
Four Black women directors in planning and development in the Washington, DC region share experiences navigating politics, challenges and opportunities while leading teams in Prince William County, VA, Arlington County, VA, Prince George's County, MD, and Washington, D.C.- Lakisha Hull, AICP
- Tanya Washington, AICP
- Samia Byrd
- Anita Cozart
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Engagement and Innovations in Short Term Rental Regulations
Short Term Rentals, and other transient lodging uses, can provide benefits for the local economy, but also have the potential to negatively impact the surrounding neighborhood when not regulated property. Collaborating with community stakeholders is key to creating effective regulations.- Tara Lambeth, AICP
- Ashley Becnel
- Alexandra Carter, AICP
- Matthew Wilson
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Delivering the Goods: Regional Freight Planning, Local Focus
The Macon and Atlanta regions are both experiencing freight growth, similar to many regions in the country. This presentation focuses on related needs, challenges, and opportunities, and on freight resources created for use by transportation and land use planners.- Daniel Studdard, AICP
- Keri Stevens, AICP
- Erin Thoresen, AICP
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Connecting Capital to Communities: From Plan to Project
This session equips planners with practical tools to transform ideas into funded projects by aligning goals with funding priorities, integrating data, fostering collaboration, and engaging communities to deliver impactful, implementable projects.- Robert McHaney, AICP
- Yige Tang, AICP
- David Fields, FAICP
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Regional Approaches to Infill Housing for Legacy Communities
Supply is critical to addressing housing shortages, and zoning plays a crucial role in managing the housing supply. This session provides a clear path for analyzing and addressing zoning, regulatory, and financial barriers to new housing.- Patrick Hewitt, AICP
- Jennifer Kuzma
- Michael Love
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Leveraging Geospatial Technologies to Support Comprehensive Planning
Planners are increasingly expected to make data-driven decisions, communicate complex ideas, and foster inclusive community engagement. This session demonstrates how geospatial technologies support these expectations by enhancing scenario analysis, visualization, and consensus-building in comprehensive planning.- Joshua Koonce, AICP
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Building Agency Through Community-Led Design Builds
This session will explore how planners can empower communities to design change within their own neighborhoods and how design processes can center community voices in developing urban-level equitable solutions.- Abriannah Aiken
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Navigating Conflict: Communication Skills for Planners
Planners operate in high-pressure environments where trust and clarity are essential. This session equips professionals with practical communication tools to navigate conflict, build public confidence, and lead effectively—especially when facing criticism, misinformation, or emotionally charged dialogue.- Matthew Johnson, AICP
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Minding the Gaps in the Florida Wildlife Corridor
Wildlife corridors focus planning efforts on habitat connectivity, conservation of working lands, and compatible recreational access while supporting environmental and economic resilience and sustainability. Identifying conservation solutions in areas vulnerable to development pressure can ensure connectivity for wildlife and habitats.- Allyn Childress, AICP
- Kimberleigh Dinkins, AICP
- Dylan Rigsby
- Tabitha Biehl
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Managing the Land Use Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) may feel virtual, but its footprint is intensely physical. Learn how planners serving communities on the frontlines of AI deployment can help manage the land use impacts of data centers and power generation, storage, and transmission facilities.- David Morley, AICP
- Charlie Nichols, AICP
- Carmen Bishop, AICP
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Managing Safe Development near Freight Rail: Risk-Based Planning
Freight rail traffic is increasing, raising derailment risks and land use conflicts. Despite, this, current planning and zoning regulations often fail to address development next to rail. Planners must balance freight's economic importance with safety in guiding development decisions.- Abdul Jaffari, AICP
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Tactical P3, Big Impact for Labor and Innovation
Planners are increasingly tasked with decarbonizing their built environment systems. This session shows how San Francisco planners, organized labor, and private industry built a small-scale public private partnership to facilitate electric vehicle penetration, spur innovation, and support high-quality blue-collar careers.- Alex Lantsberg, AICP
- Judy Chang
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Planning Agricultural Land Equity: A California Model
Rural areas generally do not have the resources for planning that urban areas do, but can be better places to work out definitions of "land equity" that include multiple land relations beyond ownership, such as sustenance, employment, community and spirituality.- Marisa Raya
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Neighborhood Conditions Index: Planning for All Tulsa Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods, more than just where we live, are part of our identity and where we feel we belong. NCI is an empowering tool for citizens to plan and collaborate with City of Tulsa to build neighborhoods where they can thrive.- Beatriz Baeza-Denis
- Susan Miller, AICP
- Jeremy Banes, AICP
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Local Programming: Eyesores to Iconic: Removing Barriers to Adaptive Reuse
A panel of planners, architects, and developers will share how Detroit’s new zoning amendment expands adaptive reuse opportunities for vacant schools, churches, and civic buildings by removing rezoning hurdles and detailing the community engagement process that made adoption possible.- Kimani Jeffrey
- John Skok
- M. Rory Bolger, FAICP
- Gregory Moots
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Closing the Gender Gap in Transportation Planning
This panel explores how gender-inclusive mobility planning creates safer, more equitable transportation systems for women and gender minorities. Planners will gain tools to address the gender data gap, improve public engagement, and design streets and services that work for all.- Leah Gerber, AICP
- Shawna Kitzman, AICP
- Sophie Frank
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Bettman Law: The Legacy of Euclid 100 Years On
Euclid v. Ambler Realty established the legal foundation for zoning, a core planning tool. Understanding its legacy is essential for planners to navigate contemporary land use challenges, including housing equity, exclusionary zoning, and the evolving role of local government authority.- David Silverman, FAICP
- Sean Suder
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Complete Streets Means Trucks, Too!
Active transportation and freight networks often conflict, with serious safety risks. Limited coordination between freight and bike/pedestrian planners worsens the issue. This session explores solutions to improve safety at this complex modal intersection through network planning, better design, and evaluation.- Tara Tolford-Marthaller, AICP
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Adaptive Plans: Comprehensive Planning for Implementation and Change
Planners need comprehensive plans that move beyond static blueprints. This session introduces the adaptive comprehensive plan framework, showing how embedding flexibility, equity, and continuous implementation tools can make plans more effective in today’s fragmented and uncertain environments.- John Zeanah, FAICP
- Katherine Keough-Jurs, FAICP
- Evelyn Mitchell
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Local Programming: Custom Solutions, Shared Goals: Unlocking Land for Housing
Zoning reform, factory-built housing, and fast-track permitting are practical tools being explored in Detroit, Cleveland, and Houston to diversify housing stock, expand options for lower-income households, reduce barriers for developers, attract investment, and accelerate neighborhood stabilization.- Andrea Benson, AICP
- Christa Stoneham
- Adam Davenport
- Sara Elbohy
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Trails: New Tool for Grant and Economic Justification
Trails are critical infrastructure that deliver economic, health, and environmental benefits. Planners need accessible tools to quantify these impacts, strengthen funding cases, and ensure investments advance equity, connectivity, and long-term community resilience across diverse contexts.- Mathew Palmer
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Hot Takes: What NOT to Do When Planning
This session equips planners to tackle challenges, manage political dynamics, and stay sane while delivering actionable plans. With candid insights from planners, it’s ideal for new and seasoned professionals eager to learn—and laugh—from real-world experiences.- Catherine Clarke, AICP
- Kendra Hyson
- Kathleen Duffy, AICP
- Mausharie Valentine
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Youth Influencers: Transforming Planning Through Intergenerational Engagement
Explore bold, impactful approaches to embedding youth voices in planning. Learn how authentic engagement with young people can drive innovation, build political will, and address climate, housing, and equity challenges—while preparing the next generation to lead.- Corrin Hoegen Wendell, FAICP
- Anna Laybourn, FAICP
- Jessica Garrow, FAICP
- Meagan Booth, AICP
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Local Programming: Bridging Planning and Engineering for Context-Sensitive Transportation
Complex engineering policies and ROW constraints often hinder the implementation of visionary transportation plans. Learn how to develop plans and methodologies that bridge planning and engineering perspectives, facilitate program and policy changes, and successfully deliver context-sensitive transportation solutions.- Kayla Mauldin, AICP
- Ann Marie Kerby, AICP
- Matthew Smith
- Colleen Hill-Stramsak
- Irvin Wyche, AICP
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Wisdom for a Sustainable Future
The critical need for comprehensive, equitable, and successful global climate change solutions is explicitly addressed in this webinar. In highlighting Indigenous knowledge, we recognize invaluable lessons and also uncover deep insights that are frequently missed by mainstream methodologies.- Lady Franciscar Kassama, AICP
- Michaela Paulette Shirley
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Navigating Uncertainty: Strategic Foresight for Action-Oriented Planning
Learn how the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is using exploratory scenario planning to define a long-term vision for a large, complex metropolitan region. Community planners can use these tools to engage local decision-makers in futures-oriented planning and strategic initiatives.- Elizabeth Ginsberg, AICP
- Austen Edwards
- Heather Sauceda Hannon, AICP
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Trails as Resilient Infrastructure
Communities must adapt infrastructure to climate change challenges. Trails—essential for recreation, health, accessibility, and transportation—are often located in areas vulnerable to wildfire, flooding, and extreme heat, requiring thoughtful design and management to enhance resilience and protect community benefits.- Stephanie Weyer
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The Affordable Housing Crisis...Averted
The national affordability crises is real and it's clear that planners recognize the only solution: more housing for all. However, how bold will each state/local government be to increase housing production in the face of NIMBY pressure?- Christopher Gomez, AICP
- Jesica Youngblood
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