Discover your journey through the Summit.
Each Journey offers a distinct lens on the evolving realm of vertical urbanism, helping you navigate the Summit through the ideas, disciplines, and regions most relevant to you.
Rather than following a fixed track, use the Journeys as flexible frameworks to forge your own path across the program—whether you’re a structural engineer eager to dive deeper into climate-responsive systems, a developer focused on global project trends, or an architect passionate about community impact.
Preview the journeys below or use the Journey filters on the full schedule.
Best Tall Building
Follow along with our live juries on this journey, as the Best Tall Building Award of Excellence Winners present their projects for consideration in their respective height and regional subcategories. Each winning project is vying for the coveted 2026 Best Tall Building Worldwide Award, to be announced at the Awards Ceremony and Dinner.
ESG and Community
This journey focuses on the social, environmental, and community outcomes of tall building development. It highlights how ESG priorities, inclusive design, the public realm, and well-being can shape, and be shaped by, buildings that support people, their communities, and the performance of the buildings around them.
Identity and Regional Icons
Explore how tall buildings express place, culture, and long-term value on this journey, through the lens of each project’s design and development strategy. This journey shows how collaborative and well-considered design and construction processes can create buildings that become enduring urban landmarks.
Middle East
Experience projects that are establishing the Middle East as a leader in height, density, innovation, and urban identity in this journey. It highlights the region’s evolving approaches to engineering, development, and city planning at both the building and urban scales.
Performance and Engineering
This journey examines the technical systems, engineering decisions, and performance strategies that enable tall buildings to function at a high level. It is suited for attendees interested in the technical details and innovations that make complex projects possible.
Renewal and Adaptive Reuse
Witness how existing buildings and urban assets can be renewed, repositioned, and adapted for ongoing value in this journey. This journey will also explore up-front decisions that can help projects endure into the future, with an emphasis on resilience, heritage, and placemaking.
Sustainability and Carbon
Discover the strategies and projects advancing low-carbon design, sustainable delivery, and long-term building performance on this journey. These sessions connect carbon reduction strategies with resilience, policy, and approaches for improving the environmental impact of tall buildings globally.
United Kingdom
Engage with local strategies and innovations in this journey, where attendees will learn how adaptive reuse, planning, advocacy, and long-term asset value are approached in the UK. Understand how the UK has approached the density conversation in an established, heritage-sensitive urban fabric.
Urban Habitat and City Planning
This journey considers how tall buildings contribute to healthier, denser, and more resilient urban environments. It connects planning, mobility, the public realm, and placemaking discussions with the broader role of tall buildings in shaping complete communities.
Preview the journeys.
Browse a snapshot of the sessions and speakers within each Journey to see how its themes come to life across the Summit—and add sessions that interest you directly to your personal schedule.
See the Full Schedule.
Explore the full program and find the sessions that align with your interests and goals. Plan your experience around the topics, ideas, and conversations that matter most to you.
