Event Description

Greenbuild hosts the largest annual event for green building professionals worldwide where attendees learn and source solutions to improve resilience, sustainability, and quality of life in our buildings, cities, and communities.

Greenbuild will return to the east coast, taking place October 20-23, 2026, at the Javits Center in New York City. Greenbuild's 2026 theme is Invest for Impact, where key topics will include investing, development of new projects, and retrofitting existing structures.

The Greenbuild Expo Hall is a one-of-a-kind experience loaded with interactive experiences designed to bring you face-to-face with technical experts from a diverse range of sustainability-focused companies. Expo Hall attendees have access to live education, networking activities, and opportunities to source the latest technology to incorporate into their LEED projects.

The Greenbuild International Conference + Expo develops the next generation of leaders focused on sustainable standards, policies, and partnerships. The Greenbuild community gathers annually to turn the promise of a higher living standard into a reality for all.

Keynote speaker:

Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS for CNN Worldwide, will take the Keynote stage on Wednesday, October 21, 2026 at 8am.

Pre-Conference Summits:

- Building Intelligence in the Age of AI
- Designing for Resilience in an Era of Climate and Disaster Risk
- Strategic Decarbonization: Regulatory Drivers, Tools, and Real‑World Execution

Sessions and workshops Include:

• Beyond Comfort: Bridging the Occupant Experience Gap
• Building a Reuse Ecosystem: Industry Updates and Interactive Workshop
• Stop Flattening Intelligence: The Financial Case for the Self-Describing Building
• The Carrot & The Stick: Drivers for Advancing The Low Embodied Carbon Material Economy
• The Business of Adaptive Reuse in NYC and Beyond
• Aligning Towards a Global Materials Strategy
• The Untold Story: Giving Health Professionals Voice in Green Building
• Batteries and Beyond: Energizing Market Adoption of On-Site Energy Storage
• Cooking Up Good Trouble: Decarbonizing the $11T Hospitality Economy
• In a New York Minute: Innovators Bridging the Digital Materials Divide
• From Values to Verifiable: Supply Chain Equity in Building Materials
• Future-Proofing Assets: A Data-Driven Roadmap for LEED v5 Resilience
• Ghostbusting the Spooky Scaries of Innovative Lower-Carbon Materials
• Materials, Reuse & Embodied CarbonReuse & Embodied Carbon
  Restoring Mannahatta’s Ecology Through Biophilic Design
• Why Not Here? Natural Ventilation’s Hidden Potential in Cities
• Why Your Buildings Will Soon Be Part of the Grid
• Material Intelligence - Eliminating Coordination Errors in Sustainable Material Specification: A 
• An Exploration of GIS in Architecture, Urban Design, and Planning
• Apollo Energies Presents: The New Blueprint: EcoPlatform™ Contract-First Architecture and EcoAudit®
• Driving Urban Value: From Racetrack to World's Most Sustainable Community
• Cities & DistrictsCommunities, Cities & Districts
• Invest for Impact: Decarbonizing Buildings via Policy, Technology and Finance
• Lead, Don't Plead: How to Make Sustainability the Default Design
• Multi-Layered Investment: Advancing Concrete Supply Chain, Performance, and Impact
• Finance and Business ModelsResiliency and Decarbonization in Northeast Mission-Critical Facilities
• Climate Risk & Resilient Design
• Materials, Reuse & Embodied CarbonReuse & Embodied Carbon
• The Role of Building Performance Analytics in Massachusetts’ Climate Policy
• Addressing Embodied and Operational Carbon from Foundation to Rooftop
• Breaking the Embodied Carbon Barrier: Achieving Reductions at Cost Parity
• Why Building-Level Decarbonization Isn't Enough: Climate Risk,Capital and Community-Scale Impact
• Beyond Comfort: Bridging the Gap Between Intent and Impact
• Data Centers as Urban Infrastructure: Impacts, Governance, Community Value
• Driving the Policy Agenda for Sustainable Buildings and Communities
• Heat Recovery as the Backbone of Resource-Efficient Decarbonization
• Making Projects Viable: Bridging Design, Development and Delivery
• On the Road to Electrification: One Size Doesn’t Fit All!
• Quantifying the Unquantifiable: ROI from People Investments
• Whole Life Carbon Gets Mechanical: MEP 2040 Pilot Results
• Advancing Climate Justice Through Flood Resilience in NYCHA Public Housing
• Decarbonizing at Scale: Lessons from Boston's Largest Net-Zero Office
• From Capital to Carbon: The Owners' Perspective on Implementation
• Good Neighbors: Identifying Pathways for District-Scale Commercial Electrification
• The Data Center Boom Meets Sustainability: Hard Tradeoffs, Real Solutions
• The Future of Green Careers: Navigating Tomorrow's Sustainability Landscape
• Accelerating the Building Performance Ecosystem: How USGBC's Product Suite is Evolving to Meet the Market
• Beyond Code-Switching: Selling Sustainability Across the Political Divide
• Decarbonizing Portfolios: From Global Commitment to Financial Execution
• Driving Financial Insight and Decarbonization Action with Artificial Intelligence
• Driving Sustainable Communities in Saudi Arabia Through LEED for Communities
• Filling the Gap: Measuring Embodied Carbon in MEP Systems
• Healing Through Resilience: A Case Study on Climate-Ready Healthcare Design
• Performance, Data & Value: Turning Information into Decisions
• Reframing Resilience as ROI: Turning Climate Design into Client Value
• Who Pays? Who Decides? Unlocking Capital for Existing Buildings
• Amazon’s New Delivery Station: Leveraging Lower Carbon, High-Impact Supply Chains
• Climate Action You Can Feel: Community-Based Human-Centered Decarbonization and Resilience
• Deal to Decision: Financing Sustainable & Resilient Investments at NYGB
• Do BEPS Change Owner Behavior? Business Impacts of NYC LL97
• Invest for Impact: How Performance-Driven Cities Unlock Sustainable Investment
• Nature-Positive Development: Aligning Policy, Finance, and Design for Resilient Communities
• Protecting Asset Values: Climate Risk Management, Stakeholders, and LEED v5
• Scaling Performance: From Individual Projects to Portfolios
• Storytelling as Infrastructure: Advancing the Triple-Bottom-Line Through Narrative and Design
• The Future is Watching: Designing for Grid-Flexible, High-Performance Buildings

Greenbuild is presented in partnership with the US Green Building Council, a mission-focused organization committed to creating a prosperous and sustainable future through cost-efficient and energy-saving green buildings.