How the built environment becomes the engine of the energy transition

As the energy transition accelerates, buildings are evolving from passive consumers of energy into active participants in a more intelligent, resilient, and distributed energy system. Equipped with digital technologies, connected infrastructure, onsite generation, energy storage, and EV charging, buildings can do far more than reduce their own emissions. They can help balance grids, support electrification, improve energy resilience, and unlock entirely new forms of value.

Leaders from commercial real estate, technology, and energy innovation will explore both the barriers slowing adoption today and the opportunities emerging as buildings become intelligent energy assets. The discussion will examine how digitalization, AI, and data are transforming building performance; how owners can overcome persistent deployment gaps; and why the future of the energy transition may be determined as much by our buildings as by our power plants.