This session explores the strategies for managing climate risk through resilient planning and design across the built environment, supporting progress towards Hong Kong’s carbon neutrality goals. Drawing on real-world project experience and cross-sectoral perspectives, the discussion highlights how organisations are responding to this transition within an increasingly complex climate landscape.

Session Learnings:

• How can organisations manage climate risks strategically to strengthen resilience across the built environment?
• What practical actions can stakeholders take to respond to climate risks in an increasingly complex environment?

Post-Event Actions:

• Gain insights on the strategies of climate resilience design and planning acorss built environment.
• Seek further knowledge enhancement in the area of sustainable buildings through attending professional training and / or joining professional bodies such as HKGBC.

This session focuses on how retrofit solutions can enhance energy performance and contribute to decarbonization goals across existing buildings. Featuring insights from industry leaders, the discussion examines how retrofit can be progressed across different building portfolios, supported by green financing strategies in a pragmatic and scalable way.

Session Learnings:

• What factors should be considered when progressing retrofit solutions to improve energy performance across different building portfolios?
• How can green financing models advance the implementation of retrofit solutions in a pragmatic and scalable way?

Post-Event Actions:

• Gain insights on how retrofit can be progressed across different building portfolios and the green financing strategies that support retrofit in a pragmatic and scalable way.
• Seek further knowledge enhancement in the area of sustainable buildings through attending professional training and / or joining professional bodies such as HKGBC.

Hong Kong’s housing affordability crisis is measurable: apartment prices stand at 23 times median annual household income, rents consume 72% of monthly earnings, and the public housing waitlist averages 5+ years. The government’s commitment to 189,000 new public housing units over five years — built faster and to higher sustainability standards — demands urgent, coordinated action across the delivery chain.
Drawing on the Urban Land Institute’s Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index 2026, this panel benchmarks Hong Kong’s challenge against 40+ cities in the region and presents evidence of what is working in peer markets. It brings together voices from public housing development, construction, and finance to examine the innovations and structural changes needed to build affordable housing at speed without compromising on sustainability — and to identify what each sector must commit to.

Session Learnings:

• How Hong Kong’s housing affordability and delivery performance compares to peer cities across Asia Pacific, based on the ULI Asia Pacific Home Attainability Index 2026, and which APAC models offer the most relevant lessons
• How MiC and DfMA construction methods can simultaneously reduce build costs by 20–30%, construction time by 30–50%, and carbon emissions — and what is required to scale their adoption in Hong Kong’s public housing programme
• Where the real bottlenecks lie in Hong Kong’s public housing pipeline: land formation, procurement cycles, construction capacity, regulatory approval, or financing structures
• How green finance instruments — green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, blended public-private structures — can unlock capital for affordable and low-carbon housing at scale

Post-Event Actions:

• Identify one concrete commitment — in design, procurement, construction methods, or green financing — that your organisation can make toward faster and more sustainable housing delivery in Hong Kong
• Explore adoption of MiC, DfMA, or low-carbon construction materials in your next project, procurement round, or investment decision
• Assess the role of green finance in your organisation’s housing-related activities and identify one opportunity to deploy green bonds, impact lending, or sustainability-linked instruments
• Share the ULI HAI 2026 benchmarks and panel insights internally to advance alignment on affordable and sustainable housing as a shared organisational priority

As buildings become increasingly complex and expectations around resilience, sustainability, and safety rise, building operations must shift from reactive responses to proactive, intelligence-led management. This panel explores how AI is transforming building operations across digital infrastructure, property operations, and life-safety systems. Industry leaders will share insights on how robust digital foundations enable real-time data visibility, predictive analytics, and scalable AI applications. Perspectives from large-scale commercial property operations will highlight how AI improves operational efficiency, tenant experience, and sustainability performance in Grade A assets. The session will also examine how AI-driven fire service maintenance enhances system reliability, regulatory compliance, and risk prevention. Together, the discussion illustrates how integrated AI solutions are enabling smarter, safer, and future-ready building operations.

Session Learnings:

• How AI enables predictive maintenance and proactive operational decision-making
• The importance of digital infrastructure in supporting AI-driven building management
• Real-world applications of AI in large-scale commercial property operations
• How AI strengthens fire safety, compliance, and risk reduction
• Key considerations for adopting AI across building systems

Post-Event Actions:

• Identify areas within current building operations suitable for AI-driven improvements
• Initiate conversations on moving from reactive to predictive maintenance models
• Evaluate digital infrastructure readiness for AI adoption
• Pilot AI use cases in areas such as safety, energy, or asset management
• Develop a strategic roadmap for smarter, future-ready building operations

Green buildings alone do not deliver sustainability outcomes without active participation from the people who use them. This panel explores how advancing green behaviours depends on effective tenant engagement and collaboration across building management, facilities operations, and the wider real estate ecosystem. Drawing on perspectives from building operators, facilities managers, and tenant-facing advisors, the discussion will examine how engagement strategies, data transparency, and shared accountability can turn sustainable design into real operational impact. Panelists will share practical insights on aligning landlord and tenant goals, influencing day-to-day behaviours, and embedding sustainability into workplace culture. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of how tenant engagement acts as the critical bridge between green building ambitions and measurable environmental performance.

Session Learnings:

• Why tenant behaviour is critical to achieving green building performance
• Effective strategies for engaging tenants on sustainability initiatives
• The role of facilities management in enabling and reinforcing green practices
• How data, communication, and incentives drive behaviour change
• Ways to align landlord, tenant, and service provider sustainability goals

Post-Event Actions:

• Review current tenant engagement approaches related to sustainability
• Identify opportunities to collaborate more closely with occupants and service partners
• Introduce clearer communication and feedback mechanisms on building performance
• Pilot behaviour-focused sustainability initiatives within buildings or portfolios
• Develop action plans to translate green building features into real-world impact

Hong Kong is entering the ecosystem-building phase of the low-altitude economy: moving beyond individual pilots to deliberately orchestrate the full stack of building blocks that make low-altitude services safe, scalable, and investable. This means aligning “hardware” and “software” across the system—shared rules and accountability, end-to-end safety assurance and incident handling, privacy-by-design data stewardship, interoperable standards, and cross-boundary coordination—so that different players can plug in and operate in harmony.

The session brings together LAE service providers, public organisations, infrastructure and data partners, and supporting professional services to discuss how Hong Kong can choreograph this ecosystem—from common operating pathways and governance interfaces, to repeatable service models and commercial arrangements—so that high-value use cases such as inspections, emergency response, and logistics can scale with public trust, safety, privacy, and transparency.

Session Learnings:

• What are the core ecosystem building blocks Hong Kong must put in place to scale LAE safely?
• How can organisations plug into the LAE ecosystem with manageable risk?
• How can cross-sector collaboration accelerate adoption and unlock value?

Post-event Actions:

• Identify 1–3 feasible LAE use cases for your organisation and outline the expected benefits, operating conditions, and key constraints.
• Engage potential partners to scope a small pilot with clear success metrics and a pathway from trial to routine operations.

The future of net-zero, resource-efficient cities lies in how effectively we manage construction materials. This session explores how digital marketplaces are redefining resource flows by connecting stakeholders across the supply chain to exchange, repurpose, and reuse construction materials. Through transparent data sharing, traceability tools, and collaborative digital platforms, these systems enable smarter procurement decisions and measurable carbon savings. Industry leaders and technology innovators will discuss how such solutions enhance material visibility, reduce waste, and foster trust among contractors, developers, and recyclers. The conversation will highlight practical pathways for building circular economies across urban infrastructure — driving both environmental and economic value on the road to net-zero cities.

Session Learnings:

• Discover how digital marketplaces and platforms are enhancing transparency, traceability, and efficiency across Hong Kong’s construction supply chain.
• Learn how data-driven material management supports waste reduction, carbon savings, and smarter procurement decisions.
• Explore successful examples of circular construction enabled by technology, collaboration, and innovative business models.
• Understand the critical role of industry-wide partnerships and leadership in accelerating the transition toward circular, net-zero cities.
• Gain insights into how Hong Kong’s construction sector is leveraging digital transformation to build a more sustainable and resource-efficient urban future.

Post-Event Actions:

• Assess current material management practices to identify opportunities for integrating circular principles and digital tracking tools.
• Initiate collaborations with industry partners and digital solution providers to pilot material exchange or reuse initiatives.
• Develop internal policies or guidelines to promote data transparency and material traceability across project lifecycles.
• Incorporate circular procurement criteria and reuse targets into sustainability strategies and tender frameworks.
• Leverage learnings from the session to strengthen organisational readiness for Hong Kong’s transition to a circular, low carbon construction economy.