While the world awaits a vaccine, how will we inoculate our cities, workplaces, homes, and families against another pandemic? For example, how will fluid organizations balance the mental- and physical health of employees with new remote/office work hybrids? Will social distancing kill mass transit and ridehailing in favor of driving alone — or will cities turn streets over to cyclists, scooters, and pedestrians?

How will deliveries, “dark kitchen,” and automation threaten to turn retailing and restaurants inside-out, threatening main streets, mom-and-pops, and real estate as we know it? And where will millennials — now the victims of a second financial crash — choose to raise their children, “Generation C?”

Drawing on his research and foresight work for NewCities, the Atlantic Council, MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, the Bloomberg Philanthropies, and dozens of recent interviews, Greg Lindsay delivers a sweeping view of how the pandemic and resulting economic crash will alter the trajectory of our lives for decades to come.

Yes, there are many young people who prefer the urban core, but today's fastest-growing cities are actually Sunbelt metros, like San Antonio, Phoenix and Dallas.  Furthermore, huge outflows of people are moving from "superstar cities" due to the lack of affordable housing, a trend that we could expect to grow as Millennial's start families.  In this game changing session, Greg cuts through confusion and stereotypes surrounding millennial's housing preferences and outline a new suburban formula that will entice this generation.

Speaker Greg is a leading voice on Millennial migration and how we can anticipate and build for their changing lifestyle.

Understanding how new forces are transforming expectations and lifestyle choices for the Millennial generation

Exploring why urban Millennials are opting for smaller metros or suburban/exurban fringes of large metros and taking their lifestyle preferences with them

Identifying community features and urban amenities Millennials desire such as walkable neighborhoods, co-working spaces, transportation alternatives and other hallmarks of their youth

Recognizing the opportunities these new forces and trends will enable, including neighborhoods, new uses and new products and services, recombing once-tired formulations of live, work and play.

“
The Metaverse” may be the future, but what 
is
 it? While Mark Zuckerberg hopes you’ll never leave your home again, in reality the next generation of the Internet will beckon us outside, into a world in which information is everywhere — 
if 
you can see it. Welcome to the real-world metaverse, where you can change reality like changing a channel.

How will this change our relationship to each other and to the world? How will these reality channels transform where we live, how we shop, and how we move through enchanted worlds? Drawing on his “Metaverse Metropolis” project at Cornell Tech university, Greg Lindsay offers real advice and lessons from the technologists, designers, and experts building this real-world metaverse.

Nearly half of Americans were victims of a climate disaster last year — whether fire, floods, heat waves or hurricanes — with insurable losses of more than $100 billion. As people wake up to the realities of climate change — and the growing threat to their homes, livelihoods, and families — many are beginning to ask, “Where should I live someday?” Fortunately, we have answers. Combining climate science with demographics and using artificial intelligence, we can predict tomorrow’s more resilient regions.

Climate change isn’t just a story about mounting catastrophes, but also opportunity — if we harness the right technologies, policies, and political will to build back better elsewhere. Drawing on his work with the startup Climate Alpha, Greg Lindsay offers cutting edge analysis and maps to explain why and where a warming world may still have shelter for us all.