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AEC Summit Announces First Wave of Speakers Led by Executives from Legends Global, Howard Hughes, Skanska and More

Presented by KP Reddy Co., the 10th annual industry convening takes place Oct. 19 as part of New York Real Estate Week.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE · ATLANTA, SEPT. 1, 2026

ATLANTA, Sept. 1, 2026: AEC Summit today announced the first wave of confirmed speakers for its 2026 event, taking place Oct. 19 at the Weylin in Brooklyn, N.Y., during New York Real Estate Week. The roster draws from real estate development, capital investment, construction, engineering and technology, with additional speakers to be announced on a rolling basis.

Learn more at aecsummit.co

Hosted by KP Reddy Co., the theme of its 10th annual gathering is “Teamwork: Project Success is a Team Sport,” emphasizing the importance of innovation and collaboration across all parties to achieve transformative results, especially in the age of AI. AEC Summit convenes the owners and developers who decide what gets built with the founders, engineers and builders changing how it gets built, and the investors who fund it.

KP Reddy, founder and CEO of Zero RFI and Shadow Ventures, headlines the event. A second-generation civil engineer, Reddy has spent his career building and investing in construction technology. He has authored three books on BIM, startups and AI, hosts the #1 AEC podcast KP Unpacked, and is sought after for his industry expertise.

“This is not a conference where vendors pitch and attendees browse. We are putting the people who control billions of dollars in capital deployment in direct conversation with the founders, engineers and builders changing how that capital is put to work. This is the room every serious operator in the industry should want to be in to achieve another level of success and understanding about what works and what doesn’t.”

KP Reddy, Founder and CEO of Zero RFI and Shadow Ventures

Owners and developers

Confirmed speakers on the development and investment side include:

Brad Hargreaves, founder and editor-in-chief of Thesis Driven, the subscription publication covering emerging real estate asset classes
Carrie Denning Jackson, advisor at Jamestown LP, the firm behind some of the country’s best-known adaptive-reuse projects
Chris Nations, president of Legends Global Owner’s Representation, which oversees delivery of sports and entertainment venues worldwide
Marcus Spillane, senior vice president of innovation at Howard Hughes, developer of large-scale master-planned communities across the U.S.
Andrew Steiker-Epstein, chief data officer and brokerage president at New York developer Charney Cos.
Tom Stringer, founder of site selection and economic incentives advisory Stringer SSI

Technology and automation

From the companies changing how projects are designed, documented and built:

Alex Girau, CEO of Group 1
Josh Levy, founder of Document Crunch, which applies AI to construction contracts, compliance and risk
Marc Minor, co-founder and CEO of Higharc, whose platform digitizes how production homes are designed and built
Nadav Shuruk, co-founder of Okibo, which deploys autonomous robots on active jobsites
Tiffany Yeh, founder of Eztia

Engineering and construction

Representing the firms delivering complex projects in the field:

Justin Barton, senior principal at structural engineering firm Walter P Moore
Ravi Bhatia, business development manager at Skanska USA Civil
Rob Ioanna, executive principal at MEP engineering firm Syska Hennessy Group

Registration

Current early-bird registration rates are available through Sept. 11. Individual and group registration is open, with information on promotional rates at aecsummit.co, subject to availability. A limited number of sponsorships remain; for sponsorship inquiries, email community@kpreddy.co.

About AEC Summit

Now in its 10th year, AEC Summit is the flagship annual gathering hosted by Zero RFI and KP Reddy Co., convening more than 200 senior leaders across architecture, engineering, construction, real estate development and construction technology. The 2026 Summit takes place Oct. 19 at the Weylin in Brooklyn, N.Y., during New York Real Estate Week. Learn more at aecsummit.co.

About KP Reddy Co.

KP Reddy Co. offers an ecosystem of programs including the Integrated Owners Forum, Mastermind Groups, the Catalyst executive peer forum, Hackathons, and the KP Unpacked podcast for the architecture, engineering and construction industry. KP Reddy Co. is a Zero RFI company founded by industry veteran KP Reddy and backed by General Catalyst. The company is located in Atlanta, San Francisco, Boston, and New York.

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