Industry Leaders Roundtable Retreat

The Industry Leaders Roundtable program is designed to embolden firms and their representatives to undertake institutional change within their organizations, by providing them research, tools, and support to be agents of change. The event brings together thought leaders in organizational psychology, sociology, law, architecture and engineering to change culture by providing research, information and action-oriented programs to achieve greater representation of women in the AEC industries.

The Industry Leaders Roundtable is going coast to coast!

Following our program San Francisco, the second Roundtable of 2025 will take place in New York City on October 21 & 22. Join us for an immersive, two-day retreat alongside senior thought leaders across the built environment and NYC’s cultural scene for a rigorous and engaging series of conversations, tours, and workshops.

We’ll be hosted at Ray Harlem on Day 1 and Two Manhattan West on Day 2, with tours of the soon-to-be-opened National Black Theater and the Meta Art Spaces in the Farley Building, alongside an in-depth exploration of the Moynihan complex. The first day will conclude with a special evening at the New York Philharmonic as Jeannette Sorrell conducts seminal works of Mozart.

DAY 1: RAY HARLEM & NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE

• 10:00am-10:30am
  Angelica Baccon, SHoP Architects, Principal
  Tizziana Baldenebro, BWAF, Executive Director
• 10:30am-1:00pm
  Tour of Ray Harlem
  Hard Hat Tour National Black Theatre
• 1:00-2:00pm | Lunch
• 2:00-3:00pm
  Anna Kenoff, Morpholio, Co-Founder
  Jim Keen, Architect, Author, & AI Thought Leader
• 3:00-4:00pm
  Suzanne Musho,New York Presbyterian Hospital, Campus Leader of Design, Construction, & Capital Planning
• 4:00-5:00pm
  Fernando Garcia, Monse, Co-Founder; Oscar de la Renta, Co-Creative Director
• 5:30-7:00pm | Dinner at Lincoln Ristorante
• 7:30pm
  Jeannette Sorrell Conducts Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 at New York Philharmonic

DAY 2: MOYNIHAN & MANHATTAN WEST

• 10:00-11:00am
  Tour of Meta Offices/Art Space
• 11:00am-12:00pm
  Tour of Manhattan West
• 12:00pm | Lunch
• 1:00-2:00pm
  Jeannette Sorrell, Apollo’s Fire, Founder & Conductor
• 2:00-3:00pm
  Hall Rockefeller, Less Than Half, Founder & Director
• 3:00-4:00pm
  TBA
• 4:00-5:00pm
  Nathalie Weiss, McKinsey, Real Estate Unit Associate
• 5:00pm | Closing Toast