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Arup
About, team & resources
Plan and design resilient infrastructure with multidisciplinary engineering, advisory and digital expertise.
Arup is a global built environment consultancy providing advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines. Founded in 1946, Arup brings together engineers, designers, planners, consultants and technical specialists to plan, design and deliver complex projects across infrastructure and the built environment. The firm works globally to create safe, resilient and sustainable solutions, guided by its purpose to “shape a better world.”
What we can help with
Transport and infrastructure design
Climate resilience and asset planning
Digital engineering and infrastructure twins
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Aurigo builds software that helps build the world. Aurigo provides modern, cloud-based solutions for capital infrastructure and private owners to help them plan with confidence, build with quality, and maintain their assets efficiently. With more than $300b of capital programs under management, Aurigo’s solutions are trusted by over 300 customers in transportation, water and utilities, healthcare, higher education, and the government on over 40,000 projects across North America.
Aurigo helps capital program executives make better decisions based on proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. Aurigo is a privately held US corporation headquartered in Austin, Texas, with global offices in Canada and India. Learn more at www.aurigo.com.
What we can help with
Capital improvement planning and prioritization
Construction program cost and schedule visibility
Infrastructure asset condition management
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Contruent is the lifecycle cost management solution that empowers Owners and Engineering & Construction firms to deliver complex capital programs and mega projects with precision and speed.
Contruent is faster to deliver across the project lifecycle because it integrates cost and scheduling and comes project-ready out-of-the box with 25 years of best practices built in. The result is higher accuracy, speed, and cost efficiency.
Founded in 1994 as ARES PRISM and renamed with the launch of an innovative SaaS platform, Contruent operates in 26 countries and is now headquartered in Naperville, IL.
What we can help with
Capital project budgeting and forecasting
Integrated cost, schedule and change control
Contract and procurement governance
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
As the largest professional services network in the world, Deloitte focuses on the complex issues facing the public sector and develops relevant, timely, and sustainable solutions for our clients. Our teams work across more than 20 industry sectors, the 15 federal cabinet level agencies, and 48 states with one goal: to deliver measurable, lasting results.
Deloitte’s Infrastructure and Capital Projects practice supports federal, state, and local agencies with their infrastructure, capital asset, and resiliency needs, including strategy and planning, financing and procurement, construction and project delivery, and asset management. Our services bridge the gap among the functions of management (e.g., strategy, finance, risk) and the construction manager (design, engineering, and construction).
Our multi-disciplinary team of infrastructure professionals, engineers, construction specialists, financial advisors, economists, and data scientists bring tools to government agencies and infrastructure owners to help them throughout the asset lifecycle, turning construction risk into confidence.
What we can help with
Infrastructure strategy, financing and procurement
Capital program governance and delivery
Resilience and asset lifecycle planning
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Kahua helps you manage processes, documents and cost on your construction programs and projects from inception to closeout. Purpose-built solutions for owners, program managers, general contractors and subcontractors help you minimize time-to-value and enhance user adoption. Kahua enables collaboration between all project participants to streamline communication and improve efficiency. Eliminate waste and rework by keeping everyone on the same page with the latest design and scope information.
And with Kahua’s comprehensive dashboards and reporting, you get the visibility and control you need to minimize risk.
Kahua is a lifecycle solution, with applications for capital planning, sources of funds, design review, bid management, document management & control, cost management and asset handover. Kahua is available on all mobile devices to easily connect field to office.
Kahua apps are built on kBuilder, an Enterprise Low-Code Application Platform which enables Kahua partners and customers to rapidly build new apps or customize existing apps to extend or enhance Kahua solutions. This gives you the agility you need to adapt as your business needs evolve. To date, over 600 private and public apps have been developed on kBuilder, and public apps are available to the Kahua community on the kStore app marketplace.
What we can help with
Capital planning and funding visibility
Cost, contract and change management
Project collaboration and asset handover
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Asset owners and project leaders rely on Oracle Construction and Engineering software for the visibility and control, connected supply chain, and data security needed to drive performance and mitigate risk across their processes, projects, and organization. Feel confident in your digital transformation with modern cloud solutions that grow and scale with you at every step of your journey. Enable efficiency, collaboration, and change control for your teams that plan, build, and operate critical assets.
What we can help with
Capital portfolio planning and asset management
Project scheduling and integrated controls
Construction document collaboration
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Procore is a cloud-based construction management platform that streamlines project workflows. It connects all project stakeholders—from owners and contractors to subcontractors—on a single, collaborative platform. For public sector projects, this means improved transparency, accountability, and efficiency. Procore facilitates real-time communication, document control, bid management, and cost tracking, helping ensure projects stay on time and within budget.
It enhances collaboration, reduces risk, and provides valuable data insights for better decision-making throughout the project lifecycle, ultimately benefiting taxpayers.
What we can help with
Public agency construction financial visibility
Project records and field collaboration
Budget, commitment and actual cost tracking
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Salto Wecosystem is focused on enabling access to more… more doors, more opportunities, more data.
Salto Wecosystem delivers secure, scalable, keyless access purpose-built for utilities and critical infrastructure, where assets are remote, outdoor, and mission critical. Through IP-rated, wire free locks, electronic padlocks, and centralized digital management, utilities gain real-time control, auditability, and compliance across thousands of access points. The Salto Wecosystem also offers expertise in identity management, workforce safety, and asset protection for high-risk environments.
Together, they help utility operators reduce risk, eliminate mechanical keys, improve operational efficiency, and ensure continuity across distributed, critical assets worldwide.
Trusted worldwide SALTO WECOSYSTEM supports more than 40,000 installations and over 40 million daily users, with operations in 40 countries and a global partner network delivering scalable, integrated smart access solutions at any scale.
What we can help with
Keyless access to distributed infrastructure assets
Digital identity and access audit trails
Facility and utility site security
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Trimble is a global technology company that connects the physical and digital worlds, transforming the ways work gets done. With relentless innovation in precise positioning, modeling and data analytics, Trimble enables essential industries including construction, geospatial and transportation. Whether it’s helping customers build and maintain infrastructure, design and construct buildings, optimize global supply chains or map the world, Trimble is at the forefront, driving productivity and progress.
For more information about Trimble (Nasdaq: TRMB), visit: www.trimble.com.
What we can help with
Infrastructure BIM and model collaboration
Field-to-office construction data
Asset lifecycle management
Attendee profiles will appear once participation is confirmed.
Jon is a Principal and Architecture Practice Leader based in Arup’s New York office.
In his role, Jon is establishing Arup’s architecture capability in New York and catalyzing its growth across the Americas region with a focus on the rail, transit, and infrastructure markets. He believes that interdisciplinary design has the potential to make architecture more pure, powerful, impactful, efficient, and sustainable. At the helm of Arup’s architecture practice in the United States, Jon is creating enhanced opportunities for innovative and sustainable development central to the firm’s mission of designing cities of the future.
Prior to joining Arup in 2022, Jon was a New York Design Studio Leader at SOM. Jon has decades of experience working on award-winning projects, including Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan and Denver Union Station, and brings extensive knowledge of the transportation market. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.
Liliana Petrova is the Founder and CEO of The Petrova Experience, a customer experience consulting firm specializing in transportation, aviation, and complex infrastructure. With more than 20 years of experience, she previously held leadership roles at JetBlue, where she helped shape the airline’s innovation strategy and pioneered passenger experience initiatives. Her firm has contributed to major infrastructure programs involving the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, MTA, NJ Transit, and Amtrak, including Newark AirTrain and Penn Station redevelopment initiatives. A Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) with an MBA from NYU Stern, Petrova focuses on integrating customer experience, operational strategy, and innovation into the planning and delivery of major infrastructure projects.
Sara Appleton is Director of Penn Station Transformation at Amtrak, where she leads efforts to modernize one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs and improve the passenger experience. Previously, she served as Assistant Director of the Gateway Program, supporting major infrastructure investments along the Northeast Corridor. Her background includes consulting at McKinsey & Company and economic development work with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Appleton holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and was recognized among City & State’s 2026 Above & Beyond Women.
All times are local to the event. Program subject to change.
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Networking
Registration & Networking Breakfast
Connect with public agencies, project owners, developers, investors, engineers and contractors from across the Northeast.
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM
Panel
The Northeast’s Infrastructure Inflection Point: Which Projects Actually Move in 2027?
A $68.4 billion MTA capital plan, the Gateway rail program, JFK redevelopment, grid expansion and climate adaptation are creating an extraordinary project pipeline. Yet funding uncertainty, permitting, power availability and construction capacity are reshaping what can actually advance. Public owners, developers and capital providers confront the hard choices: which investments are ready to procure, which are at risk, and what must happen in the next 12 months to turn announcements into construction.
8:30 AM – 8:50 AM
Presentation
Featured Presentation – TBA
8:50 AM – 9:20 AM
Panel
The Power Bottleneck: Can New York Build the Grid Its Economy Needs?
AI computing, electrification, new buildings and aging assets are putting a premium on reliable electricity. The real contest is over interconnection queues, transmission, substations, firm capacity and who pays for upgrades. Utilities, large-load customers and infrastructure developers examine how to bring power online faster while managing affordability, resilience and competing regional priorities.
9:20 AM – 9:50 AM
Panel
The AI Infrastructure Land Rush: Power, Data Centers & the Northeast’s Next Growth Markets
AI demand is creating a new class of power-intensive infrastructure investment. But the winning sites are not simply those with land: they need deliverable megawatts, fiber, water and cooling, workable permitting and a credible community proposition. This discussion tests where Northeast data centers can actually be built, how behind-the-meter power and new energy contracts change the equation, and whether AI growth will crowd out other infrastructure needs.
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
Networking
Morning Networking Break
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM
Presentation
Featured Presentation – TBA
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM
Panel
Empowering Leaders to Build Next Generation Infrastructure
The next generation of transportation infrastructure cannot be delivered agency by agency. The passenger experience is one journey, even when five organizations own pieces of it. Protecting the public investment therefore requires a new model of leadership, collaboration and customer-centered decision-making across institutional boundaries. Somebody has to represent and integrate the passenger outcome across the system.
Moderator
Liliana Petrova
CEO/Founder The Petrova Experience, LLC
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Liliana Petrova is the Founder and CEO of The Petrova Experience, a customer experience consulting firm specializing in transportation, aviation, and complex infrastructure. With more than 20 years of experience, she previously held leadership roles at JetBlue, where she helped shape the airline’s innovation strategy and pioneered passenger experience initiatives. Her firm has contributed to major infrastructure programs involving the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, MTA, NJ Transit, and Amtrak, including Newark AirTrain and Penn Station redevelopment initiatives. A Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) with an MBA from NYU Stern, Petrova focuses on integrating customer experience, operational strategy, and innovation into the planning and delivery of major infrastructure projects.
Sara Appleton is Director of Penn Station Transformation at Amtrak, where she leads efforts to modernize one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs and improve the passenger experience. Previously, she served as Assistant Director of the Gateway Program, supporting major infrastructure investments along the Northeast Corridor. Her background includes consulting at McKinsey & Company and economic development work with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Appleton holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and was recognized among City & State’s 2026 Above & Beyond Women.
Jon is a Principal and Architecture Practice Leader based in Arup’s New York office.
In his role, Jon is establishing Arup’s architecture capability in New York and catalyzing its growth across the Americas region with a focus on the rail, transit, and infrastructure markets. He believes that interdisciplinary design has the potential to make architecture more pure, powerful, impactful, efficient, and sustainable. At the helm of Arup’s architecture practice in the United States, Jon is creating enhanced opportunities for innovative and sustainable development central to the firm’s mission of designing cities of the future.
Prior to joining Arup in 2022, Jon was a New York Design Studio Leader at SOM. Jon has decades of experience working on award-winning projects, including Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan and Denver Union Station, and brings extensive knowledge of the transportation market. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.
Gateway Under Pressure: Hudson Tunnel, Penn Station & the Future of the Northeast Corridor
The Hudson Tunnel Project and Penn Station transformation sit at the center of a regional rail system with national economic importance. With construction advancing and federal funding disputes underscoring the stakes, project leaders face a difficult balancing act: protect schedules, coordinate across owners, manage live rail operations and deliver benefits riders can actually feel. What does it take to keep a generational corridor program moving?
11:45 AM – 12:25 PM
Panel
Building While Operating: JFK’s $19 Billion Transformation, Ports & the Freight Economy
JFK’s massive redevelopment is an unusually visible test of megaproject delivery while a global airport stays open. New terminals, roadways, logistics, passenger technology and creative construction logistics are changing the airport experience. Port and freight operators face parallel demands for capacity, electrification and resilience. This conversation focuses on delivery innovations, private capital and the operational tradeoffs behind projects that cannot stop serving customers.
12:25 PM – 1:05 PM
Networking
Networking Lunch
1:05 PM – 1:25 PM
Presentation
Featured Presentation – TBA
1:25 PM – 1:55 PM
Panel
The Next Storm Is Already in the Capital Plan: Water, Flooding & Urban Resilience
Extreme rainfall, coastal surge and aging pipes are making resilience a core investment decision rather than an environmental add-on. From subway flood protection and coastal defenses to wastewater upgrades and distributed stormwater systems, owners must prioritize projects under tight budgets. Where is the money going, which solutions are ready to scale, and how can agencies measure avoided losses before the next major event?
1:55 PM – 2:25 PM
Panel
Who Takes the Risk? Financing Megaprojects in a High-Cost Market
The Northeast has no shortage of infrastructure ambitions; it has a shortage of easy projects. Inflation, federal uncertainty, financing costs and delivery risk are changing how capital is structured. Owners, investors, advisers and builders debate availability payments, concessions, design-build, progressive delivery, insurance, guarantees and the conditions under which private capital can genuinely accelerate public outcomes.
2:25 PM – 2:55 PM
Panel
Can New York Build Again? Housing, Industrial Sites & the Infrastructure Unlock
New housing, life-science campuses, industrial reuse and mixed-use districts all run into the same hidden constraints: grid capacity, water and sewer, transit access, approvals and site remediation. Developers and city leaders examine which infrastructure investments unlock real projects, who funds improvements beyond the property line and how to turn underused sites into productive neighborhoods and employment centers.
2:55 PM – 3:10 PM
Networking
Afternoon Networking Break
3:10 PM – 3:30 PM
Presentation
Featured Presentation – TBA
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Panel
The Megaproject Reality Check: Labor, Procurement & the Cost of Delay
As multiple agencies compete for the same specialty contractors, electricians, engineers and suppliers, schedules and budgets are exposed long before construction starts. This panel asks how owners can build realistic procurement pipelines, use collaborative delivery, standardize requirements, grow the workforce and avoid the claims and change orders that erode public confidence.
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Panel
From Pilot to Production: AI, Robotics & the Digital Jobsite
Construction AI is moving beyond demos into estimating, scheduling, field capture, risk detection and connected asset data. But fragmented information, contractual boundaries and trust still slow adoption. Owners, technology platforms, engineers and contractors examine where AI and robotics are producing measurable value today, how digital twins survive handover and what a genuinely interoperable project looks like.
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Panel
The Next $100 Billion: Where Will Northeast Infrastructure Capital Go?
Rail, power, aviation, water, data centers and urban redevelopment are competing for capital and execution capacity. In a closing, forward-looking conversation, public owners and private investors identify the projects, partnerships and technologies most likely to shape the next wave of Northeast growth—and the signals the market should watch in 2027.
5:30 PM
Networking
Closing Networking Reception
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Jon is a Principal and Architecture Practice Leader based in Arup’s New York office.
In his role, Jon is establishing Arup’s architecture capability in New York and catalyzing its growth across the Americas region with a focus on the rail, transit, and infrastructure markets. He believes that interdisciplinary design has the potential to make architecture more pure, powerful, impactful, efficient, and sustainable. At the helm of Arup’s architecture practice in the United States, Jon is creating enhanced opportunities for innovative and sustainable development central to the firm’s mission of designing cities of the future.
Prior to joining Arup in 2022, Jon was a New York Design Studio Leader at SOM. Jon has decades of experience working on award-winning projects, including Moynihan Train Hall in Manhattan and Denver Union Station, and brings extensive knowledge of the transportation market. He holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia.
Liliana Petrova is the Founder and CEO of The Petrova Experience, a customer experience consulting firm specializing in transportation, aviation, and complex infrastructure. With more than 20 years of experience, she previously held leadership roles at JetBlue, where she helped shape the airline’s innovation strategy and pioneered passenger experience initiatives. Her firm has contributed to major infrastructure programs involving the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, MTA, NJ Transit, and Amtrak, including Newark AirTrain and Penn Station redevelopment initiatives. A Certified Customer Experience Professional (CCXP) with an MBA from NYU Stern, Petrova focuses on integrating customer experience, operational strategy, and innovation into the planning and delivery of major infrastructure projects.
Sara Appleton is Director of Penn Station Transformation at Amtrak, where she leads efforts to modernize one of the nation’s busiest transportation hubs and improve the passenger experience. Previously, she served as Assistant Director of the Gateway Program, supporting major infrastructure investments along the Northeast Corridor. Her background includes consulting at McKinsey & Company and economic development work with the New York City Economic Development Corporation. Appleton holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and was recognized among City & State’s 2026 Above & Beyond Women.
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