Built to Last: Resilience Tech and the Future of Corporate Buildings & Commercial Real Estate

Join Tailwind Futures for a half-day event examining how technological innovations can improve asset insurability, reduce operating costs, boost property value and increase tenant demand.

Date: Wednesday, April 22, 9am-12pm Pacific Time

Location- in person: Downtown San Francisco | Virtual: Zoom

​Detailed agenda and speakers to be announced.

Agenda overview:

​Spotlight: Strategies to Address Rising Property Insurance Costs

​Panel: Can Innovation help with insurability? Insurance experts, lenders and startups will unpack the insurance challenges facing CRE transactions and examine emerging solutions. 

​Spotlight: How Physical Risks Translate into Financial Risk for CRE Loan Portfolios

​Panel: Resilience Tech as a Competitive Advantage. Real estate developers, owners and startups will examine opportunities to boost tenant demand, reduce opex and improve NOI with innovations in resilience tech.

​Detailed agenda and speakers to be announced shortly.

The event is co-hosted with Arup, Class 3 Technologies and MorrisonFoerster LLP.


Tailwind Futures is an investment firm focused on resilience technologies. We invest in technologies that help corporations and communities futureproof the infrastructure, workforce, and supply chain of today and tomorrow.

Class 3 Technologies is a physical climate risk and resilience company recently spun out of Arup. Our software platform, Iris, combines engineering-grade vulnerability models with climate data to quantify assetrisk. It is used by organizations and their consultants to inform decisions around capital planning for retrofits, resilience strategies, acquisition due diligence, site selection, and design choices for new construction.

Morrison Foerster (MoFo) advises companies, investors, and innovators at the forefront of sustainability, corporate responsibility, and impact investing. The firm’s Sustainability + Corporate Responsibility team partners closely with clients to identify and address the environmental, social, and governance issues most material to their business, helping them navigate risk, enhance value, and meet evolving regulatory and stakeholder expectations. Complementing this work, MoFo’s Social Enterprise + Impact Investing practice supports mission-driven companies, funds, and investors seeking to generate both financial returns and measurable social or environmental impact. Together, these integrated capabilities enable MoFo to guide clients across the full lifecycle – from strategy and compliance to investment and execution – at the intersection of purpose, innovation, and growth.