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  • Monday, April 27, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM ET
    APA Community Engagement IG Coffeeklatsch
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    LGBTD: Detroit's Queer History and Geography
  • 8:00 AM - 12:30 PM ET
    Preserving Heritage, Planning Progress: North End in Transition
  • 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Quiet Room
  • 8:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM ET
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET
    National Planning Awards Lounge
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM ET
    Ombuds Office
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM ET
    Planning Accreditation Board Meeting
  • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM ET
    Why Planners Should Lead Infrastructure Project Development
  • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM ET
    Leading Change: Planning Strong Futures for Black Communities
  • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM ET
    Efficiency from Within: Proven Self-Evaluation Methods
  • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM ET
    Fluvial Hazard Zones: A Bold Community Vision Ahead
  • 8:30 AM - 9:15 AM ET
    From Encampment to Empowerment: Aloha in Action
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
    Adapting Law to Promote Disaster Resiliency and Justice
  • 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM ET
    Planning with AI
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM ET
    APA Smart Cities Interest Group Forum
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM ET
    Homeward: The Housing Tradeoffs Game for Communities
  • 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM ET
    It's More Than Elementary: Customizing Actionable Youth Engagement
  • 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
    Equity-Centered Planning for Neighborhood Park Transformation
  • 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
    A Tale of Two Cities: Brownfield Transformations
  • 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM ET
    Urban Agriculture and Food Sovereignty
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
    Health Equity Interest Group Meetup
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    Preserving Detroit’s Historic Legacy Through Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization
  • 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM ET
    A Food Sovereign Detroit: Food Systems Tour
  • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM ET
    Local Programming: People First: Equitably Evaluating Housing & Economic Development
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM ET
    Planning in the Middle: Between Policy and Politics
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM ET
    Visualizing Planning: Design Tools to Engage Stakeholders
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM ET
    CANCELLED: Local Programming: Redevelopment Ready Communities: Positioning Michigan Communities for Reinvestment
  • 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM ET
    Reality Bites: The Gen Z Edition
  • 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM ET
    Developing a Campus Planning Platform
  • 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM ET
    From Permit Gridlock to Instant Clarity: How AI Is Rewriting Zoning Compliance
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
    AICP Experience Assessment: Get Answers
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM ET
    Gentle Movement Chair Yoga
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
    Career Connections: Job Board Mixer
  • 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET
    Morning Networking Break in the Hub
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    APA Pavilion
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    APA Shop
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Book Nook at NPC26
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Career Center and Job Board
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Discovery Zone
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Motown Mini Golf in the Hub
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Technology Theater
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    The Hub
  • 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM ET
    Wellness Center
  • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM ET
    Developing a Vacant Land Strategy from the Grassroots
  • 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM ET
    Picture Perfect Headshot Booth
  • 10:00 AM - 6:30 PM ET
    Planning Insights Theater
  • 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM ET
    Mall Makeover – From Obsolete Retail to Community Asset
  • 10:20 AM - 10:40 AM ET
    Meet NOGAS: A Digital Toolkit for Tacking Design Issues of Suburban Car-based Urbanism and Autonomous Universal Access
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM ET
    Curb Court: Trials of the Right-of-Way
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM ET
    From Immersion to AI: Redefining Public Engagement
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM ET
    Solving the Housing Crisis in Indian Country
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM ET
    Neighborhood Conditions Index: Planning for All Tulsa Neighborhoods
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM ET
    Small Developers, Big Impact: Growing Community from Within
  • 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM ET
    The Future of Federal Housing and Transportation Policy
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM ET
    LEED for Cities: How to Certify Your Community
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    2026 Student Planning and Design Competition Final Presentations
  • 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    The 90-minute Transportation Fix Challenge
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    2026 Fellows Orientation
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    Plot Twist: Rhetoric Techniques from Compelling Storytellers
  • 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM ET
    What Does Managed Retreat Even Mean?
  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM ET
    Finding the Right Rhythm: Optimizing Client–Consultant Relationships
  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM ET
    State Housing Reform: From Momentum to Movement
  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM ET
    Hot Takes: What NOT to Do When Planning
  • 11:30 AM - 12:15 PM ET
    Local Programming: Getting Real: Building Ground Truth in Housing Condition
  • 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM ET
    From Map to Permit: Simplifying Planning with MCCi Community Development & ArcGIS
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET
    Meet Paralympic Medalist John Register
  • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Networking Break in the Hub
  • 12:05 PM - 12:55 PM ET
    STaR Division Planning Awards
  • 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM ET
    Get Your Kicks: Mapping Historical Records for Preservation on Route 66
  • 12:20 PM - 12:40 PM ET
    How to Design a Thriving Community Using ArcGIS as a Planning System
  • 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM ET
    Planner to Leader Toolkit: Mid-Career Development
  • 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM ET
    ChargedUp! - The Energy-Equity Connection
  • 12:40 PM - 1:00 PM ET
    The Power You Pay For
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    Living on the Edge: When Managed Retreat Looms
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    Building Together: Development Partnerships for Community-Oriented Growth
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    Destination Districts as Catalysts for Economic Development
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    Learning from the Sins of Our Past
  • 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM ET
    Future of reform with the Housing Supply Accelerator
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET
    Ethics Cases of the Year
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Rebranding Affordable Housing
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Defying Gravity & Solving Wicked Problems in Planning
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Upskilling Initiative - Simplifying Complex Information
  • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Esri Theater
  • 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
    Planning the Road to Retail Success
  • 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM ET
    Creating Space: LGBTQ+ Community Development in Detroit
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
    Boomtown to Black Bottom, to Bust and Back
  • 1:00 PM - 5:30 PM ET
    Pero Primero, La Cultura: Development Pressures in Mexicantown
  • 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET
    It Takes a Village: Arts-led Neighborhood Redevelopment
  • 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET
    Bike Belle Isle & Talk Car Culture
  • 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM ET
    Urban Highways Today and Tomorrow: Traffic Safety Transformations
  • 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET
    Fostering Accessibility Through a Digital Planning Process
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET
    Drawing Engagement: How Comics Make Zoning Accessible
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET
    CANCELLED: Driving Nature-Based Infrastructure: Planning's Role in Leading Design
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET
    Historic Easements as a Creative Planning Resource
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM ET
    Creatively Imagining Our Shared Futures: Art + Policy
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Planner Peer Exchange
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Student Planning and Design Competition Awards
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
    Henry Ford Museum - All American Tour
  • 2:30 PM - 2:50 PM ET
    How to Design a Thriving Community Using ArcGIS as a Planning System
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Afternoon Networking Break in the Hub
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Foresight: Career Trends for the Future
  • 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM ET
    Knowledge and Research at APA
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET
    What's New in State Zoning Reform
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET
    The Placemaking Playbook: Economic Development Through Public-Private Partnerships
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET
    From Politics to Points: Data-Driven Capital Planning
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET
    Don't Ignore the Plan Behind the Curtain
  • 3:00 PM - 3:45 PM ET
    Tactical P3, Big Impact for Labor and Innovation
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
    Thriving in a Changing Climate: Proactive Planning Strategies
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
    Equity in Practice IRL: Continuing the Momentum
  • 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
    (Silver) Foxes in the Henhouse: Age as Superpower
  • 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET
    Seeing the City: Experiential Walkabout
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
    Lightning Talk 3
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
    An Even Better Way to Zone
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
    Are We Planning for Process or Outcomes?
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
    So You Graduated, Now What?
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM ET
    Got Plans? How Planning Makes Cents
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET
    APA PA Meet and Greet
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
    All-Iowa Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM ET
    Minnesota & Wisconsin Joint Chapter Get-Together
  • 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM ET
    Utah NPC26 Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET
    Delaware APA - Joint Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET
    Economic Development Division Awards and Reception (joint Event)
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET
    New York Upstate Chapter Reception (Joint Event)
  • 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM ET
    STaR Joint Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM ET
    Economic Development (+MultiDivision) Awards Ceremony Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM ET
    Hazard Mitigation Disaster Recovery Division Reception
  • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM ET
    One World Reception and SCD Awards