Conference registration is required for participation. All times listed below are Central time and subject to change. Additional event details will be added to the schedule as they become available.

There is an additional cost for participation in most Field Studies, which will be added to your registration fee. Please note the price for each Field Study in the descriptions. 

Continuing education credits (CEUs) will be available from The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Planning Association (APA). Visit the Conference Details page for more information.

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Time Session Type Name Location Name
9:00 AM - 5:00 PMField StudyLearning Capital Ideas in MadisonField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 6:00 PMField StudySeeing Wright's Vision for TaliesinField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 5:00 PMRegistrationRegistration Desk OpenHilton Milwaukee, 4th Floor
Time Session Type Name Location Name
7:00 AM - 4:00 PMRegistrationRegistration Desk OpenHilton Milwaukee, 4th Floor
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneralCafecito & Conservation: A Conversation on Latinx Historic PreservationWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneralCoffee Discussion: Legacy Business Program ConveningWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneralBrewing Solutions: Coffee & Connections for Historic ProjectsMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 3:30 PMGeneralThe Salon (in the Regency Ballroom)Regency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMGeneralMorning Welcome and National Preservation AwardsCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:30 AM - 12:30 PMField StudyTackling a Major Restoration as a NonprofitField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:30 AM - 3:30 PMField StudyConserving Sacred Spaces for Modern UseField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMEducationalOpening the Doors to Your CityWright BC, Hilton Milwaukee
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMEducational18th Annual African American Preservation MeetingWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMEducationalShaping Policy, Saving Places: Grassroots Advocacy for PreservationCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMEducationalBuilding a Digital Story ArchiveMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:45 AM - 1:15 PMField StudyTransforming the Warner TheaterField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch On Your Own 
12:30 PM - 3:30 PMField StudyUnderstanding Wright's Vision for American HomesField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
12:30 PM - 3:30 PMField StudyA Redevelopment Masterclass with Developer Kendall BreunigField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Advocating for Historic Preservation to DecisionmakersRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMEducationalFunding the Future: Securing Resources for PreservationCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMEducationalHow Public Art Expands the American NarrativeWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMEducationalBuilding on the Past: Municipal Success with Historic Tax Credit RedevelopmentMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMEducationalUnderrepresented Communities Survey in Madison, WIWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 3:30 PMField StudyExploring Milwaukee (Overview Tour)Field Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMGeneralCoffee Break in the SalonRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Backing Historic Small RestaurantsRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: America's 11 Most Endangered Historic PlacesRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMEducationalCreating Affordable Housing with Historic Tax Credits Walker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMEducationalUpdate to the APA’s 1997 Policy on Historic & Cultural ResourcesWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMEducationalSHPO Open MicCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMEducationalAdaptive Reuse and LEEDMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Fundraising: Philanthropy and Planned GivingRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
4:00 PM - 5:30 PMGeneralOpening Plenary with Author Clint SmithWarner Grand Theater, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave.
5:30 PM - 7:00 PMGeneralOpening ReceptionWarner Grand Theater, 212 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Time Session Type Name Location Name
7:00 AM - 4:00 PMRegistrationRegistration Desk OpenHilton Milwaukee, 4th Floor
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneralCoffee Talk: Building the Future of Preservation TradesWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneralCoffee Discussion: State of Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic PreservationMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneral Coffee Discussion: Preservation in Practice—Listening to the Field, Shaping the FutureWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 3:30 PMGeneralThe Salon (in the Regency Ballroom)Regency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: National Fund for Sacred PlacesRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMGeneralGeneral Session—New Blood for Old Bones: Milwaukee Lessons in Building CommunityCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMGeneralCoffee Break in the SalonRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:00 AM - 11:00 AMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: National Trust Grants and AwardsRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:00 AM - 12:30 PMField StudyUniting to Preserve a Greenbelt CommunityField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMEducationalInnovative Approaches to Preservation Trades TrainingWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMEducationalUsing GIS for Historic Preservation and Community StorytellingWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 11:30 AMEducationalUsing Ancestry’s New Tools for PreservationCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 11:30 AMEducationalAncient Dugout Canoes of WisconsinMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 12:15 PMField StudyReclaiming Queer SpacesField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 12:30 PMField StudyExploring Milwaukee (Overview Tour)Field Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 4:15 PMField StudyWright and Beyond: Racine's InnovationsField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 4:15 PMField StudyConducting a Historic Building AssessmentField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMEducationalPrimer: Building Performance Standards and Historic BuildingsWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMEducationalLiving Heritage Trades AcademyWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: "Mappy Hour" - GIS (Geographic Information Systems) & PreservationRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
11:15 AM - 4:00 PMField StudySeeing Milwaukee's Extraordinary Historic LandscapesField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Lunch On Your Own 
11:30 AM - 1:00 PMGeneralCoffee Conversation: Preserving LGBTQ SitesStone Creek Coffee Factory Cafe (422 N 5th Street)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Preserve Route 66 ProgramRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
12:45 PM - 4:00 PMField Study11 Most Successes: Milwaukee Domes & Soldiers HomeField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMEducationalJumpstart Your Preservation Project Using Digital DocumentationWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Grant WritingRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:15 PMEducationalBringing the Outsiders In: Reimagining the Commemorative Landscape for AllWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 2:15 PMEducationalHistoric Homes Go Electric: Energy Retrofit Guidance for Historic HomeownersCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
1:00 PM - 4:00 PMField StudyBringing the Dead to LifeField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
1:45 PM - 2:15 PMEducationalGet Noticed! Social Media Marketing for PreservationistsWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Preservation Trades Training With HOPE CrewRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMGeneralCoffee Break in the SalonRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: Social Media MarketingRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMEducationalAlonzo Robinson, Wisconsin’s First Black ArchitectWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:45 PMEducationalOld Buildings, New Tricks, Cooler PlanetWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:45 PMEducationalAdvancing Innovation through Preservation LawCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
2:30 PM - 3:45 PMEducationalPublic Engagement in Disaster Adaptation & RecoveryMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
3:15 PM - 3:45 PMEducationalThey Tell Me I Need a Mobile App…Do I?Wright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMGeneralShuttle Service Begins for Beyond Beer EventHilton Milwaukee, 6th Street Entrance
4:30 PM - 5:30 PMEducationalBeyond Beer: Milwaukee’s Beer Culture and the Built EnvironmentBest Place at the Historic Pabst Brewery, 917 W. Juneau Ave.
Time Session Type Name Location Name
7:30 AM - 9:30 AMRegistrationRegistration Desk OpenHilton Milwaukee, 4th Floor
7:45 AM - 8:45 AMGeneralPreservation in Practice: A Federal Policy Networking BreakfastWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
7:45 AM - 12:30 PMGeneralThe Salon (in the Regency Ballroom)Regency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
8:45 AM - 11:45 AMField StudyRenaissance of King Drive: Main Street and BID ToolsField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
8:45 AM - 11:45 AMField StudyExploring Milwaukee (Overview Tour)Field Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
8:45 AM - 11:45 AMField StudyPreserving with the National Register and Historic Tax CreditsField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
8:45 AM - 11:45 AMField StudyEnhancing Frank Lloyd Wright Designed HomesField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
8:45 AM - 11:45 AMField StudyBringing New Audiences to Historic TheatersField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMEducationalEasements Roundtable - Surviving Extreme Weather EventsWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMEducationalPreserving Modernism: National Trust Sites at the Intersection of History and ModernityWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMEducationalMilwaukee Hip Hop Archive Project as a Model for Community-Led PreservationMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AMEducationalInnovations in Heritage TourismCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
9:15 AM - 5:00 PMField StudyViewing Southeastern Wisconsin's Indigenous LandscapesField Study Desk, Hilton Milwaukee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: State Historic Tax Credits Regency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMEducationalNational Trust Ask Me Anything: State-level advocacyRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 11:45 AMEducationalIntegrating Historic Preservation, Rehabilitation, and Affordable HousingWalker Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 11:45 AMEducationalConveying the Value of Historic PreservationMitchell Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
10:15 AM - 11:45 AMEducationalHistoric Structure Reports as Creative Tools for Education and PreservationWright Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
11:30 AM - 12:15 PMGeneralBook Signing: Carl ElefanteRegency Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMGeneralClosing Luncheon–Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban FutureCrystal Ballroom, Hilton Milwaukee
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Take advantage of additional networking opportunities offered by other preservation organizations while attending PastForward.