Ralph Johnson has taught urban and community design at Montana State University since 1986, where he was also the Director of the Community Design Center until 2005. Additionally, he maintains an active planning and design consultancy with an emphasis on providing sustainable, contemporary and creative responses to planning and preservation issues faced by Rocky Mountain communities. He has recently completed a book entitled Building from the Best of the Northern Rockies, which articulates sustainable planning and design principles through case studies. Johnson is the planning consultant to the cities of Manhattan and Three Forks, communities for which he has facilitated and developed master plans, capital improvement plans and community impact analysis.

A Principal with EPS, Andrew Knudtsen, is a planner and economist with 19 years of experience addressing the full range of economic issues related to real estate development opportunities. Knudtsen has been involved with city governments on land use planning with the City of Boulder and the City of Vail for a collective 10 years. His later career has focused on Economic and Planning Systems, and analysis renewals and redevelopments within small and micro-politian communities. His areas of expertise include market assessment, feasibility analysis, and public financing strategies. Previous experience includes brownfield redevelopment sites, urban infill sites, urban renewal authority studies, affordable housing opportunities, and town center redevelopment. For previous clients, he has provided strategies to private sector developers addressing market potentials and financing strategies. For public sector clients, he has provided the economic analysis needed to form policy to catalyze targeted areas for redevelopment. He is a regular speaker and presenter on varied topics relating to real estate development, economics analysis, and land use and community planning.

Joseph Minicozzi, AICP is the principal of Urban3, LLC (U3), a consulting company of downtown Asheville, North Carolina real estate developer Public Interest Projects. Prior to creating U3, he served as the Executive Director for the Asheville Downtown Association. Before moving to Asheville, he was the primary administrator of the Form Based Code for downtown West Palm Beach, FL. His background and expertise has led him to be well versed in land-use typologies, land use classifications and tax assessment policies. He’s been a lecturer and speaker for over 12 years on these topics, plus various others relating to land use planning and real estate development. Joe is a sought after lecturer on city planning issues. Joe’s cross-training in city planning in the public and private sectors, as well as private sector real estate finance has allowed him to develop award-winning analytic tools that have garnered national attention in Planetizen, The Wall Street Journal, Planning Magazine, The New Urban News, National Association of Realtors, Atlantic Cities, and the Center for Clean Air Policy’s Growing Wealthier report.

Adam Ducker is a Managing Director based in at Robert Charles Lesser & CO in Washington, D.C., office. Focused on: Master-planned communities; resort and second-home development, including hotel and hospitality products (fractions, timeshare, and PRC); and residential at a wide array of densities and with a variety of recreational amenities (ski, golf, and marina). Adam joined RCLCO in 1997 as an associate directly after graduate school and learned the trade with the firm. During the early 2000s, he was a principal with a boutique West Coast real estate consulting firm, directing their Northern California office. He is a recognized expert in market and financial analysis; positioning, repositioning, and marketing of real estate assets; consumer research; and corporate strategy development. He works throughout the United States, with particular depth of experience in mountain and coastal environments, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Adam is a frequent speaker on topics ranging from planned communities to resort recreational development to in-town housing. His writing has been widely published in publications such as Urban Land, California Real Estate Journal, Multifamily Executive, Resort and Recreation, and National Hotel Executive. He is also an active member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). A native of the New York metropolitan area, Adam graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor's and Masters in Urban Studies.