Will Bernstein is the City of Pittsburgh's Climate Advisor. His is placed with the City's Office of Sustainability and Resilience through the American Cities Climate Challenge, a national initiative supporting 25 cities to meet ambitious climate goals. Before coming to the City, Will worked for over ten years at the Allegheny Conference on Community Development as a policy analyst and manager of neighborhood development programs.

Steven is an engineer and urban systems and infrastructure strategist widely recognized for delivering creative, value-led district, campus and city solutions for an ever-changing world. In his role, he focuses on connecting the technical world of complex urban systems with people-based solutions. He works across scales finding systems solutions across traditional boundaries of buildings, campuses and cities. Steven has a rich history of creating unique solutions to assist his clients in meeting their high-performance, economic and strategic missions. Steven Baumgartner founded Baumgartner Urban Systems Strategy (BUSS) after over two decades with global integrated design, engineering, planning and architecture firms. BUSS is a one-person consultancy building collaboratives and integrated approaches with system thinkers to address our greatest challenges. Steven is on Van Alen Institute’s Climate Council and the ULI Sustainable Development Council.

Bridging the Gap Development, LLC (“BTG”), founded in 2006, is a socially responsible diversified real estate development firm based in Pittsburgh, PA. Mr. Derrick L. Tillman, Founder and President of BTG, leads the company’s mission to rebuild sustainable communities through residential & commercial development by “bridging the [real estate and opportunity] gaps” in a community. In order to achieve this goal, BTG develops a variety of projects including multifamily affordable housing, market rate rental and homeownership properties, as well as mixed-use and commercial development projects. A recent achievement of our firm includes the successful completion of the Miller Street Apartments, a 36-unit new construction Affordable Housing project that has "raised the bar" on Affordable housing from a holistic perspective. The firm has also been able to use their business acumen to innovatively train many unemployed and underemployed individuals with construction and/or weatherization skills. BTG, itself a Minority Business Enterprise, is committed to providing opportunities to other M/WBEs.