JUNE 15-19, 2026
Grand Hyatt Berlin - Potsdamer Platz
Urban Exploration is off to BERLIN, Germany!
WHY URBAN EXPLORATION?
Creating change requires leadership, vision, and a willingness to learn from each other. That's why we created Urban Exploration. Since 2008, this destination-based experiential program has brought together Denver's business, non-profit, and civic leaders to discover and embrace best practices and innovative ideas from cities around the world.
Through immersive multi-day itineraries featuring keynote speeches, panel discussions, and interactive workshops, we foster the collaboration and learning essential to shaping our city's future.
By bringing together diverse, influential voices, we cultivate a vibrant community committed to driving positive change. This program equips participants with the knowledge, tools, and connections necessary to transform Downtown Denver into a thriving center city that embodies sustainable development, inclusivity, and innovation. We seek out and share exemplary practices to contribute to the ongoing evolution of our city's landscape, ensuring its long-term resiliency and success.
Urban Exploration is driven by our shared commitment to building a vibrant, forward-thinking Downtown Denver, where discovery leads to inspiration, and inspiration leads to action as we build a great city together.
WHY BERLIN?
No city has reinvented itself more boldly than Berlin. Once divided, Berlin has transformed through visionary design, progressive policy, and grassroots action creating public spaces that are both practical and joyful.
During our 2026 program, we will look to Berlin not only for best practices, but for what it represents: a city unafraid to test, to fail, to adapt, and to imagine big.
From airfields reborn as parks to canals reclaimed as civic commons, Berlin demonstrates how collaboration and political will can turn ambitious ideas into realities.
Our purpose for Urban Exploration is to learn from Berlin’s spirit of possibility, its willingness to combine vision with grassroots energy, and to lead us to what could be in Denver. As we talk with its leaders, walk its streets and experience its spaces, we will be challenged to expand our own sense of the possible and to carry home lessons that inspire the next chapter of city building in Denver.
Berlin is our Spielstraße—a playground of ideas for Denver’s future
