The 2026 Visions, Insights & Perspectives (VIP) Infrastructure conference was held in Chicago in June amid thunderstorms that posed a challenge for travelers coming to the event. In fact, the conversation among LP panelists during the first evening’s fireside chat was punctuated by the rumbling of thunder.
It would be easy to claim the weather served as a metaphor for the state of the infrastructure investment industry. But the truth is that infrastructure’s climate does not seem especially stormy.
Twenty years ago, Institutional Real Estate, Inc. held its first conference for institutional investors in infrastructure — also in Chicago. Key themes in 2006 focused on making the case for infrastructure investment, how infrastructure investment should be classifie
