Los Angeles Build Expo 2026
Los Angeles Convention Center - West Hall A - Los Angeles, CA
Sara M. Kilburn
Founder | The Mark Group
Presenter bio
Sara Kilburn, founder of The Mark Group, Inc., partners with leading building and construction companies to deliver strategic insight across marketing, branding, design, and leadership development. Known for her ability to connect market intelligence with client vision and execution, she helps organizations transform complex ideas into clear, compelling, and successful projects. Through The Mark Group, Sara has collaborated with developers, home builders, architects, designers, and hospitality leaders, bringing a balanced and strategic marketing lens into each engagement. With more than 25 years of experience spanning real estate development, homebuilding, commercial construction, and hospitality, Sara is a respected industry leader, speaker, and active contributor at both the local and regional level. She has served on multiple industry boards, including the BIA of San Diego and Southern California, was recently the 2023 President of the Greater Sales and Marketing Council of Orange County, and is Life Director of SMC of San Diego. A recognized speaker and award-winning professional, Sara has been honored as ICON Consultant of the Year (2024) and named one of San Diego’s Top 50 Most Influential Leaders. Her work also extends into nonprofit leadership and community impact, reflecting a long-standing commitment to both industry advancement and social responsibility.
Kyle Post
Builder/Architect | VELUX
Presenter bio
From center stage to horticulture to skylights, Kyle Post has spent a career mastering the art of bringing spaces to light. Following 15 years on Broadway (RENT, Spider-Man, Kinky Boots), Kyle trained as a horticulturist at Longwood Gardens, studying how natural sunlight creates vitality and wellness. Now a VELUX Skylight Builder/Architect Specialist based in San Diego, Kyle partners with builders, designers and architects in Southern California to craft brighter, healthier homes for their customers.
Rewilding the Home: Daylight, Air, and the Science behind Biophilic Design
We've become the Indoor Generation — spending 90% of our lives inside. That's a staggering fact, and an even bigger opportunity. Rewilding the Home unpacks the science behind biophilic design, and hands builders, developers and designers a practical playbook for delivering it on every project.
In this session, we'll explore how biophilic design and Blue Zones - the regions where people routinely live past 100, is reshaping what today's homeowners expect, and what tomorrow's buyers will demand. Longevity in these communities isn't just about diet; it's baked into the design of their homes and streets. We'll translate those lessons into strategies you can apply on your very next build. We will show how light and airflow can shape a client's daily habits, health, and happiness.
What's in it for you? Sharper design instincts, spaces that photograph better, sell faster, and command stronger word-of-mouth. A clear, science-backed story you can tell clients about why your work feels different. And a fresh way to answer the oldest design question there is — how do we get people outside? — with a better one: how do we bring the outdoors in?
Target audience: Designers, Architects, Commercial Builders, Developers
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