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Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been announced as the surprise headline speaker on Day 3 of this years A22 Conference in Chicago.

Obama will join for a moderated conversation about a yet-unnamed topic at the close of the conferences Friday session on June 24th at the McCormick Place Convention Center.

His appearance follows that of his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, who spoke at the A17 conference about the importance of equity and diversity efforts in the world of professional design. The Presidents appearance comes just a few months removed from the groundbreaking of the TWBTA-designed Obama Presidential Center complex in Chicago's Jackson Park which is scheduled to open in 2025 following years of delay.

Obamas legacy and impacts as it relates to the fields of architecture and urban planning are still being examined by scholars, but he was influential in mandating new standards for efficiency in federal buildings as part of his much-publicized vision of winning the future, which included the Better Buildings Initiative and several others.

Obama joins architectural luminaries like Vishaan Chakrabarti, Angela Brooks, and moderator Lee Bey as big-ticket names to grace this years festivities. Registration information can be found here.

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Barack Obama to speak at the 2022 AIA Conference on Architecture - Archinect